Top 15 Platforms Startup Investors in Nigeria (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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Wayfinder Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $120k–$27M |
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James Beshara
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $1M–$21M |
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Okunamiri Fewechi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Angel | Android, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things | |
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Conor Walsh
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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Ankur Nagpal
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, FinTech | $400k–$21M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Rowland Eno
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Chatbot, Facebook, Shopping | |
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Karim Atiyeh
Angel
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1 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.2M–$250M |
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The Todd & Rahul Angel Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Zambia, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$30M |
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Immad Akhund
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$22M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Saad Rizvi
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Apps, Banking, Operating Systems | |
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Frank Fumarola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Colombia | Pre-Seed, Series A | Apps, Banking, FinTech | |
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Liquid 2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $125k–$48M |
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Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1121
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
Wayfinder Ventures is a San Francisco based early stage venture fund
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 78
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3.8M; Series A $11M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Orbital — Orbital is a startup that is creating artificial intelligence data centers for deployment in low-Earth orbit to circumvent terrestrial power and cooling limits. The company specializes in satellite-based compute for AI inference workloads, utilizing continuous solar power and space's inherent radiative cooling.
- Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
- Greenboard — Greenboard is the modern operating system for SEC and FINRA compliance.
James Beshara is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Magic Mind. James previously worked at Airbnb as a Director. James Beshara attended the Wake Forest University. James Beshara has been awarded Forbes "30 under 30" issued by Forbes Magazine.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.8M; Series A $8M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zalos — Automate repetitive Finance workflows without changing your Finance systems. AI agents that connect, act, and audit across ERPs, banks, and invoicing platforms.
- OuterSignal — OuterSignal provides AI-driven data enrichment and customer intelligence tailored to ecommerce and digital brands. The platform attaches 100+ demographic, professional, and behavioral signals to each customer record, drawing from publicly available sources such as social profiles, employment data, and online presence. OuterSignal builds detailed personas from this enriched data to help brands segment audiences, identify high-value buyers, and tailor messaging. The product integrates with tools like Slack and Klaviyo so sales, marketing, and lifecycle teams receive alerts and profiles directly in their existing workflows. Use cases include enhancing email lists, personalizing campaigns, prioritizing outreach, and refining lookalike audiences based on real customer attributes.
- ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
Okunamiri Fewechi
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- Industry: Android, Mobile Apps, Internet of Things
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HollaNow — HollaNow is a smartphone user's best friend when they need to urgently call/whatsapp people or services whose phone numbers are not saved. With a super smart personal contact list that users can add contacts to and never bother about backup or restoring, they only sign in anywhere.Africans can now use their phonebook to locate and dialphone numbers of the nearby security and emergency service providers when they are in distress. Made in Africa.
Conor Walsh
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Ankur Nagpal Founder of Fedora and Co-Founder of Vibe VC. He attended University of California, Berkeley in 2006.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.8M; Series A $5.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
- Willow Voice — Fast, accurate voice dictation for emails, documents, Cursor, note-taking, and messaging. Turn speech to text seamlessly, edit automatically, and stay secure with privacy. Boost productivity with context-aware AI and custom dictionaries. Get Willow Voice!
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
- Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
- Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
Investment focus
- Industry: Chatbot, Facebook, Shopping
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Provider — When you send us your food shopping list via Facebook Messenger, provider helps you shop with your budget and same day delivery. Powered by natural language understanding, we want to make food and condiments market more conversational, flexible and convenient. We're one of the first conversational food market players and we'll help tochange the future of mobile food market!Our goal is to make food and condiments available through messaging and we use bots (chatbots, voice assistants) and existing channels to enable instant and sustainable 1-to-1 communication.
Karim Atiyeh is based out of New York, New York, and is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Ramp. Karim previously worked at Paribus as a Founder and CTO. Karim Atiyeh attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$9.8M; Series A $8.5M–$88M; Series B $43M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
- Augustus — Dollar and euro accounts for global fintechs and banks.
- Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
Backed by 110+ world-class founders and operators. We help you find product/market fit faster, supercharge your distribution, and raise from the best investors.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Zambia, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $3M–$30M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $6M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vulture Labs — A small team in San Francisco building AI products: Pilot Protocol, Pilot Cloud, shell.online and Moonlit.
- TRIC Robotics — TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.
- Pilot Protocol — Pilot is an open-source networking stack for AI agents. Connect trusted peers, communicate over encrypted tunnels, and install tools designed for agents.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $9M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
- Aseon Labs — Aseon Labs builds robotic pitstops for self-driving cars that provide charging, cleaning, and inspection for autonomous fleets directly in operating zones. The company develops modular robotic vehicle stations, referred to as Aseon Pods, that function as depots in a box rather than centralized facilities. These stations are designed to supportautonomous vehicles with routine turnaround tasks so that vehicles can remain near demand instead of traveling to distant depots. Aseon Labs focuses on the operational infrastructure layer for autonomous mobility, offering hardware and software systems that manage robotic station operation. Its products are intended for autonomous fleet operators and mobility companies that need distributed, always-on infrastructure to keep vehicles available. The company positions its technology for use across urban operating areas where autonomous vehicles run continuous services.
- Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
- Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
Founder at Mentat and Delivery Associates. Author of An Avalanche is Coming and Oceans of Innovation.
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, Operating Systems
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Frank Fumarola is Chief Product Officer at He was formerly a VP of Product & General Manager at banking. Prior to Nubank, he was the VP of Product and Product Marketing for ads and shopping at
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- Industry: Apps, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Treinta — Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools.
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Liquid 2 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups, primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages. It provides capital, founder guidance, operational support, and access to a network of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry contacts.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1249
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$48M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $12M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
- Hilt — Govern data movement in real time. Kernel-level telemetry and anomaly detection built for environments where traditional security tools fall short.
- Eden — Eden unifies medical imaging operations with clinical AI: PACS, teleradiology, AI-assisted diagnosis and structured reporting, deployed across 2,600+ imaging departments.
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