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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Nigeria Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $30k–$15M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4M
Social Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $850k–$46M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
4 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
8VC
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.5M–$181M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Silent Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A National Security, Military, Aerospace $825k–$98M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$40M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Software $230k–$49M
DDF
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Rwanda, United States Seed Mobile, Internet, Wireless $35k–$2.1M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$3.7M
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $150k–$21M
Vy Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $905k–$675M
SHL Capital
VC Fund
2 India, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Apps, Software, InsurTech $1.3M–$4M
Nova
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data $5.7M–$22M
Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $9.3M–$375M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
MyAsia VC
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $592k–$24M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $563k–$34M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
SV Angel
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$100M
Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Software $35k–$1.1M
Partech
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
Lux Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.6M–$150M
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $300k–$5.5M
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
Greenhouse Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Norway Series B, Series A Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing $500k–$39M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
On Deck
VC Fund
1 United States, Colombia, Mexico Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, Financial, IT
Jedar Capital
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Delivery, E-Commerce $340k–$6M
E62 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Base10 Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology
GetEquity
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Health Care
Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Whogohost Venture
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
PolkaFoundary
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
Strawhat Investment
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Computer, Software
Club 14
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
cFund
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
START EQUITY VENTURES
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Chain Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United States, China Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $1M–$80M
AU21 Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.1M–$8M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $50k–$10M
Kairos Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $150k–$20M
ACE & Company
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $687k–$24M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Mobile, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 7 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

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

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 493
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $9.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
  • Biz AI Last — Your dedicated IT department. AI-assisted triage, live expert support via chat, remote connection to fix issues directly, and on-site technicians when needed.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
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8VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

