# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Nigeria in May 2026 ## Olugbenga Agboola - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet 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. ## Babs Ogundeyi - Type: Angel - Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Cofounder and CEO of Kuda ## Michael Seibel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University. ## Olumide Soyombo - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Olumide Soyombo holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from University of Lagos, Nigeria and an MSc (Distinction) in Business and Information Technology from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, England; earning membership into the Beta Gamma Sigma Society for his high scholastic achievement.Olumide co–founded Bluechip Technologies Ltd in 2008 andhas grown the organisation from an organization with two employees to an organization with over 80 consultants spread across Lagos, Accra and Lusaka, Zambia.In 2014, Olumide setup Leadpath as a seed fund investing in local tech startups. He has invested in startups like Pushcv.com, Paystack, Piggybank.ng, Fashpa, Heels.com.ng , Delivery Science, Gloo.ng, and Cosign.co. ## Allen and Ollys International Limited - - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain Allen and Ollys International Limited - ## Idris Ayodeji Bello - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Tayo Oviosu - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## Abdul Hassan - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Abdul Hassan ## Sahil Lavingia - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech 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. ## Opeyemi Awoyemi - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Payments, InsurTech, Insurance Opeyemi Awoyemi is the Co-Founder at Moneymie. Opeyemi previously worked at Indeed.com as a Senior Technical Product Manager. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University. ## Karim Atiyeh - Type: Angel - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Ham Serunjogi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Mobile Apps Ham Serunjogi is a co-founder and CEO at Chipper Cash. ## Cristina Santin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain Cristina Santin ## Bunmi Akinyemiju - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Bunmi is a graduate of Computer Science from the Michigan State University, USA. An execution focused executive with over 16 years entrepreneurial experience in high-tech sales, solutions development and management, Bunmi has developed over 20 proprietary technologies in Aviation, Government, Education, Oil & Gas and Banking sector globally.Bunmi has built more than five companies till date – each a potential billion dollar company and has substantial experience/relationships in the areas of Software development, Technology Consulting, Revenue Collection Strategies, Software Project Management, Business Startups, Internet Technology & Business Development. Bunmi is the Founder, MD/CEO of Venture Garden Nigeria. ## Dale Mathias - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Internet Dale Mathias ## Oliver Jung - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight. ## Raffael Johnen - Type: Angel - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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". ## Brandon Krieg - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance, Banking 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. ## Youcef Es-skouri - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Finance Youcef has spent the last 10 years creating products and companies, co-founding four startups before transitioning to product management. He is currently Head of Product at Dropbox, where he is building Capture. https://www.dropbox.com/captureBefore that, he co-founded Welovebuzz, the BuzzFeed of MENA. As one of the largest mediacompanies in the region, Welovebuzz reaches 25M people every month, generates 110M video views, and has 10M social followers.He is also an angel investor in early-stage startups, helping founders with product and distribution. He invested in 20+ pre-seed and seed startups across AI/ML, B2B/Enterprise SaaS, Commerce, Creator Economy, Emerging Markets, Marketing Tech, Consumer, FinTech, Future Of Work, and Proptech. ## Ed Robinson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance, Banking Ed Robison is a Co-Founder of Stash. He attended the University of Sydney from 2002 to 2004. ## Jonathan Wasserstrum - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Property Management Jonathan graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2012. Prior to business school, Jonathan worked in the International Capital Group at Jones Lang LaSalle where he advised foreign and domestic clients on more than $3 billion worth of transactions globally. ## Alan Rutledge - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Alan Rutledge ## Ogundiran Kayode - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Financial Services Ogundiran Kayode is an individual investor. ## Honey Ogundeyi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial, Other, Payments Honey Ogundeyi - Founder and CEO @ Edukoya ## Sajid Rahman - Type: Angel - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School. ## Shola Akinlade - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Education, InsurTech Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack. ## Samir Goel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Legal, Advice Samir is a social entrepreneur, writer, and connector committed to bridging the public and private sectors by bringing together diverse communities to eliminate the access gap.In 2015, Samir Co-Founded Esusu, a platform designed to empower users to better save, access capital, and build credit through community savings. Prior to Esusu, SamirCo-Founded Transfernation, a nationally recognized 501(c)3 non-profit which uses technology to ensure excess food from events goes toward underserved communities across New York City. To-date Transfernation has rescued over 