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Top 50 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in January 2026

Investor	Hardware Nigeria investments
Microtraction	4
Golden Palm Investments	4
Ventures Platform	3
Social Capital	3
Lynett Capital	3
HoaQ	2
Future Africa	2
Zeno Partners	2
Western Technology Investment	2
4DX Ventures	2
Nama Ventures	2
RaliCap	2
Vy Capital	2
E62 Ventures	1
MyAsia VC	1
FirstCheck Africa	1
Occam.fi	1
Unpopular Ventures	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Ingressive Capital	1
On Deck	1
Greenhouse Capital Partners	1
Consonance Investment Managers	1
Berrywood Capital	1
GetEquity	1
Picus Capital	1
SHL Capital	1
START EQUITY VENTURES	1
Base10 Partners	1
Pluto Digital	1
PolkaFoundary	1
fastforward ventures	1
Jedar Capital	1
DDF	1
Assembly Capital Partners	1
Chain Capital	1
FirstCheck Africa	1
ACE & Company	1
Dunbar Capital	1
Valar Ventures	1
N7 Labs	1
AU21 Capital	1
Partech	1
Velocity Digital	1
Friále	1
Whogohost Venture	1
Greencap Equity	1
Strawhat Investment	1
Club 14	1
Kairos Angels	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Accounteer — Choose to Automate your business' finances with smart accounting software or Pair it with one-on-one real human expert accounting and support.
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.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
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.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve

Startup Investment Club

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DejaBlue — DejaBlue delivers a smart EV charging platform that supports solar integration, reduces energy costs, and improves site operations. Easily connect chargers, manage your fleet, and optimize performance with reliable tools built for scale.
Spaceium — Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer.
Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
Innventure — Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
Carbon Ridge — Modular onboard carbon capture for maritime shipping.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

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

Investment focus

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

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.
PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
Solfium — Solfium is a one-of-a-kind solar energy company dedicated to providing the best solutions for your house, business, or industry. Everything we do is driven by the desire to provide you with the greatest possible experience.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

E62 VENTURES IS ALL IN At E62 Ventures, we go ALL IN to help MIT alumni founders to tackle technological challenges to transform our society and build a better future.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

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

MyAsia VC

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
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
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.

Investment focus

Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jumba — 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.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.

The best companies, off the beaten path.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
Kyte — Kyte delivers rental cars straight to your door. We deliver and pick up the vehicle. No lines, no paperwork, freedom to explore. Fully flexible. Book today!
Omnic.AI — The way to be a professional in esports. Omnic Data uses computer vision and a deep learning network to provide virtual coaching for the aspiring esports gamer.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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...

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial, IT
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Colombia, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Empower3d — Empower3d provides athletes with the opportunity to connect with and learn from industry leaders across all facets of business. The goal is to provide athletes with unbiased advice and a network of experts to support the next chapter of their careers.
Kredibank — Kredi is a neo bank building Africa's one-stop shop for digital financial services. Kredi is a platform that eliminates all the challenges of using multiple applications and allows users to manage all aspects of their financial lives. We are fully licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We provide access to digital financial services such assavings, credit, payment, investments, and insurance to all consumers in Nigeria in one place.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Impact Laboratories — Impact Laboratories collaborates with labs in the commercial, biotech, pharmaceutical, and academic sectors.
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

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

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

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
SmartSolar — SmartSolar is a Saigon-based EnergyTech company working to decarbonise Southeast Asia. With SmartSolar, businesses save on their electricity bill from day 1. SmartSolar is currently busy building the critical financing infrastructure to get SMBs equipped with solar energy. We help our customers save money and enable our partners to reach morecustomers. Renewable energy is at an inflection point across the region and we are on a mission to make it available for everyone.
Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Insurance
Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Singapore

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Nigeria, Pakistan

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.

Investing in Automation for the Real Economy

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Spain

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now
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, …

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

Investment focus

Internet, Wireless, Information Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
Paismo Inc — Paismo HR & Payroll is the Next-Gen Human Capital Management software giving you access to Schedule Management, Time Off, Timesheets, Payroll, etc.
Fincart — Fincart.io - Your trusted partner for seamless shipping & working capital access to grow your online brand.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.

Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.

Investment focus

Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jumba — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed
Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Syndicate focused on funding for the most Ambitious Founders in Africa

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
Bridgecard — Issue physical or virtual cards that carry a MasterCard or Visa logo to your users with our card issuing APIs. Get started in a week.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wallet.ng — Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018..
Myria — Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web tofind clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life.
Standard Practice — Nibble Health eliminates financial barriers to great healthcare, keeps your employees healthy, and saves your company money

Whogohost Venture is the venture arm of Whogohost.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Pre-Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.

Greencap Equity - A Pan-African Investment Company

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Pre-Seed
Canada, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

Strawhat Investment is an investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Computer, Software
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

Club 14

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Consumer Software, Retail Technology
Seed
Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.

An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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