# Tola Onayemi

> Tola Onayemi is a seed investor in Lagos backing Finance and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tola-onayemi-12046635/
- Website: https://x.com/adetolaov

Tola Onayemi is a seed investor in Lagos focused on Finance and FinTech. Tola is the CEO/Co-Founder of Norebase. As Nigeria’s Assistant Chief Negotiator, he helped design and negotiate the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which created a single market for Africa’s 1.2 billion people. Prior to this, he helped set up Nigeria’s Ease of Doing Business Secretariat (EBES) delivering reforms like visa onarrival, government process automation, and land title e-registration, which moved Nigeria 24 ranks up the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking in a single year. He co-founded and served as General Counsel at Future Africa, one of Africa’s most prolific early-stage venture funds. He has advised over 100 start-ups and businesses across Africa, Europe and the US.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$400k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 2 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Recruiting | 1 | 25% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 25% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Singulate | The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product. | $2M | Seed | Feb 02, 2026 | https://x.com/singulate_ai |
| Payday | Payday is a fintech that offers global payment solutions such as Virtual Mastercards and foreign employee payments. | $3M | Seed | Mar 29, 2023 | https://usepayday.com/ |
| Izifin | IziFin is a configurable and affordable Embedded Intelligence Operating System. Izifin was born out of the desire to offer flexible and affordable Embedded Banking products to all types of companies, despite their size or sector, eliminating the complexity, prohibitive costs, and the extensive timelines otherwise required | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 | https://www.izifin.com |
| TalentGrid | Building a community of developers from under-tapped markets and developing its own matching algorithms, Grid scales the headhunting effort of companies. TalentGrid supports the companies throughout the hiring process, maintaining the needed human touch with candidates. Ultimately TalentGrid makes hiring fast, seamless and borderless. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2022 | https://talentgrid.io/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voltron Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voltron-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcadis-city-of-2030-accelerator-powered-by-techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bowery Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bowery-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comcast-nbcuniversal-lift-labs-accelerator-powered-by-techstars) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DFS Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfs-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ethos VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethos-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Tola Onayemi invest in?

Tola Onayemi invests primarily in Finance, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tola Onayemi's check size?

Tola Onayemi typically joins rounds of $2M–$3M at Seed and $200k–$400k 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 Tola Onayemi participates in.

### How do I contact Tola Onayemi?

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### When did Tola Onayemi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tola Onayemi closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 4 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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