Top 40 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Nigeria in October 2023

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• Entre — Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Network, Entrepreneur Community, Startup network, startup community, Creator Economy, Creator Community, Freelancers, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Start a business, How to start a business, Startup jobs, Startup events, Cofounder, Find a cofounder, Find a mentor, Find an Investor, meet entrepreneurs, host virtual event, host virtual meeting, entrepreneur events, tech events, entrepreneurship, find gigs, freelancing jobs, online business
• Soptle — Founded in Sep 2021, Soptle started to establish an integrated technology to the neglected regional FMCG Manufacturers in India with a B2B Retail Commmerce App. It uses tech and data to distribute at scale and use necessary components (existing Distributor/Wholesaler) in the FMCG Supply Chain to build a high growth and profitable business.
• Cloudbankin — Habile offers a complete spectrum of web solutions, software development and services. Habile provides innovative solutions through research. We have always put the customer in front on all considerations. Technology, Thought and Thorough Research are our key to success. We bring with us over 25 man years of experience in the Software industrywith wide expertise on Retail, Tax, Educational and Banking & Finance domains. We also compliment our technology offerings with strong graphics/GUI design capabilities, QA / QC teams and strong project management capabilities. We understand the customers more as we follow a customer centric approach. We focus on quality and this has always been striking force our development

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• Axios HQ — Axios HQ is AI-powered communication software that helps organizations in management information systems.
• Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
• Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

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• Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.

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• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.

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• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
• Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
• Airlift Technologies — Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing.

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• Loki Foods — We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood!
• THE PACK — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
• Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Food4All — With the F4A App, you can explore discounted close-to-expiry products at your favourite supermarkets. Act now - save money and say no to food waste.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.

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• ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
• SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
• Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.
• Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
• Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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• Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.

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• Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
• TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
• H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.

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• HwikGo — HwikGo a MaaS platform has created a one-of-a-kind integrated platform that provides a transfer connection between public transportation and shared smart mobility via a traffic card.
• MetaCene — MetaCene is a blockchain company that aims to create an accessible Web3 world for the masses, with a focus on player-centric entertainment.
• Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper

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• Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
• Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
• Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture

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• Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.

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• MM3 NFT — MM3 NFT is a social NFT platform for visualizing DIDs and dressing up.
• Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
• KNN3 Network — KNN3 Network provides graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to empower Social d/App and AI analytics. KNN3 aims to become a community-driven data curation protocol to enable on-chain data collaboration.

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• FarmWise — FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency.
• Napigen — We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elitebackgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.
• Muddy Machines — Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

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• 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.

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• Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.

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• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• The Student Hub — Advancement through technology

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• Topkey — Topkey is an app that tracks expenses by property, sync transactions across systems, and save tons of money on bookkeeping. Topkey was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in San Francisco, USA.
• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
• Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

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• CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
• UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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• Fnatic — Fnatic is the world's leading esports organisation, with a winning legacy of 17 years and counting in over 28 different titles.
• Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper
• One World Nation — One World Nation is a Cryptoverse set on the planet Crypton, inhabited by clans of species called Cryptonites - each clan representing a Crypto.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• 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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• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• Anima — A new way to play.
• Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity

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• XEND — Backed by Binance and Google Launchpad, Xend Finance is a global crypto bank offering up to 15% interest, with an open Web3 infrastructure for developers.
• Xend Finance — Backed by Binance and Google Launchpad, Xend Finance is a global crypto bank offering up to 15% interest, with an open Web3 infrastructure for developers.

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• Jise — Jise provides restaurant food delivery services, connecting customers with local businesses.We are extremely passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. By building the last-mile delivery infrastructure for local cities, Jise is bringing communities closer, one door at a time.It connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants within Lekki Phase 1 for now. Marvelous Gbenro, Osazuwa Agbonze Jeremiah, Ibukun Olasupo, and Majid Tokurah came together to found the company in 2021. It is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Yilinyun — Yilinyun is a medical and life-tech firm providing an integrated cloud SaaS platform for clinical evidence to improve R&D in drugs listing.
• Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.
• Goons of Balatroon — A 2D/3D hybrid metaverse featuring Free 2 Play 2 Earn card strategy gaming and land ownership. Ridiculous. Chaotic. Fun. Play for free and earn!

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• Vacka — Vacka is a food and beverage manufacturer that produces and sells organic, plant-based vegan cheese varieties.
• 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!
• Vevolution — Where plant-based and cellular agriculture startups connect with impact investors to create a kinder world. Fintech with heart.

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Silkhaus — A seamless, sophisticated experience you can rely on. Choose from the wide variety of furnished Boutique Flats and apartments for short and long-term stays from Silkhaus.
• Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.

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• Metaverse Magna — Battle friends & frenemies in fun casual games like candy crush, temple run, wordler to win $1K in daily prize pools. Download Hyper

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• VRRB Labs — VRRB is a startup that is building a new, innovative, computationally lightweight block mining and consensus algorithm known as Proof of Claim. Proof of Claim allows for fast, decentralized, fair validation of transactions and block mining. Due to the lightweight nature of the algorithm, launching and running a node will simply be accessible toanyone with a computer. Proof of Claim is a consensus algorithm that aims to solve many of the issues currently present with both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake.
• CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.
• Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game

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• AdMob — Earn more from your mobile apps using in-app ads to generate revenue, gain actionable insights, and grow your app with easy-to-use tools.
• Efhtight — Secret to way company of Efhtight
• Inflection AI — We are an AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone.

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• ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.

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• OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
• AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
• Fastizers — Fastizers Food and Confectionery Limited is a newly formed food production firm in Nigeria that has been approved by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).