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Top 45 Marketplace Angel Investors in Nigeria (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Nigeria Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
4 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps $100k–$5.1M
Yves Guillemot
Angel
4 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services $500k–$2M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$4k
Cristina Santin
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$2k
Stefano Piotti
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
Bashar Hamood
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Olumide Soyombo
Angel
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $260k–$2.1M
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, United Arab Emirates Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
Tayo Oviosu
Angel
2 Nigeria, Brazil, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, SaaS, Credit $1.4M–$3.6M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
2 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $20k–$5M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Adii Pienaar
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
Jordan Nel
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed Drones, Big Data, Cyber Security
Jared Leto
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Series A, Series B, Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$80M
Kalu Silver Chukwuebuka
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed Shopping Mall
Leo Stigler
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Seed, Angel, Series A Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
Sudeep Ramnani
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Venture - Series Unknown, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Sports $1.3M–$20M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
1 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1.8M–$46M
Adebowale Martins
Angel
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Retail, Software, E-Commerce
Juan Pablo Ortega
Angel
1 Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia Seed, Series A Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking $2.5M–$10M
Victoria van Lennep
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Spain Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $637k–$23M
Michael Novogratz
Angel
1 United States, India, Germany Seed, Series A Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $953k–$38M
Meyer Malka
Angel
1 United States, Brazil, India Series A, Series C, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $1M–$133M
Ron Hillmann
Angel
1 Germany, Nigeria Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Angel
1 Nigeria, India Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Banking, FinTech $1.2M–$2.5M
Varsha Rao
Angel
1 United States, India, France Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software $2M–$63M
John Obaro
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
Adeniyi Adesuyi
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Ezra Olubi
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Banking, FinTech $1.7M–$3M
Baljinder Sharma
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections $200k–$200k
Jonathan Shipman
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding eSports, Beauty, Internet $1.9M–$2.7M
Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $1.3M–$6M
Shola Akinlade
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Education, Insurance $181k–$4M
Ire Aderinokun
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany Pre-Seed Software, Ticketing, E-Commerce $15k–$1.1M
Jonathan Wasserstrum
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Real Estate, Software, FinTech $227k–$18M
Uwe Sandner
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
Simon Borrero
Angel
1 Colombia, Brazil, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $300k–$33M
Chibuzo Ujam
Angel
1 Nigeria Angel Drones, Energy, Delivery
Clemens Paschke
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
Ugochukwu Aronu
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Web3, Drones, Energy
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel
1 Nigeria, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, CRM, Finance $200k–$1M
Vasco Martinho
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
O.D. Kobo
Angel
1 China, Israel, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, Video, E-Commerce $250k–$32M
Ferdinand Von Kalm
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
Eduardo Campos
Angel
1 Brazil, United States, Nigeria Seed Information Technology, SaaS, Travel $50k–$6.6M
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ScholarX — ScholarX is a Social Enterprise that supports education by helping students access scholarships
  • TORA Africa — TORA Africa an academy that recruits, trains, verifies, insures and provides background-checked drivers for individuals and businesses.
  • Bata Shoe Organization — Discover a diverse selection of stylish footwear and accessories for the entire family at Bata's online store. From athletic sneakers to elegant designs, find the latest trends and comfortable options in one place. Shop now to experience unmatched style and comfort with our extensive collection.
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Yves Guillemot
Angel · Saint-mandé, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Yves Guillemot is based out of Saint-Mandé and is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Ubisoft. Yves Guillemot attended the Institut de la PME.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.7M; Series A $915k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Allen and Ollys International Limited -

