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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Nigeria in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Nigeria in January 2026

Investor	Food and Beverage Nigeria investments
Kube VC	3
Hack VC	2
Ajayi Solutions	2
Cox Enterprises	2
54 Collective	2
SAHEL Capital	2
Tayo Oviosu	2
Hustle Fund	2
Backroom Capital	1
Jun Capital	1
Tyler Scriven	1
True Culture Fund	1
Karthik Ramakrishnan	1
Robert Herjavec	1
All On	1
Kale United	1
Capital V	1
EchoVC Partners	1
HoaQ	1
Unpopular Ventures	1
Wangara Green Ventures	1
Sustainable Food Ventures	1
Alitheia IDF	1
Liquid 2 Ventures	1
Winsten Ltd	1
Sudeep Ramnani	1
Ryan Bethencourt	1
VentureSouq	1
Microsoft	1
GFR Fund	1
Hashkey Exchange	1
FoundersX Ventures	1
Naspers	1
HealthCap	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Kinnevik	1
SVG Ventures	1
African Co-Investment Syndicate	1
Haleakala Ventures	1
Samata Capital	1
Partech	1
Michael Cohn	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Holland George Capital Management	1
Enagwolor Johnny	1
Shola Akinlade	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Microtraction	1

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Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Crowdz — Make accounts receivables a thing of the past with a competitive invoice auction for selling your invoices with invoice financing
Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nonco — A digital asset brokerage firm made for financial institutions and professional investors.
Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
Initia Labs — Initia unites full-stack apps and unlocks value through interwoven infrastructure and aligned economics.

Ajayi Solutions seeks to participate in the development of the local economy in regions across Africa by investing in small to large scale privately-held businesses. The ratification of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement [AfCFTA] has opened a new chapter in trade across Africa and we seek to participate. We seek to invest in promisingentrepreneurs who create tech-enabled solutions to enable local production in Africa as well as facilitate intra- and inter-continental trade.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Food Processing
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Foodlocker — Foodlocker is a retail business that sources foodstuff from farmers, pays them fairly, & sells to customers at decent prices both online and in-store.

Empower to build. The story of Cox Enterprises is one of hard work, respect for employees, entrepreneurship and making bold decisions.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series C, Series A
United States, Italy, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Motivo — Motivo solves clinical supervision for behavioral health organizations in all 50 states. Top-rated, vetted clinical supervisors, all license types. No headache.
Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
Enlace Health — Enlace Health helps healthcare payers and providers design, implement, and administer value-based care and bundled payment programs.

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

Sahel Capital is a leading fund manager and advisory firm focused on West Africa with deep roots in private equity, financial advisory, management consulting and agribusiness. When you partner with Sahel, you benefit from quality financial and operating experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships. Through anintegrated approach, we work closely with companies and investment partners to deliver capital solutions and advisory services tailored to fit your unique needs. The power of a partnership with Sahel leads to better investments, stronger businesses, and shared success.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage
Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B
Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Agriarche — AGRIARCHE LIMITED is an agriculture technology company focused on enhancing the efficiency of the agricultural sector through digital solutions. It aims to empower farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem by providing tools for data-driven decision-making. The company specializes in digitizing commodity trading and payments,thereby transforming grains into cash for farmers. AGRIARCHE LIMITED is committed to bringing transparency to the agriculture supply chain by offering logistics tracking from start to finish, and providing clear transaction and credit history. By connecting aggregators, the company simplifies the flow of food, information, and payments within the agriculture sector.
Winich Inc (Winich Farms) — At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs,agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle.In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible.One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etcBacked by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.
Oyster Agribusiness — Oyster Agribusiness key operation is production and processing of agricultural products for the domestic and international markets.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
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.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Onton — We're building better e-commerce search. Type like you speak and search by image (or both) across all product sites. Save time and money by finding the right products, faster.
Ciphero AI — Ciphero is the first AI Verification Layer that collects, verifies, and governs all corporate AI interactions, promoting safe and ethical AI use across all enterprises.
FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

Backroom Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on angel, pre-seed and seed investments to empower brilliant and daring entrepreneurs with the necessary early-stage capital to grow.We bring founders the money to start off, but more importantly, the right connections and network to grow their businesses in Africa and North America. Welove real sectors where technology is creating a significant impact in the lives of millions including Health, Transportation, Logistics, Real Estate, Education, and Media.

