Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
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Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures is a $60 million pan-African venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, growth-stage companies. It provides capital and operational expertise through a joint venture with Verod Capital.
Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in mobility, FinTech, CleanTech and E-commerce. $60 million under management and 14 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.”
— Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- Mobility, FinTech, CleanTech, E-commerce, Proptech, HealthTech, DeepTech, Logistics
- Assets under management
- $60 million
- Portfolio
- 14 companies
- How to reach it
- Its contact page on its own site
Team, as Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures publishes it
- Ory Okolloh Partner, IC, PRC
- Ryosuke Yamawaki Partner, IC, PRC
- Satoshi Shinada Partner, IC, PRC
- Olivia Gao Principal
- Kingsley Ehima Associate
- Dolapo Olayoriju Associate
- Asuka Uesaka Associate, Investor Relations & Communications
- Chigozie Ejimogu Senior Manager, Sustainability and Impact
- Danladi Verheijen PRC
- Dipo Okuribido Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Commercial
- Nieros Oyegun Soerensen IC, PRC
- Omolara Ojo Chief Financial Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on vkav.vc. 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. 43 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Timon Capital 4 shared companies: zonenetwork.com, autochek.africa, flycloudline.com, ceviant.finance
- LoftyInc Capital Management 4 shared companies: trella.app, moove.io, ceviant.finance, tagaddod.com
- Lateral Frontiers VC 3 shared companies: zonenetwork.com, autochek.africa, kokonetworks.com
- 4DX Ventures 3 shared companies: autochek.africa, trella.app, nowpay.cash
- Endeavor Catalyst 3 shared companies: autochek.africa, nawy.com, moove.io
- P1 Ventures 3 shared companies: myworkpay.com, chari.co, djamo.com
- Digital Currency Group 2 shared companies: zonenetwork.com, djamo.com
- TLcom Capital 2 shared companies: zonenetwork.com, autochek.africa
- Enza Capital 2 shared companies: autochek.africa, flycloudline.com
- Norrsken22 2 shared companies: autochek.africa, myworkpay.com
and 33 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
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Record 8727 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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