300,000 thousand pounds of food and impacted 250,000 lives. For his entrepreneurial endeavors Samir has been recognized as a WEF Global Shaper, Global Good Fund Fellow, Dalai Lama Fellow, Resolution Fellow and was the recipient of the Jefferson Awards Foundation National Public Service Award.In addition to his work as a social entrepreneur, Samir has had the opportunity to build a robust skillset over his time at LinkedIn working across 5 offices in Customer Success Consulting, Talent Acquisition, and Sales Strategy & Operations focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Previously Samir worked at The United Nations, Venture for America, and various non-profits in the New York City areaSamir is an avid writer and contributes for LinkedIn, The Daily Muse, Influencive, Mogul, and Quartz. Samir supplements his entrepreneurship and writing with public speaking engagements, which have ranged from The United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative's Final Annual Meeting.Samir received his Bachelor's of Science from New York University's Stern School of Business. Samir enjoy's baking & cooking, staying active, travel, writing, and spending time with his family and 4 younger siblings. ## Tom Blomfield - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial, Health Care Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech. ## Karthik Ramakrishnan - Type: Angel - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Banking, FinTech Karthik Ramakrishnan is an Engineering Executive @ Amazon Alexa. ## Michael Vaughan - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Michael Vaughan is the Operating Partner at Stripes. ## Ali Rampurwala - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, Other 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. ## Leonard Stiegeler - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial, Software, Internet Leonard Stiegeler is the Founder of Pulse, the leading innovative media company in Africa. He is backing & investing in media-/art-/technology- & -enabled ventures/assets. Some of his interests include Business Insider Africa, Art News Africa and Digital News Africa. Prior, he was the General Manager of Swiss Ringier AfricaAG since 2016 – responsible for buiding up the group's business on the continent. Ringier is today active in 8 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and through its ROAM-holding leads brands such as Jobberman, Cheki, Private Property, BuyRentKenya, Pigiame, ZoomTanzania, and many more. Prior to his work with Ringier since 2013, Leo helped to establish Rocket Internet and other German investors in Africa. Leo is originally from Germany and has been based in different African countries since 2011. ## James Park - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS 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. ## Johan Lorenzen - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Banking, Internet Johan brings more than a decade of experience with high growth internet companies, both from the founder and investor side. Johan joined Holvi from the venture capital firm Sunstone, to change the future of banking first hand. Prior to that Johan has also worked on both, the technology and infrastructure, sides of traditional banking, as welladvising and investing in #fintech companies. Holvi | Holvi provides small businesses, freelancers, sole traders and contractors a pan-European business platform of the digital age as well as a full replacement for the traditional bank account. Holvi is built completely separately from any existing banks allowing the company to have full flexibility on choosing partnerships and bringing services with most added value to the customer. Holvi's vision on the future of banking is a fully customisable financial hub where people can plug in the channels and services they actually need. Holvi's mantra? Stay human. ## Michael Pennington - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers. ## Vijay Shankar - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Vijay Shankar ## Olumide Ogunsanwo - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Olumide Ogunsanwo is a Investor (Adamantium fund -> African startups), Podcaster (Afrobility) & Advisor (Google Bizops) | Oxford, MIT & McKinsey alum. ## Lish Lee Jung - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Lish Lee Jung is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. ## Rene Reinsberg - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo. ## Tom Stafford - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus. ## Wemimo Abbey - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Legal, Advice Wemimo Abbey is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu. He attended University of Cambridge. ## Ezra Olubi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, Privacy/Security Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack. ## Richmond Bassey - Type: Angel - Location: Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Payments, Financial Services Richmond Bassey is the Co-founder and CEO at Bamboo. He served as the Chief Of Staff for Helium Health prior to that. ## Gbite Oduneye - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges Gbite Oduneye is the Founder and Managing Partner of ODBA. He attended UWE Bristol and Said Business School, University of Oxford. ## Kola Aina - Type: Angel - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet 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. ## Eric Glyman - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Other, Financial Co-Founder, CEO @ Ramp ## Neil Thanedar - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial, Apps, Hardware Founder & CEO @ Air To All Co-Founder & CEO @ Labdoor ## Ndubuisi Ekekwe - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Other, Hardware, Software Co-Founder @ Vetifly ## Justin Kan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial, Internet Co-Founder @ Fractal General Partner & Co-Founder @ Goat Capital Founder @ Zero-F Content Creator @ YouTube # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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