Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 May 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Nigeria investments
Kube VC	3
54 Collective	2
Ajayi Solutions	2
Hustle Fund	2
Hack VC	2
Cox Enterprises	2
Tayo Oviosu	2
GFR Fund	1
Sustainable Food Ventures	1
Hashkey Exchange	1
FoundersX Ventures	1
Naspers	1
HealthCap	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Aruwa Capital	1
John Obaro	1
Bashar Hamood	1
Samata Capital	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Partech	1
Kinnevik	1
Soma Capital	1
Simon Borrero	1
Ampifi VC	1
Juan Pablo Ortega	1
Michael Cohn	1
SVG Ventures	1
SAHEL Capital	1
Backroom Capital	1
Jun Capital	1
Tyler Scriven	1
Alitheia IDF	1
Sandeep Nailwal	1
True Culture Fund	1
Holland George Capital Management	1
Liquid 2 Ventures	1
Winsten Ltd	1
Karthik Ramakrishnan	1
Enagwolor Johnny	1
Jua Fund	1
Sudeep Ramnani	1
Robert Herjavec	1
All On	1
African Co-Investment Syndicate	1
Levare Ventures	1
Kale United	1
Shola Akinlade	1
Haleakala Ventures	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Ryan Bethencourt	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

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.

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 — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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.

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

ThriveAI — Offload the busywork. Focus on the outcomes that matter.
Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
Rently — Rently is a digital platform for buying, selling, and managing properties.

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

Dinari — Discover Equity Boundless - Simplify everything from equity management and options grant to payroll so that you no longer have to worry about compliance, taxes, or vesting schedules no matter where your employees are.
Theo — Theo operates as a trading infrastructure platform.
Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.

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

Centivo — Centivo is an innovative health plan for self-funded employers founded on the belief that everyone deserves quality care at a price they can afford.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
Devoted Health — Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.

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.

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

Unvale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
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.
Little Umbrella — Future is Fun with Social & AI Games. At Little Umbrella, we create AI-powered games that deliver immersive experiences, bringing families, friends, and communities closer together. Proudly serving a growing community of over 30 million players

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

Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
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, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
SFA — Lebanon and abroad for its personal account and non-account in all fields of trade and public industry.
TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Nigeria, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

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.

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.

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, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
TravelTales — TravelTales is a platform that connects travelers with local guides who offer personalized.
Mancano And Associates — Explore our domain marketplace to buy, lease, or secure your ideal domain name with flexible payment plans and lease-to-own options. Find premium domains and start your online journey effortlessly with options tailored to fit your budget and needs! - Synergy_Technologies_LLC

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 — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.

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

Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .

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, Internet
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

Welcome to Soma Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Colombia, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

C4c7us — Platform that helps startup founders and IT professionals to get IT infrastructure faster and save money by automating operation processes.
Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

Amplifi was formed by a group of early crypto adopters turned private investors. We have a strong belief in the long-term survival of blockchain ecosystem, which is set to disrupt the world as we know it.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Ride Sharing
Seed, Corporate Round
Nigeria, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

XEND — Join us in shaping the future of FINANCE!
Xend Finance — Join us in shaping the future of FINANCE!

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

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

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

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.
Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
LEAF — LEAF is the first smartphone controlled, automated home grow system for medical plants and food. Learn more about Leaf and buy here.

SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and advisory firm that partners with public and private organizations on strategy, innovation and global expansion. Formed in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley, SVG Ventures|THRIVE invests in early stage technology companies. The SVG Ventures|THRIVE team consists of accomplished technology leaders from all overthe globe. With its vast network, SVG gets deeply involved with portfolio companies to support their success.

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

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

Food and Beverage, Agriculture, AgTech
Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B
Nigeria, Ghana, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kuapa Kokoo — Kuapa Kokoo is responsible for aggregating cocoa from its farmer union. Kuapa Kokoo, which means 'excellent cocoa farmer' who saw a chance to organise farmers and establish a corporation to market their cocoa.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
Identitypass — Boost security with Prembly's identity verification solutions!

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
Patlytics — Patent discovery, analytics, comparison, and workflow. Simplified via Artificial Intelligence.
Stepchange — Better, faster data and data infrastructure.

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.

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
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.

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.

EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.

Investment focus

Agriculture, B2B, Farming
Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Side — Side is an e-commerce distribution channel that leverages the power of “community” or “group buying” to provide goods to end customers more cheaply.
BRYT Knowledge —
Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.

Sudeep Ramnani is a Technology Entrepreneur and Investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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.

African Co-Investment Syndicate is investing at the earliest stages in founders across Africa builiding in the Fintech, Healthtech, E-commerce, B2B SaaS and Future of Work sectors.

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

Levare Ventures is an investment firm

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

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."

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 — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
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.

Haleakala Ventures is an investment firm

Investment focus

Marketplace, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.

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

Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.

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

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
Sobo Foods — Sobo Foods is a plant based comfort food provider.
Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI

Investors by industry

Artificial intelligence