Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Nigeria
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Nigeria. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Nigeria. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Nigeria
Investor | Software Nigeria investments |
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Tayo Oviosu | 4 |
Idris Ayodeji Bello | 4 |
Allen and Ollys International Limited - | 3 |
Edmond Nonie | 3 |
Prosper Otemuyiwa | 3 |
Yuzuru Honda | 2 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 2 |
Kola Aina | 2 |
Babs Ogundeyi | 2 |
Ayodeji Adewunmi | 2 |
Ire Aderinokun | 2 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 2 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 2 |
Cristina Santin | 2 |
Ugochukwu Aronu | 2 |
Nadayar Enegesi | 1 |
Greg Waldorf | 1 |
Adebowale Martins | 1 |
Saad Rizvi | 1 |
Shola Akinlade | 1 |
Shadi Abdulhadi | 1 |
Lanre Adelowo | 1 |
Chris Adelsbach | 1 |
Conor Walsh | 1 |
Oluchi Enebeli | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Walid Aradi | 1 |
Karim Atiyeh | 1 |
Brandon Krieg | 1 |
Bashar Hamood | 1 |
James Park | 1 |
Biola Alabi | 1 |
Vijay Pravin Maharajan | 1 |
Family & Friends | 1 |
Desigan Chinniah | 1 |
Raffael Johnen | 1 |
Sahil Lavingia | 1 |
Axel Peyriere | 1 |
Paul Kokoricha | 1 |
Eric Nadalin | 1 |
Chibuzo Ujam | 1 |
Peter Kisadha | 1 |
Echezona Uzoma | 1 |
Ali Rampurwala | 1 |
Yusuf Abdulmalik | 1 |
Ore Ogundipe | 1 |
Echukwudi Daniel | 1 |
Rene Reinsberg | 1 |
Tomiwa Olaosebikan | 1 |
Isaac Ewaleifoh | 1 |
Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
- Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.
The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
- SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Allen and Ollys International Limited -
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Edmond Nonie
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Construction
- Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Track Your Build — We provide sustainable and innovative solutions for a better world.
Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- Nigeria, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Sendchamp — Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, CustomerEngagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.
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Investment focus
- SNS, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Japan, Nigeria, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NodeFlair — NodeFlair aims to help tech talents make better career decisions through jobs, salaries, reviews, company insights, and more
- AGRI SMILE — AGRI SMILE is a platform that focuses on sharing agricultural technology.
- Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Kola Aina is an entrepreneur, technology operator and investor with vast experience working in Africa’s largest economic market. His prior entrepreneurial experience spans several sectors including venture capital, technology, media, agriculture, infrastructure, publishing and real estate. As an angel investor and while leading the early stageAfrican VC firm Ventures Platform. Venture Platform is a leading early stage African VC fund that provides founder friendly capital and support to early stage companies in a framework that is buoyed by corporate governance and hands-on support. Kola has lead investment in about 28 companies including Payments company; Paystack, Connectivity company; Tizeti, Healthcare company; MDaaS and the Agric-tech company; Thrive Agric.Kola, founded the enterprise technology company Emerging Platforms Limited, 9 years ago, quickly growing it to become one of the leading technology service delivery companies and leaders in the e-learning space in West Africa providing services to over 100,000 students. Emerging Platforms Limited is a software and technology firm that specializes in developing innovative technology solutions in education, national security and enterprise sectors.Prior to focusing on full time entrepreneurship, Kola worked in corporate finance, administration, corporate turn-around and strategy. He led strategy and finance for one of
the largest publishing companies in Nigeria up till 2009. Before that he worked in corporate finance proving financial analysis at Fifth Third Bank in the USA.Kola is a leader in the African startup and investing ecosystem, a Ted speaker and volunteers his time advising founders, speaking at events and serves on the Presidential Committee for Job Creation and Youth Employment as well as the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Presidency on Creativity and Technology. Kola studied Electrical Engineering and then secured a Master in Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He has received further education from Berkley University, Harvard University and the Lagos Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Partna — We're democratising access to crypto by providing tools that help businesses build user-friendly crypto products.
- Coinprofile — Coinprofile allows anyone, anywhere in the world send money to Africa. It's fast, seamless and free!
- CutStruct — We build apps for building projects. Our apps are helping builders extend the value of every dollar and increasing the confidence of ordinary people to build.
Cofounder and CEO of Kuda
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Zambia, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.
