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Top 15 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

Investor Food and Beverage Nigeria investments
Tayo Oviosu 2
Simon Borrero 1
Ryan Bethencourt 1
Sudeep Ramnani 1
Tyler Scriven 1
John Obaro 1
Karthik Ramakrishnan 1
Hesham Zreik 1
Juan Pablo Ortega 1
Robert Herjavec 1
Shola Akinlade 1
Sandeep Nailwal 1
Michael Cohn 1
Enagwolor Johnny 1
Bashar Hamood 1

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Tayo Oviosu
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Simon Borrero
Angel · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Nauta — Nauta is a cutting-edge, AI-powered B2B SaaS platform designed to streamline and transform the logistics and trade industry. With a focus on interconnecting the key players in the supply chain, Nauta helps companies automate up to 75% of operational tasks, reducing manual processes and errors.Founded by industry experts who experienced firsthandthe challenges of fragmented logistics operations, Nauta offers a user-friendly platform that doesn’t require technical knowledge or complex integrations. It provides real-time visibility and control over shipments, enabling companies to better manage their supply chain, save time, and lower costs.By leveraging AI to capture and structure data, Nauta helps businesses make informed decisions, ensuring smooth operations across the logistics chain. Trusted by companies across the world, Nauta is revolutionizing the logistics sector, one container at a time​​.
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Ryan Bethencourt
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Ryan is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth and a co-founder and Partner at Sustainable Food Ventures, bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-growth food and biotechnology companies. Ryan is a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and one of the founders of the biohacker movement. He’s a co-founder and former Program Directorat IndieBio and has invested in over 130 early stage biotech startups and served as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE Foundation. As an ethical vegan, Ryan is passionate about the future of biology as a technology, applied across all industries to solve some of humanity’s most intractable problems. Ryan fosters dogs for Rocket Dog Rescue and is passionate about mindfulness, meditation, and mentoring. His work at the interface of science, food, and business has been covered by many major publications.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Chile, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Evo Foods — EVO foods is creating India’s first 100% plant based liquid egg
  • WTH Foods — WTH Foods is a plant-based alternative protein company based in Manila, Philippines. Using local and sustainable ingredients, we create plant-based versions of processed meat products that Southeast Asian love
  • Arcturus BioCloud — Arcturus delivers granular insights, climate metrics and sustainability risks on the drivers of climate and ESG profiles for investment holdings via a climate and Sustainability Intelligence SaaS.
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Sudeep Ramnani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sudeep Ramnani is a Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

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Investment focus

  • Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Tyler Scriven
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Tyler is an entrepreneur and early-stage technology investor. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta. Prior to joining Techstars, Tyler was a member of the senior leadership team at Palantir Technologies in Silicon Valley, where he served as Chief of Staff and Head of Operations. During his tenure with Palantir, he wasbroadly engaged in scaling the operations of the business from 100 to nearly 2,000 employees.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Sequr — Genea Security Mobile Access Control software puts the power in your hands. Instantly grant or revoke access. Use mobile phone to unlock doors with a tap.
  • Landed — We help education, healthcare, and government employees buy homes by providing access to funds, trusted partners and guidance.
  • Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
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John Obaro
Angel

John Obaro is a distinguished alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos, and the Chief Executive Program (CEP3) of Lagos Business School. He has served at various times on the Boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ComputerProfessionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Program (iDea), and many more.He is a fellow of the Center for African Policy Development and Research, Glasgow, Scotland; a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS); an ex-member of the Governing Council of Computers Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) – the highest industry practice regulatory body; and immediate past 1st Vice President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). John Obaro was recently recognised with the honour of Leadership in Technology at the 2016 African Achievement Awards in Scotland and also recognised as the ICT Software Personality of the Year 2016 at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Award, in addition to other numerous indigenous and international awards he has received over the years.John Obaro’s successful entrepreneurial adventure in software development architecture has attracted and continues to attract attention from both local and international quarters. The prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) of the Pan-Atlantic University has written two case studies on SystemSpecs while many newspapers, magazines and journals have also featured him at one time or the other.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Vendease — VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses.
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Karthik Ramakrishnan
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
  • Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
  • Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
  • Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
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Juan Pablo Ortega
Angel · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Juan Pablo Ortega is the Co-founder of Rappi. He previously worked as a Board Member at Viva Air. He attended Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Series A
  • Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

  • Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
  • Trully — Trully
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
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Robert Herjavec
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robert Herjavec is based out of Arlington, Virginia, and is the Board of Directors of Lovelytics. Robert previously worked at CYDERES as the CEO. Robert Herjavec attended the University of Toronto. Robert Herjavec has been awarded an Emmy award.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Food and Beverage, Pet
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • FreePower — FreePower is the next gen advanced wireless charging technology enabling product & solution innovators to create the charging experience their customers will love
  • THEMAGIC5 — THEMAGIC5 has reinvented the swimming goggle. THEMAGIC5 swim goggles fit perfectly. They are comfortable to wear and prevent leaking - custom fitted to you.
  • Amore Congelato — Amore Congelato provides food and beverage services. They offer products that include dessert, food, dairy-free, chocolate, vegan, plant-based, and dark chocolate.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Education, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
  • SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.
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Michael Cohn
Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Michael Cohn serves as a Managing Partner at Overline VC. He attended Emory University - Goizueta Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Social
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Menguin — Find high quality, fashionable tuxedo rentals for your special day.
  • Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
  • Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
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Enagwolor Johnny
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Enagwolor Johnny is the co founder and president at Treepz. He attended University of Benin.

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Investment focus

  • Delivery, Logistics, Mobile Apps
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
  • Mancano And Associates — Domain name Mancano.com exudes a sense of mystery and intrigue, with a versatile appeal that can cater to a wide range of startups. The names brevity, with only 7 letters, makes it easy to remember and type, ideal for establishing a strong
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