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Top 50 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Nigeria Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Ingressive Capital
VC Fund
11 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$15M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
8 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
7 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $125k–$15M
Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $500k–$15M
Microtraction
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.3M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Entrée Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.4M–$60M
Tencent
VC Fund
4 China, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $3.9M–$400M
Berrywood Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $125k–$8.5M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Voltron Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Senegal Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $195k–$3M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $100k–$11M
VentureSouq
VC Fund
3 United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $250k–$50M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $200k–$100M
Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services $1M–$28M
Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $500k–$30M
MediaTek
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Taiwan Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology $5M–$200M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
The Chrysalis Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin $2M–$15M
TRANSSION
VC Fund
2 China, Uganda, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, FinTech, Hardware $15M–$100M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.9M–$15M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
RaliCap
VC Fund
2 United States, Mexico, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $313k–$5.5M
BYLD
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Payments, FinTech $120k–$6.5M
Greenhouse Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Norway Series B, Series A Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing $500k–$39M
VilCap Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $50k–$6M
Kinfolk Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Payments, Software, FinTech
Timon Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Internet $300k–$30M
Nordea
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Norway Debt Financing, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
SBI Investment
VC Fund
2 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$227M
Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $200k–$33M
Lightning Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $250k–$6.1M
True Capital Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$59M
Heirloom
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Nigeria Seed, Series A FinTech, Fashion, Payments $2M–$16M
Krypital Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $1.4M–$10M
Dragonfly
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Hong Kong Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2.2M–$40M
Dunbar Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Visa
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Egypt Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Polymath Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Mexico, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Yellowwood
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Payments, Financial Services
Norrsken22
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Banking, B2B
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
White Hibiscus Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed Lending, Payments, Risk Management
Saturn Blockchain Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
MyAsia VC
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Capital V
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, India Pre-Seed, Seed Food and Beverage, FinTech, Organic Food
All On
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, France, Senegal Seed, Grant Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
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Ingressive Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 11 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 73
  • 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.
  • Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 8 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 148
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brass — Get started with a modern current account
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
  • 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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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 7 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 7 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 5 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 104
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • Allpro Technologies — Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem.
  • 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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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Entrée Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

