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Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in Nigeria (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Nigeria Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Nigeria Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Microtraction
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, United States, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $25k–$1.2M
Future Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $40k–$20M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$4.5M
Kube VC
VC Fund
4 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $50k–$18M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
4 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software $200k–$30M
Loyal VC
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $78k–$2.5M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $300k–$20M
Partech
VC Fund
3 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1M–$54M
HoaQ
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$2.5M
Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund
3 Nigeria Seed EdTech, Retail, Home Services $120k–$575k
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $50k–$4.4M
Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund
2 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Retail, Medical
Fedha Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Finland, United States Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Gift, Real Estate $300k–$350k
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $77k–$40M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Information Technology $3.5M–$27M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $5M–$300M
Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, The Netherlands Series A FinTech, Finance, Financial Services $23M–$65M
Nordea
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Norway Debt Financing, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $107k–$94M
Left Lane Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Israel Series A, Series B, Series D FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $9M–$90M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $235k–$50M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $150k–$22M
Aruwa Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, France Seed, Series A FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services $1.7M–$3M
Unseen Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Hack VC
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Israel Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain $850k–$30M
VestedWorld
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.6M–$4.4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $50k–$10M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$3M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $396k–$50M
Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $130k–$12M
Kinnevik
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Sweden Series B, Series C E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services $10M–$550M
Tangerine Life
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
Jedar Capital
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery $340k–$6M
AAIC Investment
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce $450k–$4.4M
SVG Ventures 1 Pre-Seed, Seed Agriculture/Farming, Software, Science/Engineering $75k–$6.3M
Flexport 1 Series A, Seed, Series B Transportation, Software, Commerce/Shopping $1.8M–$13M
Goldman Sachs 1 Series C, Series B Software, IT, Internet $13M–$150M
SHL Capital
VC Fund
1 Singapore Seed Apps, Software, Financial
Orbit Startups
VC Fund
1 India, Singapore, Pakistan Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Software $150k–$2M
CV VC
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Information Technology $125k–$6M
Acasia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$2.5M
Tekton Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, South Korea, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet $1.3M–$27M
Frontier Car Group
VC Fund
1
Unicorn Group
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, FinTech
Kreos Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $5M–$85M
TPG Growth
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series C, Private Equity, Series B Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering $3.5M–$1.3B
VFD Group
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $430k–$550k
Health54
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya Seed Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail $3M–$3M
Verod Capital Management
VC Fund
1 Nigeria Series A Other, Financial
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
1 United States, India, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care $5M–$85M
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 7 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • 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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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kube VC
VC Fund · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Kube VC is a global venture capital firm that invests in exceptional founders and category-defining companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2.1M; Series A $3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Loyal VC
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Seed $78k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$900k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
  • ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.
  • Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$12M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $15M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Yep! — Yep! is a financial super app leveraging technology to deliver seamless financial services and solutions to all Africans.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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HoaQ
VC Fund · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • 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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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.
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Chinook Capital Limited
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Chinook Capital is focused on investments in seed- and pre-stage companies in internet software, services, and media sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Home Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$575k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Youverify — Youverify helps businesses and individuals confirm identity and physical addresses. Using AI, Youverify confirms a user’s identity document and compares it with their facial biometrics. This information can be cross-checked against more than 300 databases locally and globally.Youverify in partnership with over 20,000 field verification officersverifies physical addresses all over Sub-Sahara Africa in less than 48 hours.Youverify fills the gap in Africa's digital industry by providing one API for identity and physical address verification.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 3 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Ventures Platform Fund is a discovery fund that invests early in mission-driven founders that are building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, solve for non-consumption, and improve livelihoods in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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Flying Doctors Nigeria
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Flying Doctors Nigeria is an ambulance service company that provides medical emergency services. The company also provides medical solutions such as air ambulance and medical evacuation and ground ambulance services. They offer rapid transfer and the highest standards of care to patients in acute medical need, serving both states and privatecompanies on a yearly retainer basis.Flying Doctors Nigeria operates stations manned by specially trained medical doctors across the country from where real-time responses are affected. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Retail, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
  • Healthtracka — Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days
  • Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
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Fedha Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Fedha Capital is a venture capital firm for early-stage start-ups (Seed and Series A).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Gift, Real Estate
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that seeks to invest in early-stage startups operating in software, business to business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $958k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $77k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 26 in the past 12 months