8VC focuses its investment activities on industries such as life sciences, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, enterprise software, and defense. Its portfolio support model aids founders in scaling transformational technologies intended to create long-term economic and societal value. The firm actively finances breakthroughs ranging from medical innovations and zero-emission transit models to security compliance and infrastructure automation.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 678
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series A $7.7M–$55M; Series B $17M–$181M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $45M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Harbor — Harbor is a specialized platform designed to provide insurance and risk management for the AI agentic economy. As AI agents increasingly take over autonomous decision-making tasks within enterprise environments, they introduce unique operational, security, and regulatory risks that traditional safety controls are not built to handle.
  • Hello Patient — Healthcare AI that gets your team off the phone & in front of patients
  • Sirona Medical — Sirona Medical is revolutionizing radiology by delivering a cloud-native platform that unifies the worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single, intuitive workspace. Designed specifically for radiologists, Sirona’s platform simplifies complex workflows, enhances productivity, and empowers practitioners to work as fast as they think.Founded in San Francisco, CA, Sirona combines deep expertise in the practice and business of radiology to create purpose-built solutions that address the evolving needs of the field. By streamlining radiology workflows and integrating cutting-edge AI, Sirona enables radiologists to deliver better, faster, and more efficient care.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
  • Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
  • Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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Silent Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Silent Ventures is a pre-seed fund investing in founders building defense and deep tech companies. Founded by Jackson Moses. Building in Dallas, TX.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $12M–$25M; Pre-Seed $825k–$8M; Series A $35M–$98M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Gallatin — Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry. Gallatin's platform creates actionable insights across the tactical, operational, and strategic levels providing integrated capabilities for first, middle, and last mile solutions where they're needed most.
  • Furientis — Furientis builds high-production-rate defensive systems for tomorrow's threats.
  • American Supercritical — American Supercritical manufactures modular supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) power blocks designed to convert heat into electricity. The systems connect to energy infrastructures like gas turbine exhaust stacks, nuclear reactors, reciprocating engine gensets, and heavy industrial factories. They function across a temperature range of 300 to 1000 °C to produce scalable power outputs from 10 to 100+ MW. The factory-assembled blocks utilize dry-cooling by default and operate without requiring site-specific boiler or water chemist staffing.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 359
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.6M; Series A $3M–$21M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Meta — Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads, which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented reality devices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools, notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.
  • DASH Dog Food — DASH Dog Food provides subscription-based dog food focused on fresh slow-cooked meals and dry kibble made with humanely raised meats. The company offers frozen sous-vide style recipes using grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, and crate-free pork, combined with whole food ingredients and added vitamins and minerals. Its formulas aredeveloped by veterinary and nutritional experts to meet AAFCO standards for complete and balanced diets across life stages. Customers complete an online quiz to create custom meal plans based on their dog’s size, age, activity level, and dietary needs. Food is shipped directly to consumers in portioned pouches or bags on adjustable delivery schedules, and can be used as a full diet or mixed with existing food. DASH Dog Food also offers single-ingredient and freeze-dried meat treats as add-ons for training and enrichment.
  • Prosper Medical — Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tizeti — Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service rightacross Africa.
  • Vuga — Vuga is a telecommunications company that offers a micro-internet network connection.The company invents NodeOne, a quick and affordable way for anyone to set up micro-internet networks without technical skills. NodeOne is built on simplicity but super powerful transmitting an omnidirectional signal, supporting +2.5k clients, with custom meshfirmware for all participants (nodes) to route traffic from other participants.In 2015, Ceddy Muhoza and Patrick Muhire set-up the company in Kigali, Butare.
  • wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Beglaubigt.de — Legaltech startup from Germany https://beglaubigt.de
  • Trace — AI orchestration layer for modern teams
  • Eloquent AI — The Mission Control Engine For Reliable AI Agents
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Vy Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Midas — Premium mathematical datasets and formal verification tools for AI training
  • Vigil Labs — Machine intelligence for live markets.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops and supplies autonomous security and defense technology systems that help monitor and safeguard critical infrastructure such as power plants, mines, refineries, and other industrial assets. The company creates unmanned aerial drones, autonomous ground vehicles, surveillance towers, and maritime monitoring systems that operate with its proprietary ArtemisOS platform for real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across land, air, and sea environments. Its offerings support infrastructure operators and government agencies in detecting and responding to security risks with integrated hardware and software solutions. Terra Industries focuses on delivering systems that integrate data intelligence and autonomy to enhance wide-area surveillance and operational awareness across large or remote facilities.
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Valor Equity Partners
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Series A $9.3M–$80M; Series B $18M–$230M; Series C $10M–$375M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $759M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CSpeed — CSpeed is a telecommunications company that offers datacenter connectivity services.
  • CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
  • Atomic Machines — Atomic Machines is building the Matter Compiler, an AI-native, all-digital manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines directly from code, and PrimeSwitch, its first product family.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

MyAsiaVC is a sector-agnostic fund that seeks opportunities to disrupt established companies in order to build category-defining businesses. They also invest in businesses that benefit from the second- or third-order effects of these developments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Pre-Seed $592k–$2M; Series A $4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Ocular AI — Encoding Human Expertise into Machines
  • Sensesemi — Explore Sensesemi's cutting-edge System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions, revolutionizing Connected Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Internet of Things (IoT). With advanced technology, ultra-low energy consumption, and embedded AI.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Nodes — Nodes Engine connects company knowledge, investigates problems and carries out approved work. Your context graph, decision history and outcomes stay yours.
  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 454
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $563k–$4.5M; Series A $3.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

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

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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SV Angel
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

SV Angel offers founders assistance with key inflection points, including capital raising, strategic networking, business development, talent acquisition, and corporate transactions. Through its relationship network, the organization connects emerging businesses with industry partners, executive advisors, and ecosystem resources. Additionally, the firm provides guidance on corporate governance, operational scaling, and management decisions to support technology enterprises throughout their growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1403
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $3M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $430M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Tab — Tab is an text-based AI assistant that acts as an execution agent rather than just an information provider. Developed by Terrasoft, Inc., it allows users to delegate actual workloads directly via their messaging app using text, photos, documents, or video.
  • Ghost — Ghost is a consumer hardware and software company building a private, local-first computing system for personal artificial intelligence.
  • Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