Ayodeji Adewunmi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Dot. He previously worked at GOKADA as a President & Co-CEO. Ayodeji Adewunmi attended Obafemi Awolowo University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ChopUP — Discover the ultimate Plinko gaming experience at Plinko India! Our platform offers an exciting blend of luck and strategy, allowing players to drop balls through a pegged board and aim for high-scoring slots.
- Pledge51 — Pledge51 is a fresh mobile media company pursuing opportunities in Nigeria's mobile internet space. On Tuesday 29th May 2013, the company launched her social gaming platform; Chopup.Chopup is a social platform that allows mobile game players to interact based on in-game achievements. As part of the release of Chopup, the company alsolaunched Danfo Reloaded II; the first mobile game to come integrated with the Chopup Platform. The platform is unique because it caters specifically to Africa's mobile market which mostly consists of fairly basic devices and is only recently witnessing growing adoption of smart phones.The company's game/app portfolio has already crossed over 1 million downloads and growing till date.
Ire Aderinokun - Co-Founder , COO & VP of Engineering @ Buycoins
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Investment focus
- Software, Ticketing, Mobile Apps
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
- tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
- ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Sandeep Nailwal - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
- Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
Cristina Santin
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — idebet adalah situs slot online terpercaya gampang menang menyediakan link login dan link alternatif permainan judi slot terlengkap.
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
Nadayar was previously Co-Founder/CTO at Fora. Nadayar is an avid builder of technology with a passion for getting things done well. He has industry experience building enterprise software for the likes of OpenText, PTC, Bnotions and has worked closely with major tech leaders in Toronto.When he's not aggressively spewing awaytop-notch code on his computer, Nadayar can be found on the soccer field where he refuses to give up on his dream of becoming a sports star. Nadayar has a Computer Science and Business degree from the University of Waterloo.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Blockchain, Communities
- Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Greg Waldorf is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the former CEO of Invoice2go, the mobile app that helps small businesses manage their cash flow through easy-to-use invoicing, expense tracking and simple reporting tools. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Gregwas affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony for five years from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide.He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Estate, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
- Rubik — Rubik is a data platform for Real Estate investors. We leverage Machine Learning to provide financial data on all single family homes. Real Estate investors use Rubik to instantly find properties that match their investment criteria.
- Backflip — With fast analysis, tailored loans, and a smoother funding process, Backflip gives you the confidence and the cash to close your next great property deal.
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.
Founder at Mentat and Delivery Associates.
Author of An Avalanche is Coming and Oceans of Innovation.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Banking
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
- Earnipay — Gain access, consolidate, and manage all your financial needs in one place.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Shadi Abdulhadi
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- NowNow — NowNow app is the Best Fintech App in Nigeria to pay your bills, recharge your mobile, shop online, and do a lot more. Download the app today!
Lanre Adelowo is the CEO/CTO @ Fluidcoins.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Conor Walsh
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Investment focus
- Apps, Banking
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.
Oluchi Enebeli
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
Entrepreneur, investor. Advising global tech companies navigate through MENA+ regulatory environments, market entry and scaling
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, Nigeria, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
- Stitch — One API for online payments and payouts, Stitch is a leading payment gateway and payment service provider in South Africa. Get paid via Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time & control spend before it happens. A Lebanese entrepreneur, Karim previously built and sold YCombinator-backed Paribus to CapitalOne in 2016.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Finnt — An accessible and secure solution to build steady savings, send and spend globally.
- Winden — Winden is a business bank designed to help you make more money. Earn unlimited cash-back, free wire transfers, zero fees, and more.
- Polymer Labs — Polymer Labs is building a universal IBC routing/roll-up protocol to enable E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.
Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.
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Investment focus
- InsurTech, Insurance, Banking
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, India, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- BubbleFuse — BubbleFuse will provide a platform for users to create and share their own digital content and products.
- GrowBots — GrowBots is a web-based platform that helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
- DataVizion — DataVizion is an innovative data visualization platform that enables businesses to easily create real-time visualizations of their data.