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 255
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$30M; Debt Financing $20M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • SteinCares — SteinCares is a supplier of specialty healthcare products, such as complex generics, biosimilars, and cutting-edge pharmaceuticals.
  • Veritas Finance — Veritas Finance focuses on meeting the financial needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Veritas Finance Private Limited is an organization started with the primary intention of reaching out to the customers who either have no access or inadequate access to financial services in the informal sector. 'Veritas' in Latin meanstruth. True to its name, Veritas is focused on making a true impact through inclusive access to financial services on the customers engaged in informal activities.The company is run by professionals with rich experience in the financial services industry that aims to make availing credit easy to this segment and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of Indians engaged in informal activities and who actually build the nation.
  • Mahindra Last Mile Mobility — Mile Mobility is a division of M&M that is in charge of the company's well-known mix of petrol, CNG, diesel, and electric last mile mobility 3- and 4-wheelers - passenger and freight vehicles.
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Thelatest.ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

thelatest.ventures partners with the leading investment firms across the globe to localise, launch or scale intuitively exceptional growth businesses. To create superior investment and societal impact returns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $23M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
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Nordea
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Nordea Bank is Denmark's second-largest bank and counts every fourth Dane among its customers. Through their nationwide network of some 340 branch offices and a broad range of self-service facilities, they are able to offer you a full scale of financial products and services, including Netbank, Online Investment, telephone banking and cashdispensers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $182k–$3.5M; Debt Financing $107k–$94M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
  • Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
  • Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.
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Left Lane Capital
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Left Lane Capital is a venture capital and seed-growth equity firm that invests in high-growth internet and consumer technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit – where customers maintain a long-term relationship with the product, platform, or service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Series A $9M–$65M; Series B $33M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
  • HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
  • League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 27 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 46 in the past 12 months

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3.6M; Series A $2.1M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Aruwa Capital
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Aruwa Capital Management is a Lagos-based, female-founded and led growth equity impact fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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).
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Unseen Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Unseen Capital created by racially diverse and historically underrepresented business leaders that is intended to identify, fund and support underrepresented founders of early-stage healthcare companies and those building solutions for marginalized communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rezilient Health — Reimagine primary care services with Rezilient Health. Every doctor available at every location & 24/7 virtual care with our tele-health techonology.
  • CareAcademy — CareAcademy is an online training platform used by thousands of caregivers across the US.
  • Trial Library — At Trial Library, we partner with the oncology community to enable the discoverability of clinical trials for anyone, anywhere.
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Hack VC
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 22 in the past 12 months

Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $850k–$2.7M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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VestedWorld
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 7 in the past 12 months

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$2.5M; Series A $4.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 18 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 390
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $396k–$1.9M; Series A $1.4M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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Asymmetry Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $130k–$1.8M; Series A $5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
  • Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
  • Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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Kinnevik
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company with an entrepreneurial spirit. Its purpose is to build digital consumer businesses that provide more and better choices. The company does this by working in partnership with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing businesses in developed and emergingmarkets.Kinnevik believes in delivering both shareholder and social value by building well-governed companies that contribute positively to society. Kinnevik was founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor, and von Horn families. Kinnevik's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm's list for large-cap companies under the ticker codes KINV A and KINV B.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$75M; Series C $20M–$550M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Tangerine Life
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Your financial partner and so much more. Free transfers, savings, loans, insurance, pensions and many other things at your finger tips.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
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Jedar Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $340k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
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SVG Ventures
1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

We work with leading corporations, startups, universities, and growers to solve the biggest challenges facing the agtech and foodtech industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture/Farming, Software, Science/Engineering
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $75k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Flexport
1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.The platform arranges goods to be transported and tracks the inventory in real-time in orders carried by the ocean, air, and road freight, enabling logistics companies to optimize transportation routes andinventory management. It is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology.The company was founded in 2013 by Ryan Petersen and is based in San Francisco, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Software, Commerce/Shopping
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.3M; Series A $10M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Goldman Sachs
1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, IT, Internet
  • Stage:Series C, Series B

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 467
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$100M; Series C $14M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

SHL Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Financial
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JiPay — JiPay - let the whole family go cashless. Order a free prepaid card for your helper or children.
  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
  • Nova Benefits — We help companies find affordable health insurance and wellness benefits that their employees can trust.
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Orbit Startups
VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 39 in the past 12 months

Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Singapore, Pakistan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $180k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • medIQ — medIQ is integrated virtual care platform’ providing on-demand healthcare at the point of need in Pakistan.
  • Truckistan — Truckistan is developing a logistics platform to make shipping faster and cheaper. The company provides real-time tracking, a customer dashboard, account management, and guaranteed transit time, as well as SaaS tools for routing, vehicle loading, and RFID implementation throughout the supply chain.
  • Happioh Inc — Almost one in five people waste more than a third of their time at work. We care about freeing up people's time at work so they can spend more time on deep work and what makes them happy. Happioh is the only platform-and language agnostic SaaS meeting intelligence product in the market - born to safeguard and protect people againstlow-quality meeting hours. Happioh was nominated for the 2022 Product Award and 100 Most Promising Technology Companies. Semi-finalist at the Startup World Cup Silicon Valley, 2022, and WEF Technology Pioneer, 2023.The Scandinavian UX and design make it delightful and super easy to use. Happioh turns complex and manual meeting processes at work into simple automated solutions. A side-effect of Happioh is it helps you improve your attention, and memory, and lower your cognitive stress. Please contact us if you are interested in investing in our future rounds or learning more.
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CV VC
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

