# Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in June 2026 ## Ingressive Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Ventures Platform - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet 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. ## Golden Palm Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company. ## LoftyInc Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carmel, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors......... ## Microtraction - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture ## Lateral Frontiers - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 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. ## Entrée Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Berrywood Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology Berrywood Capital is an investment firm. ## Tencent - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Musha Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Seed capital for technology startups globally. ## GreenHouse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal. ## VentureSouq - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 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. ## Flori Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Voltron Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets. ## Flourish Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders. ## Silverbacks Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Sports 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). ## Lightning Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide ## TRANSSION - Type: VC Fund - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Hardware 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. ## MediaTek - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series D - Focus: Software, Semiconductor, Information Technology MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side. ## Greenhouse Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sausalito, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing 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. ## Unpopular Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech The best companies, off the beaten path. ## RaliCap - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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. ## BYLD - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech Byld Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments. ## Nordea - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking 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. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. ## TLcom Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology 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. ## The Chrysalis Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin The Chrysalis Capital is a venture capital firm focuses on early-stage tech companies. ## Cadenza Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech Global Investors in Transformative Technologies ## CRE Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. ## Zrosk Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Alternative investment solutions: private credit, discretionary portfolios, and the Magna Specialized Fund. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## SBI Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Minato, Chiba, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Visa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments 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. ## Polymath Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Yellowwood - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Payments, Financial Services We help build more purposeful businesses through marketing insights, marketing strategy and marketing planning ## Norrsken22 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, B2B Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses. ## 54 Collective - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network. ## White Hibiscus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Lending, Payments, Risk Management ## ACE & Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results. ## Leadpath Nigeria - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance The Ultimate Information Hub ## Saturn Blockchain Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Saturn Blockchain Ventures is an investment firm. ## MyAsia VC - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce MyAsia VC ## Capital V - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Organic Food 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 ## All On - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar 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. ## Partech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages. ## Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Internet, Payments We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal. ## CrossFund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, B2B For Angels, By Angels ## Century Oak Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Retail, Software Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets. ## Yunshi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, China - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Art, Health Care Yunshi Capital is a private equity investment fund management organization.