We are a team of former serial founders managing $1.5Bn across a number of funds, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, and New York. We back the next generation of category-defining companies with conviction of founders who have built companies themselves.We back founders with a partnership built on trust, fairness and real operating experience. Westand with founders through every challenge, and help them grow with clarity, resilience and purpose.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $14M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cypago — Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC Automation Platform Enterprise-grade Cyber GRC solution for any security and compliance standard, across hybrid and multi cloud environments
  • Sensi AI — Clanz Technologies offers an audio-based system designed to support security in human interactions. The system works by connecting to devices that record audio. It analyzes audio data to find unusual sounds or patterns that may indicate incidents. When an anomaly is detected, the system sends alerts in real time. The service also providesinformation about conditions that can affect care quality, such as stress levels or lack of training. It can be used in places where monitoring human interaction is important for safety. The company offers a demo for organizations that want to use the system.
  • IRP Systems — IRP Systems delivers high performance electric vehicle systems, EVVER e-powertrains and TrueDRIVE control software for fast integration.
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 4 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 557
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$142M; Series B $15M–$283M; Series C $35M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VSPN — VSPN is an internet sports and cultural media company that focuses its business on e-sports. It provides core marketing and entertainment content operations as its core business, providing brand marketing, artist brokerage, e-sports TV, and e-sports venues.Founded in 2015, Quantum Sports VSPN (Versus Programming Network) and is based in Shanghai,China.
  • Gaana — Gaana.com- Listen & Download latest MP3 songs online. Download new or old Hindi songs, Bollywood songs, English songs* & more on Gaana+ and play offline. Create, share and listen to streaming music playlists.
  • Viva Wallet — Viva Wallet is a cloud-based neobank that offers card acceptance services for businesses.
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Berrywood Capital
VC Fund · 4 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Berrywood Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $295k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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 — Koa provides savings-as-a-service by embedding financial services through API
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $195k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Allawee — Allawee is a corporate credit card with a credit line to help you spend smarter. We give you high credit limits, attractive cashback rewards and advanced spend management tools.
  • Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
  • Woodcore Inc — Woodcore is a Cloud Enabled Core Banking System for Banks, Micro Financial Institutions and Neo Banks primarily for emerging markets. We provide them with the Core banking system to digitise their existing process from using excel or any manual ways of offering banking service and then provide them with the merchant payment platform which allowsthem to be technology ready for integrations from third parties.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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VentureSouq
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$9M; Series A $6M–$37M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
  • Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
  • MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Ringkas — Ajukan KPR mu di Platform Ringkas via Digital dan Online, Telah Bekerjasama dengan 25+ Bank Partner
  • Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Silverbacks Holdings
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Silverbacks Holdings is a Mauritius-based private investment firm established in 2019, focusing on Africa-related companies in underserved industries such As technology, sports, entertainment, and the creative economy. The firm aims for returns averaging 3x to 5x on its investments and has achieved 9 profitable exits since its inception. Its portfolio includes over 240 companies across Africa, collectively valued at over $10 billion. Landmark investments include the Cape Town Tigers (2024 BAL semi-finalists), Forever7 Entertainment (Netflix content deals), and Moove (a global mobility fintech backed by Uber), and Wave (a mobile money and global remittance focused fintech backed by Stripe).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$8.4M; Series B $9M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
  • The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
  • African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.
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Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.3M; Series A $3.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
  • Miru — Miru is a cybersecurity company that provides AI tools to perform cybersecurity, trust and safety, and national security investigations.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.
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Unpopular Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 439
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $8.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DRUO — DRUO provides online payment gateway for businesses.
  • Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
  • NORDA Dynamics — NORDA Dynamics is an autonomous UAV piloting system for carrying out missions in areas with limited connectivity.
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MediaTek
VC Fund · Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Taiwan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $10M–$40M; Series A $7M–$200M; Series B $5M–$83M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eridu — Eridu is the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, breaking through the network wall with a solution built from the ground up for scale-out and scale-up networks in AI data centers. Eridu’s network switch delivers the order-of-magnitude advance in performance, radix and throughput needed to maximize utilization, throughput andefficiency in AI clusters and data centers. Founded by a team of accomplished technology and business innovators and backed by leading investors with over $200M in funding to date, Eridu is solving the network bottlenecks throttling AI.
  • Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
  • Hyperlight — HyperLight unleashes the potential of integrated photonics by developing a proprietary platform based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN)
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 298
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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The Chrysalis Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

The Chrysalis Capital is a venture capital firm focuses on early-stage tech companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2M; Series A $10M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
  • Ladder — Ladder is a mobile app that provides financial assistant through artificial intelligence to manage money.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
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TRANSSION
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

TRANSSION HOLDINGS, the company formerly known as TECNO TELECOM LIMITED, established in July 2006, is a high-tech company specializing in the R&D, production, sale and service of mobile communication products. After years of development, TRANSSION has become an important part of the mobile phone industry and one of the major mobile phonemanufacturers in the world. Currently, it has full ownership of three famous mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinix, and an after-sales service brand Carlcare.The company has set up offices in many countries and regions, such as Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Bengal, and even has built a factory in Ethiopia, which has provided great support for all its brands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, FinTech, Hardware
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: China, Uganda, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ofero — Ofero is an electric-mobility brand offering e-motorcycles / e-bikes.
  • Future Intelligence — Vision Intelligence is a AI smart hardware company that manufactures and sells interactive intelligence based electronic consumer products.
  • Ganfeng lithium battery — Ganfeng Lithium Battery is a research and development manufacturer of lithium-ion power batteries.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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RaliCap
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: United States, Mexico, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Gangkhar Inc
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BYLD
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
  • Bluerails — Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Greenhouse Capital Partners
VC Fund · Sausalito, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Series A $500k–$12M; Series B $500k–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifefactory — Lifefactory designs healthy housewares solutions for modern life. The Company brings the purity of glass, the protection of silicone, and the power of color to a full line of products designed for everyday use by healthy families. The Lifefactory line began with baby bottles, and has grown to include iconic adult water bottles, wine and beverageglasses and oven-friendly food storage. All components are made in North America or Europe. The Company is privately held and headquartered in Sausalito, CA. Learn more at http://www.lifefactory.com.
  • Revive Kombucha — Since 2010, we have been brewing up beverages that taste as good as they are good for you! Revive is the healthy alternative to soda. Our award winning and innovative new Revive Sparkling Kombucha line; with 5g sugar, 20 calories and 5 billion probiotics, is your delicious and healthy adventure ready partner in a can.
  • Linkage Biosciences — Linkage Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company developing products that hope to improve and expedite complex genetic testing. Their initial focus is on diagnostic products for solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation where their proprietary technology will have an impact. The company offers human leukocyte antigen testingproducts used in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, as well as provides pharmacogenomic and autoimmune disease testing and research and genetic marker tests.Lingkage Biosciences was founded in 2004 and is based in
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
  • Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
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Kinfolk Venture Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Kinfolk Venture Capital is an early stage venture capital firm and Pan-African fund

