Growth Capital
VC Fund
Lagos, Nigeria
Growth Capital is a Nigeria's first social innovation fund aimed at creating an unprecedented path to scale for outliers driving social change in Nigeria.They support high potential, early stage businesses building their next generation infrastructure using technology.Their participating investors bring their experience, resources andnetworks together to work for their investees to catalyze their path to growth
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Growth Capital invests in
Stages Growth Capital invests in
Countries Growth Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$200k
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$300k
Investment Focus
Industry
- EdTech 2 (33%)
- Software 2 (33%)
- Medical 1 (17%)
- Hospital 1 (17%)
- Internet 1 (17%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 3 (50%)
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adetunji Eleso
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bosun Tijani
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taeillo designs and manufactures a wide range of furniture for work, home, and public spaces via online stores. It uses traditional forms, materials, and local resources in Africa with both local and modern technology to create premium urban furniture pieces. It was established in 2018 and is based in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. | $300K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation. | $120K / Seed / Nov 02, 2018 | ||
| Delivery Science is a technology company providing solutions to large organisations which provides data, visibility, and control to manage and monitor its distribution assets. Its product "FieldInsight" uses mobile forms to help large organisations in Africa with Field workers get data from the field. | $150K / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2018 | ||
| At Riby we provide solutions that manages Collaborative and Community-based access to finance, peer-to-peer lending and saving groups. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2018 | ||
| LifeBank App is an intuitive blood donor database that inspires committed Africans to give blood and save lives in their community. LifeBank Plus is an enterprise marketplace for hospitals and blood banks. The app helps their clients to source for the best blood and blood products that patients need. Their nimble logistics system helps to deliverthe products to patients on time and also provides a simple payment systems that works. | $200K / Seed / Jan 31, 2018 | ||
| Codepym is a Software company that is focused primarily on education. Since its inception in 2016, Codepym has continued to take giants strides in reinventing learning and inspiring people to make lifelong positive impact.With more than 100 institutions, (primary, secondary, tertiary, and learning centres), with over 50 staff, everything we dohas our clients at the epicentre. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does Growth Capital invest in?
Growth Capital invests primarily in EdTech, Software and Medical startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Growth Capital invest in?
Growth Capital typically joins rounds of $120k–$200k at Seed and $100k–$300k at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Growth Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Growth Capital took part in.
How do I contact Growth Capital?
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Who are the partners at Growth Capital?
The team at Growth Capital includes Adetunji Eleso (Managing Partner) and Bosun Tijani (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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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