Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in Nigeria (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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O.D. Kobo
Angel
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1 | China, Israel, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Internet, Video, E-Commerce | $250k–$32M |
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Varsha Rao
Angel
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1 | United States, India, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $2M–$63M |
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Michael Novogratz
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency | $953k–$26M |
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Adebowale Martins
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | Retail, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Baljinder Sharma
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections | $200k–$200k |
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O.D. Kobo is an accomplished entrepreneur with over twenty-years of demonstrated history working in the financial services and technology sector.
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- Industry: Internet, Video, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: China, Israel, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2M; Series A $3M–$5M; Series B $12M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kobo360 — Kobo360 is Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. We are simplifying the supply chain ecosystem with end-to-end tech products, providing a 360-degree view to all stakeholders.
- GiveHope —
- Totally Bored —
Varsha Rao is an Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners, former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, CEO of Nurx and COO at Clover Health. She was the Co-Founder of Eve.com. Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors withsuccessful investments in AI-Infra, Healthcare, Vertical AI, Consumer Tech and more.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $9.4M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MatX — We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
- Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
- Pebble — Pebble is the first financial product where you are paid to save, spend, and send your money — all in one balance.
Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $953k–$8.5M; Series A $11M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alerzo — Alerzo is a B2B e-commerce retail company providing a technology and services platform that transforms how informal retail stores operate. It offers on-demand inventory distribution and financial services for small informal stores while also providing real-time market trends, customer feedback, and other consumer purchasing data to brands andmanufacturers.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
- Mansa — Built by Black creators with a passion for making culture-positive content, Mansa is the only place to stream the best in Global Black stories
Adebowale Martins
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- Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hazina — Hazina provides technology and distribution for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to improve the quality of insights and engagements from their product sampling campaigns. Hazina matches consumers to product samples from CPGs, delivers directly to consumers at home, and aggregates the feedback and engagements as insights back to the brand.
Baljinder Sharma Launch Africa Ventures.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $200k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
- Pricepally — Pricepally provides access to affordable, nutritious, traceable and secure food items in Africa’s urban cities. Pricepally is a wholesale and sharing economy e-commerce platform that enables people to buy food in bulk or share bulk food items with others online to leverage their collective bargaining power.
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