The Ultimate Information Hub

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fashpa — Welcome to Nigeria’s leading online fashion destination! Shopping online at Fashpa.com in Nigeria means the days of looking through endless boutiques and car boot sales to find that perfect fashion item and buying it at an expensive price when you do are long gone. Whether you are searching for the latest trends, clothing items, shoes,accessories or beauty products, FASHPA.COM brings you a huge collection of brands from which to choose the very best and latest. From shoes, such as heels, espadrilles, flats, sandals for women, wedges, down to clothes, like, swimwear, shorts, underwear or lingerie, and fashion jewelry. Our extensive range of international and local brands and designers such as Topshop, New look, Asos and Zara are literally at your fingertips. Our Mission is simple, the latest trends, hottest brands and best prices all delivered to your doorstep.At FASHPA Nigeria, we believe your online shopping experience should be fantastic and enjoyed as if you visited the best fashion store in Nigeria in person.This is why we have the latest collections and we remove all the stress and make sure you are able to receive your FASHPA order as quickly as possible - in major cities that's usually 1-3 working days. Enjoy free delivery in Lagos or a low shipping rate outside lagos with multiple payment options such as Pay Online, Bank Deposit and cash on delivery. Getting your fashion fix has never been easier and more secure.
  • Piggyvest — Piggyvest is a very secure online savings platform that makes saving possible by combining discipline plus flexibility to make you grow your savings.
  • FrontDesk — Frontdesk.ng helps you easily open a simple website or online shop, drive traffic and grow your business online.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Lux Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Lux Capital focuses on sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, space, and energy, backing businesses that apply scientific research to commercial applications. It provides capital alongside strategic input on product development, company building, and long-term positioning. The firm works with technical founders and research-driven teams to translate complex innovations into scalable businesses. It evaluates opportunities based on the underlying science, potential for industry impact, and feasibility of execution over extended time horizons.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 706
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$25M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series B $13M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $10M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Adimab — Premier Human Antibody Discovery and Optimization
  • Modal Labs — Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine.
  • Cajal Neuroscience — Cajal Neuroscience is a drug discovery company focused on neurodegenerative disease.
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Pago ASAP — Asap optimizes every process with speed, security, and efficiency by facilitating cross-border payments targeted at resource banking. Pago ASAP's payment infrastructure enables banks, fintechs, digital wallets, remittance companies, and businesses to transmit and receive payments.
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Jumba — Your one-stop marketplace for construction materials. We offer a wide range of products to meet all your construction needs. Browse All Products.
  • Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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Greenhouse Capital Partners
VC Fund · Sausalito, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $500k–$12M; Series B $500k–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifefactory — Lifefactory designs healthy housewares solutions for modern life. The Company brings the purity of glass, the protection of silicone, and the power of color to a full line of products designed for everyday use by healthy families. The Lifefactory line began with baby bottles, and has grown to include iconic adult water bottles, wine and beverageglasses and oven-friendly food storage. All components are made in North America or Europe. The Company is privately held and headquartered in Sausalito, CA. Learn more at http://www.lifefactory.com.
  • Revive Kombucha — Since 2010, we have been brewing up beverages that taste as good as they are good for you! Revive is the healthy alternative to soda. Our award winning and innovative new Revive Sparkling Kombucha line; with 5g sugar, 20 calories and 5 billion probiotics, is your delicious and healthy adventure ready partner in a can.
  • Linkage Biosciences — Linkage Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company developing products that hope to improve and expedite complex genetic testing. Their initial focus is on diagnostic products for solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation where their proprietary technology will have an impact. The company offers human leukocyte antigen testingproducts used in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, as well as provides pharmacogenomic and autoimmune disease testing and research and genetic marker tests.Lingkage Biosciences was founded in 2004 and is based in
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
  • 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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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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On Deck
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups, 8 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

