Timon Capital
VC Fund
Lagos, Nigeria
Timon Capital is a VC fund in Lagos focused on Financial Services and Information Technology. At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Timon Capital invests in
Stages Timon Capital invests in
Countries Timon Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$8.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $200k–$4M
- Series A
- $14M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 7 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (17%)
- FinTech 4 (14%)
- Finance 4 (14%)
- Payments 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 20 (69%)
- Series A 3 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
- Debt Financing 1 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (3%)
Country
- Nigeria 8 (28%)
- Kenya 5 (17%)
- United States 4 (14%)
- South Africa 2 (7%)
- United Kingdom 2 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Muscarella
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products. | $20M / Series A / Apr 28, 2025 | ||
| Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements. | $5M / Debt Financing / Aug 19, 2024 | ||
| Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies. | $8.5M / Seed / Mar 18, 2024 | ||
| Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options. | Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Cutr offers woodworking solutions to designers and manufacturers. It offers software that analyzes CAD files and generates quotes while reducing production costs and wood waste. The designers optimize the designs provided by the buyer and finalize their production. | Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Tutor Intelligence offers AI-powered robotic automation solutions for manufacturing, warehousing, and packaging operations. The company provides “robots as a service”, leasing robotics hardware and software via an hourly usage model instead of a capital-intensive purchase. Their robots are designed to handle tasks like picking, placing,palletizing/depalletizing, kitting, sorting, inspection, and material handling, integrating with a facility’s existing infrastructure and SKU variety. Tutor Intelligence supports dynamic operations with frequent product changeovers, making deployment and scaling flexible. Their offering includes cloud-based fleet management and an easy-to-use interface so clients don’t need prior robotics experience to operate the system. | Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Kaya Pay is a developer of a materials procurement and financing platform intended for construction projects. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products. | $1.9M / Seed / Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and solar power to bring emissions free aviation to every part of the world. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| Dot is improving the financial wellbeing of Nigerians. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| See all 29 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Timon Capital invest in?
Timon Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Timon Capital invest in?
Timon Capital typically joins rounds of $100k–$8.5M at Seed, $200k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $14M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Timon Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Timon Capital took part in.
How do I contact Timon Capital?
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Who are the partners at Timon Capital?
The team at Timon Capital includes Chris Muscarella (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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