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Cristina Santin
Angel · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Cristina Santin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$2k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Stefano Piotti
Angel · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Stefano Piotti CEO/MD at Stephano Integrated Services Ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 387
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
  • Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
  • ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.
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Olumide Soyombo
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Olumide Soyombo is the Co-Founder of Bluechip Technologies. Olumide Soyombo attended Aston University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M; Angel $260k–$1M; Pre-Seed $260k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Bunmi is a graduate of Computer Science from the Michigan State University, USA. An execution focused executive with over 16 years entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, Bunmi has developed over 20 proprietary technologies in Aviation, Government, Education, Oil & Gas and Banking sector globally.Bunmi has built more than five companies till date – each a potential billion dollar company and has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Software development, Technology Consulting, Revenue Collection Strategies, Software Project Management, Business Startups, Internet Technology & Business Development. Bunmi is the Founder, MD/CEO of Venture Garden Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$425k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, SaaS, Credit
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RELAYTO AI Regulated Content Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
  • Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
  • Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 752
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $20k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is a social media platform that allows users to meet new people with a search experience, segmented by interests and location.
  • Exnus Protocol — Exnus Protocol is a next-generation decentralized ecosystem built on the Solana blockchain.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
  • Lorum Finance
  • Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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Adii Pienaar
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Adii Pienaar Founder at Conversio. Previously co-founded WooThemes / WooCommerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Buffer — Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
  • Plasso — Plasso is a powerful all-in-one e-commerce platform. Setup recurring / subscription billing in minutes. Plasso manages your payments, customers and user authentication all automatically.Sell products, services, subscriptions, physical and digital goods. Send invoices. Collect donations. The list goes on.Do it all from your own websitewithout writing any code..
  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
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Jordan Nel
Angel · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Jordan Nel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Big Data, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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Jared Leto
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Jared Leto is a musician, actor, director, entrepreneur, and artist.His two decades of work as an actor have encompassed a host of intense and transformative performances. Leto’s recent performance as the transgender AIDS patient Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, aswell as honors from nearly 60 critics’ organizations. Leto is set to play legendary villain, The Joker, in the upcoming supervillain film Suicide Squad (2016). Leto was honored with a Gotham Independent Film Award and Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award for his debut documentary feature, Artifact. Mr. Leto directed Artifact under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, the same alias under which he directs the award winning music videos for the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars. Leto is the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for the band, which has released four albums, including the recent Love Lust Faith + Dreams (2013). Notorious for their relentless touring, they have circled the globe playing sold-out arenas since 1998 and in support of the album This Is War, they played over 300 shows in nearly 60 countries on six continents to 3 million people, thereby breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest-ever concert tour by a rock band.Thirty Seconds to Mars has sold over ten million albums worldwide and their music videos have received more than a billion views on YouTube. The group has received numerous awards worldwide, including over a dozen MTV Awards; a Billboard Music Award; and honors from NME, Kerrang!, and Fuse. They were nominated for three 2013 MTV VMAs, including best rock video, which they won.Additionally he is deeply entrenched in tech as both an investor and founder. Leto has made over fifty tech investments (Uber, Nest, Airbnb, Stripe, Slack, Zenefits) and serves as advisor for several start-ups. He is the founder of Adventures In Wonderland, The Hive, VyRT, and A Sharp Knife.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$28M; Series A $3.8M–$50M; Series B $14M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.
  • Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
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Kalu Silver Chukwuebuka
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Shopping Mall
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Caldar Mall Africa — Caldar Mall is an African online market place that links buyers and sellers of goods and services. We seek to bridge the gap between people and their demands. We provide a platform for customers and suppliers to communicate and conduct business in a welcoming and safe environment. We have also made sure that people can advertise their serviceslocally and nationally.
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Leo Stigler
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Leo Stigler is an investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, FinTech, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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Sudeep Ramnani
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Sudeep Ramnani is the Founder & Managing Partner of 885 Capital. He previously worked at PalmPay as Co-Founder, Board Member, and Investor. Sudeep attended the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studied economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Sports
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Science — Fearless pursuit of medicine's hardest problems
  • Voyage Foods — Voyage Foods has made sustainable and scalable alternatives to foods that have current obstacles –environmental, social, and health alike. Our breakthrough technology provides endless opportunities to make delicious, nearly identical, versions of beloved foods, without compromising individual health or our planet. We replicated the world’s favoritefoods so that we can all enjoy them, forever.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$14M; Series A $6.2M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
  • Tana — Tana is a software development company that reinvents how humans, teams, and computers work together. Tana was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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Adebowale Martins
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Adebowale Martins