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dukka — Dukka provides easy-to-use technology that supercharges over 90,000+ small merchants in Africa to sell goods and services anywhere, accept any form of digital payment, and manage their daily operations. Dukka combines in-person and online payment processing with a full suite of mobile, retail and online sales and business management tools,all-in-one streamlined package.Small merchants who never had any technology exposure or had very little of it can now thrive in the digital age. For most users, the cost of using Dukka to manage daily operations is free. The cost of using Dukka's payment processing solution is transparent; free business banking, flat-rate payment processing fees, monthly maintenance fees, and complimentary technical support.For business owners looking to move from informal to formalised industry, Dukka Launchpad offers quick business formalisation tools that help them incorporate their businesses with the corporate affairs commission in a matter of days, contrary to the 3 months long wait period.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
  • Bento Africa — Formerly VerifiNG, Bento Africa is a business solutions company whose flagship product, Pay by Bento, is a cloud-based salaries and benefits solution that helps businesses do more with less. People By Bento, its second product, reimagines HRM from the ground up.
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Timon Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$8.5M; Series A $14M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
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Nordea
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 374
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$156M; Series B $4.9M–$227M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
  • Direava
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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Zrosk Investment Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M; Series A $7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
  • Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
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Lightning Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $250k–$620k; Series A $6M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JAN3 — JAN3 provides technologies and solutions for individuals, enterprises, and nation-states to prepare for the future built on Bitcoin.
  • Vida — Vida is the AI Agent Operating System for enterprises. Build, deploy, and manage AI agents that call, text, email, and chat at scale with no-code tools.
  • OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $917k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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Heirloom
VC Fund · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Heirloom specializes in niche alternatives to help investors diversify their portfolios. Their alternative funds and co-investment opportunities are uncorrelated to the market and traditional asset classes and are designed to enable investors to better de-risk their portfolios while also earning stable and strong returns. They also offer otherbespoke investment services to help investors strengthen their portfolios. They offer heirloom funds, co-investment pools, and bespoke services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Fashion, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3M; Series A $15M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
  • Confido — Confido is a software company that provides financial operations automation for consumer packaged goods brands. Confido helps CPG brands save time and money by automating cash applications, fighting deductions, and tracking trade costs in a platform. The company is based in New York, New York.
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Krypital Group
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Founded in 2017, Krypital Group is a leading global venture capital firm and blockchain incubator. Vested in a complete blockchain ecosystem, the company has specific investment funds for both primary and secondary markets, as well as providing end-to-end services such as project incubation, brand management and technical advisory. To date,Krypital Group has active arms in North American, Asia and Latin American.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.5M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
  • Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
  • SYNTRA — Syntra is an AI-driven trading infrastructure company focused on disciplined execution, real-time risk management, and transparent market operations in digital asset markets. The company builds systems that monitor market structure, volatility, liquidity, and correlation dynamics, enabling automated decision-making with strict risk controls.Syntra’s infrastructure is designed to prioritize execution quality, capital preservation, and operational transparency over short-term performance optimization.Syntra operates a live execution environment where all system actions are observable in real time, providing an open view into how the trading system behaves across different market conditions. The platform is infrastructure-first, emphasizing robustness, scalability, and controlled growth rather than aggressive user acquisition. The company is currently focused on expanding its execution stack, data pipelines, and risk management framework to support broader market coverage and institutional-grade reliability.
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Dragonfly
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $6.3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $650M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Megapot
  • Rhythmic
  • Teleport — Meet your most compatible connections. Attend members only curated experiences. Receive proposed matches from your AI Matchmaker.
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Dunbar Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Dunbar Capital is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Zuvy Technologies — Zuvy is a free invoice management software that enables your business to get cash today for unpaid invoices. Get started sending invoices via WhatsApp
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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.Visa also provideselectronic payment, risk management, and payment security solutions to online merchants; digital goods transaction services in online games, digital media, and social networks; and mobile financial services for mobile network operators and financial institutions in developing economies.Visa’s global payment brands include Visa, Visa Electron, PLUS, and Interlink. Together they provide payment options through credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial programs in 200 countries and territories. Visa's global network, VisaNet, delivers value-added processing services such as fraud and risk management, dispute resolution, rewards, and other business-enhancing applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enfuce — Enfuce is a cloud-based financial services provider that specializes in card issuing and payment processing services. It helps banks, fintech, and financial institutions become and remain fully PSD2 compliant, and helps them give third-party service providers access to digital accounts.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered inEspoo, Finland.
  • Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.
  • Finerio — Finerio is the first automated and free personal finance app in Mexico.
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Polymath Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Polymath Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led firm, we partner with ambitious founders to build the next generation of market-changing companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ozone — Meet Ozone, your AI-powered video editor.
  • Ozone — Ozone develops an AI-powered video editing platform that allows users to collaborate remotely. It also enables editing high-definition footage, creating video mockups in seconds, color-correcting footage with a pinch of a color wheel, and seeing what the end result will look like before exporting it.
  • Integrated Biosciences — Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells.
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Yellowwood
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

