# Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

## LoftyInc Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Carmel, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 19
- 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.........

## Microtraction
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 15
- 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

## Ventures Platform
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 13
- 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.

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## TLcom Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology

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.

## Musha Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Future Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## HoaQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce

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## Golden Palm Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

## Chinook Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Retail, Home Services

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

## Tayo Oviosu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Tayo is the Founder & Group CEO of Paga (www.paga.com), Nigeria’s leading mobile money service. Prior to Paga, Tayo was Vice-President at Travant Capital Partners, a private equity fund in West Africa. Prior to joining Travant, Tayo was a Manager, Corporate Development, at Cisco Systems in San Jose California. Tayo’s work at Paga has beenrecognized globally - in 2014 CNBC selected Tayo as the Entrepreneur of the Year West Africa, and in 2015 the African Leadership Network selected Paga as the outstanding growing company of the year in Africa. Tayo is also the co-founder of Kairos Angels, an angel investment club.Tayo earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Southern California, and also has a Masters in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

## Idris Ayodeji Bello
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Lateral Frontiers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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## Consonance Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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

## Tencent
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Ingressive Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Ingressive Capital they provide services in business development, partnerships, and financial support.

## Niche Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

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## VentureSouq
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

VentureSouq operates a large co-investment platform with a global investment portfolio.

## Prosper Otemuyiwa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, CRM, Telecommunications

Prosper Otemuyiwa is a Co-founder of forLoop Africa. He attended Babcock University.

## Enza Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

## Hustle Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Carlos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Edmond Nonie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Construction

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## Allen and Ollys International Limited -
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

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## ODBA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Kairos Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B

An investment club partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to create disruptive and innovative companies that have the potential to be come regional leaders and global challengers. ideas@kairosangels.com

## Greenhouse Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sausalito, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Manufacturing

Greenhouse Capital Partners invests in B2B technology solutions that improve resource efficiency, drive climate change resiliency and unlock new value streams across legacy industrial supply chains and infrastructure.

## Ayodeji Adewunmi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Ayodeji Adewunmi is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Dot. He previously worked at GOKADA as a President & Co-CEO. Ayodeji Adewunmi attended Obafemi Awolowo University.

## 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

## The Fintech Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

## MediaTek
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hsinchu, T'ai-wan, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series D
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Semiconductor

MediaTek is another name for incredible innovation that powers the brands you love. From smartphones to smart homes, we are always by your side.

## Soma Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Roselake Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Unpopular Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

The best companies, off the beaten path.

## The Chrysalis Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Bitcoin

Chrysalis Capital is an investment management firm focused on scaling early-stage tech companies in Africa and the diaspora.

## GetEquity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Health Care

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

## BluePointe Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We look for enablers of change that could have a meaningful impact to the Human Experience.

## K50 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software

K50 Ventures is the most trusted first-check investor for mission-driven founders building a better future for the 99% in the US and LATAM.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## Ardent Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Leading Venture Capital & Builder in Southeast Asia | Experts in E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Fulfilment Startups | Seed, Series A Funding

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Rise Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## V8 Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation

## Olugbenga Agboola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Far Out Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace

We are a networked team of exited founders and operators, leveraging venture capital to help entrepreneurs transform big ideas into great businesses.

## Zedcrest Capital Limited
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Credit

Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments

## TRANSSION
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Payments

TRANSSION HOLDINGS, the company formerly known as TECNO TELECOM LIMITED, established in July 2006, is a high-tech company specializing in the R&D, production, sale and service of mobile communication products. After years of development, TRANSSION has become an important part of the mobile phone industry and one of the major mobile phonemanufacturers in the world. Currently, it has full ownership of three famous mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinix, and an after-sales service brand Carlcare.The company has set up offices in many countries and regions, such as Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Bengal, and even has built a factory in Ethiopia, which has provided great support for all its brands.

## Necessary Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Necessary Ventures focuses on investing in what the world needs. They work with the founders to build the most scalable solutions.

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