Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in Nigeria in April 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Retail startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Retail Angel Investors in Nigeria in April 2025
Investor | Retail Nigeria investments |
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Varsha Rao | 1 |
O.D. Kobo | 1 |
Baljinder Sharma | 1 |
Michael Novogratz | 1 |
Adebowale Martins | 1 |
Varsha Rao is the 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. Currently she is CEO & Founder of Zeal AI.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years followinggraduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned to school to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.She is an active angel investors with successful investments in Healthcare, Enterprise AI, Consumer Tech and more.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Observo AI — With Observo AI, The AI Data Pipeline for Security and DevOps, you can deliver the right data to the right place, accelerate threat detection and incident resolution, and control costs while expanding data coverage and eliminate blind spots
- Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
- Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
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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Investment focus
- Internet, Broadcasting, Video
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- China, Israel, Nigeria
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 —
Baljinder Sharma Launch Africa Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Debt Collections
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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.
Mike Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman at Galaxy Digital.
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Investment focus
- B2B, Retail, Social
- Series A, Seed
- United States, Nigeria
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.
- 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
- Soter Insure — Soter Insure is a provider of insurance products tailored to the digital asset economy. It provides the Web3 ecosystem with institutional-grade insurance for broader adoption against a lack of appropriate products and scarce capacity.
Adebowale Martins
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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.
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