# FirstCheck Africa

> FirstCheck Africa is a VC fund in Lagos backing Consumer and Payments. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/71260328/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/firstcheckhq
- Website: https://www.firstcheck.africa

FirstCheck Africa is an early-stage VC fund that invests in technology-driven startups in Africa with at least one female founder or co-founder. They invest at the pre-seed and seed stages. Their mission is to advance equity, capital, and leadership for a generation of African women through technology and entrepreneurship.FirstCheck Africa wasfounded in 2021.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consumer | 2 | 22% |
| Payments | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |
| Beauty | 1 | 11% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 3 | 33% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Odunayo Eweniyi | Co-Founder and General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/odunayo-eweniyi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cleva | Cleva Banking is a banking platform helps in recieving international payments by opening USD accounts. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 08, 2024 |  |
| Jumba | Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 17, 2023 |  |
| Uncover | Uncover is a beauty company that provides skincare products for consumers. The company's mission is to inspire, support, educate, and empower women to take control of health and well-being and become the most trusted skin-care brand. Uncover was founded in 2020 and is based in Kenya. | $1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Bumpa | Bumpa builds an infrastructure that helps digital commerce for African sellers; empowering small business owners to start, manage and grow successful businesses from their mobile phones. | $4M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Jumba | Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| tushop | Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Caantin | Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day. | $1.7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| MoneyHash | MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Pivo | Pivo is a financial hub that allows small & medium businesses across Africa access to all the financial services they need in one place. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FirstCheck Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-check-africa) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [DFS Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfs-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ventures Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventures-platform) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chandaria Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chandaria-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enza Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enza-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does FirstCheck Africa invest in?

FirstCheck Africa invests primarily in Consumer, Payments and Financial Services startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FirstCheck Africa's check size?

FirstCheck Africa typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.5M at Seed and $100k–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FirstCheck Africa participates in.

### How do I contact FirstCheck Africa?

Public channels for FirstCheck Africa include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at FirstCheck Africa?

The team at FirstCheck Africa includes Odunayo Eweniyi (Co-Founder and General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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