Microtraction
microtraction.com Direct investor
Microtraction is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides pre-seed funding to African technology startups. It invests $100,000 for 7% equity in companies with technical founders, focusing on high-growth technology businesses in billion-dollar markets.
Microtraction is a venture capital firm headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, at pre-seed, in sector agnostic. Its stated cheque size is $100,000 for 7%. 66 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest $100k into Africa’s most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture.”
— Microtraction, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- sector agnostic
- Cheque size
- $100,000 for 7%
- Founded
- 2017
- Portfolio
- 66 companies
Team, as Microtraction publishes it
- Yele Bademosi Founding Partner
- Kwamena Afful Founding Partner
- Sayo Folawiyo Founding Partner
- Dayo Koleowo Investment Partner
- Ato Bentsi-Enchill SPV Investment Lead
- Offiong Isyah Investment Analyst, West Africa
- Samantha Asheley Amarhfio Finance
- Judith Koranteng Legal
Names and roles exactly as listed on microtraction.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 18 co-investors found.
- Ventures Platform 6 shared companies: honeycoin.app, blochq.io, gradely.ng, lemfi.com…
- 4DX Ventures 3 shared companies: honeycoin.app, risevest.com, sendbox.co
- LAVA 3 shared companies: honeycoin.app, jamit.fm, paycrest.io
- LoftyInc Capital Management 3 shared companies: instantrad.com, orda.africa, treepz.com
- Quona Capital 2 shared companies: cowrywise.com, orda.africa
- Enza Capital 2 shared companies: orda.africa, sendbox.co
- Future Africa 1 shared company: novek.io
- Satgana 1 shared company: novek.io
- VestedWorld 1 shared company: novek.io
- TLcom Capital 1 shared company: honeycoin.app
and 8 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Microtraction publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.microtraction.com/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, status, confidence
- https://www.microtraction.com/aboutlayer, type, sectors, cheque_size, description, founded
- https://www.microtraction.com/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.microtraction.com/teampeople
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Record 884 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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