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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Nigeria (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Nigeria Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
6 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $30k–$15M
Social Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $850k–$46M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
8VC
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$175M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Software $230k–$49M
Michael Seibel
Angel
3 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $500k–$21M
Silent Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A National Security, Military, Government $825k–$98M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$100M
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
3 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Software, CRM $200k–$1M
DDF
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Rwanda, United States Seed Mobile, Internet, Wireless $35k–$2.1M
Gabriel Hammond
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Wireless, FinTech $2.1M–$2.1M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $563k–$33M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
SV Angel
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $1M–$100M
Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Software $35k–$1.1M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$3.7M
MyAsia VC
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $592k–$24M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Nova
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data $5.7M–$22M
Lux Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.8M–$150M
Vy Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $905k–$675M
Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, India Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $9.3M–$435M
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $150k–$21M
SHL Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Software, InsurTech $1.3M–$4M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $300k–$5.5M
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$56M
Ham Serunjogi
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Apps $25k–$5.3M
Occam.fi
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$8M
Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
1 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $450k–$40M
START EQUITY VENTURES
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Velocity Digital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Angel, Pre-Seed CRM, EdTech, Internet $100k–$130k
Friále
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Information Technology $450k–$20M
Merijn Campsteyn
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel CRM, Software, Telecommunications
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Lanre Ogungbe
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel CRM, Software, Telecommunications
Greencap Equity
VC Fund
1 Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Payments $200k–$1M
Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SMS, SaaS, Software $1.4M–$7.7M
Niche Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
The Fintech Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
fastforward ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Polymath Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 6 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 484
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $9.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
  • Biz AI Last — Your dedicated IT department. AI-assisted triage, live expert support via chat, remote connection to fix issues directly, and on-site technicians when needed.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 5 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
  • Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
  • Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks
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8VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

8VC is a technology and life sciences investment firm that partners with founders to develop transformational technologies. The firm focuses on creating long-term economic and societal value through its investments across various sectors, including healthcare and logistics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 667
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $7.7M–$55M; Series B $17M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $45M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Saronic — Providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain.
  • Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.
  • Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a medical image management system that streamlines imaging data aggregation, harmonization, management and analysis at scale.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Early-stage venture firm backing founders with world-changing potential at pre-seed and seed. Portfolio includes Hadrian, Flutterwave, Onebrief and Long Wall.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • idler — Push the frontier of your model
  • Juxta — Juxta delivers infrastructure-free positioning for people, assets, and robots. Track indoors, outdoors, and GPS-denied environments with the Universal Positioning System, Software SDK, and Asset Tags.
  • Luminate — Luminate Medical is developing LILY, the world's first pain-free and portable solution to prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $5.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
  • Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
  • Arena — Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.
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Silent Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Silent Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in exceptional founders building unrivaled defense, national security, and deep technology companies. Founded by Jackson Moses. Located in Dallas, Texas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: National Security, Military, Government
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $12M–$25M; Pre-Seed $825k–$5M; Series A $35M–$98M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Traysar — Building autonomous underground systems for strike and defense in the new subterra battlefield
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Dominion Dynamics — Building the autonomy stack for the Arctic, the harshest environment on Earth.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 338
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $3M–$21M; Series B $5M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — At Meta, they work on landmark AI challenges that have the power to transform how scientific knowledge is experienced and consumed. Meta provides innovators throughout the scientific ecosystem with powerful views of the current and future trajectories of science and technology with the goal of making all scientific knowledge computable. Meta’smission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical insights using artificial intelligence.
  • RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.
  • Prosper Medical — Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services.
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, CRM
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
  • 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.
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DDF
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

DDF Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in African startups. It specializes in seed stage investments. Founded in 2015 by Tim Draper and Toro Orero, DDF Capital is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Internet, Wireless
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Rwanda, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tizeti — Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service rightacross Africa.
  • Vuga — Vuga is a telecommunications company that offers a micro-internet network connection.The company invents NodeOne, a quick and affordable way for anyone to set up micro-internet networks without technical skills. NodeOne is built on simplicity but super powerful transmitting an omnidirectional signal, supporting +2.5k clients, with custom meshfirmware for all participants (nodes) to route traffic from other participants.In 2015, Ceddy Muhoza and Patrick Muhire set-up the company in Kigali, Butare.
  • 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.
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Gabriel Hammond
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Gabriel is founder of Emles Advisors .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Wireless, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
  • La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 451
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $563k–$4.5M; Series A $3.9M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Lightbase — An always up-to-date view of your entire IT ecosystem for faster decisions and confident transformation at scale
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

