Top 10 B2B Angel Investors in Nigeria (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Stephen Pagliuca
Angel
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2 | United States, India, Nigeria | Series B, Series A | Real Estate, Media and Entertainment, Sports | $11M–$28M |
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Justin Kan
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, India | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $500k–$5.7M |
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Brett Kopf
Angel
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1 | Nigeria | Pre-Seed | B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments | |
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Paul Kokoricha
Angel
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1 | Mauritius, Nigeria | Private Equity, Seed | Internet, B2B, Software | $20M–$200M |
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Vijay Shankar
Angel
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series C | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $10k–$100k |
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Maneesh Arora
Angel
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1 | United States, Japan, Nigeria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps | $260k–$1.7M |
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Sahil Lavingia
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $205k–$15M |
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Michael Novogratz
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Series A, Seed | B2B, Retail, Social | |
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Julian Shapiro
Angel
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1 | United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.3M–$11M |
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Patrick Spaulding Ryan Ph.D
Angel
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1 | United States, Mexico, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps | $89k–$330k |
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Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Media and Entertainment, Sports
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series B $11M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lula — Making Mobility Viable and Profitable
- Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Atmos — Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen.
Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal. He attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Scenario — Scenario is a developer of application modeling 3D objects for the metaverse. This technology makes and shares 3D experiences that help in scanning and capturing anything in the world with a smartphone.
Brett Kopf
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- Industry: B2B, FinTech, Mobile Payments
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
Paul Kokoricha
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- Industry: Internet, B2B, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Mauritius, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Private Equity $20M–$200M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Vijay Shankar
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $10k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Winvesta — Winvesta is a UK based fin-tech company building a platform to enable Indians to invest globally.Even as technology has helped bring the world closer – accessing global investments for residents in capital controlled countries has not been easy. Winvesta is looking to change this, starting with India. Indian residents and NRIs can now open a USstock brokerage account and an international multi-currency bank account in as little as 10 minutes right from the Winvesta app. Whether one wants to invest in US stocks, buy and maintain an international real estate, or save for foreign education, Winvesta is making it easier to build a globally diversified portfolio.
- Wander — Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander is a startup that builds infrastructure to experience the world. The company was founded by John Andrew Entwistle.
- Delight — Delight is a dating service where users only date one person at a time. Founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
Maneesh Arora is CEO & co-founder of MightyText. He is a product builder who previously worked at Google and Zynga.
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- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Japan, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $260k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
- CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!
- Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $205k–$15M; Pre-Seed $900k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
- Capsule — Capsule is a startup that makes tools for editing short-form videos.
Mike Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman at Galaxy Digital.
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Social
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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.
- 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
- Candy Digital — Fandom, reimagined. Only at Candy.com
Julian Shapiro is a Partner at Hyper and a Startup Investor at Julian.capital. He previously worked as the Founder of Demand Curve, a Columnist — Growth Marketing at TechCrunch, and VP of Marketing at Webflow. Julian attended Y Combinator.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Bangladesh, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DealCart — DealCart enables users to buy their favorite products in groups by allowing users to buy in groups and sharing deals on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Agroshift — Agroshift helps farmers sell their produce to businesses and consumers by providing a tech-enabled supply chain.
Patrick Spaulding Ryan PhD (X-Google, X-Bytedance) is an investor and advisor in early-stage businesses. Patrick invests through PSR Crypto, PRMM USA and is on the Investment Committee at Leawood Venture Capital. Patrick is fractional general counsel and investor in Turion Space, and legal advisor and investor at Bttn. Patrick previously workedat Google for 9 years as a Trust, Engineering & Strategy Principal, and for 2 years at Bytedance as lead TPM in security engineering R&D and as co-director of the web3 research program. Patrick received a PhD in law & economics from KU Leuven (Belgium) and is a graduate of University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Texas School of Law, and the MIddlebury Institute of International Studies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Mexico, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $100k–$330k; Angel $222k–$300k; Pre-Seed $89k–$330k
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CurveCatch — CurveCatch brengt de voordelen van een kleine lingerie speciaalzaak en online shoppen samen. Enerzijds nemen we je bij de hand en nemen we alle complexiteit rond maten en pasvormen weg door deze voor jou uit te kiezen o.b.v. 15 jaar ervaring. Anderzijds ben je op 5min klaar met bestellen en kan je thuis lingerie passen alvorens deze te betalen. Je betaalt achteraf alleen wat je houdt. Bestel nu jouw box en ervaar deze nieuwe manier van shoppen!
- Arrenda — Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides market-specific insurance and financial products to the real estate markets of Latin America. It also offers advance payments to landlords upfront to lower barriers to renting in the country. Arrenda was founded in 2021 and is based in Mexico City.
- My Little Mascara Club — Meet the little mascara everyone is subscribing to, exclusively at My Little Mascara Club. Seriously smudge proof, packed with clean ingredients, and just the right size for you to always have a fresh, clump-free mascara. Delivered!
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