Baobab Capital
Baobab Capital is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria investing in Other, Enterprise, SaaS. The firm typically writes $50K–$150K checks and has 68 portfolio companies in our records.
Pre-Seed, Seed
$50K – $150K
68+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Targets gaps in African technological systems, with strong emphasis on B2B platforms streamlining workflows and enabling analytics.
How Baobab Capital invests
Baobab Capital is a vc firm based in Lagos, Nigeria. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Enterprise, SaaS, Developer Tools, Fintech. It does not invest in Fintech.
Baobab Capital typically writes checks of $50K–$150K per investment.
Baobab Capital has backed 68 companies in our records, including InfoBank Africa, LocalDataX, Bollore.
Meet the Team
Chijioke Umeh
Principal
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (68)
Other
InfoBank Africa
LocalDataX
Bollore
Diversified conglomerate in logistics, media, and industrial services
Exor
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Fairfax India Holdings
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Grindrod
Shipping and logistics services provider
IAC Inc
Internet and media holding company owning Angi, Dotdash Meredith
IDT Corp
Provider of telecom, payments, and cloud services
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Aveng
Construction and engineering services firm
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Enterprise, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $150K check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nick Talwar, Chairman of the Strategy Committee - Senior Partner, K50 Ventures.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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