Smallstep Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Smallstep Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria investing in Climate / Energy, Real Estate, Other. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Climate / Energy, Real Estate, Other, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Lagos, Nigeria
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-28
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
1+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Focused on early-stage investments in CleanTech and Telecom ventures in Africa, leveraging technology for infrastructure challenges.
How Smallstep Ventures invests
Smallstep Ventures is a vc firm based in Lagos, Nigeria. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Climate / Energy, Real Estate, Other, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Media.
Smallstep Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.
Smallstep Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including Smallstep.
Partners & Team
Akinyi Okafor
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
Smallstep
A company involved in its own funding round.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Climate / Energy, Real Estate, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Akinyi Okafor, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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