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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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 $30k–$1.3M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
HoaQ
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $100k–$3.3M
Thescathcompanies
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Pre-Seed Consulting, B2B, Gift
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4M
Resilience17
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Finance, Outdoors $100k–$12M
Technovision Communications
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$5M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $50k–$10M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $300k–$5.5M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Luminate Group
VC Fund
2 Canada, Nigeria Seed SaaS, GovTech, Politics
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $100k–$3.7M
DDF
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Rwanda, United States Seed Mobile, Internet, Wireless $35k–$2.1M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Unicorn Group
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant Apps, Internet, FinTech $100k–$2.3M
Nama Ventures
VC Fund
2 Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Information Technology, B2B $100k–$35M
Cascador
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, France, United States Debt Financing, Seed, Grant Agriculture, Internet, Renewable Energy $15k–$1.8M
54 Collective
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$2M
Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SMS, SaaS, Software
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
ACE & Company
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Vy Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Seed, Series C, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Zeno Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Kairos Angels
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, B2B $150k–$20M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $700k–$40M
IBM
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Grant, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.6k–$55M
Tofino Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $100k–$131M
Now Venture Partners
VC Fund
1
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Women and Career
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Education, EdTech, E-Learning $43k–$259k
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Vastly Valuable Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $1.3M–$46M
L5lab
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Beta.Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, B2B $100k–$3M
Melo7 Tech Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $1.3M–$70M
MyAsia VC
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $592k–$24M
Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Software $35k–$1.1M
Social Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $850k–$46M
NOA Capital
VC Fund
1 Spain, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed SMS, Education, Messaging
Serena Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
emPawa Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
Adrenaline gaming
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
CE-IV
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Content, Animation, Graphic Design
RET Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Real Estate, Property Management $1M–$37M
Platform Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Financial Services, Apps $100k–$1.3M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$34M
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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: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
  • Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
  • Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks
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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: 83
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
  • Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
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HoaQ
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 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, 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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Thescathcompanies
VC Fund · Kaduna, Kaduna, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Thescathcompanies (TSC) is a tech-enabled hybrid Venture capital firm dedicated to uncovering and nurturing talent and potentials across multiple verticals within emerging, underrepresented & underserved regions in Africa leveraging our diverse expertise to expand the footprint of Venture Capital to other sectors in a bid to fully harness thecapabilities and advance our mission of creating a more streamlined & structured pipeline in other verticals in order to maximize such sectors’ potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consulting, B2B, Gift
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shopyetu — Shopyetu provides a shopping solution for high fashion thrifted pieces, handpicked and listed on their blockchain enabled online store.
  • Phonecasecity — Phonecasecity provides a seamless solution for purchasing high end, iPhone cases built on the blockchain network.
  • Theagrotrader — Providing agri-tech solutions that connect buyers & sellers of agro commodities while serving as a point of cash security & offering agro sponsorship.
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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: 173
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $84M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • Cybervergent — Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Resilience17
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Pewbeam — Pewbeam provides AI-powered church presentation software that displays Bible verses, manages slides, and supports worship presentations.
  • 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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Technovision Communications
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

