Gifting Ventures Network — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($50K–$500K Checks)
Gifting Ventures Network is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria investing in Other, Consumer, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $50K–$500K checks and has 21 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $50K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 21 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Consumer, Marketplace
- HQ
- Lagos, Nigeria
- AUM
- Not in our records
Pre-Seed, Seed
$50K – $500K
21+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Focuses on the evolution of gifting marketplaces in Africa, supporting platforms with a cultural and local components.
How Gifting Ventures Network invests
Gifting Ventures Network is a vc firm based in Lagos, Nigeria. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Consumer, Marketplace. It does not invest in industrial.
Gifting Ventures Network typically writes checks of $50K–$500K per investment.
Gifting Ventures Network has backed 21 companies in our records, including GiftBay, CulturalGifts, GiftingNetwork.
Partners & Team
Eric Swerdlin
General Partner
Founded and led Swerdlin White Huber, acquired by Bank of New York in 1999. Three decades of planned giving administration expertise.
Tirdad Shojaie
Advisory Board
20+ years fintech and management consulting.
Mitchell Kane
Advisory Board
27 years strategic leadership at Ingersoll Rand and Vanderbilt Industries.
Rob Harteveldt
Advisory Board
Senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Bear Stearns.
Anurag Gaur
Chief Technology Officer
20+ years enterprise software at Axioma and Mahathi Software.
Bola Osinusi
Founder
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (21)
Other
GiftBay
CulturalGifts
GiftingNetwork
The Philanthropic Infrastructure Platform
Gifting Network Solutions
GiftingNet
DAF Sponsor Platform
DAF Network
Donor Portals
Grant Administration
Philanthropic Back Office
giftingpension
GiftingPension
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Consumer, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $500K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Eric Swerdlin, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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