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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (June 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
4 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $30k–$15M
Microtraction
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$140M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Mobile $120k–$49M
Social Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, SaaS $1M–$45M
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$65M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$8.3M
Vy Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $905k–$675M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Future Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Silent Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A National Security, Military, Government $4.6M–$70M
8VC
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$175M
Lux Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $1.8M–$150M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Nova
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data $5.7M–$22M
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $150k–$21M
Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
E62 Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
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
GetEquity
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Health Care
START EQUITY VENTURES
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Base10 Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology
PolkaFoundary
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
Friále
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech $450k–$20M
Occam.fi
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
Greencap Equity
VC Fund
1 Canada, Nigeria Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Payments $200k–$1M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $125k–$3.7M
Pluto Digital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology $720k–$12M
The Fintech Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$30M
Dunbar Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $580k–$6M
MyAsia VC
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $592k–$22M
SHL Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Singapore Seed Apps, Software, Insurance $1.3M–$4M
fastforward ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Jedar Capital
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Delivery, E-Commerce $340k–$6M
N7 Labs
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Malaysia Seed Cryptocurrency, Social, Internet $1.5M–$1.5M
Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SMS, SaaS, Software $1.4M–$7.7M
ACE & Company
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$24M
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $1.2M–$75M
Whogohost Venture
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
Partech
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
DDF
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
Chain Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United States, China Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1M–$80M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$69M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
Velocity Digital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Angel, Pre-Seed CRM, EdTech, Software $100k–$130k
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 4 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
  • 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.
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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: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 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: 143
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 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, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$22M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1M; Series A $25M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raptures — Raptures is a global digital storytelling platform & studio network creating original and industry leading webtoons, comics and animations.
  • Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
  • Prembly — Leading provider of identity verification, KYC/KYB compliance, AML screening, fraud detection, and background check solutions. Trusted by businesses across Africa and globally for secure, real-time verification.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Luminate Medical — 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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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 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, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
  • Early is Good — Multi-omic diagnostics that analyze DNA, RNA, and Protein from a single sample for unprecedented cancer clarity.
  • Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors.  The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $375M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.
  • Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
  • Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
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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, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • 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.
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.
  • Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • 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

  • MotorPedia — MotorPedia is serving the unorganized automotive dealer market in India by providing a range of tech solutions and associated services to transform regular dealerships into AI-powered experience centers. These offerings enable dealers to compete with organized, tech-first players in the industry. Below is a list of solutions offered by MotorPedia:1. Digital Showroom 2. AI-Driven Photoshoot Capability 3. Digital Catalogue 4. Social Media Marketing 5. Classifieds Listings 6. Inventory Management 7. Lead Generation and Management Powered by AI (including an auto-focused GPT-based chatbot) 8. Pricing Recommendations Driven by AI-Led Predictive Modelling 9. Financial Dashboards and Ledger 10. RTO Services 11. Finance and Insurance Services 12. Park and Sell Stores 13. Extended Warranty and Roadside Assistance ProductsThese comprehensive solutions help automotive dealers enhance their operational efficiency and customer engagement through advanced technology and AI-driven tools.
  • Inshorts — Read latest news with inshorts in less than 60 words, related to business, sports, bollywood and technology in India and around the world in both english & hindi.
  • 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.
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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 Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
  • Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
  • Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
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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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • 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.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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Silent Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $11M–$22M; Pre-Seed $4.6M–$5M; Series A $35M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
  • Union Technologies — For nearly a century, the energetics sector- factories, munitions, and propellants have been stagnant, plagued by a lack of innovation and sophistication. Despite a total addressable market of nearly $6 trillion, this industry has largely been dominated by outdated technologies and entrenched legacy players who have failed to adapt, eroding theircredibility and trust currency across the global stage. The U.S. energetics enterprise is now outmatched, outclassed, and outranged by our adversaries. Our ability to project power and influence outcomes for the U.S. and our Allies is crippled. The U.S.’s position has weakened as our adversaries advance. The West is vulnerable. Our edge is gone. Enter: UNION.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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8VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 481
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$13M; Series A $7.4M–$55M; Series B $16M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
  • Adentro — Zenreach created Walk-Through Marketing to help businesses with physical locations dramatically improve customer acquisition and lifetime value by connecting digital marketing with in-store results. Zenreach Engage automatically tracks customer visits, effortlessly builds rich customer profiles and keeps them up to date. Zenreach Attract improvesad performance 4x by targeting audiences based on your best customers. Results are measured with our Walk-Through Rate™, a proprietary metric that shows when someone exposed to an ad visits a location. Founded in 2012, Zenreach serves thousands of independent merchants and leading brands like Peet’s Coffee, Ruth’s Chris and BCBG Max Azria.
  • Better Health — Better Health is a Modern Medical Supplier focused on delivering Urology & Ostomy Supplies. Shop the latest Catheters, Ostomy Bags from Hollister, Convatec, Coloplast and many more.
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Lux Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 521
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$30M; Series A $7M–$60M; Series B $13M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • Clarifai — Clarifai is the leading Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP Platform. Label, train, deploy models on one AI platform for developers & data scientists.
  • Primer — Primer makes powerful mission-ready AI software designed to work in your environment, on your data. We help national security teams sift through massive unstructured data sets to find the needle in the haystack, understand and visualize their data, and act collaboratively. Our mission is to empower decisions that can be defended, and acted upon confidently.
  • Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 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, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • 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.
  • Franc — Franc is the easiest way to save & invest. Our app doesn’t require any investment knowledge & our friendly risk quiz helps us understand how much investment risk is right for you. Users can start investing in less than 2 minutes. There is no minimum requirement & no paperwork. It is a seamless digital experience end-to-end. A usersimply chooses a goal, selects an investment strategy, verifies their identity & makes a deposit. Each user is recommended a personalised investment strategy for each investment goal, combining money market & index tracking ETFs. Our helpful calculators assist clients with their budgeting, retirement & targeted savings needs. We also provide free access to our online academy & fun financial literacy quizzes.We know saving is hard & investing can be scary, which is why we create savings groups & challenges so that users can encourage one another. We also run weekly competitions where users can stand a chance to win a cash prize that will boost their investments.
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Nova
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Nova is an investment firm that offers venture investment management services.

