# The Chrysalis Capital

> The Chrysalis Capital is a VC fund backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-chrysalis-capital/about/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TheChrysalisCo
- Website: https://www.thechrysaliscapital.com/

The Chrysalis Capital is a venture capital firm focuses on early-stage tech companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $10M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 56% |
| FinTech | 3 | 33% |
| Finance | 3 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 4 | 44% |
| Ghana | 1 | 11% |
| Kenya | 1 | 11% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nichole Yembra | Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nichole-yembra |
| Sanjana Pathi | Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjana-pathi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ladder | Ladder is a mobile app that provides financial assistant through artificial intelligence to manage money. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Bitmama | Bitmama enables traders to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, cUSD, Celo and other digital assets in Africa via its Exchange and Api services. Users can create their own wallets and start buying or selling digital currencies by connecting with their bank accounts, credit or debit cards and mobile money accounts. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2022 |  |
| Koa | Koa is a savings and financial services platform that provides tech solutions and financial services apps via its API. The company was co-founded by Alexis Roman and Delila Kidanu. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Bamboo | Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones. | $15M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Sabi Am | Sabi is a provider of digital infrastructure for the distribution of goods and services. Its platform enables and empowers underserved merchants in the world, allowing agents, merchants, aggregators, distributors, and manufacturers to expand their capabilities and grow their businesses using Sabi’s technology rails. These rails provide access toinventory, commodities, logistics, business tools, data insights, and financial services. | $2M | Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| Raise | Raise provides digital solutions to make fundraising easier and smoother for startups, founders, investors, and law firms. | $100K | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Bankly | Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria.Financial services has to beseen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact. | $2M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Helium Health | Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to builda modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. | $10M | Series A | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Helium Health | Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to builda modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. | $2M | Seed | Oct 15, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does The Chrysalis Capital invest in?

The Chrysalis Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The Chrysalis Capital's check size?

The Chrysalis Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.4M at Seed and $10M–$15M 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 The Chrysalis Capital participates in.

### How do I contact The Chrysalis Capital?

Public channels for The Chrysalis Capital 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 The Chrysalis Capital?

The team at The Chrysalis Capital includes Nichole Yembra (Founder & Managing Partner) and Sanjana Pathi (Manager). 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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