We Find, Fund and Follow African Founders into the future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Niteon — Niteon - Where Africa trades with the world on its own terms.
  • Blueroomcare — Blueroomcare offers private, affordable online counseling via app messaging, videos, and voice messages when you need it from licensed therapists. Get help, you deserve to be happy!
  • HouseAfrica — NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited operates in the real estate industry. The company's primary focus is on software engineering, mobile development, and DevOps engineering. It also provides services related to internet use and communication. The company's team includes a CEO and a CTO, among others, who work together to deliver theirservices. NetAccess Communication Nigeria Limited also has a connection with HouseAfrica, indicating a potential collaboration or partnership between the two entities.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 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, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% 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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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Pago ASAP — Asap optimizes every process with speed, security, and efficiency by facilitating cross-border payments targeted at resource banking. Pago ASAP's payment infrastructure enables banks, fintechs, digital wallets, remittance companies, and businesses to transmit and receive payments.
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 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: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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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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Luminate Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Established in 2018, Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • 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
  • 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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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Koa — Empower your business with our cutting-edge digital payments platform! Lotus simplifies your business banking tasks and offers tailored financial solutions to boost your business growth. Take control of your business finances by exploring Lotus today!
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DDF
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 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: Mobile, Internet, Wireless
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Rwanda, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tizeti — Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service rightacross Africa.
  • Vuga — Vuga is a telecommunications company that offers a micro-internet network connection.The company invents NodeOne, a quick and affordable way for anyone to set up micro-internet networks without technical skills. NodeOne is built on simplicity but super powerful transmitting an omnidirectional signal, supporting +2.5k clients, with custom meshfirmware for all participants (nodes) to route traffic from other participants.In 2015, Ceddy Muhoza and Patrick Muhire set-up the company in Kigali, Butare.
  • 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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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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Unicorn Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 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, Pre-Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $350k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swept AI — Precision in LLM monitoring. Ensuring AI Stays on Track, on Task, on Point.
  • 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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Nama Ventures
VC Fund · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $5.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
  • Nodes — Talent Intelligence Layer for Regulated Industries
  • Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
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Cascador
VC Fund · Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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: Agriculture, Internet, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Grant $15k–$115k; Debt Financing $146k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 81% lead, 19% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
  • 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!
  • Fortics Lifecare — Fortics Lifegroup is a healthcare holding company developing existing healthcare assets into world-class health facilities.
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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: 112
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pump — Pump uses AI & group buying to automate cloud savings with zero engineering input. #GetPumped
  • Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
  • Finta — Finta replaces Quickbooks and expensive bookkeepers. Get bookkeeping, taxes, and tax credits setup in 10 minutes.
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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: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M; Series A $4.2M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
  • Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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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, 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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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, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $1.6k–$34M; Grant $34k–$55M; Series A $100k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M 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.
  • Anima App — Anima is the design-aware AI agent that bridges creativity and code. From Figma files, URLs, or prompts, Anima generates real, production-ready apps, for product teams building directly, or coding platforms integrating via API. Powers Bolt.new and Replit.
  • Chicago Quantum Exchange — Home | Chicago Quantum Exchange
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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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$22M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $25M–$131M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M 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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Now Venture Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Now Venture Partners is an investment firm.

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Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
  • Termii — Prevent transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing using AI. Built for banks, fintechs and modern enterprises.
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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: 78
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2M; Series A $500k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
  • Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
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Women and Career
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

For Career Women

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $43k–$259k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ntapi — Ntapi is an edtech social network making accessible education fun and affordable for Africans.
  • NeuroNest AI — NeuroNest is an AI-powered learning platform built on proprietary multi-modal learning techniques and specialized AI agents, tailored to bridge the workforce AI skills gap. With finely tuned machine learning models, adaptive gamified learning paths, and real-time, AI-driven feedback, NeuroNest offers a transformative approach to deliveringworkforce-ready skills at scale.
  • The Varlc Project — The Varlc Project is an education technology (EdTech) startup focused on transforming university learning experiences in Nigeria and Africa. It aims to empower university students by creating a peer-to-peer learning network where students can access tutoring, share academic resources, and discover scholarships, fellowships, and careeropportunities.
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
  • Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity
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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: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$46M; 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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L5lab
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Pass — Pass.ng is an exam preparation and testing platform that helps student prepare for Nigeria's most important examination right from the comfort of their mobile device or computer. Candidates are provided with mock questions, answers, analytical solutions, an opportunity to simulate the exam electronically, compete with fellow exam mates andfinally, track progress, and be the best.
  • BabyBliss — BabyBliss is a mom and baby business offering a collection of baby products for infants to toddlers from trusted local & international brands. With four stores located in Lagos, BabyBliss provides shoppers with a variety of products that will take you from newborn all the way to the teenage years.
  • 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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Beta.Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Beta.Ventures supports Africa's leading tech entrepreneurs.We are a New York and Lagos based venture capital firm helping ambitious entrepreneurs build innovative products and services, with a focus on rapid revenue and profit growth. We are unique in our ability to help companies grow organically in Africa, while also scaling globally.Wework closely with talented founders and teams from product idea to product launch through to the next stage of company development with a goal to maximize success and minimize risk.Our partners, affiliates and mentors lead 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. With us, you will avoid mistakes we, and others, have made.

