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Top 23 Emerging markets venture capital based in Nigeria
RevenueBase identified 76 emerging markets venture capital headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026 and tracks 513 professional contacts across them, including 193 with verified work emails. Lagos is the largest hub.
This list covers emerging markets venture capital headquartered in Nigeria, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.
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The 23 largest emerging markets venture capital based in Nigeria
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MBO Capital is an investment and financial advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We focus on early-stage venture capital and digital transformation, and we believe in the power of technology to scale African businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A pan-African fund that invest early in mission-driven founders building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HealthCap Africa is An Africa-focused venture fund that invests in early-stage fintech and healthtech startups across the continent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oui Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm backing bold & brilliant entrepreneurs building tech & tech-enabled companies that will transform Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Resilience17 is a venture studio and early-stage VC fund backing ambitious African founders locally and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an Africa-focused investment management firm with a simple, yet powerful mission: to help early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build enduring, high-impact businesses that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Microtraction is an early-stage VC firm that provides pre-seed and seed capital to technology entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their venture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Oak Capital is a venture capital management firm established for making outstanding investment deals in Africa, with a bias for businesses driving technological innovations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atlantica Ventures is an African impact focused Venture Capital fund investing in tech and tech enabled startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Octerra Capital is a privately held investment fund focused on unlocking funding and growth opportunities for early stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Across Africa, women face systemic barriers to accessing startup capital, despite their proven ability to drive economic growth and community transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brendan Nicholas Holdings (BNH) is a Nigerian permanent capital holding company headquartered in Abuja.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are on a mission to back extraordinary entrepreneurs out of Africa, solving important problems in large markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We provide growth capital and sales solutions to mid-sized ambitious businesses in emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Askya Investment Partners is an investment firm building a new generation of technology and artificial intelligence champions from Africa, making what the continent needs while…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YOUR PARTNER FOR GROWTH!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are self-taught VCs who believe magic can be found at the other side of questioning convention.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Constant Ventures is an African-founded, African-led venture capital fund, strategically focused on catalysing growth in Africa’s biggest economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Itanna is an impact initiative that invests in disruptive tech-enabled businesses in Africa providing mentorship, facilitated networking and growth capital through its accelerator…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Greater Africa Investments (GAI) is active in the real estate and technology sectors, and boasts of a portfolio of impactful African Start-Ups and SME businesses at different…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture Capital Firm with a focus on early-stage social and socioeconomic impact companies/startups across Africa and African(s) entrepreneurs in the diaspora.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Backing Africa's experienced founders building market & opportunity-creating' ventures in frontier cities” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: emerging markets venture capital. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names emerging markets venture capital.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of emerging markets venture capital, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name emerging markets venture capital. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Emerging markets venture capital based in Nigeria at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Nigeria, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Nigeria, over 76 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among emerging markets venture capital, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Nigeria whose own description of what they do matches “emerging markets venture capital”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names emerging markets venture capital), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among emerging markets venture capital, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Nigeria are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 193 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names emerging markets venture capital, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many emerging markets venture capital are there based in Nigeria?
RevenueBase identified 76 emerging markets venture capital headquartered in Nigeria as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
MBO Capital Management Limited, headquartered in Ikoyi Lagos, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most emerging markets venture capital?
Lagos leads with 27 headquartered companies, followed by Lagos State (8) and Ikoyi Lagos (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 193 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 76 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.
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