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.
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Juan Pablo Ortega
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Juan Pablo Ortega is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yuno. Juan previously worked at Viva Air as a Board Member. Juan Pablo Ortega attended Cornell University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Restaurants, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Brazil, Nigeria, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
  • Trully — Trully
  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
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Victoria van Lennep
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Victoria van Lennep - Co-Founder @ Lendable

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$2M; Series A $16M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Virgil — Virgil is the trusted partner of all those who want to become owners but whose personal contribution is insufficient to buy the apartment they want.
  • Defacto — Never fall behind with defacto's instant financing solution. We also integrate with your accounting systems & scale to your needs. Join our wait list !
  • Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.
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Michael Novogratz
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $953k–$8.5M; Series A $11M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
  • Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
  • Galaxy Digital — Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.
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Meyer Malka
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $7M–$90M; Series C $65M–$133M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Twenty20 — T wenty20 has closed its doors and is no longer accessible. Continue your creative journey with curated photos from Envato Elements.
  • Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."
  • Nuvemshop — Nuvemshop provides entrepreneurs and SMBs with the tools to set up, manage, and promote their online business easily from any device.With the suite of tools around payments, shipping, inventory management, and marketing provided by the company, owners are enabled to participate in the e-commerce market, ramp up their sales, reduce costs, andprovide their end customers with a shopping experience.In 2011, co-founders Alejandro Alfonso, Santiago Sosa, Jose Abuchaem, Martin Palombo, and Alejandro Vazquez established Nuvemshop in 2011.
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Ron Hillmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Ron Hillmann is a Co-Founder, Investor, and Principal C-Level at allmyhomes. Ron previously worked at Peak Ace AG as a Board Member. He attended Technische Universität Berlin, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
  • Wegatech — They plan renewable energy technology for you. As a standalone solution or in the system. For the professional installation, they work closely with selected craft companies. Thereby they bundle competencies in consulting, planning and execution.
  • ePilot Mobility — ePilot Mobility bringt die erste Blockchain basierte E-Carsharing Flotte auf Deutschlands Straßen.Die Blockchain ermöglicht eine Teilhabe der Kunden an den Elektrofahrzeugen. Das Einsetzen dieser Technologie bedeutet, dass Nutzer:innen die E-Autoflotte gemeinsam dezentral besitzen können.Die MissionUm die Klimaziele zu erreichen, müssenanhand neuer Mobilitätskonzepte die CO2-Emissionen pro Person reduziert werden. E-Carsharing für Privatleute, Firmen, Städte und Kommunen durch ePilot Mobility ist ein Teil der Gesamtlösung.
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Karthik Ramakrishnan
Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.
  • Augmend — Create documentation and an AI assistant from any video.
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Varsha Rao
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $9.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
  • Pebble — Pebble is the first financial product where you are paid to save, spend, and send your money — all in one balance.
  • Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.
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John Obaro
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

John Obaro is a distinguished alumnus of both Ahmadu Bello University, University of Lagos, and the Chief Executive Program (CEP3) of Lagos Business School. He has served at various times on the Boards of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ComputerProfessionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Governing Council of the National ICT Incubation Program (iDea), and many more.He is a fellow of the Center for African Policy Development and Research, Glasgow, Scotland; a Fellow of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS); an ex-member of the Governing Council of Computers Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) – the highest industry practice regulatory body; and immediate past 1st Vice President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON). John Obaro was recently recognised with the honour of Leadership in Technology at the 2016 African Achievement Awards in Scotland and also recognised as the ICT Software Personality of the Year 2016 at the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) Award, in addition to other numerous indigenous and international awards he has received over the years.John Obaro’s successful entrepreneurial adventure in software development architecture has attracted and continues to attract attention from both local and international quarters. The prestigious Lagos Business School (LBS) of the Pan-Atlantic University has written two case studies on SystemSpecs while many newspapers, magazines and journals have also featured him at one time or the other.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Adeniyi Adesuyi
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Adeniyi Adesuyi

