Top 20 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Nigeria in February 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Nigeria in February 2025
Investor | Manufacturing Nigeria investments |
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Future Africa | 3 |
Harambeans | 3 |
Justin Kan | 2 |
Consonance Investment Managers | 2 |
All On | 2 |
Stephen Pagliuca | 2 |
Chibuzo Ujam | 1 |
Acumen | 1 |
Flori Ventures | 1 |
Ardent Capital | 1 |
Aruwa Capital | 1 |
Ugochukwu Aronu | 1 |
EDFI ElectriFI | 1 |
Launch Africa | 1 |
Echukwudi Daniel | 1 |
Vami Nigeria | 1 |
Social Investment Managers & Advisors | 1 |
Eudaimonia Capital | 1 |
AFEX | 1 |
Khosla Ventures | 1 |
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 Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- 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.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
Harambeans are African innovators who have pledged to “work together as one” to build Africa’s future. Over the last decade, Harambeans has spawned a series of tech-enabled ventures such as Andela, Flutterwave, and Yoco, which have collectively generated over 3000 jobs, and raised over $700m from Google Ventures, CRE Ventures and Accel.
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Investment focus
- Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Stash. He previously worked at Atrium as a CEO. Justin Kan attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Nigeria, India
Portfolio highlights
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
- Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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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.
- Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
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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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Nigeria, France, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Ceesolar — Ceesolar is involved in designing, supplying, and installing solar power systems. They also provide mini-grid development, consulting services, energy audits, energy systems, and commercial and industrial solar. They offer on-site and remote maintenance for customer satisfaction, and to ensure long-term use of the system.
- mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands.
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Investment focus
- Media and Entertainment, Sports, Information Technology
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- GAIL — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
- 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.
- Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.
Chibuzo Ujam
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
- ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
- Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Indonesia, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Laborhack — LaborHack offers a select network of tested and certified carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, welders, and other tradespeople. It provides cleaning, plumbing, electrical, and HVAC services.
- 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
- Feather Africa — Feather Africa provides money transaction services, such as enabling users to send and receive money from anyone using the application. It offers withdrawals of cash without ATM cards by sending money to the nearest cash vendors.
Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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Investment focus
- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- 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.
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Echukwudi Daniel
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — Arone pioneers technology that makes the world work more efficiently. In the air, Arone’s infrastructure enables hospitals access essential supplies on-demand for their patients. We also provide this infrastructure to logistics companies to enable a faster courier service for their customers. This infrastructure includes drones, dronedelivery stations (Avports), drone operators and license. For government institutions and organisations, Arone manufactures state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) saving lives and costs. For consumer electronics, Arone’s technology powers homes, offices and shops ensuring millions of people have access to electricity to live better lives.
Vami Nigeria is a investment firm.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
- Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Agricorp International Development Limited — At Agricorp, we are putting Nigeria on the global export radar by leveraging on our investments to building simple processing systems for spices and other agro products
SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions
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Investment focus
- Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
- Loom Solar Private Limited — Buy solar panel, battery and inverter for home, business, agriculture, DIY projects, and more. from 10 watts -100kW from Loom Solar - India's No. 1 solar company. Choose from solar panels, inverters, lithium batteries, charge controllers to solar installation kit. We provide solar finance for rooftop solar installation
- Insolation Energy — Insolation Energy, a prominent solar cell manufacturing company in India, provides high-quality solar energy solutions. As a trusted solar power company and energy provider in India , our mission is to supply clean, sustainable electricity at affordable prices to all.
Eudaimonia Capital Pte. Ltd. is a seed stage investments firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Singapore
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.
- TILLIT — Tillit is a DIY investment platform for retail investors offering best-in-class funds across regions, asset classes and styles. We are built and backed by investment specialists who believe that the success to long-term investing lies in funds. With a clean design, a user-friendly interface and engaging content, we empower people to make moreinformed investment decisions. We want people to stop trading and start investing.
- Inclusively — Our employee productivity solution empowers employers to hire, retain and boost employee productivity through workforce personalization.
AFEX is a provider of infrastructure and platforms drive capital to build a trust economy.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
- Series A
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Agricorp International Development Limited — At Agricorp, we are putting Nigeria on the global export radar by leveraging on our investments to building simple processing systems for spices and other agro products
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early, and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs.Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, medtech anddiagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jones — Jones is a software company that rebuilt liability management for real estate companies who want do less and get more – much more. We are solving one of the most archaic and outdated processes in commercial real estate - insurance certificates. For owners, managers and developers who need to solve insurance compliance for everyone in the valuechain, Jones is the simplest solution ever made.
- Basis — Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms.
- Clear Labs — Clear Labs harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to simplify complex diagnostics for clinical and applied markets. By creating a fully automated platform that brings together DNA sequencing, robotics, and cloud-based analytics, Clear Labs democratizes genomics applications to deliver increased clarity.Clear Labs’ turnkeyplatform accelerates outcomes and improves accuracy - from food-borne pathogens to infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track, and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens.
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