Top 15 Digital Media VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $40k–$20M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $235k–$50M |
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Luminate Group
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, Nigeria | Seed | SaaS, GovTech, Politics | |
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Kairos Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, B2B | $1.4M–$5M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$4.5M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $3.5M–$27M |
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Unicorn Group
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, FinTech | |
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Nama Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates | Pre-Seed, Seed | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace | $100k–$14M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.2M |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$2M |
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Cascador
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria | Seed | Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration | |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software | $200k–$30M |
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Assembly Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | SMS, SaaS, Software | $1.4M–$7.7M |
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RaliCap
VC Fund
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1 | Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $313k–$8.5M |
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Melo7 Tech Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics | |
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Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
- Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $235k–$4M; Series A $3.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
- Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
Established in 2018, Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation with the goal of empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
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- Industry: SaaS, GovTech, Politics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- New/Mode — New/Mode is the multi-channel advocacy & civic engagement platform that organizations, campaigns & causes use to win. Join the New/Mode Community.
An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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.
- Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
- 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.
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$13M; Series B $10M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Infrastructure Training Mentorship Market Access Capital We provide infrastructure, training, mentorship, market access and patient capital for entrepreneurs, technology start-ups and early stage companies to address the challenges that they encounter.
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- Industry: Apps, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Merge — Startup Funding | Investment Opportunities | Merge App
- Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
- Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.
Nama Ventures is a seed stage venture capital fund focused on fueling innovation in the MENA region, particularly in Saudi Arabia. ama Ventures is built upon the fundamental idea of enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. And as founders of Nama, we are thrilled to finally have the platform to implement this idea. Our hope is that entrepreneurs willingto partner with us will see and feel our value-add approach to investing.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
- Muqbis — As the word Muqbis means, our main job is to connect talented hands and home based businesses to their targeted customers and support them to grow their businesses hassle free. On the other hand Muqbis opens a wide market to support customers find “the made with love home products and services” they look for and compare varieties, prices and findnearby providers. In Muqbis we believe that world is changing, life patterns are changing and for sure work styles are changing and we are here for it.
- Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.
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, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$780k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Cascador | Business Growth Accelerator for Mid-Stage Nigerian Companies Cascador is a business growth program for Nigerian entrepreneurs leading mid-stage companies, providing mentoring and access to advisors, and investors.
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- Industry: Analytics, Digital Media, Data Integration
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
- Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
- Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
Assembly Capital Partners operates as a Venture Capital.
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- Industry: SMS, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Instanda — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
- Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
- 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.
Rally Cap is a global community of tech folks investing in an exclusive portfolio of top-tier early stage venture funds in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $313k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.
- Amini — Amini is enabling Africa to transform the world, by empowering our ecosystem through data & fostering opportunities for 1B lives.
- Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.
Melo7 Tech Partners, LLC was founded by Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb to invest in and develop opportunities primarily in early stage digital media, consumer internet and technology ventures.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Digital Media, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
- Ambrosia — Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.
- Mercury — A complete financial stack to build your company. Scale with FDIC-insured bank accounts, debit and credit cards, and 3-click payment flows.
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