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Ezra Olubi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • Fleet Device Management — Open-source IT and security for teams with lots of workstations and servers. (Linux, macOS, Windows, cloud, data center, OT/ICS, Chrome)
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Baljinder Sharma
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Baljinder Sharma Launch Africa Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Pricepally — Pricepally provides access to affordable, nutritious, traceable and secure food items in Africa’s urban cities. Pricepally is a wholesale and sharing economy e-commerce platform that enables people to buy food in bulk or share bulk food items with others online to leverage their collective bargaining power.
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Jonathan Shipman
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Jonathan Shipman is a VP, Strategy (Product & Marketing) at Lantronix.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Beauty, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.9M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NEWNESS — Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular.
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Riley — Grapevine AI is the first AI powered personal assistant that captures, organizes, and easily retrieves the details that build better relationships. Learn more!
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Leonard Stiegeler is an entrepreneur & investor in projects unlocking potential. Educated in Europe, he founded companies across EMEA and is now investing globally. He is passionate to develop opportunities with & for others. The companies he co-founded include Jumia, now a leading eCommerce company in Africa and Pulse, now a leading mediacompany in Africa. His investments include Paystack, Flutterwave, Scalable Capital, Conversion and many more. Dedicated to creating trusted connections to enable potential, he founded two networks - Africa Collective, focused on elevating the continent's role globally, and Counder, focused on enabling visionary leaders embrace emerging trends & regions collectively.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Shola Akinlade
Angel · Sunnyvale, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Shola Akinlade s based out of Sunnyvale, California and currently works as the CEO for Paystack.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Education, Insurance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $181k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
  • Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
  • Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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Ire Aderinokun
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Ticketing, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $15k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Prizeless.ng — Prizeless.ng is an online platform that compares product prices across online stores in one place. The service allows users to search for products and view listed prices from multiple sellers. Product categories include electronics, phones, laptops, groceries, gaming items, cameras, accessories, and home products. The platform shows trendingsearches and featured items based on search activity. Users can compare listings, review product details, and select a store to complete a purchase. The service also provides guides and articles that explain product choices and buying steps.
  • tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
  • 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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Jonathan Wasserstrum
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $227k–$1.5M; Series A $4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BuyWander — BuyWander is a platform connecting consumers with returned products. The company appears to operate across various categories, including automotive, beauty & health, clothing, electronics, food & grocery, and home & kitchen.
  • Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
  • Fund That Flip — Fund That Flip offers customized lending for real estate investors. Partner with America's fastest-growing direct lender. Better than your hard money lender.
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Uwe Sandner
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Uwe develops digital products as an entrepreneur and CTO through all stages from ideas, funding and business cases, over designs and prototypes to scalable enterprise solutions. He likes to organize and structure processes lean and efficient and motivates teams with competence, reliability, openness and enthusiasm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
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Simon Borrero
Angel · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Simón Borrero is a Co-Founder & CEO at Rappi. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Colombia, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $300k–$6.7M; Series A $6.7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
  • Leona — Todos tus chats con pacientes de WhatsApp ahora en una sola app para que nunca pierdas un mensaje importante.
  • Nauta — Nauta is a cutting-edge, AI-powered B2B SaaS platform designed to streamline and transform the logistics and trade industry. With a focus on interconnecting the key players in the supply chain, Nauta helps companies automate up to 75% of operational tasks, reducing manual processes and errors.Founded by industry experts who experienced firsthandthe challenges of fragmented logistics operations, Nauta offers a user-friendly platform that doesn’t require technical knowledge or complex integrations. It provides real-time visibility and control over shipments, enabling companies to better manage their supply chain, save time, and lower costs.By leveraging AI to capture and structure data, Nauta helps businesses make informed decisions, ensuring smooth operations across the logistics chain. Trusted by companies across the world, Nauta is revolutionizing the logistics sector, one container at a time​​.
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Chibuzo Ujam
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Chibuzo Ujam

