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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Nigeria (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Microtraction
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel
3 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 Mexico, Nigeria, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Luminate Group
VC Fund
2 Canada, Nigeria Seed SaaS, GovTech, Politics $600k–$3.3M
HoaQ
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$2M
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $150k–$21M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
Digital Technology Supercluster
VC Fund
1 Canada, Nigeria Grant, Seed, Corporate Round Software, Information Technology, SaaS $250k–$2.6M
Eric Okechukwu
Angel
1 Nigeria Seed Music, Publishing, Music Label
Social Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, SaaS
Melo7 Tech Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics
emPawa Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Tayo Oviosu
Angel
1 Nigeria, Brazil, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Kairos Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
ACE & Company
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Serena Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Cascador
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration
Ire Aderinokun
Angel
1 Nigeria, Germany Pre-Seed Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
Gabriel Hammond
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Wireless, FinTech
Walid Aradi
Angel
1 India, Nigeria, Pakistan Seed, Angel, Series A Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Michael Seibel
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Vy Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Unicorn Group
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, FinTech
Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SMS, SaaS, Software
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Ham Serunjogi
Angel
1 Nigeria, United States, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
Adrenaline gaming
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
L5lab
VC Fund
1
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$140M
Vastly Valuable Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services $1.3M–$52M
RET Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Real Estate, Property Management $1M–$37M
DDF
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
Beta.Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Josh Jones
Angel
1 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel 3D Printing, Software, Internet
IBM
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Grant Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6k–$34M
Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel
1 Ghana, Nigeria News, Publishing, Digital Media
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.5M–$20M
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 7 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: 103
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$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.
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
  • 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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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • 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.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: 143
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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.
  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
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Idris Ayodeji Bello
Angel · 3 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: 31
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
  • SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
  • Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
  • Safire Technology Group — SAFIRE, our patented li-ion shear thickening battery electrolyte additive stops explosion/fire through an instantaneous liquid-to-solid transformation upon mechanical impact, and imparts ballistic protection -- all inherent in the electrolyte chemistry.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
  • Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — Circadian Technologies accelerates the energy transition in frontier markets with a SaaS business model, empowering solar developers & energy service companies to reduce operating costs and grow revenue with a data driven platform and proprietary IoT hardware.Circadian transforms the entire value chain of its customers by uniquely providingan end-to-end solution to better design, finance, operate and maintain decentralized renewable energy systems for commercial & industrial sites.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Luminate Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, GovTech, Politics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
  • New/Mode — New/Mode is the multi-channel advocacy & civic engagement platform that organizations, campaigns & causes use to win. Join the New/Mode Community.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3.3M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • 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.
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

NAMA VENTURES TECH FOUNDERS FUNDING TECH STARTUPS LOOKING FOR FUNDING? APPLY NOW

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
  • Faceki — Offering cutting-edge solutions including KYC, KYB, KYT, AML, and Biometric Authentication.
  • Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$740k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
  • HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
  • OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
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Zeno Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.3M; Series A $3.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Mighty Buildings — Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company innovating the construction industry by creating beautiful, and sustainable homes using 3D printing, robotics, and automation. Learn more about Mighty Buildings today!
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
  • Phiar Technologies — Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% 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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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Digital Technology Supercluster
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

DIGITAL fuels momentum for Canadian companies to grow in Canada, driving economic growth, creating jobs and building prosperity & wellbeing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Grant $650k–$2.1M; Corporate Round $250k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trax — Trax Codes has the largest collection of up-to-date regulatory information in Canada for the construction industry, with 20,000 pages of enriched building codes and statutes for Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Canada with links, terms, comments, highlights, and version comparison. Helping architects, engineers, contractors, buildingofficials, inspectors, and operators to untangle complex compliance requirements using AI-enriched search, navigation, project management, and automation tools for construction projects of all sizes.
  • Unity Health Toronto — Unity Health Toronto, comprised of providence healthcare, st. joseph’s health centre and st. michael’s hospital works to advance the health of everyone in our urban communities and beyond, that provides a health network that serves patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care,tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care while investing in world-class research and education.
  • Thrive Career Wellness Platform — Thrive is a modern platform for outplacement services combined with industry-leading, job-search management tools to help people during career transition.
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Eric Okechukwu
Angel · Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

