# Top 35 Impact Startup Investors in Nigeria in June 2026 ## All On - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Grant - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria. ## CRE Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria. ## Norfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy Norwegian investment fund for developing countries ## LoftyInc Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carmel, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors......... ## Finnfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits. ## Factor E - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces. ## Sissili Limited - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy Private Investment Company ## Blue Rinc Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy Blue Rinc Capital is an investment holding company focused on growth investments. ## Frankford Re - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy Private Investment Holding Company ## Helios Investment Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Banking Bridging international capital and know-how with African talent and enterprise since 2004, Helios Investment Partners manages funds totalling c. $3 billion. ## EDFI ElectriFI - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy Impact investment in sustainable energy ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people. ## Investisseurs & Partenaires - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage Investisseurs et Partenaires ## Persistent - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact. ## GreenHouse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders. ## Echukwudi Daniel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery Echukwudi Daniel ## Origin Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Energy, Software Origin Capital Management is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor that invests in the public equity and hedging markets of USA. ## Launch Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa ## Ugochukwu Aronu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal. ## Breakthrough Energy Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. ## Yuzuru Honda - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, SNS, Internet Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut. ## Social Investment Managers & Advisors - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions ## AfricInvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare. ## Inspired Evolution Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series E - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, PaaS Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa. ## Seedstars Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, FinTech, Software Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa. ## Chibuzo Ujam - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery Chibuzo Ujam ## Ardent Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding ## Sovereign Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Solar, Energy, Retail We invest in service-based business in a number of sectors that have potential for expansion in the UK or internationally and have a differentiated market positioning. ## SCM Capital Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy SCM Capital Asset Management Limited is the full-service Asset Management subsidiary of SCM Capital Markets Limited, which is registered as a Fund / Portfolio Manager with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ## San Leon Energy - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round - Focus: Oil and Gas, Infrastructure San Leon Energy is a specialist oil and gas company with an extensive portfolio of assets across Europe and North Africa.San Leon Energy is a company built on solid foundations. We concentrate on using our leading-edge technical expertise in both conventional and ‘unconventional’ oil and gas. Our aim is to provide a sustainable energy future. Wework sympathetically with our local partners and communities. ## Ventures Platform - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet 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. ## Jua Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Agriculture, B2B, Farming EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS. ## African Infrastructure Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Solar, Energy, SaaS African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects. ## Partech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS 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.