Kaleo Ventures

Established in 2023 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Kaleo Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in early-stage technology companies across Africa.

Andrew Firman

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Nigeria

Beacon Power Services

Series A in 2024
Beacon Power Services, established in 2013 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, specializes in designing and implementing energy management solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. The company's core offering is its AI-enabled grid management platform, Adora, which provides real-time visibility into network performance for electric utilities, enabling them to anticipate outages, identify network losses, and distribute electricity more efficiently. Additionally, Adora empowers consumers with control over their energy infrastructure, facilitating invoicing, installations, and logistics. Beacon Power Services aims to enhance the quality and duration of electricity supplied in African cities by building smart grids and leveraging data to reduce inefficiencies in power distribution systems.

PipeOps

Pre Seed Round in 2023
PipeOps, established in 2021 and based in Lekki, Lagos, specializes in streamlining software deployment, monitoring, and scaling. Its core product is a no-code tool platform that simplifies cloud deployments and infrastructure management. The platform offers a user-friendly graphical interface, supports multiple frameworks, and automates build triggers, empowering businesses of all sizes to deploy applications more efficiently.

Trade Lenda

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Trade Lenda is a digital financial services platform in Nigeria that enables micro, small, and informal retailers to access credit for working capital. The company uses alternative data to assess character and capacity, reducing reliance on upfront collateral and speeding credit decisions. Its offerings include short-term loans and, in the future, micro-savings, insurance, and investment and pension options to broaden financial inclusion. By helping MSMEs become bankable, Trade Lenda aims to close a financing gap that limits growth for small businesses in developing economies, with a focus on Nigeria.

Beacon Power Services

Seed Round in 2022
Beacon Power Services, established in 2013 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, specializes in designing and implementing energy management solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. The company's core offering is its AI-enabled grid management platform, Adora, which provides real-time visibility into network performance for electric utilities, enabling them to anticipate outages, identify network losses, and distribute electricity more efficiently. Additionally, Adora empowers consumers with control over their energy infrastructure, facilitating invoicing, installations, and logistics. Beacon Power Services aims to enhance the quality and duration of electricity supplied in African cities by building smart grids and leveraging data to reduce inefficiencies in power distribution systems.

Releaf

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in Nigeria in 2017, Releaf operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of various agricultural products such as cassava, palm oil, ginger, cashew nuts, fish, maize, cocoa, kola nuts, yam, and sesame seeds. It also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer for their products, and converts raw materials into factory-grade inputs.

Decagon

Seed Round in 2022
Decagon is a Lagos-based company founded in 2018 that focuses on transforming high-potential individuals into skilled tech talent through a rigorous merit-based training program. It recruits the top 0.5% of tech talent in Africa, producing world-class software engineers equipped with deploy-ready skills in various programming languages and methodologies, including Node, Java, iOS, Android, C#, Python, and agile practices. In addition to software development training, Decagon operates as a digital product engineering hiring agency, providing vetted remote software engineering talent to companies worldwide. The company offers comprehensive services that include recruiting, ongoing HR management, and custom onboarding, ensuring that businesses have access to skilled engineers who can meet their specific product needs. Decagon currently serves leading companies in major cities such as Austin, New York City, Berlin, London, and Rome.
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