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Energy, Delivery
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!
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Clemens Paschke
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Clemens Paschke is the Chief Executive Officer at Ziegert EverEstate. He earned his Ph.D. in business, management, marketing, and related support services at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
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Ugochukwu Aronu
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Drones, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!
  • Gamic — Gamic is a community communication/collaboration app for gamers, creators, and web3 enthusiasts.The platform combines the advantages of blockchain technology with the conventional web2 community setup, creating a seamless environment where users can interact and enjoy the benefits of web3 advancements. This simplifies the process for web2communities to access and leverage the latest blockchain technology innovations, eliminating the need to navigate across various platforms.Today, the user experience is poor for online communities trying to engage with Web3 products and services because users are required to jump across different platforms. Sharing, trading, or managing Web3 assets on most traditional communication and social apps is hard. Addressing this is crucial because Web3 access means financial freedom and opportunity for many all around the world, especially in Africa. Gamic’s central mission is to encourage blockchain adoption as a means to improve the socio-economic opportunities available to global communities. We enable users to communicate and operate in the same place, with increased security and better monetisation opportunities.
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Prosper Otemuyiwa
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, CRM, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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  • Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
  • Famasi — Find, Order & Refill medications across 1000+ pharmacies in Nigeria. Delivered in 1 hour. Compare prices, get the best offers, and enjoy free monthly delivery on recurring orders.
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Vasco Martinho
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Vasco Martinho

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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O.D. Kobo
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Video, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: China, Israel, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $3M–$5M; Series B $12M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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  • Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
  • GiveHope
  • Totally Bored
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Ferdinand Von Kalm
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Ferdinand von Kalm is the Global, COO at Rocket Internet GmbH. Before joining Rocket Internet as Global Chief Operations Officer, Ferdinand worked for Nestlé within Finance & Operations across 5 continents. Ferdinand holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and ESADE, Spain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Price Comparison
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
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Eduardo Campos
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Eduardo Campos is a Co-founder and Partner at ONEVC. A former management consultant (Monitor Group), he has been an active operator and investor in the Brazilian tech ecosystem since 2012, backing companies like Gympass, Creditas, and QuintoAndar. Eduardo also founded Parafuzo ('14), an early Brazilian local services marketplace, and Yuca('19), a leading residential real estate operator. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs in software, marketplace, fintech, and internet/consumer businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, Travel
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • idwall — Idwall develops software to help small and medium-sized businesses in the customer credentialing process. It is focused on providing businesses with document validation, background check, and identity verification solutions and services. The company offers a real-time alert system that enables its users to verify customers’ data in signups andpurchases. It also provides implementation and consulting services for its solutions.Idwall was founded in July 2016 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo.
  • Wellhub — On a mission to defeat inactivity, Gympass helps companies revolutionize how inactive employees engage in physical activity, driving lasting behavioral change. Our 2000+ clients credit Gympass' unmatched variety, convenience, and flexibility with helping to improve employee engagement, individual performance, and overall business success.Across 14 countries and over 50,000 gym and studio partners, Gympass partners with corporations to craft ongoing, personalized programs that will inspire your workforce to enroll, stay motivated, and unlock their full potential.
  • Tripeese — Travefy brings together proposals, itineraries, CRM, and marketing tools so you can focus on delivering unforgettable trips. Explore with a free 10-day trial.
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Marketplace Angel investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 49 deals from 62 investors.

62
investors
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
49
deals
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
$625k
median round
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
19%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage

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