James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
- Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food
Biola Alabi is the Managing Partner of Biola Alabi Media, the media icon heads a dynamic consultancy and production company with expertise in strategic consulting for pay entertainment, digital television, interactive television and emerging entertainment distribution platforms; they service governments, content creators, telecommunicationindustry, and investors in the converging media technology space. Biola Alabi Media productions has recently produced Nigeria’s first food travel documentary-series "Bukas and Joints" currently airing across Africa and in the USA.She is also the founder of "Grooming for Greatness" a leadership development and mentorship program for a new generation of African leaders. Named one of the 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes Magazine (2012), a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012) and CNBC Africa’s AABLA West African Business Woman of the Year (2013), for over five highly successful years, Biola Alabi held the high-profile position of Managing Director for M-Net Africa, part of the globally renowned Naspers Group. Prior to this, she was based in the United States where she was part of the executive team at the influential children’s television brand Sesame Street and a member of the marketing team that launched the well-respected Korean motor vehicle corporation Daewoo in the USA.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
Founder & CEO - bitsCrunch | Entrepreneur | Angel Investor | TEDx Speaker | Blockchain & NFT
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Web3, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- ZeroLend — ZeroLend is a user-friendly and frictionless lending experience to onboard the masses to Defi. Built on L2s
- Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
- Moove Protocol — Charting a new era of decentralization.
Family & Friends
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, The Netherlands, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- thrie — Transportation
- Alphunt — Building the golden era for designing new materials, chemicals, catalysts, and drugs through generative AI.
- Bite - build your social circle — Bite is a social app focused on creating and facilitating hangouts. So you can build or maintain your social circle
Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
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Investment focus
- Software, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".
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- FinTech, Payments, Software
- Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Germany, Australia
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- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience.Previously, he was early at Pinterest — a service that lets users collect, organize, and share the things they are into — and worked on turntable's mobile apps.He designs and buildsproducts for fun and profit.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, India
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- Puter — Puter is a privacy-first personal cloud that houses all your files, apps, and games in one private and secure place, accessible from anywhere at any time.
- Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
- Monumental Labs — Monumental Labs is building a robot stone-sculpting factory to unleash a renaissance. Our robot artisans complete commissions in days that previously took months, with all the precision of traditional sculpting, at a fraction of the cost.
Startups - Mentoring - Advising - Emerging Markets.
I am a enthusiastic entrepreneur and angel investor working with startups all around the world.
Have worked / mentored / coached / partnered / invested in more than 200 startups around the world.
Specially keen on online marketplaces and emerging and frontier markets.
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- Delivery, E-Commerce, Retail
- Seed, Series A
- Egypt, Nepal, Myanmar
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- Appetito — Buy all your groceries and household essentials from your online supermarket. Order from the comfort of your home at your finger tips.
- FreshGora — Food and Grocery delivery in Yangon, Myanmar.
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
Paul Kokoricha
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- Internet, B2B, Software
- Private Equity, Seed
- Mauritius, Nigeria
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- WIOCC — WIOCC is revolutionising the delivery of high-capacity connectivity between Africa and the rest of the world. As a result, it is now widely recognised as Africa’s carriers’ carrier, offering a one stop-shop and end-to-end service between more than 30 African countries and the world’s key global financial and commercial centres. As a specialist inthe wholesale market, WIOCC’s unique, flexible, bandwidth packages have been designed to enable carriers, mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to take full advantage of Africa’s rapidly developing markets for fixed and mobile broadband and international corporate networking. WIOCC recognises that customers differ, and tailors many of its solutions to specific customer requirements.
- Decagon — Build faster with vetted remote software engineering talent
- Accelerex Holdings — Accelerex Holdings specializes in the fields of financial services and investments.
Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.
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- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria
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- Cledara — Manage, control and automate your Company's cloud software so that you can scale your operational processes, comply with regulations and save money.
- Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
- Oyster — Hire, pay, manage, and take care of your globally distributed team with confidence. Try Oyster for free today!
Chibuzo Ujam
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- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
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- Arone — idebet adalah situs slot online terpercaya gampang menang menyediakan link login dan link alternatif permainan judi slot terlengkap.
Peter Kisadha - Founder and CEO @ Digest Africa
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Echezona Uzoma is an individual investor.
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- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
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- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
15 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, corporate strategy, angel investing, and business development having an MBA from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA and being a CAIA Charterholder.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Egypt, India
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
- Otida — Otida is an app that acts as a nutritionist, a fitness coach and physician, among other roles, for patients with diabetes who struggle while navigating through their day-to-day lives.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Yusuf Abdulmalik is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Ore Ogundipe is an Independent Neurotech Research.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Virtualization
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
Echukwudi Daniel
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Investment focus
- Drones, Energy, Delivery
- Angel
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Arone — idebet adalah situs slot online terpercaya gampang menang menyediakan link login dan link alternatif permainan judi slot terlengkap.
Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
Tomiwa Olaosebikan
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Isaac Ewaleifoh is an Angel Investor | SDGs Ambassador.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Pre-Seed
- Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.
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