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Top 50 Marketplace Startup Investors in Nigeria (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
13 Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon Pre-Seed, Grant Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
Microtraction
VC Fund
9 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Retail, FinTech, Health Care $100k–$20M
Future Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Resilience17
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Finance, Outdoors $100k–$12M
Yves Guillemot
Angel
4 Nigeria Seed, Series A Logistics, E-Commerce Platforms, Location Based Services $500k–$2M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Kube VC
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$24M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$34M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
4 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $425k–$5.1M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
4 United States, Nigeria, India Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $12k–$5M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, B2B $50k–$10M
Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Mexico, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$50M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $200k–$22M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
SC NABUBOTO
VC Fund
3 France, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series C Genetics, Logistics, Therapeutics $915k–$2M
Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $150k–$37M
Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, Colombia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $500k–$33M
SOSV
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Partech
VC Fund
3 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $30k–$2.5M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
3 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Hack VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $1M–$45M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
Angel
3 Nigeria Seed, Convertible Note FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain $1k–$4k
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Retail, Software $120k–$1M
Bashar Hamood
Angel
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $7k–$5M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$25M
HoaQ
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$35M
GFR Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology $700k–$20M
Youcef Es-skouri
Angel
2 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech
HealthCap
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech $20k–$37M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $200k–$37M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$15M
Nova
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States Seed Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data $5.7M–$22M
Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Retail, Medical $1M–$1.5M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $713k–$33M
Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, The Netherlands Series A, Series B, Debt Financing FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $23M–$65M
Bunmi Akinyemiju
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10k–$1.5M
Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
VC Fund
2 United States, Colombia, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, FinTech $300k–$24M
John Obaro
Angel
2 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Food and Beverage $3.2M–$3.2M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Unseen, powered by Seae Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Medical $1M–$5M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $700k–$40M
Janngo
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, B2B $400k–$18M
Tayo Oviosu
Angel
2 Nigeria, Brazil, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, SaaS, Credit $1.4M–$3.6M
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 13 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Women Entrepreneurship for Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
  • Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
  • Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 9 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 7 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $11M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
  • Sika — Sika Box offers a comprehensive solution for global payment processing, focusing on bridging the payment divide between global enterprises and emerging markets. Utilizing blockchain and modern technologies, Sika Box re-engineers the payment process from customer acquisition to settlement. The platform enables merchants to offer alternate and localpayment options, facilitating seamless transactions. With a unified payment infrastructure named STASH, Sika Box allows merchants to consolidate payments from across the globe through a single payment gateway integration, simplifying the global commerce landscape for businesses.
  • Yikodeen — Yikodeen is a well-known and established footwear manufacturing company.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Resilience17
VC Fund · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Resilience17 is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Finance, Outdoors
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glouse — Glouse is an online application that provides groceries at the lowest prices with the same day deliveries.
  • Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
  • 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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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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Kube VC
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$8.6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Glamplus — Glamplus is a SAAS-enabled beauty marketplace for salons and spas in the SMB segment. Glamplus customized to suit salon,s needs. Glamplus offers Hassle-free digital appointment tracking, invoicing, customer engagement, revenue management & much more.
  • Klaar — Klaar eliminates the stress and bias of performance management with timely AI-powered insights that help teams identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions, and ultimately drive better performance & careers.
  • CloudBankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

The best companies, off the beaten path.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 596
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $6M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • Giant — The Giant app turns screen time into personalized, interactive stories starring your child. Safe, ad-free, and designed to spark imagination.
  • NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
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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: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $425k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ScholarX — ScholarX enables you to study a variety of skills online, receive money for your education, upskill your employees, and expand your business. The company provides low-income Africans with digital and affordable education.
  • 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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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 888
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $12k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • 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.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — 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 — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
  • EMTECH — Cari pragmatic slot gacor? Cek info RTP slot Pragmatic Play terupdate di AkongCuan. Mulai modal slot depo 5K sekarang, mainkan, dan raih cuan maksimal!
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 868
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
  • Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
  • Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
  • S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
  • Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Tofino Capital is an early stage investor in emerging market technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
  • 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.
  • Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.
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SC NABUBOTO
VC Fund · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Private investment vehicle