SV Angel is a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1335
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$37M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
  • NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
  • Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

The Ultimate Information Hub

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RealE — Reale is a real estate and property managerial tool.
  • PushCV — PushCV is a service that provides unlimited access to pre-screened and fully tested candidates for top organisations.They are focused on the features that matter most to an employer and hence, the job seeker. Through continued iteration on difficult employment problems, they seek to provide continuous improvements to the service that alreadymakes thousands of people find their dream jobs a lot faster, safer and more seamless.In PushCV, they believe that if great people are employed in an organisation, that organisation will expand, thereby creating more Jobs for others. Their systems were built from scratch, allowing scalability, flexibility and creativity. Their dedication and cross collaborative efforts to improving on this service helps us apply what they've learned to new products. They believe that persons should secure jobs based on what they know (Skill, Knowledge and experience) rather than who they know.
  • Uregista — URegista is an online form builder that can be used to create contact forms, event registration forms, surveys etc and can also process payments through your form. It is the only form builder fully serving African entrepreneurs and businesses by supporting popular apps among African businesses.
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Koa — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
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MyAsia VC
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

MyAsia VC

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Pre-Seed $592k–$2M; Series A $4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sensesemi — Sensesemi Technologies is a healthcare startup that focuses on the development of unique medical devices. The company's inspiration stems from personal experiences with hypertension and diabetes in close family members. Sensesemi Technologies is known for its commitment to delivering optimal healthcare services. The company's productdevelopment is primarily in the field of medical devices, aiming to cater to a wide range of healthcare needs. The company has been recognized for its work, notably winning in the ESDM category at the 'Startup Karnataka Top Tech Awards'.
  • Squid — Squid turns models from existing analysis tools into one standard, versioned network, so engineers and agents can validate data, build scenarios, run studies and publish decisions from the same source.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

NAMA VENTURES TECH FOUNDERS FUNDING TECH STARTUPS LOOKING FOR FUNDING? APPLY NOW

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Nodes — Talent Intelligence Layer for Regulated Industries
  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
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Nova
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

A global talent investing firm on a mission to patron future world-historic individuals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Midas — Premium mathematical datasets and formal verification tools for AI training
  • Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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Lux Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investmentstrategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 688
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$25M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series B $13M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Adimab — Premier Human Antibody Discovery and Optimization
  • Toonimo — Toonimo humanize the web user experience with an engaging and personalized step-by-step interactive walkthrough
  • Cajal Neuroscience — Cajal Neuroscience is a drug discovery company focused on neurodegenerative disease.
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Vy Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $905k–$5M; Series B $11M–$300M; Series C $10M–$675M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $354M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Temple — A wearable that measures Brain Flow and everything else.
  • Counterpart — Counterpart is a management liability platform powered by big data and artificial intelligence that offers a range of insurance products complemented with a suite of services that proactively measure and mitigates exposures. Counterpart was founded in 2019 by Tanner Hackett and is based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • The Boring Company — The Boring Company constructs safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.
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Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm that focuses on growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellenceand the courage to transform their industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 327
  • Round size: Series A $9.3M–$80M; Series B $18M–$230M; Series C $10M–$435M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $759M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
  • Cognition — Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks.
  • The Boring Company — The Boring Company constructs safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels.
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Zeno Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Beglaubigt.de — https://t.co/BCWk4L679n ist die erste Plattform zur Digitalisierung des Notariats in Europa.
  • Trace — Trace is an orchestration engine that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents and routes the rest to the right people.
  • Eloquent AI — The AI Operator for Financial Services
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SHL Capital
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JiPay — JiPay - let the whole family go cashless. Order a free prepaid card for your helper or children.
  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
  • Nova Benefits — We help companies find affordable health insurance and wellness benefits that their employees can trust.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups, 6 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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Pago ASAP — Asap optimizes every process with speed, security, and efficiency by facilitating cross-border payments targeted at resource banking. Pago ASAP's payment infrastructure enables banks, fintechs, digital wallets, remittance companies, and businesses to transmit and receive payments.
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 678
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Ham Serunjogi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Ham Kakembo Serunjogi is based out of San Francisco, California and is the a Co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash. Ham previously worked at Facebook as a Global Accountant. Ham Kakembo Serunjogi attended the Grinnell College. Ham Kakembo Serunjogi has been names as one of the honorees on the Forbes 30 Under 30.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $240k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • CreditChek — Africa's #1 credit intelligence platform. Access credit bureau API, bank statement analysis, BVN/KYC verification & direct debit for lenders in Nigeria, Kenya & Uganda. Trusted by 100+ businesses.
  • Hisa Inc — Seamless trading, and Borderless investment for Africa.
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Occam.fi
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

