# Niche Capital

> Niche Capital is a VC fund in Lagos backing Financial Services and E-Commerce. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Niche Capital is a VC fund in Lagos focused on Financial Services and E-Commerce. Venture Capital firm

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $872k–$5.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $10k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 6 | 30% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 25% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| FinTech | 3 | 15% |
| Internet | 3 | 15% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 50% |
| Seed | 9 | 45% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 45% |
| Nigeria | 7 | 35% |
| Kenya | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monark Markets | Monark Markets is an institutional-grade technology infrastructure, legal framework, and network connecting brokerages, advisors and custodians to private market securities. Monark owns and operates a broker dealer subsidiary and exempt reporting advisor subsidiary. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Bemi | Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy. | $872K | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Bemi | Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy. | $872K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 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 |  |
| Rent Small Small | Rent Small Small is a Nigeria-leading prop-tech platform providing a unique rental solution to Nigerians in order to improve the home-seekers rental experience and increase homeowner's occupancy rate.Our business model is unique as it allows verified tenants to find a property on the go, stay within budget, and pay rent flexibly. We providefirst-of-its-kind rent insurance for property owners against rent default, and unlike traditional agents, we don’t charge agency and legal fee.Our mandate is to provide suitable and affordable homes for home-seekers, influence the conception and birth of new homes to boost the livelihood and productivity of Nigerian youths, and help homeowners make their property rentable and profitable. | $2M | Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Anchor | Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 29, 2022 |  |
| Blossom.team | Blossom makes coaching more accessible than ever before. Find the perfect coach based on your profile and goals, and track your progress along the way with a science-backed app. Start your growth journey with confidence and Blossom into your best self today! | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 26, 2022 |  |
| The Cool Down | The Cool Down is a content+commerce startup that helps Americans feel invested in and educated about the future. The company is led by Dave Finocchio, co-founder and long-time CEO of Bleacher Report, and Anna Robertson, an award-winning executive, producer, and innovator at Disney, ABC, and Yahoo. | $5.7M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| PlantBaby | PlantBaby provides plant-based food and beverages for families on the nutritional journey from birth to adulthood. Their products are free from dairy, gluten, refined sugar, GMOs, preservatives, artificial, natural flavors, and glyphosate. | $4M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Adgile Media Group | Adgile Media Group is the nation’s leading tech-enabled, data-driven out-of-home media company | $5M | Seed | May 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Night Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/night-capital-5e91) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Future Africa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-africa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ingressive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ingressive-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Materialized View Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/materialized-view-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mountain Peak Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mountain-peak-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Niche Capital invest in?

Niche Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Niche Capital's check size?

Niche Capital typically joins rounds of $872k–$5.7M at Seed and $10k–$2.1M 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 Niche Capital participates in.

### When did Niche Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niche Capital closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 20 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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