# Akintoye Akindele

> Akintoye Akindele is a seed investor at Unicorn Group backing Consumer and Digital Media. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Unicorn Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unicorn-group)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Akintoye Akindele is a seed investor at Unicorn Group focused on Consumer and Digital Media. Akintoye Akindele is the Chief Executive Officer at Unicorn Group .

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consumer | 1 | 100% |
| Digital Media | 1 | 100% |
| Brand Marketing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Big Cabal Media | Big Cabal Media (BCM) is serving African audiences on the continent and globally by creating high-quality media brands and original content with global reach and impact.We create content through two internationally recognized media publications, a video production unit, and our consulting arm.TechCabal is the foremost publication covering thebusiness and human impact of tech in Africa. TechCabal provides unparalleled insight into startups, innovation and technology in Africa to the most discerning entrepreneurs, investors, decision-makers and ecosystem members on and off the continent.TechCabal Insights is TechCabal's data and intelligence unit. It helps development finance institutions (DFIs), NGOs, State governments, global tech brands and African startups to understand and solve critical challenges within the digital economy. We believe that Africa's digital economy offers perhaps the most viable path to prosperity for the continent. Zikoko sits at the heart of Nigeria’s youth culture, telling the most important stories, via written content, video, images and memes. We create, reflect and amplify the most urgent elements of youth culture in ways no other publications can. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Berrywood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berrywood-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Luminate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luminate-cd00) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MaC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mac-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Resilience17](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resilience17) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Technovision Communications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/technovision-communications) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Unicorn Group

VC Fund · Lagos, Nigeria

Unicorn Group (Unicorn) is a pan-African, investment company targeting innovative ideas, start-ups and early stage companies in the technology and technology-enabled sectors across Africa.

1 contacts available at Unicorn Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akintoye Akindele | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akintoye-akindele-a4f5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Akintoye Akindele invest in?

Akintoye Akindele invests primarily in Consumer, Digital Media and Brand Marketing startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Akintoye Akindele last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Akintoye Akindele closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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