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.

Jun Capital is committed to professional investment management service. With virtue of rich investment management expertise and solid expertise of the core team, They ensure the most professional investment management process.With the investment management team of JUN Capital as the core, they select the most professional partners in differentcircles to provide investors with professional investment advice and management service.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
China, Switzerland, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Biohem — Biohem is a low-carbon geopolymer cementitious material research and development company that specializes in the manufacture of low-carbon geopolymer cementitious materials as well as the provision of novel urban and industrial solid waste solutions.
Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
Goons of Balatroon — A 2D/3D hybrid metaverse featuring Free 2 Play 2 Earn card strategy gaming and land ownership. Ridiculous. Chaotic. Fun. Play for free and earn!

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food Processing
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.

True Culture Fund is a venture capital fund managed by True Capital Management.

Investment focus

Apps, Social Media, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
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.
Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
Prembly — KYC Verification Company

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

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.

Robert Herjavec is the CEO at CYDERES.

Investment focus

Health Care, Pet, Consumer Electronics
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
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
Sweetkiwi — Home of the best tasting, mouth-watering, low fat, healthy froyo. Healthy Never Tasted Better!
THEMAGIC5 — THEMAGIC5 has reinvented the swimming goggle. THEMAGIC5 swim goggles fit perfectly. They are comfortable to wear and prevent leaking - custom fitted to you.

All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Nigeria, France, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Greenage Technologies Power Systems — Greenage Technologies is revolutionizing the use of solar energy systems in Nigeria. Our local manufacturing creates differentiation in local product purchases, services, and cost. We are the first indigenous mass producer of solar Inverter technologies in Nigeria. We currently have our footprint in 26 states out of the 36 states in Nigeria andlooking to launch in Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya in the near future.

Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Sweden, India

Portfolio highlights

Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."

Transforming the global system to one that is more sustainable – from the perspectives of environment, food scarcity, health and animal welfare – by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioral change and eliminate the consumption of animal products. Investing in vegan ventures

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Organic Food
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Vacka — Vacka is a food and beverage manufacturer that produces and sells organic, plant-based vegan cheese varieties.
NowNow — NowNow aims to democratise the mobile wallet space in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide a bank and MNO agnostic online platform to recharge any mobile, pay bills, and utilities, send/receive money and pay@shop directly to merchants. The amount consumers pay is returned in the form of cashback and coupons making the recharge almostfree. We are PCI-DSS compliant and are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.NowNow also offers a unique agent platform that enables additional revenue streams for individuals and businesses and provides financial services to the unbanked – allowing them to offer p2p, bank transfers, cash out, mobile recharge, pay bills etc.
Vevolution — Vevolution is an investment platform providing data and intelligence for the AgriFoodTech ecosystems. Dedicated to removing animals from our supply chain.

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

Startup Investment Club

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Portfolio highlights

Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.

Wangara Green Ventures is a climate-focused impact investment asset manager in Ghana, West Africa.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Ghana, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

POW! Foods — Puta en gandia
Veggie Victory — VeggieVictory is Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech company bringing people a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle through plant-based meats and meals.
High Time Foods — High Time Foods provides shelf-stable and moldable plant-based meat alternatives to foodservice operators. Their first product is a plant-based chicken alternative that does not require refrigeration. The product is moldable and can be used in any cuisine as a substitute for chicken.

Alitheia IDF is investing in dynamic and growing businesses throughout Africa. By investing in teams that recognize the importance of gender diversity the firm generates superior financial returns and impact.

Investment focus

Logistics, E-Commerce, Retail
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Lupiya — Lupiya is an online marketplace for microloans. It is a branch-less, innovative digital microfinance platform that leverages technology to make the process of borrowing simpler and easier so that people and businesses located across the country even in rural, remote areas can access financial services.
Seamfix — Seamfix’s end-to-end electronic ID and credentials software solutions address the lack of digital ID systems for 30+ African countries and over 250M individuals, providing access to credit, banking, and other essential services for large parts of populations.
Ivili Group — Ivili Group is a leading South African textiles manufacturing group that has a diversified offering in textiles; including wool processing products and services and jeanswear garment manufacturing products and services.

