Top 50 Startup Investors in Nigeria
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Startup Investors in Nigeria
Investor | Nigeria investments |
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Ventures Platform | 37 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 21 |
Future Africa | 21 |
Musha Ventures | 20 |
LoftyInc Capital Management | 18 |
Microtraction | 18 |
Consonance Investment Managers | 17 |
Ingressive Capital | 14 |
Launch Africa | 13 |
Golden Palm Investments | 13 |
CRE Venture Capital | 11 |
TLcom Capital Partners | 11 |
EchoVC Partners | 11 |
Idris Ayodeji Bello | 11 |
Lateral Capital | 10 |
VestedWorld | 8 |
ODBA | 7 |
Hustle Fund | 7 |
Tencent | 7 |
HoaQ | 7 |
Target Global | 7 |
GreenHouse Capital | 7 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 7 |
Voltron Capital | 6 |
Entrée Capital | 6 |
Partech | 6 |
Enza Capital | 6 |
Chinook Capital Limited | 6 |
Beta.Ventures | 6 |
Michael Seibel | 6 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 6 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 6 |
VentureSouq | 6 |
Soma Capital | 6 |
Flying Doctors Nigeria | 5 |
Niche Capital | 5 |
All On | 5 |
Rising Tide Africa | 5 |
Picus Capital | 5 |
Atlantica Ventures | 5 |
Tayo Oviosu | 5 |
4DX Ventures | 5 |
Western Technology Investment | 5 |
RaliCap | 4 |
Olumide Soyombo | 4 |
Kube VC | 4 |
Raba | 4 |
The Chrysalis Capital | 4 |
Zedcrest Capital Limited | 4 |
Accion Venture Lab | 4 |
Ventures Platform Fund is a discovery fund that invests early in mission-driven founders that are building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, solve for non-consumption, and improve livelihoods in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- PressOne — PressOne is on a mission to help entrepreneurs across Africa build world-class businesses.
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
- Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers
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
- Financial, Software, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Smile Identity — Smile Identity is the best onboarding, identity verification, user authentication, and digital KYC service for Africa.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
- Balad — Balad enable smooth, cheaper and faster money transfer remittance into Egypt bank accounts, mobile wallets and cash on counter.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- 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.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Egypt, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
- CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.
- SecondSTAX — The capital market pioneer that provides a gateway to access and trade in multiple securities exchanges across Africa.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pade HCM — Pade HCM is a simple all-in-one solution that helps businesses – large, small, or medium – automate human resource processes.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping
- 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.
Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- 54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
- SubsBase — SubsBase offers comprehensive subscription management and billing solutions that help businesses acquire and retain more customers.
- Gamp — Gamp is an IT services provider that offers device protection plans and repair support for tech users and businesses.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- VOO — VOO helps SMEs to increase their delivery success rate by providing one platform to manage deliveries , one API integration which connect businesses to a large network of national and international shipping providers , we are "Your E-Commerce Growth Partner"
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
- Financial, IT, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
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.
- Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Other
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
- Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
- Stitch — One API for secure online payments and financial data. The Stitch API makes it easier for businesses to send, manage and accept secure online payments and easily access customer financial data in South Africa and Nigeria.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds.
TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge.
We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Hardware
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
- SeamlessHR — SeamlessHR is building Africa’s first enterprise-grade, cloud-based HR platform. SeamlessHR’s end-to-end suite helps medium to large-sized companies automate and optimise their entire HR process from recruitment to retirement. SeamlessHR offers powerful technology that is well priced for emerging markets. The product suite includes a RecruitmentManagement System, Core HR Management, Performance and Competency Management, Payroll Management, Leave Management, HR Analytics and several other modules.
- uLesson — uLesson has built the technology to deploy curriculum-relevant content via smartphones, that allows learners to use the product without concern for internet limitations and costs. uLesson’s mobile offering rests on three pillars: academics, media & technology and curriculum content is delivered via streaming and SD cards.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models and knowledge across North America, Africa and SE Asia. Average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of the business.Our team focuses on capitalizing on the benefits that geodiversity and knowledge transfer provide to successfully fund the best entrepreneurs and companies in the geographic markets we serve. We are interested in finding and funding amazing teams to build, deliver and scale services and products that matter to local and eventually global audiences. Our segments of interest include: Consumer Internet and Services, SmartGraph and SmartData, Mobile, Digital Media, Content and Advertising, E/M-commerce, Software, Tech-enabled Services and Enterprise Infrastructure. In Africa and SE Asia, we're focusing on the underserved seed/early-stage venture and growth capital technology investment opportunities. Using our Silicon Valley insights and experience, along with knowledge as an amplifier, we aim to fund and develop strategic platforms, incubate local high potential growth companies and help develop mentorship opportunities and local networks. Our goal is to add significant value to, and grow, the tech-based entrepreneurial ecosystems across the continent(s).EchoVC is passionate about supporting world class entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
- ShopEX — ShopEX is the teleshopping startup offers a different shopping experience from existing eCommerce players.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
- Masa Finance — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.