I enjoy spending time looking at issues another way. I live a very quiet life that allows me to spend a lot of time building.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Publishing, Music Label
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • InterSpace Entertainment — InterSpace Entertainment is a Music Publishing & Entertainment Agency, headquartered in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Founded in 2021, the group has expanded at a steady rate and currently houses a Record label, Music Publishing / Distribution service and a creative management Agency for Artists, Brands and Enterprises.
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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 367
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Focus — The Crypto Social Network.
  • Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
  • Tierra Biosciences — Speed, scale and simplicity with protein synthesis on-demand. Discover your portal to thousands of custom proteins. Get testable material with a single input.
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Melo7 Tech Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
  • Ambrosia — Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.
  • Mercury — Powerful banking. Simplified finances. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
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emPawa Africa
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

emPawa Africa provides publishing administration and marketing solutions to independent music entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.
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Tayo Oviosu
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RELAYTO Content Experience 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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Kairos Angels
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
  • Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund · Portola Valley, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 190
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Joy — Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co.
  • Cosmos Innovation — Cosmos Innovation specialize in full stack software development, product design, cloud hosting, and MVP deployment.
  • Intuition Robotics — The AI care companion robot for older adults
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ACE & Company
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
  • DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
  • ANYbotics — ANYbotics provides autonomous legged robots for industrial applications to provide high availability and reliability in automated routine inspections.
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Serena Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
  • Rebelstork — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
  • KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Cascador
VC Fund · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Cascador | Business Growth Accelerator for Mid-Stage Nigerian Companies Cascador is a business growth program for Nigerian entrepreneurs leading mid-stage companies, providing mentoring and access to advisors, and investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
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Ire Aderinokun
Angel · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Germany

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
  • 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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Gabriel Hammond
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Gabriel Hammond

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Wireless, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • QuantumStreet AI — Powering $1.5 Billion in global assets, EquBot's AI investment platform with IBM Watson helps global investment professionals deliver custom AI portfolios with better outcomes through portfolios as a service (PaaS). EquBot's AI is utilized by some of the largest financial institutions like HSBC, Athene, and Amundi and reaches investorsall over the world, including the US, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Russia. EquBot is an IBM partner and was started at UC Berkeley by a team from Intel, Goldman, and Fidelity.
  • wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
  • Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.
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Walid Aradi
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Secure Data Collaboration Platform platform that enables businesses to collaborate without compromising on consumer identity or information!
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
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Michael Seibel
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups, 24 in the past 12 months

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
  • Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
  • Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
  • OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
  • Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Vy Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
  • Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
  • Astuto Technologies — Continuous Cloud Cost Optimization | Anomaly Detection | Waste Prevention
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Unicorn Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Infrastructure Training Mentorship Market Access Capital We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and early stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Merge — Startup Funding | Investment Opportunities | Merge App
  • Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
  • Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.
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Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SMS, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Instanda — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
  • Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
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Ham Serunjogi
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
  • CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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Adrenaline gaming
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Adrenaline gaming is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.
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L5lab
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DavtonLearn — Davtonlearn is powering modern DIY (Do it yourself) Learning & engagement management system with packaged content services for corporate organizations, enabling connected skilling for workplace relevance. We are focused on lowering the multiple barriers to adopting technology-based learning, including the costs associated with development,deployment, and maintenance through our proprietary e-learning solution that enable enterprises to have customized LMS and curated the future of work-related content in less than 30 minutes.
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Tofino Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$22M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1M; Series A $25M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Raptures — Raptures is a global digital storytelling platform & studio network creating original and industry leading webtoons, comics and animations.
  • Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
  • Prembly — Leading provider of identity verification, KYC/KYB compliance, AML screening, fraud detection, and background check solutions. Trusted by businesses across Africa and globally for secure, real-time verification.
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Vastly Valuable Ventures
VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Investing In Vanguard, Visionary, Valiant Founders

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$52M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.3M; Convertible Note $20M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qardy — Qardy provide SMEs with a comprehensive array of financial services, such as factoring, leasing, long-term and short-term loans, and leasing. Our objectives are to empower SMEs, encourage financial inclusion, and close the loan financing gap.
  • 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.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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RET Ventures
VC Fund · Park City, Utah, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Smarter Partners Drive Better Tech. Our Strategic Investors comprise the largest group of multifamily and single-family rental owner/operators ever amassed

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Property Management
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.2M; Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $10M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Travtus — Automate property management with Adam. He is the leading digital employee for the Multifamily housing industry. Trusted by top NMHC50 managers and owners.
  • Parity — Parity remotely controls and optimizes HVAC systems 24/7/365 to deliver automatic energy savings and revenue to multifamily residential buildings and hotels.
  • Fitwel — The Center for Active Design is the leading non-profit organization using design to foster healthy and engaged communities.
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DDF
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