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Genetics, Logistics, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $915k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
  • Kwik — Your parcels delivered on-demand, safer, cheaper - Soon in Lagos
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Hi2 Venture Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Hi2 Venture Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund managed by Hi2 Global. The fund invests in seed stage innovative early-stage companies in emerging sectors including fintech, AI, consumer-tech, clean-tech and health-tech in United States, Asia, Africa, and LATAM.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M; Series A $5.2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iPNOTE — The iPNOTE AI paralegal manages the entire IP registration workflow: answers attorney questions, reviews deliverables, summarizes documents, tracks deadlines, sends follow-ups to providers, monitors progress from filing to grant, and processes payments. Your team interacts with one intelligent agent that smoothly coordinates with patent attorneysworldwide - turning weeks of manual work into automated efficiency.
  • Fineksi — Finskor memiliki misi untuk menjadi penyedia terkemuka layanan penilaian kredit yang akurat dan andal, membantu bank dan lembaga keuangan lainnya untuk membuat keputusan kredit berdasarkan analisis data yang komprehensif.
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
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Palm Drive Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Venture capital firm backing generational founders at pre-seed and seed. New York and San Francisco.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $75M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Jinba — Helping regulated enterprises build and ship production-level AI agents as fast as startups.
  • Beglaubigt.de — https://t.co/BCWk4L679n ist die erste Plattform zur Digitalisierung des Notariats in Europa.
  • The News Lens — The News Lens is an independent media for Chinese readers. The company aims to be a platform where a wide range of Chinese readers can engage in informed debates about important news, social, and political issues. The News Lens was established in August 2013.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Prysm Systems — An interactive video wall is a powerful digital display option that sees your message. touch screen display designed for application commercial grade retail.
  • EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
  • Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $30k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Dehurdle — Scale employee communication skills with real-time AI voice simulations, objection handling drills, and vocal analytics.
  • Vireo Capital — AI-powered portfolio monitoring, due diligence and reporting for mid-cap private equity and impact funds.
  • Hyperbond Studio — Hyperbond Studio builds AI-driven games and interactive experiences, including the Call Me Sensei app. We combine technology and emotion to create unforgettable digital worlds.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1441
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Hack VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $6M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
  • Axis Robotics — AXIS ROBOTICS | Transferring Diverse Human Intelligence Into Robotic General Intelligence
  • Hyperlane — Hyperlane is the platform for developers building the interchain universe
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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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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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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Bashar Hamood
Angel · 3 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, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 477
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$2M; Pre-Seed $7k–$500k; Series A $33k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 503
  • Round size: Seed $808k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • Orbital Sentry — Orbital Sentry delivers real-time wildfire detection and continuous geostationary monitoring to protect communities, reduce losses, and power next-generation risk intelligence. Our persistent infrared data helps insurers, governments, and first responders act faster and build true climate resilience
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
  • Klas — Anyone, anywhere can teach online. Create & sell your ebooks, courses, and live classes- all on Klas.
  • La Ruche Health Inc. — LaRuche Health offers inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive healthcare services.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 928
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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GFR Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. GFR Fund is managed by GREE VR Capital, an affiliate of GREE Inc., a global leader in the mobile gaming industry.With over a decade of experience driving innovators in multi-platform entertainment,we see emerging technologies such as VR, AR, AI, Video Streaming and Blockchain as powerful tools that will propel the entertainment industry into a new generation of consumable content. We are looking for talented entrepreneurs who share our passion and values to help realize their vision and expand their businesses globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $700k–$4M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • GEEIQ — GEEIQ is the intelligence platform brands use to plan, activate and measure marketing in virtual worlds like Roblox, Fortnite and ZEPETO.
  • CityLegends — A home for urban sports & culture partners of CityLegends. Making the lines.
  • Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
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Youcef Es-skouri
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Youcef Es-skouri

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Journify — Activate trustworthy data for your business with Journify - the leading data activation platform for top data-driven companies. Sign up free!
  • SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
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HealthCap
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company is a healthcare and wellness sector investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$200k; Series A $3M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
  • 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
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Nova
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Nova is an investment firm that offers venture investment management services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Midas — Premium mathematical datasets and formal verification tools for AI training
  • Vigil Labs — Vigil Labs is an applied research lab building proprietary systems for trading.
  • 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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Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Retail, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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
  • 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
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $23M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. 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 revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
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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:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • 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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Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Actions Capital is a seasoned pre-seed venture capital firm, that works alongside founders from Day 0.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Colombia, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 189
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$6.4M; Series A $5.7M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • XBuild — Generate professional estimates and proposals in minutes with AI. Close deals on site. See team performance in real time. Built for contractor sales teams. Try it free.
  • Eezee — Singapore’s first & largest industrial marketplace that connects local suppliers to corporate clients, leveraging technology to help both parties make informed decisions.The company offers a secure platform for buyers and sellers to transact.Our aim is to improve the efficiency of business to business (B2B) transactions. We do this byensuring that the process of selecting and purchasing your supplies becomes quicker, more convenient and transparent. We support local suppliers in establishing their presence online, enabling them to be discovered by corporate organisations.
  • Vammo — Leoparda Electric is a company that manufactures electric motorcycles.
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John Obaro
Angel · 2 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: 2
  • Round size: Seed $3.2M–$3.2M
  • 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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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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Unseen, powered by Seae Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Unseen Capital created by racially diverse and historically underrepresented business leaders that is intended to identify, fund and support underrepresented founders of early-stage healthcare companies and those building solutions for marginalized communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Allswell — Allswell is a queer-founded mental health platform dedicated to making affirming, accessible care available to the LGBTQ+ community, covered by Medicaid & major insurance.
  • Magnolia — Magnolia is a creative force to change how we support and dignify the work of family caregivers and ensure more people in more places can age with ease.
  • Trial Library — At Trial Library, we partner with the oncology community to enable the discoverability of clinical trials for anyone, anywhere.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$2.1M; Series A $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
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Janngo
VC Fund · Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Janngo supports entrepreneurs who leverage technology to massify three impacts on the continent: 1/ Essential services & products for African consumers, 2/ Growth acceleration of African SMEs, and 3/ Job creation, in particular for women & youth

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$15M; Pre-Seed $546k–$2.7M; Series A $2.2M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Jobzyn — Jobzyn is building an AI-powered recruitment platform designed to help employers sift through overwhelming volumes of underqualified applications while helping candidates make better-informed career choices.
  • CreditChek — Africa's #1 credit intelligence platform. Access credit bureau API, bank statement analysis, BVN/KYC verification & direct debit for lenders in Nigeria, Kenya & Uganda. Trusted by 100+ businesses.
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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: 11
  • 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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Marketplace Investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 320 deals from 392 investors.

392
investors
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
320
deals
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
$200k
median round
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
83/17
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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