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Top 50 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in September 2025

Investor	Hardware Nigeria investments
Microtraction	4
Golden Palm Investments	4
Lynett Capital	3
Ventures Platform	3
Social Capital	3
Future Africa	2
Western Technology Investment	2
Nama Ventures	2
RaliCap	2
Vy Capital	2
HoaQ	2
Zeno Partners	2
4DX Ventures	2
Kairos Angels	1
Polymath Capital	1
Onega Ventures	1
PolkaFoundary	1
fastforward ventures	1
Inclusion Capital	1
Jedar Capital	1
DDF	1
Assembly Capital Partners	1
Chain Capital	1
FirstCheck Africa	1
The Fintech Fund	1
cFund	1
ACE & Company	1
Dunbar Capital	1
Khosla Ventures	1
Kepple Africa Ventures	1
Niche Capital	1
Valar Ventures	1
N7 Labs	1
AU21 Capital	1
E62 Ventures	1
MyAsia VC	1
FirstCheck Africa	1
Occam.fi	1
Unpopular Ventures	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Ingressive Capital	1
Partech	1
On Deck	1
Velocity Digital	1
Friále	1
Whogohost Venture	1
Greenhouse Capital Partners	1
Greencap Equity	1
Strawhat Investment	1
Consonance Investment Managers	1

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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.

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 across Africa. 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 revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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.

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
Nodes — Nodes.inc is building the world’s first AI-native, full-stack hiring platform designed to automate and optimize the entire talent lifecycle — from candidate sourcing to predictive onboarding. Powered by multi-agent systems and self-learning AI, Nodes eliminates outdated ATS workflows, bloated HR stacks, and manual recruiting processes.Theplatform goes beyond incremental improvements: it creates rich persona-based candidate profiles, autonomously headhunts across the internet, engages with passive talent using hyper-personalized outreach, and continuously retrains itself based on hiring outcomes. With performance-based pricing and a modular architecture, Nodes enables enterprises to reduce hiring time from 120 days to under 14, slash early-stage attrition, and ensure every hire is a high-fit hire.Backed by top operators and used by Fortune 500 companies, Nodes.inc is redefining the infrastructure layer for the future of work.
Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
Stay — Stay is a long-term incentive platform. We are working to decomplicate the task of investing in the future: both for companies and for their collaborators.

A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series C, Series B
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Neuralink — Developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.
VERB Technology Company — VERB Technology Company is a software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, applications platform developer. Its platform is comprised of sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis. The applications are available in both mobile and desktop versions. It includes verbCRM, Customer Relationship Management application, verbLEARN,Learning Management System application, and verbLIVE, its Live Broadcast Video Webinar application.

Startup Investment Club

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 — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

DejaBlue — DejaBlue delivers a smart EV charging platform that supports solar integration, reduces energy costs, and improves site operations. Easily connect chargers, manage your fleet, and optimize performance with reliable tools built for scale.
Spaceium — Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer.
Baton Market — Explore businesses for sale with Baton Market. Close deals 10X faster than competitors with our modern, dedicated business brokerage experience.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
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.

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

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ozone — Meet Ozone, your AI-powered video editor.
Ozone — Meet Ozone, your AI-powered video editor.
Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.

Onega Capital investment targets are early-stage blockchain projects, and it aims to formulate strategic conditions for mutual learning, common practice, common progress, common retreat, mutual encouragement and common prosperity, and attract investment in an open and embracing way.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Wireless
Seed
Panama, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
Rise Of Defenders — Rise of Defenders is a very interesting Metaverse NFT game, you can use your creativity and tactical thinking to become an excellent player and receive extremely attractive rewards.

PolkaFoundry is a platform for creating borderless and frictionless DeFi apps. It is designed to unleashes developers to explore new horizons of the DeFi landscape.

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.

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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.

Inclusion Capital invest in interoperable blockchain companies.

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. ‍

VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech

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.io - Your trusted partner for seamless shipping & working capital access to grow your online brand.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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.

Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.

Investment focus

SMS, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Instanda — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Metale Protocol — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
AiGO — AiGO Network is dedicated to developing a comprehensive go-to solution for all mobility situations directing urban planning and improving traffic efficiency, automobiles, and navigation in the twenty-first century, ultimately creating a more livable and sustainable planet.
Marquee — Marquee - Defi2.0 Insurance & DAO Platform.

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.

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.

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Stable Sea — Stable Sea provides seamless, compliant, cost-effective stablecoin offramping solutions, enabling businesses to bridge the gap between digital and traditional finance and unlock new opportunities.
Wise Layer — WiseLayer makes AI-powered digital workers for finance and accounting teams.It's AI digital workforce includes: - Angela, the AI agent for Accruals & Rev Rec (hire her at www.accruals.ai) - Dennis, the AI agent for Discrepancies & Financial Anomalies (hire him at www.discrepancies.ai) - … with the 4 newest AI agents eachspecializingin the following tasks: (1) bank reconciliations, (2) fixed asset depreciation & amortization, (3) lease accounting, and (4) prepaid expenses.
Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed
Nigeria, United States

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.
Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inkeep — inkeep provides conversational search for developer-focused companies. We use LLMs to understand a company’s docs, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow threads and more to answer developer questions and increase customer activation.
Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

Venture Capital firm

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

N7 Labs is a San Diego-based consulting and retail organization.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Social, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

E62 VENTURES IS ALL IN 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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Themis AI — Themis AI creates technology for end-to-end debiasing that aims to assist companies in removing bias in their machine learning pipelines. After conducting extensive research on safe decision-making for autonomous agents, DRL at CSAIL MIT created Themis AI with the goal of enabling others to develop, advance, and use reliable AI. The solution makesit possible for AI to be trusted in high-risk situations, during exceptional occurrences, and everywhere biases and imbalances can be identified in training data.
Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.

MyAsia VC

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Toma — Toma automates customer communications and operational tasks, helping dealerships boost revenue and enhance customer experiences with a conversational AI.
Rocketable — Rocketable is a software holding company that acquires existing software products and operates them using AI agents.
NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpic — Alpic's all-in-one cloud platform provides the infrastructure and tools to turn your product into an AI-native experience. Build, deploy and monitor your MCP servers at scale easily, we'll handle the rest.
Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.

On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community.

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).

Syndicate focused on funding for the most Ambitious Founders in Africa

Investment focus

CRM, EdTech, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States

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 — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, India

Portfolio highlights

Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
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.
Standard Practice — Nibble Health eliminates financial barriers to great healthcare, keeps your employees healthy, and saves your company money

Whogohost Venture is the venture arm of Whogohost.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Pre-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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Nigeria, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Fido Tech — FIDO AI provides innovative water leak detection and management solutions using cutting-edge technology to drive sustainability and efficiency in water systems.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
Impact Laboratories — Impact Laboratories collaborates with labs in the commercial, biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic sectors.

Greencap Equity - A Pan-African Investment Company

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada, 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.
Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

Strawhat Investment is an investment firm.

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.

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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.
Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.

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