OccamDAO is a Cardano (ADA) based DEX and launchpad (fundraising platform).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
  • NeuronX — The First AI-Driven Lending Protocol on @dfinity
  • Vue Protocol — Community-First Layer for AI Memecoins. @solana @pumpdotfun @ton_blockchain Dvo1Fb7FxtUxsLbcQaizftfUT9HtL9P6swaQAScZDeQQ
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6M; Series A $8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
  • Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
  • Multiplier — Multiplier helps institutional investors research stocks and manage their portfolios. We're live with six hedge funds, and our users spend 4+ hours a day in the platform.Investors who try "nearly every tool on the market," to quote a client of ours, "wind up with an unwieldy collection of fragmented point solutions."Those who focus on building a great setup with general agents are instead "signing up for a full-time job." So we deploy a platform called Multiplier that unifies structured data, unstructured data, AI work, human work, and tacit firm knowledge in one secure, governed, customized application.Our first vertical: independent equity funds with $250M-$5B of assets. They know AI is essential for staying relevant, but they don't have the time or talent to figure out what to do about it. But once we deploy Multiplier––"We used to spend 80% of our time gathering information and 20% of our time acting on it," said one customer. "Multiplier has flipped those percentages."
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START EQUITY VENTURES
VC Fund · Ashburn, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Velocity Digital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Syndicate focused on funding for the most Ambitious Founders in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, EdTech, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$130k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
  • ZeroComplex AI — ZeroComplex AI develops Artificial Intelligence workflow that intends to revolutionize business operations with simplified AI integration.
  • Bridgecard — Issue physical or virtual cards that carry a MasterCard or Visa logo to your users with our card issuing APIs. Get started in a week.
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Friále
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $450k–$5M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.
  • Standard Practice — Nibble Health eliminates financial barriers to great healthcare, keeps your employees healthy, and saves your company money
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Merijn Campsteyn
Angel · Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Merijn Campsteyn is the Chief Technology Officer at Deloitte

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Software, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Lanre Ogungbe
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Co-Founder @myidentitypass | Strategic Advisor at @FastForward_U | Ex @Accounteer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Software, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Greencap Equity
VC Fund · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Greencap Equity - A Pan-African Investment Company

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Payments
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
  • Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
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Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SMS, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Instanda — Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online. Its no-code product design platform is built on a powerful set of insurance specific calculations, processing, and workflow capabilities.Instanda works with the carriers, MGAs, and brokers in UK, Europe, US, Canada, LATAMand Australia converting the lethargic back office to an agile front office, freeing the industry from high-cost legacy systems.Founded in 2012, Instanda is headquartered in London, England.
  • 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.
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Niche Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Venture Capital firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bemi — Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy.
  • Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
  • Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
  • Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
  • Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
  • Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
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fastforward ventures
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

This domain used to be connected to a Wix website. Learn how to reconnect it, or create your own website.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Polymath Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Polymath Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led firm, we partner with ambitious founders to build the next generation of market-changing companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozone — Meet Ozone, your AI-powered video editor.
  • Ozone — Ozone develops an AI-powered video editing platform that allows users to collaborate remotely. It also enables editing high-definition footage, creating video mockups in seconds, color-correcting footage with a pinch of a color wheel, and seeing what the end result will look like before exporting it.
  • Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
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Hardware Investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 128 deals from 190 investors.

190
investors
in Nigeria Hardware startups
128
deals
in Nigeria Hardware startups
$136k
median round
in Nigeria Hardware startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Grant
most common funding stage
80/20
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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