  • Industry: Software, Financial, IT
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Colombia, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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).
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Jedar Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Delivery, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Pre-Seed $340k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ElGameya — ElGameya is a fintech mobile application that helps users organize and manage micro-savings and credit. The platform offers collaborative lending options and runs on the concept of a shared economy.
  • 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 is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
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E62 Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Base10 Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Investing in Automation for the Real Economy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shovels — Shovels provides go-to-market data for the building trades. Shovels tags and ties 100 million building permits with 4 million contractors nationwide so software developers can build products and GTM solutions for the construction industry..
  • Slide — Slide is the cutting-edge, security-first Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) modern backup solution designed for MSPs.
  • The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
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GetEquity
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
  • 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
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 981
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.
  • Vectra AI — Vectra is the world leader in AI threat detection and response. The Cognito platform uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive investigations.
  • Point One Navigation — Precise Positioning for the next generation of transportation. 10cm accuracy everywhere.
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Whogohost Venture
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Whogohost Venture is the venture arm of Whogohost.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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PolkaFoundary
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
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Strawhat Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Strawhat Investment is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Computer, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.
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Club 14
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Club 14

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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cFund
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

cFund is an early-stage sector agnostic venture firm in the Blockchain industry anchored by IOG and managed by Wave Digital Assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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START EQUITY VENTURES
VC Fund · Ashburn, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Start Equity is an early stage venture capital firm committed to fueling the growth and success of startups. With a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape and a passion for innovation, we actively seek out and invest in early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Uplift Labs — Optimize human movement performance with AI-powered insights. Uplift provides detailed movement analysis for teams, coaches, trainers, and broadcasters, using existing mobile devices or video feeds.
  • Sully.ai — Sully is deploying autonomous medical workers into healthcare organizations to address the most expensive line item in healthcare: payroll ($800b/yr in the US alone). Today, Sully's autonomous workers can perform most medical staff tasks 100x faster and 20x cheaper. From Digital Triage Nurses and Autonomous Medical Assistants to DigitalScribes and Digital Receptionists, our workers can automate patient check-in, assessments, documentation, diagnosis support, and billing that integrates with Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
  • AiDEN Auto — AiDEN Auto offers a software platform for real-time vehicle communication and in-car services.
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Chain Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$80M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HodlHer — HodlHer.ai is an AI-powered Web3 platform with an emotional AI companion for smarter trading, portfolio management tools and data.
  • Metafyed — Metafyed is a full-service tokenization AI Platform, empowering companies to create a market of their shares through blockchain technology.
  • Kyuzo’s Friends — Kyuzo’s Friends focuses on user growth and player engagement.
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
  • NeuronX — 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 — Community-First Layer for AI Memecoins. @solana @pumpdotfun @ton_blockchain Dvo1Fb7FxtUxsLbcQaizftfUT9HtL9P6swaQAScZDeQQ
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — 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 — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
  • EMTECH — Cari pragmatic slot gacor? Cek info RTP slot Pragmatic Play terupdate di AkongCuan. Mulai modal slot depo 5K sekarang, mainkan, dan raih cuan maksimal!
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Kairos Angels
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M; Series A $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
  • Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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ACE & Company
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

ACE & Company is a Geneva-based private equity and venture capital firm with more than $2.0 billion in assets under management and over 20 years of experience.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 191
  • Round size: Seed $687k–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $143M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
  • Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
  • DiPonio Contracting — DiPonio Contracting is an infrastructure maintenance and construction company. It offers new and replacement upgrades for aged and existing water, wastewater, and storm sewer systems.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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Hardware VC funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 124 deals from 155 investors.

155
investors
in Nigeria Hardware startups
124
deals
in Nigeria Hardware startups
$200k
median round
in Nigeria Hardware startups
46%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Grant
most common funding stage

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