# Top 35 Sustainability Startup Investors in Nigeria in June 2026

## All On
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

## Norfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy

Norwegian investment fund for developing countries

## Finnfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

## LoftyInc Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Acumen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

## Blue Rinc Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy

Blue Rinc Capital is an investment holding company focused on growth investments.

## Sissili Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy

Private Investment Company

## Factor E
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture

Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.

## EDFI ElectriFI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

Impact investment in sustainable energy

## Frankford Re
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, Energy, Renewable Energy

Private Investment Holding Company

## Helios Investment Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Banking

Bridging international capital and know-how with African talent and enterprise since 2004, Helios Investment Partners manages funds totalling c. $3 billion.

## GreenHouse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

## Investisseurs & Partenaires
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Investisseurs et Partenaires

## African Infrastructure Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Focus: Solar, Energy, SaaS

African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) develops and manages private equity infrastructure funds designed to invest long-term institutional unlisted equity in African infrastructure projects.

## Chibuzo Ujam
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery

Chibuzo Ujam

## Yuzuru Honda
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, SNS, Internet

Yuzuru Honda is a Founder & Global CEO of FreakOut.

## Sovereign Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Retail

We invest in service-based business in a number of sectors that have potential for expansion in the UK or internationally and have a differentiated market positioning.

## Persistent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

## Seedstars Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, FinTech, Software

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.

## Inspired Evolution Investment Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series E
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, PaaS

Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa.

## Ugochukwu Aronu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery

Ugochukwu Aronu is the Co-Founder And CEO of Xend.

## Origin Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Energy, Software

Origin Capital Management is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor that invests in the public equity and hedging markets of USA.

## Echukwudi Daniel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Drones, Energy, Delivery

Echukwudi Daniel

## Voltron Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

On a mission to back the most extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa solving important problems in large markets.

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

## Proparco
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

## Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

## SCM Capital Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy

SCM Capital Asset Management Limited is the full-service Asset Management subsidiary of SCM Capital Markets Limited, which is registered as a Fund / Portfolio Manager with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

## Persistent Energy Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Software

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

## Social Investment Managers & Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy

SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions

## Ardent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

## Jua Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, B2B, Farming

EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.