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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: 15
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.2M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Rayda — Infrastructure to acquire, manage, insure and dispose fixed assets for businesses globally.
  • 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.
  • Stacs — Stacs allows you to quickly pay for what you need without breaking the bank by dividing your largest bills into tiny bits.
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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: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $6M–$21M; Series B $11M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Myro — Refillable, plant-powered bodycare that's better for you and the planet.
  • Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
  • Mercury — Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.
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MyAsia VC
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

MyAsia VC

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$6M; Pre-Seed $592k–$2M; Series A $4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sensesemi — Sensesemi Technologies is a healthcare startup that focuses on the development of unique medical devices. The company's inspiration stems from personal experiences with hypertension and diabetes in close family members. Sensesemi Technologies is known for its commitment to delivering optimal healthcare services. The company's productdevelopment is primarily in the field of medical devices, aiming to cater to a wide range of healthcare needs. The company has been recognized for its work, notably winning in the ESDM category at the 'Startup Karnataka Top Tech Awards'.
  • Squid — Squid turns models from existing analysis tools into one standard, versioned network, so engineers and agents can validate data, build scenarios, run studies and publish decisions from the same source.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Leadpath Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

The Ultimate Information Hub

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $35k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RealE — Reale is a real estate and property managerial tool.
  • PushCV — PushCV is a service that provides unlimited access to pre-screened and fully tested candidates for top organisations.They are focused on the features that matter most to an employer and hence, the job seeker. Through continued iteration on difficult employment problems, they seek to provide continuous improvements to the service that alreadymakes thousands of people find their dream jobs a lot faster, safer and more seamless.In PushCV, they believe that if great people are employed in an organisation, that organisation will expand, thereby creating more Jobs for others. Their systems were built from scratch, allowing scalability, flexibility and creativity. Their dedication and cross collaborative efforts to improving on this service helps us apply what they've learned to new products. They believe that persons should secure jobs based on what they know (Skill, Knowledge and experience) rather than who they know.
  • Uregista — URegista is an online form builder that can be used to create contact forms, event registration forms, surveys etc and can also process payments through your form. It is the only form builder fully serving African entrepreneurs and businesses by supporting popular apps among African businesses.
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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, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 484
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $9.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
  • Biz AI Last — Your dedicated IT department. AI-assisted triage, live expert support via chat, remote connection to fix issues directly, and on-site technicians when needed.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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NOA Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

NOA Capital is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SMS, Education, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • SimSkills — SimSkills desarrolla el liderazgo y las soft skills mediante simulaciones inmersivas, con avatares interactivos e Inteligencia Artificial.
  • Termii — Prevent transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing using AI. Built for banks, fintechs and modern enterprises.
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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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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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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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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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CE-IV
VC Fund · Rivière Du Rempart, Riviere du Rempart, Mauritius · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

CE-IV is a seed-stage venture firm based in Mauritius focused on investing in African entrepreneurs of digitally native businesses in the diaspora and within Africa using its well defined investment criteria to deliver certainty in venture investing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Animation, Graphic Design
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Magic Carpet Studios — Magic Carpet is an innovation storytelling company transforming the human consciousness by putting authentic African stories.
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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: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6.6M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.9M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Stake — Renters earn Cash back for rent. Building operators outperform the market. That's the Stake win-win. Find out how we're building the financial tools for the next generation of rentals.
  • Rent Butter — Revolutionize property management with RentButter. Our advanced tenant screening goes beyond credit scores, ensuring compliance and minimizing risks. Build stable communities with data-driven decisions.
  • OurPetPolicy — Explore how the number one ESA verification service and animal management platform can work for you.
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Platform Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups

Platform Capital is a growth markets focused Sector Agnostic, Investment and Advisory Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $160k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LEO Flight — LEO Flight | Not just science fiction anymore, your flying car is here
  • Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
  • Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Media (entertainment) 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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Media (Entertainment) VC funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 136 deals from 130 investors.

130
investors
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
136
deals
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
$106k
median round
in Nigeria Media (entertainment) startups
50%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Seed
most common funding stage

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