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Investment focus
- Software, Other, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- BetaStore — BetaStore helps informal retailers get better access to goods at a wholesale price and delivers to their stores and can provide working capital support. The wholesale and retail market represents $270bn in Africa and more than 90% of the sales are made through informal channels. With BetaStore the retailers don't need to close their shops togo to the open markets and visit tens of suppliers to source for basic goods. Secondly, they don't have to buy more inventory than they need to get good prices. Finally by doing business with them, we can evaluate more accurately their risk profile and provide tailored payment facility and make them accessible for commercial lenders. Launched at the Founder Institute (www.fi.co)
- Yemaachi Biotechnology — Yemaachi Biotechnology uses cutting-edge immunogenomics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of cancer detection and cure strategies for lowering the economic burden of cancer.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Archetype — Archetype is complete billing-as-a-service. With one-click checkout page deploys, analytics, and flexible pricing models, Archetype saves API teams hours on RevOps.
- Rivet — Rivet builds your personalized fan engagement game plan so you can focus on what matters most: your art. Independent artists and creators are using Rivet to understand their most engaged fans and build community-driven business empires. Get started for free!
- Mooch — Mooch is the last budgeting app you'll ever need. Mooch builds a budget for you based on your personal finances and lifestyle, then automates it every month so you don't have to think about it. The better you are at budgeting and saving money the more rewards you earn from Mooch.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- China, United States, United Kingdom
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
- Bloom Health Partners — We reimagine workforce safety and healthcare preparedness with proven strategies and high throughput that keeps you up and running.
- Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Payments, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- Yep! — Yep! is a financial super app leveraging technology to deliver seamless financial services and solutions to all Africans.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Payments, Other
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
Voltron Capital operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Payments, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- PressOne — PressOne is on a mission to help entrepreneurs across Africa build world-class businesses.
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Stakefair — Earn rewards, stake your digital currencies on predictable events without any loss. Build on DeFi APIs.
We're a team of former serial founders managing $1B across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
- Mesh Payments — Finance teams get all-new insight and control over their corporate spend with Mesh's solution. Know everything. Optimize anything. No more surprises!
- Figures — Figures delivers reliable, up-to-date salary and equity data, allowing the people professionals to plan and benchmark their compensation plan
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
- Software, Internet, Hardware
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Pydantic Services — Data validation for Python that developers love
- The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
- Memfault — Memfault's IoT reliability platform empowers teams to build more robust devices at scale via performance monitoring, debugging & OTA updates.
We back Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
- Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Other, Education
- Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
- Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
Beta.Ventures invests in driven, early-stage entrepreneurs scaling tech and tech-enabled startups to become market leaders. They are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.Beta.Ventures works closely with founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage ofcompany development. We are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.We are experienced entrepreneurs ourselves and are able to share what has proven to work for product and service scaling, revenue growth and fundraising.Operations is key to success at early stage companies, and our environment often faces a dearth of experience scaling opportunities; Beta.Ventures focuses intensely on the operations of a company, adding value through several levers we know, from experience, will enable a company to succeed.Our partners, affiliates, and mentors lead some top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money.
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Investment focus
- Financial, Software, Other
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
- PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
- Knabu Distributed Systems Ltd — We are building a clearing bank.
Michael Seibel is a Partner at YC and CEO of YC's startup accelerator. He was the cofounder and CEO Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senatecampaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
- Emerge Career — Emerge Career's training programs create jobs and fight recidivism while helping incarcerated people escape the cycle of poverty.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial, Payments, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- 24seven.pk — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Financial, Payments, Other
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
- tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
- Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.
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- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
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- Metriport — Metriport is Plaid for healthcare data. Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage user health and medical data.In a single, standardized, and open source API, Metriport supports the following features: 1) Accessing broad-scope patient medical data - with or without an NPI number. 2) Bidirectional EHR interfacing - withconnections to Epic, Athena, Allscripts and more, via a modern FHIR API. 3) Health device integrations - for getting your users' data from their wearables, RPM devices, and mHealth apps.For more information, visit https://metriport.com/
- Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats & Apartments for short and long-term stays in UAE from Silkhaus
- Vendease — VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses.
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, Lambda School among others (20 unicorns)
It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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- Software, Financial, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Archetype — Archetype is complete billing-as-a-service. With one-click checkout page deploys, analytics, and flexible pricing models, Archetype saves API teams hours on RevOps.
- BlueCargo — BlueCargo is a predictive algorithm platform that brings visibility to optimize operations in seaport terminals. Their proprietary predictive algorithms streamline container management to increase terminal’s productivity while reducing operational costs and enhancing the quality of the service.
- Strive Education — Strive teaches K12 math through code via live 1-1 online classes. Strive classes provide students with code games and visualizations that are aligned to their school math syllabus, in the process, kids learn the most valuable skill in the 21st century which are related to coding.
