Top 5 Social Impact VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $100k–$4M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Ghana | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $30k–$1.3M |
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Praxis
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant | Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education | $250k–$15M |
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Meta
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Canada | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $5k–$7.2M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
- Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
- Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks
We are a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to love their neighbors and renew culture.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Social Assistance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $250k–$7M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tallee — Tallee is an AI brand visibility and analytics platform that tracks how brands appear in AI search engines and large language model responses. It helps companies measure share of voice, monitor sentiment, compare competitors, and optimize their presence across AI-driven discovery platforms.
- Orb Aerospace — Building Better Airplanes Faster
- Kokari Coconuts & Company — Ko-ka-ri means "let the good go around". We believe this is the magic of coconuts. At Kokari, we transform every part of the coconut into wholesome products made with simple, clean ingredients. Africa has always understood less is more.
Meta is a social-technology company that offers a wide ecosystem of applications and hardware. Its Family of Apps includes platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads which allow people to communicate, share content, and form communities. On the hardware side, Meta’s Reality Labs develops virtual and augmented realitydevices, including Meta Quest headsets and smart glasses. Meta also builds artificial intelligence tools notably Meta AI, powered by its Llama large language models, and envisions long-term digital spaces in the form of a metaverse.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5.7M; Grant $5k–$500k; Pre-Seed $35k–$7.2M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scale — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
- gett.me — AI outplacement software
- Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).
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We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.
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Myka.Insure
— Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
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Cybervergent
— Cybervergent is a technology company that specializes in providing top-notch cybersecurity solutions to businesses and organizations.
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Traction Apps
— Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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