We invest in blockchain

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $139k–$6M; Pre-Seed $125k–$140k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pyrpose — Pyrpose is a climate finance platform.
  • Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.
  • Natix Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city
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Acasia Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Menthum — Saving Made Simple
  • Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.
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Tekton Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $1.3M–$16M; Series B $7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
  • Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
  • Nano Technologies — VUI provides Flexible Payroll (EWA) solutions, income statistics, and employee financial management education through a technology platform.
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Frontier Car Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Frontier Car Group is a berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies, with operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Additionally, we are successfully engaging in two joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland. We increase theefficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infra-structure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from our impact.

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Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cars45 — Cars45 buys, sells, prices, and rates the condition of pre-owned autos. The Cars45 process begins online, where owners enter their vehicle information for a free quote. They can then schedule an appointment at one of the company’s 13 inspection centers in Nigeria. After a multi-point evaluation including engine, brakes, tires, and a road-test,Cars45 makes an offer. If accepted, the company commits to wire payment to the owner’s bank account within 45 minutes. After pricing and creating a digital service history, Cars45 offers the autos it acquires to a private network of buyers.
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Unicorn Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kreos Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Kreos Capital provides innovative and flexible debt solutions to equity-backed, pan-European and Israeli high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Series B $8M–$85M; Post-IPO Debt $5M–$21M; Debt Financing $5M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
  • Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
  • Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
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TPG Growth
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

A leader in the alternative asset space, TPG was built for a distinctive approach, managing assets through a principled focus on innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering
  • Stage:Series C, Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 109
  • Round size: Series B $17M–$115M; Series C $3.5M–$137M; Private Equity $30M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Fibe (Formerly EarlySalary) — Get instant loans up to Rs. 5L with tenures up to 24 months & rates as low as 2.5% p.m. Check your eligibility now.
  • Beauty for all industries — Beauty for all industries is a beauty innovation platform that offers merchandise innovation, machine learning, content and personalization services.
  • Dr. Agarwal's — Dr. Agarwals eye hospital with best eye specialist and 130+ hospitals in India providing best eye disease treatment since 1957. Book an appointment now!
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VFD Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

VFD Group is an investment organization that provides products and solutions that are accessible to everyday citizens and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $430k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shekel Mobility — Smart financing app for auto dealers - dealers financing and management system provider on a mission to democratize auto dealerships in emerging markets.
  • Fluna — We help high-growth African exporters and importers tap into global markets via proprietary trade data, flexible financing and global treasury solutions
  • Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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Health54
VC Fund · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibu Health — Tibu Health uses the most sophisticated health and logistics technology to provide patients with a convenient and coordinated end-to-end healthcare experience, resulting in improved health outcomes, healthier lifestyles, and more time to concentrate on the things that are important to our patients.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
  • Lifestores Healthcare — Lifestores Healthcare is using technology to democratize access to quality and affordable primary healthcare.
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Verod Capital Management
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups

Our Principals and team have strong background in executive management, direct investments, corporate finance, management consulting, and entrepreneurship. Verod builds companies with top-notch management teams, governance systems and business practices, enabling them grow into sector leaders. Using our industry and market knowledge, businessexpertise, operational skills, we have a proven track record of significantly increasing value of our portfolio companies. Verod uses an active, hands-on management policy to grow its portfolio companies into stronger and more profitable enterprises, while positioning the companies for a successful exit.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Other, Financial
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
  • Medplus — Medplus is a chain pharmacy retailer that offers health and beauty products.
  • Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Nigeria Marketplace startups, 69 in the past 12 months

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1272
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$43M; Series B $8M–$62M; Series C $11M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Brale — Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi.
  • Flox — Manage and share development environments, package your projects for others, and publish artifacts anywhere. Harness the power of Nix.
  • Ledge — Ledge is a command center for payments built for finance teams operating at scale.Ledge empowers finance teams with tools to centralize their payments data, get a real-time payments snapshot, automate multi-way reconciliation, identify problem transactions, accelerate their investigations, and dramatically lower the risk of losses, all withoutany engineering support.Finance teams regain control of payments and are freed to focus on strategic business impact, not manual payments work.
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Marketplace VC funding in Nigeria at a glance

Stats across 24 deals from 40 investors.

40
investors
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
24
deals
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
$3M
median round
in Nigeria Marketplace startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Seed
most common funding stage

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