# Yele Bademosi

> Yele Bademosi is a seed investor at Nestcoin (Lagos) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Nestcoin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nestcoin)
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yelebademosi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/YeleBademosi
- Website: http://yelebademosi.com/

Yele Bademosi is a seed investor at Nestcoin in Lagos focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Yele Bademosi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nestcoin.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 67% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 44% |
| Payments | 3 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Angel | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Nigeria | 2 | 22% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Nandi Labs | Nandi Labs thinks that by using the community's vast worldwide tapestry and impact, Web3 technology can unlock the power of Black culture's premier producers to develop a thriving ecosystem for new talent. We are erasing all boundaries to thrive at Digital FESTAC, unleashing the ideas of the most daring and fearless storytellers, so thatBlack dreams can become a reality. The immersive approach of Digital FESTAC to real-world and metaverse games, performances, and experiences will reinvent play, creativity, and ownership. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2022 |  |
| Nandi Labs | Nandi Labs thinks that by using the community's vast worldwide tapestry and impact, Web3 technology can unlock the power of Black culture's premier producers to develop a thriving ecosystem for new talent. We are erasing all boundaries to thrive at Digital FESTAC, unleashing the ideas of the most daring and fearless storytellers, so thatBlack dreams can become a reality. The immersive approach of Digital FESTAC to real-world and metaverse games, performances, and experiences will reinvent play, creativity, and ownership. | $800K | Seed | Aug 03, 2022 |  |
| AO Labs | AO Labs provides a playground where Web 3 communities can collaborate, create, compete, and be themselves. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Wallet.ng | Wallet.ng is a fintech startup that allows people and companies to send, receive, and make payments, using their phone numbers.The company's infrastructure also provides plugins and libraries for merchants to accept payments online with just a URL. Wallet.ng users can pay directly into bank accounts and Pay Utility Bills in Nigeria.Wallet.ng is a mobile payment solution, its core infrastructure is built using technologies which is adaptable for multiple countries across Africa.It was established in Lagos, Lagos by John Oluranti Oke and Joseph Benson-Aruna in 2018.. |  | Angel | Aug 16, 2018 |  |
| ThankUCash | ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2018 |  |
| Allpro Technologies | Their mission is to Facilitate the free flow of finance and data in the school ecosystem. |  | Seed |  |  |
| Spring in Africa | Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts. |  | Angel |  |  |
| ThankUCash | ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dapper Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dapper-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flori Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LoftyInc Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loftyinc-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ventures Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventures-platform) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Nestcoin

VC Fund · Tórtola, Spain

Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.

3 contacts available at Nestcoin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ukemeobong Akpan | Culture and Employee Experience Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ukemeobong-akpan |
| Yele Bademosi | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yele-bademosi |
| Erikan Obotetukudo | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erikan-obotetukudo |

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## FAQ

### What does Yele Bademosi invest in?

Yele Bademosi invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Yele Bademosi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Yele Bademosi closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 9 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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