Platform Capital
VC Fund
Lagos, Nigeria
Platform Capital is a growth markets focused Sector Agnostic, Investment and Advisory Firm.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Platform Capital invests in
Stages Platform Capital invests in
Countries Platform Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$1.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $160k–$1.3M
- Series A
- $10M–$37M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 4 (21%)
- Lending 3 (16%)
- Financial Services 3 (16%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (47%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (16%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 6 (32%)
- Kenya 4 (21%)
- Nigeria 4 (21%)
- Mexico 1 (5%)
- South Africa 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Akintoye Akindele
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Bianca Loew
Venture Partner Latam
|
Venture Partner Latam | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zuri Health is a telemedicine company that uses apps, websites, and SMS services to provide affordable and accessible healthcare solutions. Using the app, patients can schedule lab and diagnostic tests, chat and consult with doctors, purchase medication from pharmacies, and schedule home visits with qualified medical professionals.The company wasestablished in 2020 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / May 18, 2022 | ||
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| A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot. | $400K / Seed / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Gare Advance Financial is a financial services company that provides investment, personal loans and salary advances. | Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Koniku has built technology that allows a computer to smell. Essentially we have built a smell cyborg that can detect disease in human breath and other bodily fluids. We wish to turn every bathroom in the world into a data centre that captures VOC's or chemical data. This data, combined with machine learning, can predict disease outcomesbefore disease manifests. The Konikore is a smell processor, with applications in healthcare, security, industrial monitoring, food and more. | $37M / Series A / Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Sanicle is a healthcare and wellness organisation that helps adolescent daughters' dads to understand issues related to menstruation health. | $160K / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Ada Animation operates as an entertainment tech company. Ada Animation produces content in 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, whiteboard animation, VFX, content creation, character design, voiceovers, infographics, and animation training and upskilling. | Pre-Seed / Jul 09, 2021 | ||
| We develop the first substitute of the white cane for blind people. This is a wearable device that can detect any kind of obstacle and notify the user of possible collisions by a haptic lenguage in the body. This way visually impaired will be able to move with autonomy and independence. | $1.3M / Seed / Apr 29, 2021 | ||
| SoLo Funds is the premier community banking solution providing unparalleled returns and access to capital for millions of Americans, fueled by its AI-enhanced decentralized loan marketplace, pioneering cooperative yield-producing accounts, and community empowering banking services. Built for real people by real people, SoLo enables everydayindividuals to borrow personal loans at more affordable rates and earn industry-leading returns — decentralized and free from the systemic inefficiencies of traditional banking. Our platform is powered by a community of members rooted in trust, transparency, and a shared commitment to financial well-being.Founded in 2018 by Travis Holoway and Rodney Williams, SoLo pioneered a new model of financial services — equitable, empowering, and people-led. Since then, we’ve facilitated over $1 billion in transactions, with groundbreaking innovations in lending, banking, and WealthTech. As we lead the next era of AI-powered financial services, our mission remains clear: to build a financial system grounded in community, autonomy, efficiency, and access for all. | $10M / Series A / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Bookings Africa, online marketplace for creatives Across Africa. First digital platform in Africa where clients and creatives connect and payment is completed online securely on our platform. BookingsAfrica.com is the largest online freelance marketplace to simply source, compare and book the creatives needed for the media and entertainmentindustry across Africa.Founded in 2018, Bookings Africa’s mission is to reduce the rate of unemployment in Africa and encourage creativity amongst African youths.Bookings Africa uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around Africa to unlock and monetize their creative passions and talents to become freelance entrepreneurs.Through our African based marketplace, clients can hire creative freelancers to provide services in creative fields such as models, makeup artists, photographers, voice over artists, hair stylists, clothing stylists through to the locations needed to bring any production to life.Bookings Africa’s people-to-people platform benefits all its stakeholders, including the service providers, clients, employees and the media communities in which it operates. | Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Platform Capital invest in?
Platform Capital invests primarily in Health Care, Lending and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 Platform Capital's check size?
Platform Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.3M at Seed, $160k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$37M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Platform Capital participates in.
How do I contact Platform Capital?
Public channels for Platform Capital include LinkedIn 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 Platform Capital?
The team at Platform Capital includes Akintoye Akindele (Founder & CEO) and Bianca Loew (Venture Partner Latam). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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