We help build more purposeful businesses through marketing insights, marketing strategy and marketing planning

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
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Norrsken22
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, B2B
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
  • 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
  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments 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: 106
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • 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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White Hibiscus Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Lending, Payments, Risk Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sycamore — Sycamore provides risk assessment, commercial lending, alternative analysis, real-time monitoring, ​payment, and asset financing services.
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Saturn Blockchain Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Saturn Blockchain Ventures is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
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MyAsia VC
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

MyAsia VC

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Neem — Neem is an embedded finance platform enabling Financial Wellness for underbanked communities across emerging markets, starting in Pakistan.
  • 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
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
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Capital V
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

Transforming the global system to one that is more sustainable – from the perspectives of environment, food scarcity, health and animal welfare – by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioral change and eliminate the consumption of animal products. Investing in vegan ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Organic Food
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, India

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vacka — Vacka is a food and beverage manufacturer that produces and sells organic, plant-based vegan cheese varieties.
  • NowNow — NowNow aims to democratise the mobile wallet space in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide a bank and MNO agnostic online platform to recharge any mobile, pay bills, and utilities, send/receive money and pay@shop directly to merchants. The amount consumers pay is returned in the form of cashback and coupons making the recharge almostfree. We are PCI-DSS compliant and are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.NowNow also offers a unique agent platform that enables additional revenue streams for individuals and businesses and provides financial services to the unbanked – allowing them to offer p2p, bank transfers, cash out, mobile recharge, pay bills etc.
  • Vevolution — Vevolution is an investment platform providing data and intelligence for the AgriFoodTech ecosystems. Dedicated to removing animals from our supply chain.
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All On
VC Fund · Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Payments startups

All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Nigeria, France, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ceesolar — Ceesolar is involved in designing, supplying, and installing solar power systems. They also provide mini-grid development, consulting services, energy audits, energy systems, and commercial and industrial solar. They offer on-site and remote maintenance for customer satisfaction, and to ensure long-term use of the system.
  • mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
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Payments VC funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 116 deals from 179 investors.

179
investors
in Nigeria Payments startups
116
deals
in Nigeria Payments startups
$1.1M
median round
in Nigeria Payments startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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