Ventures Platform
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Ventures Platform is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Nigeria, investing in African startups across multiple sectors. It focuses on market-creating innovations that address non-consumption and infrastructural gaps.
Ventures Platform is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nigeria. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in FinTech, HealthTech, logistics and enterprise SaaS. 75 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers to access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.”
— Ventures Platform, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Nigeria
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- FinTech, HealthTech, Logistics, Enterprise SaaS, EdTech, Mobility, FoodTech, Agric-Tech
- Portfolio
- 75 companies
Team, as Ventures Platform publishes it
- Kola Aina Founding and Managing Partner
- Dotun Olowoporoku Managing Partner
- Damilola Teidi-Ayoola Head, Platform & Networks (Principal)
- Dolapo Morgan Investment Principal
- Adebimpe Popoola Head, People & Culture
- Collins Gilbert Associate, Platform & Networks
- Aicha Toure Venture Partner
- Desigan Chinniah Venture Partner
- Elo Umeh Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on venturesplatform.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. 52 co-investors found.
- LoftyInc Capital Management 8 shared companies: sudo.africa, mono.co, bitnob.com, ebanqo.com…
- Microtraction 6 shared companies: honeycoin.app, blochq.io, gradely.ng, lemfi.com…
- TLcom Capital 3 shared companies: honeycoin.app, talstack.com, seamlesshr.com
- Future Africa 2 shared companies: caantin.com, sudo.africa
- 4DX Ventures 2 shared companies: honeycoin.app, nomba.com
- Helios Investment Partners 2 shared companies: seamlesshr.com, nomba.com
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD) 1 shared company: bit.ly
- At One Ventures 1 shared company: bit.ly
- Biomatics Management Company, LLC 1 shared company: bit.ly
- CardinalStone Partners Limited 1 shared company: bit.ly
and 42 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ventures Platform publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.venturesplatform.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.venturesplatform.com/stories/ventures-platform-closes-pan-african-fund-ii-at-84mstage_min, stage_max, people
- https://www.venturesplatform.com/portfoliosectors
- https://www.venturesplatform.com/teampeople
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Record 663 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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