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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 — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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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, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.3M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Mighty Buildings — Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company innovating the construction industry by creating beautiful, and sustainable homes using 3D printing, robotics, and automation. Learn more about Mighty Buildings today!
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
  • Phiar Technologies — Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friále
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Friále invest in start-ups all over the world who are doing big things. They act like the investors they would want as founders. They know what this is, because they are founders themselves. They usually invest at the seed stage, with the aim to follow-on as the company grows.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.7M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Occam.fi
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Greencap Equity - A Pan-African Investment Company

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
  • Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
  • Bridgecard — Issue physical or virtual cards that carry a MasterCard or Visa logo to your users with our card issuing APIs. Get started in a week.
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Pluto Digital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Pluto Digital PLC (Pluto) is a crypto technology and operations company that makes Web 3.0 Decentralised Finance (DeFi) more accessible to all.Pluto is making DeFi available to everyone through products and services created by Pluto’s software development Labs division, new yield farming strategies through Pluto’s Yield division and collaboratingwith emerging DeFi projects and the NFT metaverse through Pluto’s Ventures division.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $720k–$12M; Series A $4.6M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emergent Games — Emergent Games is a metaverse and blockchain games studio. Emergent is a joint venture between the London-based digital entertainment studio Maze Theory and crypto technology and operations business Pluto Digital.
  • Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,
  • Horizon Land — Horizon Land is the infrastructure platform that empowers builders to construct their own open and accessible virtual worlds; and to scale in a complete ecosystem of Games, Education, Entertainment, Social networks, …
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$15M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • The Better Money Company
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Dunbar Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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MyAsia VC
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

MyAsia VC

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $920k–$6M; Pre-Seed $592k–$2M; Series A $4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seezo — Seezo provides security design reviews for every feature a company builds, leveraging Gen AI to scale threat modeling. The platform helps developers ship features faster by identifying potential risks and vulnerabilities. Seezo focuses on application security (AppSec) and aims to integrate security seamlessly into the development process.
  • 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
  • Sensesemi
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SHL Capital
VC Fund · 1 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, Insurance
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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fastforward ventures
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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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: 20
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$4M; Pre-Seed $340k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
  • Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
  • Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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N7 Labs
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Social, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Instanda — Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online. Its no-code product design platform is built on a powerful set of insurance specific calculations, processing, and workflow capabilities.Instanda works with the carriers, MGAs, and brokers in UK, Europe, US, Canada, LATAMand Australia converting the lethargic back office to an agile front office, freeing the industry from high-cost legacy systems.Founded in 2012, Instanda is headquartered in London, England.
  • Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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ACE & Company
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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.

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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: 184
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Series A $3.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

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.
  • PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $16M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
  • Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.
  • Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
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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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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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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 503
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
  • auxmoney — Auxmoney is an online peer-to-peer loan marketplace created to offer a means of exchange between people. Its lending platform enables private consumers to borrow from private investors for personal loans, thereby providing borrowers a bank free borrowing system and a return on investment for lenders.
  • Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
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DDF
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 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: Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

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.
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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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Initial Coin Offering $5.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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
  • Kyuzo’s Friends — Kyuzo’s Friends focuses on user growth and player engagement.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 253
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $6.8M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
  • Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
  • Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
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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, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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Velocity Digital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Hardware startups

Syndicate focused on funding for the most Ambitious Founders in Africa

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$130k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
  • 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.
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Hardware VC funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 54 deals from 94 investors.

94
investors
in Nigeria Hardware startups
54
deals
in Nigeria Hardware startups
$2.1M
median round
in Nigeria Hardware startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
26%
Seed
most common funding stage

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