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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 18 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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