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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2025

Investor Hardware Nigeria investments
Golden Palm Investments 4
Microtraction 4
Social Capital 3
Prosper Otemuyiwa 3
Ventures Platform 3
Lynett Capital 3
Vy Capital 2
HoaQ 2
4DX Ventures 2
Gabriel Hammond 2
Michael Seibel 2
Western Technology Investment 2
Future Africa 2
RaliCap 2
Zeno Partners 2
Tayo Oviosu 1
N7 Labs 1
Unpopular Ventures 1
On Deck 1
Strawhat Investment 1
Greenhouse Capital Partners 1
Ugochukwu Aronu 1
Ore Ogundipe 1
Sean Mahsoul 1
The Fintech Fund 1
MyAsia VC 1
Inclusion Capital 1
Kairos Angels 1
Wes Schwalje 1
Yusuf Abdulmalik 1
Kepple Africa Ventures 1
Isaac Ewaleifoh 1
Echezona Uzoma 1
START EQUITY VENTURES 1
FirstCheck Africa 1
Nadayar Enegesi 1
Friále 1
FirstCheck Africa 1
Consonance Investment Managers 1
fastforward ventures 1
Lanre Adelowo 1
Jedar Capital 1
Josh Jones 1
GetEquity 1
Elizabeth Williams 1
Picus Capital 1
Assembly Capital Partners 1
ACE & Company 1
Valar Ventures 1
Partech 1
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Golden Palm Investments VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
  • 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.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
Microtraction VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
  • Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
  • PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
Social Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Biz AI Last — Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
  • Perimeter Medical Imaging — Perimeter Medical Imaging is a medical device company driven to transform cancer surgery with advanced OCT technology for surgeons as they strive for clean margins to avoid re-excisions.
Prosper Otemuyiwa Angel
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.
Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Lynett Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
  • Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
  • Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve
Vy Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in the past 12 months
A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series C, Series B
  • United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
  • xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
  • The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
  • Neros Technologies — Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us?
HoaQ VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Startup Investment Club
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Portfolio highlights
  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
4DX Ventures VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Gabriel Hammond Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
Michael Seibel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 31 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Western Technology Investment VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
  • Innventure — Innventure develops a global open-architecture venture platform to provide access to multinational companies to identify, grow, and commercialize their proprietary IP while strategically partnering for success.
  • Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
  • Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
RaliCap VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Mexico, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
  • Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.
Zeno Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Atmanity — Bringing AI To Life Launching In 2025
  • Spaceium — Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer.
  • Baton Market — Explore businesses for sale with Baton Market. Close deals 10X faster than competitors with our modern, dedicated business brokerage experience.
Tayo Oviosu
Founder & CEO @ Paga
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Sales/Marketing
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
N7 Labs
N7 Labs is a San Diego-based consulting and retail organization.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round
Unpopular Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • WiseLayer — WiseLayer's AI empowers finance teams to improve profitability & efficiency in minutes per week
  • Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
  • Wise Layer — WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.
On Deck VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial, IT
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Empower3d — Empower3d provides athletes with the opportunity to connect with and learn from industry leaders across all facets of business. The goal is to provide athletes with unbiased advice and a network of experts to support the next chapter of their careers.
  • Kredibank — Kredi is a neo bank building Africa's one-stop shop for digital financial services. Kredi is a platform that eliminates all the challenges of using multiple applications and allows users to manage all aspects of their financial lives. We are fully licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We provide access to digital financial services such assavings, credit, payment, investments, and insurance to all consumers in Nigeria in one place.
  • VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Strawhat Investment VC Fund
Strawhat Investment is an investment firm.
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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.
Greenhouse Capital Partners VC Fund · Sausalito, California, United States
Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Nigeria, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • Impact Laboratories — Impact Laboratories collaborates with labs in the commercial, biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic sectors.
Ugochukwu Aronu Angel
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.
Ore Ogundipe Angel · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ore Ogundipe is an Independent Neurotech Research.
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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.
Sean Mahsoul Angel
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.
The Fintech Fund VC Fund · 6 investments in the past 12 months
We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • WiseLayer — WiseLayer's AI empowers finance teams to improve profitability & efficiency in minutes per week
  • Stable Sea — Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities.
  • Wise Layer — WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.
MyAsia VC VC Fund
MyAsia VC
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
  • Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
  • 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.
Inclusion Capital VC Fund
Inclusion Capital invest in interoperable blockchain companies.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
  • MakiSwap — MakiSwap operates as a decentralized exchange on Huobi Eco Chain (Heco).
  • Sienna Networks — Sienna is a privacy-first and cross-chain decentralized finance platform where you can privately swap, lend and convert your tokens into their private equivalent. ‍
Kairos Angels VC Fund
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
  • Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
  • 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.
