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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Nigeria in January 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 January 2025

Investor Hardware Nigeria investments
Microtraction 4
Golden Palm Investments 4
Social Capital 3
Ventures Platform 3
Lynett Capital 3
Prosper Otemuyiwa 3
Future Africa 2
Vy Capital 2
Zeno Partners 2
Western Technology Investment 2
RaliCap 2
HoaQ 2
Gabriel Hammond 2
4DX Ventures 2
Michael Seibel 2
Ham Serunjogi 1
Tayo Oviosu 1
N7 Labs 1
Nadayar Enegesi 1
Unpopular Ventures 1
Jedar Capital 1
Josh Jones 1
GetEquity 1
Sean Mahsoul 1
On Deck 1
Elizabeth Williams 1
The Fintech Fund 1
MyAsia VC 1
Picus Capital 1
Assembly Capital Partners 1
ACE & Company 1
Greenhouse Capital Partners 1
Ugochukwu Aronu 1
Friále 1
Valar Ventures 1
FirstCheck Africa 1
Consonance Investment Managers 1
Partech 1
Base10 Partners 1
Berrywood Capital 1
fastforward ventures 1
Ore Ogundipe 1
Lanre Adelowo 1
Inclusion Capital 1
Echukwudi Daniel 1
Kepple Africa Ventures 1
Michael Vaughan 1
Ibrahim Bello 1
cFund 1
Walid Aradi 1
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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 is the future of clinical documentation with real-time clinical speech-to-text for 200+ African accents, easing the transition to digitized care.
  • PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data
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 Africa is world class logistic company. We use our technology, networks, and systems to enable African businesses to quickly finance, manage and monitor their regional supply chains.
Social Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 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
  • Focus — The Crypto Social Network.
  • Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
  • Tierra Biosciences — Speed, scale and simplicity with protein synthesis on-demand. Discover your portal to thousands of custom proteins. Get testable material with a single input.
Ventures Platform VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 4 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
  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • 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 · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
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.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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 — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
Vy Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 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.
  • Pomelo — Send money to the Philippines with zero transfer fees - earn points on every transfer.
  • Astuto Technologies — Continuous Cloud Cost Optimization | Anomaly Detection | Waste Prevention
Zeno Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 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
  • Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
  • Granza Bio — Advancing Therapeutic Delivery using Precision Shells
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.
RaliCap VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 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
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • 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.
HoaQ VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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 — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
  • Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas
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.
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
  • 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.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
Michael Seibel Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 25 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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
  • Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
Ham Serunjogi
Co-Founder & CEO @ Chipper Cash
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
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
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 — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | 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.
Unpopular Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • UnVale — UnVale will change how people develop, explore, and express their identities online.
  • Acre — Fundamentally redesigning homeownership
  • Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
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
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.
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).
Elizabeth Williams Angel
Elizabeth Williams
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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.
The Fintech Fund VC Fund · 2 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
  • Outgo Inc — A new service built for carriers of any size. We provide one simple service to manage your financial needs; from invoicing and factoring, to banking and expenses. Factor for free with each swipe of the Outgo Card.
  • Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
  • Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
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.
Picus Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 24 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
  • Omni HR — Omni HR helps companies automate the end-to-end employee journey including onboarding, time off, employee management, and more. Easy to use and customizable!
  • Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
  • 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...
Assembly Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial, IT
  • 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.
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, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • 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.
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.
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
Valar Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 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
  • MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
  • Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
  • Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
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.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 21 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
  • KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
Base10 Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy. They bring automation to traditional sectors of the economy. Today, the company has backed nearly 30 companies. Base10 creates industry teams that consider what is going to happen in the next five years, and then call the companies they see playing arole. It either turns into an investment, or Base10 will follow the company for 18 months.It is based in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2017.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Mexico, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Buk — Software de Recursos Humanos para atender todas las necesidades de tus colaboradores. Desde el pago de sus remuneraciones hasta su desarrollo profesional.
  • Tenor — Tenor is an AI designed to assist leaders in practicing important dialogues.
  • Sightglass — Sightglass is an AI-powered investor relations platform serving both investment managers and capital allocators.
Berrywood Capital VC Fund
Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ‍
Echukwudi Daniel Angel
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Angel
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Arone — idebet adalah situs slot online terpercaya gampang menang menyediakan link login dan link alternatif permainan judi slot terlengkap.
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.
Michael Vaughan Angel · New York, New York, United States
Michael Vaughan is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Vera Equity. He previously worked at Stem Disintermedia Inc. as a Board Member. Michael Vaughan attended The Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Brazil, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
  • Trust Software — The corporate card, made social. Trust is the only corporate card that helps startups grow smarter, together. Learn more at trust.co
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Ibrahim Bello Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Byran Bellz is a Blogger, Web designer, Microbiologist and Illustrator, with a keen knowledge about Entertainment, he's the Founder/CEO of 234Hypes.com
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
  • Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
cFund VC Fund
Digital asset capital management with Wave Digital Assets. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Kenya, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
  • EigenLabs — EigenLayer a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking.
  • Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
Walid Aradi Angel
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, IT
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
  • Stitch — One API for secure online payments and financial data. The Stitch API makes it easier for businesses to send, manage and accept secure online payments and easily access customer financial data in South Africa and Nigeria.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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