# Platform Capital

> Platform Capital is a VC fund in Lagos backing Health Care and Lending. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theplatformcapital/about/
- Website: https://theplatformcapital.com/

Platform Capital is a growth markets focused Sector Agnostic, Investment and Advisory Firm.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Platform Capital. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Platform Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/platform-capital-b1f1?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$1.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $160k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 21% |
| Lending | 3 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| FinTech | 2 | 11% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 16% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 32% |
| Kenya | 4 | 21% |
| Nigeria | 4 | 21% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |
| South Africa | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akintoye Akindele | Founder & CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akintoye-akindele-dd41 |
| Bianca Loew | Venture Partner Latam | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bianca-weishupl |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zuri Health | 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 |  |
| Zuri Health | 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 |  |
| LEO Flight | For the adventurers. The future of flight: designed & built in the USA. Reserve your JetBike today. Welcome to the world of LEO Flight: creators of the world’s first propeller-free eVTOL vehicles. We deliver the dream of personal aviation, through human-centric design, precision engineering and an obsession with adventure. Hand-built inPendleton, Indiana, our eVTOL empowers bold pioneers with the freedom to fly. We are redefining the future of personal aviation with a revolutionary propulsion system: Clustered Electric Jets. Unlike traditional drones or helicopters, our eVTOLs have no exposed rotors, making them quieter, safer, more compact, and sleeker. On this channel, you will see: JetBike: The ultimate flying motorcycle. Now available to Reserve. Production 2026. LEO Coupe: Our flagship 250mph, electric flying hypercar. Production 2027. Behind the Scenes: Real flight tests, prototype engineering, and tech demos. |  | Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Ubawa Technologies | 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 | Gare Advance Financial is a financial services company that provides investment, personal loans and salary advances. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Koniku | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Strap Technologies | 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 |  |
| Strap Technologies | 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 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Asime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asime-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [The Salik Family Trust](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-salik-family-trust) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 and $160k–$1.3M 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 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 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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