Top 25 Hardware Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Hardware Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2025
Investor | Hardware Nigeria investments |
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Prosper Otemuyiwa | 3 |
Michael Seibel | 2 |
Gabriel Hammond | 2 |
Chibuzo Ujam | 1 |
Ibrahim Bello | 1 |
Merijn Campsteyn | 1 |
Lanre Ogungbe | 1 |
Michael Vaughan | 1 |
Samson Goddy | 1 |
Isaac Ewaleifoh | 1 |
Nadayar Enegesi | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 1 |
Tayo Oviosu | 1 |
Sean Mahsoul | 1 |
Echukwudi Daniel | 1 |
Ugochukwu Aronu | 1 |
Adebowale Martins | 1 |
Darlene Monroe | 1 |
Lanre Adelowo | 1 |
Elizabeth Williams | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Ham Serunjogi | 1 |
Josh Jones | 1 |
Walid Aradi | 1 |
Ndubuisi Ekekwe | 1 |
Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CTGT — CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions.
- Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
- Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.
Gabriel Hammond
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Investment focus
- Internet, Wireless, FinTech
- Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- QuantumStreet AI — Powering $1.5 Billion in global assets, EquBot's AI investment platform with IBM Watson helps global investment professionals deliver custom AI portfolios with better outcomes through portfolios as a service (PaaS). EquBot's AI is utilized by some of the largest financial institutions like HSBC, Athene, and Amundi and reaches investorsall over the world, including the US, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Russia. EquBot is an IBM partner and was started at UC Berkeley by a team from Intel, Goldman, and Fidelity.
- wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
- Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.
Chibuzo Ujam
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Byran Bellz is a Blogger, Web designer, Microbiologist and Illustrator, with a keen knowledge about Entertainment, he's the Founder/CEO of 234Hypes.com
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Merijn Campsteyn is the Chief Technology Officer at Deloitte
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Telecommunications
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Co-Founder @myidentitypass | Strategic Advisor at @FastForward_U | Ex @Accounteer
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Telecommunications
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Michael Vaughan is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Vera Equity. He previously worked at Stem Disintermedia Inc. as a Board Member. Michael Vaughan attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
- Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Samson loves building communities around products and loves everything open source. A developer advocate and community builder. He is the co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, a community centered around supporting the open source movement in Africa. He is one of the board members of Open Source Collective and served on the board of SugarLabs, Inc.
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Investment focus
- CRM, Software, Telecommunications
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fleri — Better healthcare for your family back home - Give your loved ones back home in Africa the gift of a better life with a healthcare coverage plan that works.
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Nadayar was previously Co-Founder/CTO at Fora. Nadayar is an avid builder of technology with a passion for getting things done well. He has industry experience building enterprise software for the likes of OpenText, PTC, Bnotions and has worked closely with major tech leaders in Toronto.When he's not aggressively spewing awaytop-notch code on his computer, Nadayar can be found on the soccer field where he refuses to give up on his dream of becoming a sports star. Nadayar has a Computer Science and Business degree from the University of Waterloo.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Blockchain, Communities
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
- 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.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, 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.
Sean Mahsoul
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Computer, Software
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Echukwudi Daniel
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
Adebowale Martins
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.
Darlene Monroe
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Investment focus
- Internet, Network Security, Telecommunications
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Octofi Limited — Octofi is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) that provides fast, reliable and affordable quality internet through Wi-Fi technology to individuals, homes and offices.
Lanre Adelowo is the CEO/CTO @ Fluidcoins.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Elizabeth Williams
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Investment focus
- Internet, Network Security, Telecommunications
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Octofi Limited — Octofi is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) that provides fast, reliable and affordable quality internet through Wi-Fi technology to individuals, homes and offices.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Financial
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
Josh Jones is a Partner HMC INQ and Founder of Did I Err Productions. He is a former Co-Founder & CTO at DreamHost.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
- FlyCoin — Flycoin is a first of its kind crypto-based rewards program that pays guests every time they fly or transact with our partners.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, IT
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
- Stitch — One API for secure online payments and financial data. The Stitch API makes it easier for businesses to send, manage and accept secure online payments and easily access customer financial data in South Africa and Nigeria.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ndubuisi Ekekwe is the Co-Founder of Vetifly.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, AgTech, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Errand360 — We are Nigeria's first community delivery service that makes use of sustainable means of transportation, we deliver goodness to your door steps and we are Eco-Friendly
- BeepTool — BeepTool is a disruptive Africa-based satellite & TV White Space-based connectivity as a service and Integrated digital inclusion ecosystem such as Telehealth, Digital Farmers and consumer marketplace, mobile payments, messaging and voice ecosystem apps providing affordable digital inclusions services to millions of people in remote and ruralareas in Africa and beyond who lack access to the digital economy and are digitally excluded and underserved in area of financial, healthcare, Aggrotech, EdTech and communication services to connect the unconnected, excluded and underserved communities across Nigeria and Africa. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Unconnected and Excluded Community in Africa via Satellite and TV White-Space as a Service and Digital Inclusion Ecosystem Made history by becoming the first company to successfully complete financial transactions using “nano-satellites in the world, “ BeepTool to make a difference in people’s lives and grant them access to the kind of connected services that they haven’t had access to before by providing affordable communications, healthcare, aggrotech, and financial services to millions of people in remote areas in Africa without access to cellular or internet connectivity. We are in partnership with more than 7 GEO and LEO satellite internet broadband operators worldwide and still counting. We have manufactured affordable android smartphones called Oyi-1 and Android Tablets called ABOLE pre-installed with our digital inclusion ecosystem low data rate apps. We have also designed and manufactured Solar powered, and satellites enabled Telehealth remote mobile stations for a rural community in Africa. Our affordable solar-powered satellites terminals broadcast Wi-Fi Hotspot to the rural community allowing rural users to access the web using a mobile application in areas our partners GEO and LEO satellites cover. BeepTool is connecting everyone in Africa using satellites network and TV white space spectrum.Building on its integrated mobile platforms and satellite-based connectivity systems, BeepTool is creating an ecosystem of service-on-demand products, ranging from telehealth to financial services, messaging, Aggrotech, micro-lending, video chat, video conferencing and VoIP, among others. Affordable Internet Connectivity for Everyone: Save up to 90% on costs compared to cabling bills, and more. Super Wifi. Connect on the Go: Connect entire villages, communities, schools, parks, clinics, and businesses with long-range, lightning-fast internet. Pocket Friendly. Budget-Friendly
- Boundlesspay — World-class user experience that seamlessly processes local and international cryptocurrency and fiat payments for individuals and merchants, in a secure and reliable way, utilizing blockchain technology .BoundlessPay gives users easy access to decentralized finance (DEFI) and centralized finance (CEFI) services such as coin staking, lending,swapping, in-app and cross-border payments or remittances, and robust APIs for 3rd party payment processing.
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