DDF Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in African startups. It specializes in seed stage investments. Founded in 2015 by Tim Draper and Toro Orero, DDF Capital is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Wireless, Video on Demand
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
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Beta.Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Beta.Ventures invests in driven, early-stage entrepreneurs scaling tech and tech-enabled startups to become market leaders. They are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.Beta.Ventures works closely with founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage ofcompany development. We are focused on the opportunities made available by a 1.2 billion-person, mobile phone enabled Africa.We are experienced entrepreneurs ourselves and are able to share what has proven to work for product and service scaling, revenue growth and fundraising.Operations is key to success at early stage companies, and our environment often faces a dearth of experience scaling opportunities; Beta.Ventures focuses intensely on the operations of a company, adding value through several levers we know, from experience, will enable a company to succeed.Our partners, affiliates, and mentors lead some top technology companies locally and internationally and we encourage you to partner with us to take advantage of our experience building great products/services, negotiating partnerships and deals, leading teams, and raising money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
  • PayHippo — PayHippo is making it easier to finance small and medium sized businesses in Africa. There is a need for financing of $158 bn for SMEs in Nigeria alone. To start, PayHippo helps SMEs access and spend lender capital effectively. During their first full operational year in 2020, the PayHippo co--founders leveraged their domain expertise and foundingexperience to beat their 2020 goal by 50%.
  • Knabu Distributed Systems Ltd — We are building a clearing bank.
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Josh Jones
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Josh Jones is a Partner HMC INQ and Founder of Did I Err Productions. He is a former Co-Founder & CTO at DreamHost.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
  • FlyCoin — Flycoin is a first of its kind crypto-based rewards program that pays guests every time they fly or transact with our partners.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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IBM
VC Fund · Armonk, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $1.6k–$34M; Grant $34k–$240k
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Akka — Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations arefully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.
  • Visernic — Visernic Limited is a modern software development company committed to delivering powerful and scalable digital solutions. Based in Naogaon, Bangladesh, we specialize in web and mobile app development, UI/UX design, and digital marketing to help businesses grow, automate, and thrive in the digital age.At Visernic, we combine creativity withtechnology to build custom products that are not only functional but also user-focused and future-ready. Whether it's launching a SaaS platform, designing a high-converting website, or crafting a mobile app from scratch — we turn your vision into impactful digital experiences.With a strong emphasis on quality, communication, and innovation, Visernic continues to support startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises in accelerating their digital transformation journey.
  • Ceramic — Ceramic.ai provides web-scale search for AI agents & LLMs. 100x cheaper, 10x faster, fully independent. $0.05/1K via API & MCP.
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Samuel Kwame Boadu
Angel · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Editor-In-Chief @ Accra Sports News Editor-In-Chief & Founder @ Accra Street Journal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing, Digital Media
  • Geography: Ghana, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Accra Sports News — Accra Sports News, an extension of Accra Street Journal, is your go-to hub for up-to-the-minute sports coverage in Ghana and beyond. From football, boxing, and athletics to breaking sports headlines and exclusive player stories, we deliver trusted, fast, and in-depth sports journalism
  • Accra Street Journal — Accra Street Journal is Ghana’s source for business, finance, technology, and economic news, providing in-depth analysis and insights into the country’s evolving markets. They deliver timely and credible news on key sectors, including banking, entrepreneurship, innovation, and government policies, ensuring our readers stay informed about the forcesshaping Ghana’s economic landscape.Our mission is to bridge the information gap between businesses, policymakers, and the public, empowering entrepreneurs, investors, and decision-makers with accurate and actionable intelligence. With a strong focus on investigative journalism and expert commentary, Accra Street Journal is your trusted guide to understanding Ghana’s financial world.Stay ahead with breaking news, exclusive interviews, and expert opinions from the heart of Accra’s business district and beyond.
  • The High Street Business — The High Street Business provides news and information about business, markets, and finance. It reports updates on trade, commerce, retail, and investment trends that shape the economy. The platform shares articles about enterprise, policy, and insights related to economic activities and developments. It publishes editorials and analyses thatexplain key topics in the business environment. It features reports about technology, finance, and public policy that influence local and regional markets. It also offers guides and discussions about topics such as digital payments, mining, and financial security.
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Series A $2.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% 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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Media (Entertainment) Investor funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 66 deals from 84 investors.

84
investors
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
66
deals
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
$130k
median round
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
46%
lead investors
lead at least one round
35%
Seed
most common funding stage
87/13
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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