# ARM Labs

> ARM Labs is a VC fund in Abuja backing Financial Services, FinTech and Finance. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Nigeria
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/labs-by-arm
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LabsByArm
- Website: https://www.armlabs.com.ng/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Labs-By-ARM-276629606321708

ARM Labs is a VC fund in Abuja focused on Financial Services and FinTech. In line with this, they are seeking early-stage companies that are re-imagining and solving key problems around financial services in an innovative way. This includes but is not limited to; startups with capability in machine learning, blockchain, and artificial intelligence; companies solving problems around financial inclusion, credit(micro-lending, P2P), big data, wealth management, reconciliation, automated financial planning, process automation, trading and beyond. Startups must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to qualify.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 55% |
| FinTech | 4 | 36% |
| Finance | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Health Care | 2 | 18% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Grant | 3 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 9 | 82% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PBR Life Sciences | PBR Life Sciences connects businesses with real-world opportunities in life sciences by combining data, technology, and people. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Sytemap | We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| Trade Lenda | Trade Lenda is digital financial service solution enabling access to credit for MSMEs leveraging alternative data sources to qualify character and capacity in Nigeria.It’s a known fact access to finance is a major challenge for MSMEs with a $5trillion opportunity market across developing economies. According to reports from PWC and IFC, MSMEsaccount for about 84% of the jobs created in this region and about 50% of the GDP of the African economies. However without needed finance, most of them are likely to shut down within first 2-5 years. Today with our smart data algorithm, we leverage on data to evaluate character and capacity of every request thus removing focus on upfront collateral and cutting bottle necks associated to getting credits by MSMEs. We are not stopping there but also going a step further to provide micro savings, insurance, investment and pension soon for MSMEs. | $520K | Pre-Seed | Jan 27, 2023 |  |
| Bongalow | Bongalow is a mobile-powered home financing marketplace that enables Africans at home and abroad shops for the best home loan to purchase their desired property. |  | Seed | May 24, 2021 |  |
| Bongalow | Bongalow is a mobile-powered home financing marketplace that enables Africans at home and abroad shops for the best home loan to purchase their desired property. |  |  | May 24, 2021 |  |
| Kwaba | Kwaba is an online platform for the payment of real estate services such as rentals and leases. | $20K | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2020 |  |
| Tsaron | Tsaron Tech is an arbiter using algorithms to lower premiums for interstate transporters in order to impact road safety. Compact by design, we are a strict family of actuaries, software and hardware engineers, medical doctors and regulatory law past masters. |  | Grant | Jun 28, 2019 |  |
| Trove | An Investment app which aims to make the process of finding and selecting investments — specifically Cryptocurrencies , Stocks & Bonds— easy and approachable for beginners. With Trove You’ll find stock from public companies from the Nigeria and the U.S (In View) , as well as various bonds, 10 cryptocurrency assets and mutual funds. From thekyc & sign up process to the range of financial assets offered by the Trove platform , down to payment and buying and selling & a display of a personalized news feed of finance headlines about the stocks & assets you trade. Trove makes the whole process around micro investing seamless from start to finish | $2K | Seed | Jun 28, 2019 |  |
| Payday Investor | Payday Investor is a simple and secure way to put money aside for the things you want. |  | Seed | Jun 28, 2019 |  |
| ASUSU | ASUSU is digitizing the African informal and semi-formal microfinance activities within low income and daily earners. We provide software that aids the operation of microfinance activities so as to extend financial services to members of such organizations especially in rural communities and communities with limited or unavailable financialservices. example of such groups include traders, mechanics, taxi drivers, and low-income earners. | $2K | Grant | Jun 28, 2019 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kepple Africa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kepple-africa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MAGIC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-carpet) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [UNCOVERED FUND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uncovered-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CV VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cv-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Expert Dojo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expert-dojo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does ARM Labs invest in?

ARM Labs invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did ARM Labs last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for ARM Labs closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 11 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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