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tako — Input natural language. Output knowledge cards. Use Tako AI to search, visualize, and share trusted data via citable, interactive cards.
Sage Care — Empowering smarter healthcare decisions with AI.
H3X Technologies — Ultra high power density integrated motor drives for electric aircraft.

Winsten Ltd invests in early stage pre-seed technologies. The company's current directors Leonard Lynch and Bill Lynch

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.

Sudeep Ramnani is a Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

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.

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.

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.

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. Thecompany’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores.Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services.The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Bellame — Bellame is a style beauty company that is expanding daily. The company currently has 4 products cleanser, serum, eye cream, and moisture. They are on a transformational mission because beauty is more than skin-deep.
Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
MTN Nigeria — Nigeria's No.1 5G Network - Get your 5G Internet, airtime, data, prepaid plans, postpaid plans, broadband devices and more!

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Video Games
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.

FoundersX Ventures is a cross-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, with strong investment focus on game-changing technologies in high growth industries, including Biotech, digital healthcare, enterprise AI, fintech and foodtech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Martin — Martin manages your calendar, inbox, SMS, phone calls, WhatApp, Slack, and more. Call, text, or email your AI assistant.

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Private Equity, Series B, Series A
South Africa, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Otodom — Otodom allows users to view & post ads for the sale & rental of real estate, in particular apartments, houses.
Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
PharmEasy — PharmEasy is one of India's most trusted online pharmacy & medical stores offering pharmaceutical and healthcare products at a FLAT 20% OFF*. Used by 50 lakhs+ customers in India in 1.2K+ cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, etc.

Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company is a healthcare and wellness sector investment firm.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Food and Beverage
Series A
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
InstantRad — InstantRad is a platform for connecting medical professionals with the medical images and data needed to produce medical reports. They allow clinical professionals with different image backgrounds to do administrative work like data sharing, teleradiology systems with PAC servers, billing options, and second opinions. They include services fordesktop web browsers, Android tablets and smartphones, and apple’s iPads and iPhones.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ToyFlix — Toyflix is a pioneering subscription-based toy rental platform transforming India’s US$2 billion toy industry by making premium.
LocationBit — it is a community-driven global location encyclopedia designed to tackle the fragmented and inaccessible nature of local knowledge in 2025.
Kyamaganda Community Development Organisation — it is a community-based nonprofit organization founded to restore hope and dignity among vulnerable children, youth, and families in Uganda.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
SafeNest — SafeNest offers a comprehensive home security system integrating smart technology with professional monitoring services.

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

IRL — Groups, Chats, Events - Tap to see details
Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.

Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, FinTech
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
Spring Health — Eliminating barriers to mental healthcare. Clinically-proven technology with world-class providers to deliver precisely what your employees need.
Pelago — Quit Genius is the world’s first digital clinic for treating nicotine, alcohol and opioid addictions. Built on the evidence-based approach of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Quit Genius combines virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with approved medication and connected devices to help employers and health plans tackle the high cost ofaddiction, while improving the lives of their employees and members.

We are a Venture & Innovation Platform Advancing the Food & Agriculture Industries We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Farming
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security
Verdi Expeditions — Verdi is building the world's first truly scalable platform for farm automation. We work with the world's largest food brands to grow better and more sustainable crops.
Heritable Agriculture — Making plants programmable

Investing in Africa across Fintech, Healthtech, E-commerce, B2B SaaS and Future of Work

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.

Haleakala Ventures is an investment firm

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.

CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
auxmoney — Auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace created to offer a means of exchange between people. Its lending platform enables private consumers to borrow from private investors for personal loans, thereby providing borrowers a bank free borrowing system and a return on investment for lenders.
Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Transportation
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

Sandeep Nailwal - Co-Founder @ Polygon

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Holland George Capital Management is an investment company. It is located in New York and London

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
Airlift Technologies — Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing.

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

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.

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

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 enables employers to offer employees access to their earned salaries instantly at any time without making changes to their existing payment process.
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.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Accounteer — Choose to Automate your business' finances with smart accounting software or Pair it with one-on-one real human expert accounting and support.
LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.

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