Flying Doctors Nigeria is an ambulance service company that provides medical emergency services. The company also provides medical solutions such as air ambulance and medical evacuation and ground ambulance services. They offer rapid transfer and the highest standards of care to patients in acute medical need, serving both states and privatecompanies on a yearly retainer basis.Flying Doctors Nigeria operates stations manned by specially trained medical doctors across the country from where real-time responses are affected. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Financial, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria
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- Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
- GetEquity — 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
- Helium Health — Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to builda modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Venture Capital firm
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- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
- Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
- evaluate.xyz — NFT Valuation Platform and Community
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.
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- Energy, Sustainability, Natural Resources
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Nigeria, France, Senegal
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- Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
- Salpha Energy — We are addressing the huge market need for energy by enabling people harness the infinite source of light that freely accessible to everyone.
About Us Rising Tide Africa functions as part of a Global movement of The Rising Tide Program for Africa. It constitutes a group of women angel investors harnessing their power, network, passion and capital to positively impact and actively create a New Africa. Learn More Our Pillars Investment Access to High Potential Early Stage Co-investment
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- Financial, IT, Other
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United Kingdom, Ghana
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- Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.
- ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
- Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Software, Financial, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Ledge — Ledge is a command center for payments built for finance teams operating at scale.Ledge empowers finance teams with tools to centralize their payments data, get a real-time payments snapshot, automate multi-way reconciliation, identify problem transactions, accelerate their investigations, and dramatically lower the risk of losses, all withoutany engineering support.Finance teams regain control of payments and are freed to focus on strategic business impact, not manual payments work.
- Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games
- Aspire — Multi currency business account, for start-ups & SMEs, to manage your company spends & expenses, accounts receivables & payables, invoices, bills, corporate cards & cross-border payments.
Are you looking for start-up funding for your business? Get in touch with Atlantica Ventures to get the kick-start your start-up needs.
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- Financial, Software, Other
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, Kenya
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- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
- OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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- Software, Apps, Sales/Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Brazil, United States
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- AjoMoney — Tyms Africa is a very secure online rotating savings platform (ROSCA) that makes saving money online possible either alone or with friends and family. Earn interest to make your money grow.
- Vendease — VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses.
- Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
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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- Software, Financial, Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Kenya
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- MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
- MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
- Franc — Franc is an investment app that helps users invest more. We believe investing should be accessible to all. Through Franc users can invest in the leading money market and equity funds without minimums or restrictions. Users can invest as much as they want when they want. Franc is a licensed, roboadvisor and provides free investment, goal-basedadvice that helps first time investors understand how much investment risk they can take on. There are no sign up fees - users pay an all-in annual management fee of 1%. The company enables users to access, view, share, and manage their portfolio as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Nigeria
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- Vint — Make the wine market investable
- Plant Prefab — Plant builds custom architectural homes, empowering individuals, developers, and architects with a faster, higher quality, and more sustainable way to build.
- Aro Homes — Aro Homes is fundamentally rethinking modern housing, delivering beautiful, carbon-negative homes designed to move us forward.
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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- Financial, Software, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Pakistan, United States
Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co.
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- Financial, Payments, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
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- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
- Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
- The Gradient Boost — The Gradient Boost is an online mentor guided data science school. The Gradient Boost focus on delivering an online data science education from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
Angellist syndicate
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- Financial, Software, Other
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Soptle — Soptle is a Gurugram based Manufacturer-only marketplace for Retailers. It is building a direct line of communication between manufacturers and retailers across India by digitizing catalogs on the one hand for manufacturers and developing a simple, intuitive app on the other for retailers to initiate commerce.While Soptle is primarily focused onadding value to the community of retailers by helping them access a wider range of products and better profit margins, it does offer a significant opportunity for manufacturers aspiring for aggressive growth. Soptle offers effortless geographical expansion and an opportunity to reduce sales and distribution costs for existing markets too.The rapid growth of smartphones with cheap and easy access to the internet has led to the adoption of digital modes for information, communication, and commerce even by the rural masses. This has created a fertile ground for disrupting the fractured supply chain of FMCG goods in India.
- Vendease — VendEase is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order supplies directly from farms and food manufacturers. Think of us as Amazon, but for food businesses.
- Telescope Labs — Building a product suite to design, manage and optimise game economies for Web3
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Financial, Software, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Nigeria
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- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
- Ramani — Ramani is an application for salespeople to track their inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions.
- Yellow Card — Yellow Card is the safest place to buy and sell BTC, ETH & USDT online with bank transfer, mobile money, cards and cash at the best rates with low fees.
Chrysalis Capital is an investment management firm focused on scaling early-stage tech companies in Africa and the diaspora.
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- Financial, Other, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States
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- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
- Bankly — Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.
Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments
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- Professional Services
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Pade HCM — Pade HCM is a simple all-in-one solution that helps businesses – large, small, or medium – automate human resource processes.
- CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.
- Leatherback — Simplifying Global Trade for individuals and businesses across the globe. Leatherback moves your money from one continent to another with ease. Anytime, Anywhere, and to almost Everywhere.
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.
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- Financial, Software, Lending and Investments
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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