# Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet

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.

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

## Golden Palm Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

## Lynett Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

## Social Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

## Western Technology Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## AU21 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

## Vy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

A global technology investment firm with a focus on category-defining technology companies with the potential to meaningfully impact humanity.

## Tencent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

## 4DX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community. 

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Michael Seibel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.

## Gabriel Hammond
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Wireless, FinTech

Gabriel Hammond

## ODBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

## Zeno Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Zeno Ventures invests in early stage technology enabled companies addressing consumer and enterprise markets. Zeno Ventures likes to back exceptional entrepreneurs before their businesses have scaled and often even before their business models are formed. Zeno Ventures seeks to partner with talented and passionate founders solving difficultproblems that were illuminated by their personal experience.

## Cadenza Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Ayodeji Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He isalso a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)The 'Afropreneur' (entrepreneur with an African focus), as he self-describes, Idris Bello is a Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, that has successfully accelerated the launch of several technology start-ups in social impact sectors. He is also a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, owners of the Afropreneurs Fund (I&II)A first class honors graduate of Computer Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, he has an M.Sc in Computer Science & Data Mining from the University of Houston; an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Strategy from Rice University in Houston and an M.Sc in Global Health Science from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2011 recipient of The Lord Weidenfeld Scholarship for demonstrating remarkable potential as a future leader from an emerging economy.Idris spent the greater part of a decade working at Chevron Corporation and ExxonMobil USA, where he led several large upstream technology projects across the USA and Sub-Saharan Africa. Idris has also worked with the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative where he played a major role in the deployment and evaluation of Swaziland’s first mobile health patient appointment reminder system as part of the country’s National AIDS Program. Listed among CNN’s Top Ten African Technology Voices, he is a Singularity University Impact Fellow, Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance Associate, Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow, MIT Global Start-up Fellow, SAP Ashoka Global Changemakers Award Winner, Dell Technology Award Winner, StartingBloc Innovation Fellow and a Nigeria Leadership Initiative Future Leader.As a leader, Idris has mentored and catalyzed scores of contributors across the growing African landscape and is an angel investor and advisor to several African startups including Andela, Flutterwave, RelianceHMO, among others. He continues to devote his efforts to the development of innovation-driven, technology-enabled social enterprises that empower the underserved and develop transformative ideas to change lives on the African continent.He spends most of his time between Lagos, Cairo, or airport lounges.

## First Midwest Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rockford, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

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## IDG Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds,pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries.IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

## Naspers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

## GIIG Africa Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing

GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.

## GSR Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology.The firm backs entrepreneurs building disruptive businesses that have the potential to dominate multi-billion dollar markets. GSR Ventures currently manages about $3 billionacross its funds.

## Jun Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

Jun Capital is committed to professional investment management service. With virtue of rich investment management expertise and solid expertise of the core team, They ensure the most professional investment management process.With the investment management team of JUN Capital as the core, they select the most professional partners in differentcircles to provide investors with professional investment advice and management service.

## BEENEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

BEENEXT is a Venture Capital fund managed by serial entrepreneurs that focuses on assisting founders with its operational experience, network, trust, unique perspectives, and the capital. The team invests in early-stage tech start-ups that are focused on building the new digital platforms driven by the data network. BEENEXT aims to establish aplatform of founders, by the founders and for the founders across the globe, primarily in South East Asia, India and Japan. Since its establishment in 2015, the team has
invested in over 180 companies globally.

## Kinnevik
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services

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.

## Unpopular Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

The best companies, off the beaten path.

## Shadi Abdulhadi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Mobile Payments

Shadi Abdulhadi

## Blackwell Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments

"Uncovering & Building Value"

## Roselake Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Transportation, SaaS, Travel

An early-stage venture fund, Roselake invests in tech companies in emerging markets across Africa and Asia.

## Mo Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moka, Moka, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps

Mo Angels is the first Angel Investment Group in Mauritius. We source and screen startups, allowing you to focus on adding value to your portfolio companies.

## Pioneer
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Software, Consumer, Medical

A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world. Pioneer is a community of creative people working on interesting projects around the globe.

## Picus Capital GmbH
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Hospital, InsurTech

Seed round investor

## Rise Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Health Care

Rise Capital is a leading global venture capital firm focused on Emerging Markets

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## IC Global Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

IC Global Partners is an international venture capital firm focused on seed- and early-stage venture investments.

## Ampifi VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Software, Ride Sharing

Amplifi was formed by a group of early crypto adopters turned private investors. We have a strong belief in the long-term survival of blockchain ecosystem, which is set to disrupt the world as we know it.

## AAIC Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce

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

## Goodwater Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

## Mozilla
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

## Concrete Rose Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Concrete Rose Capital operates as an early-stage investment platform that primarily invests in companies serving underrepresented consumers and helping early-stage companies build diverse teams.
It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bay Area, US.

## Blockwall
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany

## Rockpool Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services

We are a multi-family office platform with a highly active ecosystem of financial institutions and partners to provide customized wealth management services. Rockpool’s unique in-house Chief Investment Office (CIO) is a part of our DNA, ensuring institutional rigor is firmly at the heart of everything that we do.
Established in 2017 by a team ofexperienced investment professionals, Rockpool Capital is guided by its founding vision to connect, serve, and champion the unique and changing investment needs of Asia’s emerging and next generations.

## Asymmetry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

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

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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.

## BKR Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Car Sharing, Mobile Apps

BKR Capital, a venture firm capital built with the objective of investing in promising Black founders in the technology space.

## Adventure Capital Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Software

Adventure Capital is a unique mix of incubator and venture fund focused in frontier markets. Our team provides extensive operational, technical, and financial support to each of our portfolio companies. These next-generation platforms are improving the lives of millions and generating jobs through more efficient markets.

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