Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Nigeria
A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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
Investor | Hardware Nigeria investments |
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Microtraction | 4 |
Golden Palm Investments | 4 |
Lynett Capital | 3 |
Social Capital | 3 |
Ventures Platform | 3 |
Prosper Otemuyiwa | 3 |
Future Africa | 2 |
RaliCap | 2 |
Western Technology Investment | 2 |
Vy Capital | 2 |
Michael Seibel | 2 |
4DX Ventures | 2 |
HoaQ | 2 |
Gabriel Hammond | 2 |
Zeno Partners | 2 |
N7 Labs | 1 |
Occam.fi | 1 |
Echukwudi Daniel | 1 |
fastforward ventures | 1 |
E62 Ventures | 1 |
Kairos Angels | 1 |
Sean Mahsoul | 1 |
Walid Aradi | 1 |
Ore Ogundipe | 1 |
Jedar Capital | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Pluto Digital | 1 |
On Deck | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Elizabeth Williams | 1 |
The Fintech Fund | 1 |
Lanre Adelowo | 1 |
Inclusion Capital | 1 |
Niche Capital | 1 |
Polymath Capital | 1 |
Ugochukwu Aronu | 1 |
Nadayar Enegesi | 1 |
Velocity Digital | 1 |
Berrywood Capital | 1 |
MyAsia VC | 1 |
Michael Vaughan | 1 |
Friále | 1 |
Josh Jones | 1 |
Valar Ventures | 1 |
Assembly Capital Partners | 1 |
GetEquity | 1 |
Unpopular Ventures | 1 |
ACE & Company | 1 |
Ibrahim Bello | 1 |
cFund | 1 |
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, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pennee — Yana Finance provides up to 50 million Naira for ambitious business owners, with NDIC insured accounts. Yana Finance aims to simplify financial operations for businesses, ensuring they never run out of money and can manage cash flows efficiently.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
- Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
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.
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
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
- 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
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 — Frain is developing a solution that will allow you to track all of your product's third-party dependencies from a single dashboard.
- 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 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.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
- 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.
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
- Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
- Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
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, Series B
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
- Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
- Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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 cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
- Astuto Technologies — Continuous Cloud Cost Optimization | Anomaly Detection | Waste Prevention
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.
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.
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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
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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.
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
- Pump — Pump uses AI & group buying to automate cloud savings with zero engineering input. #GetPumped
- 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
- Finta — Finta replaces Quickbooks and expensive bookkeepers. Get bookkeeping, taxes, and tax credits setup in 10 minutes.
N7 Labs is a San Diego-based consulting and retail organization.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
OccamDAO is a Cardano (ADA) based DEX and launchpad (fundraising platform).
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Investment focus
- Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
Echukwudi Daniel
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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.
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
- 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.
E62 VENTURES
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At E62 Ventures, we go ALL IN to help MIT alumni founders to tackle technological challenges to transform our society and build a better future.
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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.
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
- Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
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.
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.
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
- Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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.
Pluto Digital PLC (Pluto) is a crypto technology and operations company that makes Web 3.0 Decentralised Finance (DeFi) more accessible to all.
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Investment focus
- Other, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- AdaSwap — The next-gen DEX based on Cardano! Swap, bridge & trade between Cardano-based tokens, NFTs and stablecoins within seconds.
- IQ Labs — IQ Labs coordinates the decentralized development of novel frameworks and protocols in the DeFi space.
- Balthazar NFT Gaming — Earn within the Balthazar NFT gaming platform by playing, renting, lending or buying NFTs. United to build a self sustaining, wealth building ecosystem.
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).
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Financial
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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.
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
- Navro — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
- 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.
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 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.
Venture Capital firm
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
Polymath Capital is a remote-first firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led venture capital firm, we partner with ambitious founders to build the next generation of market-changing companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, Germany
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.
- Vienna Hypertext — Information Company
- Oyster Technologies — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.
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.
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.
Syndicate focused on funding for the most Ambitious Founders in Africa
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Investment focus
- Hardware, Software, Internet
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
- Klas — Klas - Live Learning Technology for Creators & Communities
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
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- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- FinTech, Software, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- 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
The best companies, off the beaten path.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- Khyaal — Khyaal is a full-stack digital solution for senior citizens designed and developed to improve their quality of life. We facilitate on-demand services and organise fun and engaging activities for seniors. Being a part of the Khyaal family means making a difference in the world by enriching the lives of the elderly. If selflessness and empathy is atrait that you carry and would want to put at work, then you will find Khyaal as the perfect place to invest your valuable time.At Khyaal, we value your individuality and the skills that you bring to the table. We also believe in the power of collective consciousness to serve others and make their lives easier and wholesome. We want all members of the Khyaal family to feel respected personally and professionally. Our working environment will always make way for new ideas, ownership and collective growth.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
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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- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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.
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
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- 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.
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