Wes Schwalje Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Yusuf Abdulmalik Angel
Yusuf Abdulmalik is an individual investor.
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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.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial, IT
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers
  • Stakefair — Earn rewards, stake your digital currencies on predictable events without any loss. Build on DeFi APIs.
  • Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Isaac Ewaleifoh Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
Echezona Uzoma Angel
Echezona Uzoma is an individual investor.
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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.
START EQUITY VENTURES VC Fund · Ashburn, Virginia, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Start Equity is an early stage venture capital firm committed to fueling the growth and success of startups. With a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape and a passion for innovation, we actively seek out and invest in early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Uplift Labs — Optimize human movement performance with AI-powered insights. Uplift provides detailed movement analysis for teams, coaches, trainers, and broadcasters, using existing mobile devices or video feeds.
  • Sully.ai — Sully is deploying autonomous medical workers into healthcare organizations to address the most expensive line item in healthcare: payroll ($800b/yr in the US alone). Today, Sully's autonomous workers can perform most medical staff tasks 100x faster and 20x cheaper. From Digital Triage Nurses and Autonomous Medical Assistants to DigitalScribes and Digital Receptionists, our workers can automate patient check-in, assessments, documentation, diagnosis support, and billing that integrates with Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
  • AiDEN Auto — AiDEN Auto offers a software platform for real-time vehicle communication and in-car services.
FirstCheck Africa VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Nadayar Enegesi Angel
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.
Friále VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Friále invest in start-ups all over the world who are doing big things. They act like the investors they would want as founders. They know what this is, because they are founders themselves. They usually invest at the seed stage, with the aim to follow-on as the company grows.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Wallet.ng — One digital wallet, pay everywhere. Physical USD VISA cards, the lowest transfer fees, cashbacks and virtual accounts. Free virtual cards too!
  • Myria — Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life.
  • Nibble Health — Nibble Health eliminates financial barriers to great healthcare, keeps your employees healthy, and saves your company money
FirstCheck Africa VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
  • Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Consonance Investment Managers VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
fastforward ventures VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
  • Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
Lanre Adelowo Angel
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.
Jedar Capital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Delivery, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
  • Paismo Inc — Paismo HR & Payroll is the Next-Gen Human Capital Management software giving you access to Schedule Management, Time Off, Timesheets, Payroll, etc.
  • Fincart — Fincart helps e-commerce SMBs access working capital through streamlining their last-mile operations through multi-courier shipping platform.
Josh Jones Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States
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.
GetEquity VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • 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.
  • Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
  • Trade Lenda — Trade Lenda: Access to Loans, Investments, Utility Payments, Credit Access, Insurance, and More! Unlock Opportunities to Earn, Invest, and Grow. Secure Personal or Business Loans Toda
Elizabeth Williams Angel
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Internet, Privacy/Security
  • 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.
Picus Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
  • SmartSolar — SmartSolar is a Saigon-based EnergyTech company working to decarbonise Southeast Asia. With SmartSolar, businesses save on their electricity bill from day 1. SmartSolar is currently busy building the critical financing infrastructure to get SMBs equipped with solar energy. We help our customers save money and enable our partners to reach morecustomers. Renewable energy is at an inflection point across the region and we are on a mission to make it available for everyone.
  • Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.
Assembly Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
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Investment focus
  • SMS, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Instanda — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
  • Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
  • 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.
ACE & Company VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 19 investments in the past 12 months
ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact withsourcing partners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • TYXIT — TYXIT is linking musicians wirelessly without configuration, allowing a personal audio monitoring.
  • Masref — Masref provides Swiss saving accounts for the middle-class in distressed economies. Think countries with high inflation, banks that cap withdrawals, no trust in banks, or no financial services like insurance and investments. By leveraging emerging technologies, Swiss financial infrastructure, and its recent regulatory changes, Masref provides themiddle class in these countries with what they never had – a safe place to store their savings. Masref will first provide simple saving accounts, before offering other financial services.
  • SmartHelio — SmartHelio wants to be the doctor for solar plants: we remotely diagnose existing problems, predict faults and prescribe solutions in real time. Our team is made up of highly skilled engineers and scientists with deep domain knowledge of solar technology and data science. The company has developed a cost effective Edge Computing IoT device(HelioHealth, FitBit for Solar), world’s first in its category, that collects and processes data at the panel level using its proprietary physics-based algorithms. SmartHelio provide a dashboard or fully integrate into the existing customers’ IT platform. SmartHelio is deploying AI on Edge devices to reduce the cost of data collection, storage, and processing without compromising the quality of analytics services. This empower energy developers and managers to maintain their assets consistently at a high-performance level with minimum human intervention. SmartHelio is able to generate 5% extra energy and optimize 30% of O&M effort.
Valar Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
  • Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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 .
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