Building the Future of FinTech
Propelling category-leading companies and fueling an inclusive digital economy
"Our Mantra"
Every company should be a fintech company
We help ambitious founders reinvent industries and transform financial services.
We help companies mobilize FinTech to reinvent and digitize all industries and financial services.
We aspire for FinTech to fuel a new open and financially inclusive economy adding billions to GDP.
Customer focused
Value oriented
Data obsessed
People centric
What we do
Unicorn Growth Capital is a pioneer FinTech VC firm
Thesis-Driven
Thesis-driven investing in early-stage FinTech-enabled companies (Seed to Series A).
Thesis-Driven
Thesis-driven investing in early-stage FinTech-enabled companies (Seed to Series A).
Mobile-Based Economy
Bridging Africa’s fast-growing mobile-based economies with the global digital ecosystem.
Mobile-Based Economy
Bridging Africa’s fast-growing mobile-based economies with the global digital ecosystem.
VC Ecosystem
Driving an inclusive economy and diverse VC ecosystem backing diverse and female founders.
VC Ecosystem
Driving an inclusive economy and diverse VC ecosystem backing diverse and female founders.
What we do
We are value-add investors in emerging global champions
Thesis-Driven
Investing in early-stage FinTech-enabled companies, leveraging emerging technologies and providing critical infrastructure and embedded finance across industries
Africa
Scaling global companies, with a focus on integrating fast-growing mobile-based economies with the global ecosystem
Diverse
Driving an inclusive economy by financially empowering underserved consumers and businesses. Promoting a diverse VC ecosystem by backing underrepresented and female founders
Our Focus
We provide you the use of emerging technologies
We focus on companies that are data-driven, built for the API economy, use emerging technologies (AI, blockchain, IOT) and are strategically valuable to the digital ecosystem.
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FinTech Infrastructure
– API-based and Embeddable financial infrastructure
– Decentralized infrastructure -
Embedded Finance
– Vertical SAAS players applying FinTech solutions to their industry
– Enterprise / SMB Software with embedded financial services -
Digital Financial Services
– Vertical SAAS players applying FinTech solutions to their industry
Our Focus
We invest in companies that solve major challenges and are strategically valuable to the digital ecosystem
FinTech Infrastructure
FinTech Infrastructure
• API-based
• Embeddable
• Crypto /Blockchain
• Embeddable
• Crypto /Blockchain
Embedded Finance
Embedded Finance
• Vertical SAAS
• Enterprise / SMB Software
• Marketplace
• Enterprise / SMB Software
• Marketplace
Digital Financial Services
Digital Financial Services
• B2C Digital Natives
Our Companies
We’ve supported leading companies that have built the financial rails to power the digital economy
Banking automation software and decentralised payments platform
Fintech Infrastructure
AppZone is a fintech software provider building out the core infrastructure for digital financial services in Africa. The company provides banking software-as-a-service to banks, fintechs and financial service providers in 5 African countries.
Our Companies
We’ve supported leading companies that have built the financial rails to power the digital economy
Banking automation software and decentralised payments platform
Fintech Infrastructure
AppZone is a fintech software provider building out the core infrastructure for digital financial services in Africa. The company provides banking software-as-a-service to banks, fintechs and financial service providers in 5 African countries.
AI-powered lending-as-a-service and analytics platform
Fintech Infrastructure
Indicina’s platform helps banks, MFBs and FinTech companies to manage their retail lending by digitising their customer onboarding, loan origination, credit decisioning and portfolio management.
Cross-border payments and digital banking platform
Fintech Infrastructure
VertoFX is a leading enterprise and marketplace platform for FX exchanges and cross-border financial services. The company’s cross-border payments and digital banking infrastructure is helping to make cross-border trade cheaper, faster and safer.
Team: Anthony Oduwole, Ola Oyetayo
Banking automation software and decentralised payments platform
Fintech Infrastructure
AppZone is a fintech software provider building out the core infrastructure for digital financial services in Africa. The company provides banking software-as-a-service to banks, fintechs and financial service providers in 5 African countries.
Our Team
Experienced Investors and Operators
We help companies
scale and win
We are a team of experienced investors and company builders with more than 50 years of combined work experience in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Technology sectors. We pride ourselves as being a supportive, hands-on partner with first-hand operator experience across Africa and globally.
Through strategic partnerships, we enable collaborations with key stakeholders such as banks, telecoms, corporates, regulators and other FinTech players. We also aim to drive collaborations between our portfolio companies to generate synergies and bolster their customer base in addition to providing regulatory and policy guidance in our target markets.
We help companies enhance their business strategies by sharing best practices on financial services and FinTech-driven business models. Our network of advisors and operator mentors deliver their expertise on FinTech products and advanced technologies to deepen capabilities for leveraging non-biased AI models, blockchain, and cybersecurity. We provide proven go-to-market strategies into target FinTech/banking markets and regions in Africa and emerging markets.
Our Team
Experienced investors and operators
We help companies scale and win in their respective industries and categories
We are a team of experienced investors and company builders with more than 50 years of combined work experience in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Technology sectors. We pride ourselves as being a supportive, hands-on partner with first-hand operator experience across Africa and globally.
Through strategic partnerships, we enable collaborations with key stakeholders such as banks, telecoms, corporates, regulators and other FinTech players. We also aim to drive collaborations between our portfolio companies to generate synergies and bolster their customer base in addition to providing regulatory and policy guidance in our target markets.
We help companies enhance their business strategies by sharing best practices on financial services and FinTech-driven business models. Our network of advisors and operator mentors deliver their expertise on FinTech products and advanced technologies to deepen capabilities for leveraging non-biased AI models, blockchain, and cybersecurity. We provide proven go-to-market strategies into target FinTech/banking markets and regions in Africa and emerging markets.
News
Our Latest News
Barbara Iyayi on Techstars Fintech Roundtable: Finteching the Unbanked
Unicorn Growth Capital CEO and Founding Partner, Barbara Iyayi, will be part of the upcoming Techstars Fintech Roundtable that will focus on why financial…
Barbara Iyayi and Chris Mathias appointed to Web Foundation Board of Directors
The Covid-19 crisis has underscored like never before why web access must be a public good and a basic right for everyone. The mission…
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