Octopus Venture Capital
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Octopus Venture Capital is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-licensed venture capital firm based in Abuja, Nigeria. It operates a venture studio model, investing in and actively building companies across Africa, focusing on sectors like infrastructure, mining, real estate, agriculture, healthtech, and workforce development.
Octopus Venture Capital is an investor headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in physical Infrastructure, industrial Infrastructure, mining Infrastructure and affordable Real Estate.
“We focus on funding and scaling ventures operating at the intersection of institutional gaps, market failures, and untapped local capacity, while driving inclusive economic growth and delivering sustainable long-term investor returns.”
— Octopus Venture Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Headquarters
- Abuja, Nigeria
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- Physical Infrastructure, Industrial Infrastructure, Mining Infrastructure, Affordable Real Estate, Digital Infrastructure, Agriculture Infrastructure, Workforce Development, HealthTech Infrastructure
- Founded
- 2017
Team, as Octopus Venture Capital publishes it
- Nelson Okwonna Founder and CEO
- Ayodeji Kurunmi Board Chairman
- Seun Olorunmaye Executive Director
- Gloria Udekwe Non-Executive Director
- Sola Magaji Non-Executive Director
- Omakwu Ikongbeh Company Secretary
- Yemisi Isidi Senior Principal/Head of Investment
- Franklyn Akuchukwu Investment Manager
- Esther Najomoh Portfolio Manager
- Moses Usman Legal & Compliance Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on octopusvc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Octopus Venture Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://octopusvc.com/name, is_investor, layer, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://octopusvc.com/about/type, founded
- https://octopusvc.com/team/people
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