Best High Tech Companies in Lagos, Nigeria
The 45 best High Tech companies in Lagos, Nigeria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Smile ID.
Our analysis of 1,127 High Tech companies
$222.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Lagos
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smile ID Provider of digital identity verification, fraud detection, and KYC compliance solutions | $31M | 42 mo ago | Series B | Mark Straub Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | TurbopackEmotionApple iCloud Mail+19 | — |
| 2 | i.Sec AI based financial fraud detection solutions | $10M | 149 mo ago | Late Stage | Kayode Disu Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | Identity Pass Cloud based customer identity verification solution provider | $3M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Niyi Adegboye Co-Founder & COO | 2021 | Cart Functionalitystyled-componentsReact+18 | — |
| 4 | Xend Finance Defi savings platform for credit unions and cooperatives | $2M | 66 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+10 | — |
| 5 | Figorr Cloud based platform offering temperature monitoring solutions | $2M | 39 mo ago | Seed | Oghenetega Iortim Founder & CEO | 2017 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowYouTube+17 | — |
| 6 | Intron Developer of speech recognition and text-to-speech APIs for voice applications | $2M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Tobi Olatunji Md Founder | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 7 | AirSmat Provider of AI enabled software for drone data management | $100K | 71 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 8 | MOBicure Smartphone app for child health monitoring | $100K | 106 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2014 | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Lagos
#1
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2020$1.6Mraised▾
Developer of speech recognition and text-to-speech APIs for voice applications. The company provides application programming interfaces to power context-specific and domain-specific voice applications. These applications include clinical ambient listening, medical dictation, judicial and legislative transcription, and voice commands for mobile app interactions. The APIs also support reproductive health voice bots, call center automation, meeting minutes, and voice authentication.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.6M
#2
Series B · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2017$31.1Mraised▾
Provider of digital identity verification, fraud detection, and KYC compliance solutions. It offers tools for user authentication, anti-money laundering, and digital KYC. The company provides facial recognition technology and fraud risk signals, including AML checks and duplicate user screening. It also offers no-code ID verification tools, allowing businesses to add IDs, customize the interface, and share links for customer verification.
- Feb 2023Series B$20M
- Jul 2021Series A$7M
- 2019Seed$4M
- Feb 2017Seed$100K
#3
Seed · Ikeja, Lagos · founded 2017 · 38 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering temperature monitoring solutions. It provides real time data that enables users to monitor temperature sensitive products. The platform allows users to monitor and track the storage conditions and location of products in transit. It offers real time reports that provide insights on cold storage performance.
- May 2023Seed$1.5M
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$150K
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$50K
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$110K
#4
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2021 · 25 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Cloud based customer identity verification solution provider. It provides a cyber security platform that offers products such as an identitypass landing page for verifying the identity of individuals and businesses. The features of the product include AI based biometric engine for facial recognition, facial enrollment, API integrations, liveliness check, etc.
- May 2022Seed$2.8M
- Nov 2021Seed$360K
#5
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2019 · 2 employees$2Mraised▾
Defi savings platform for credit unions and cooperatives. It enables users to invest and save on stable currencies, stake savings on Defi networks, interest on tokens, and more. It features cross-chain communication with blockchain.
- Feb 2021ICO$2.2M
- Feb 2021Seed$500K
- 2020Seed$1.5M
#6
Late Stage · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2013 · 2 employees$10Mraised▾
i.Sec provides access authentication middleware to protect customers from unwanted and malicious debits on their accounts and also enables the customer with the ability to either, approve transactions, decline them or report fraud real-time. Solution employs machine learning based artificial intelligence to adapt in real time to detect and provide alerts to prevent financial frauds and scams. Product is delivered via cloud as an API integration to exisiting websites. Products include i.Sec basic and pro which delivers authentication based on secure code, OTP and biometrics for financial transactions across all platforms. Features include compatibility with the international transaction, auditing & loggging capabilities and fraud reporting when a transaction is initiaited. Started with induction at technology innovation program launched by the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, Nigeria. Company became part of National Anti-Fraud Solution and currently provides 2-factor authentication for the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS).
- Mar 2014PE$10M
#7
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2021 · 7 employees$20Kraised▾
Fingerprint-based authentication solutions for payments. Enables customers to make payments with the fingerprint through biometric POS terminals. Customers can enter phone numbers and provide fingerprints for authorizing payments.
- Apr 2022Seed$20K
#8
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2019 · 18 employees$100Kraised▾
Airsmat provides AirSmat Artificial Intelligence (AAI) enabled software to operate, gather data, and collaborate to help farmers to see growth trends, count and size plants, generate prescription maps, identify early indicators of plant stress, and measure the zonal efficiency of farmers plantation. The software platform provided by the company makes drones safe, reliable and connected. Artificial intelligence-enabled software helps to provide valuable intelligence from the sky to the user and with this information, they can take proactive steps to solve real problems.
- Sep 2020Seed$100K
#9
Funding Raised · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2016$95Kraised▾
Imisi 3D is an extended reality creation lab engaged in developing immersive solutions and providing educational and engagement experiences leveraging augmented and virtual reality. Its chief offering levrn3 is an open-source virtual reality platform for curriculum-based learning modules that supports both immersive classroom experiences for teachers and students.
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$95K
#10
Funding Raised · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2014 · 27 employees$100Kraised▾
Mobicure is a mobile health company that develops the Omomi App. The Omomi app is a health and social platform which helps parents can track their child’s immunization status, manage diarrhea at home with interactive DIY platform and access to speak to doctors as well as other parents. It also provides a quiz which gives parents simple health education knowledge. The company also offers the OMOMI SMS service which provides timely, relevant and personalized health information on pregnancy, motherhood, safe delivery and healthy baby lifestyle. AppsAfrica Innovation Awards 2015 Finalist.
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$100K
#11
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2018 · 7 employees$25Kraised▾
Powercube provides solutions for smart lightning for residential building. Its product can be controlled by a mobile application. It also provides energy consumption report.
- Mar 2018Seed$25K
#12
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2015$25Kraised▾
GRIT Systems is a Nigerian IoT startup developing web-enabled technology for controlling and gathering data about household & commercial electrical power consumption. It visualizes yields from alternate power sources, remotely monitor power consumption and quality. Their product Grit Energy and Power Monitor (GEPM) collects detailed information from multiple power sources including solar panels, inverters, generators, the grid, smart meters e.t.c. at once and sends a simplified summary of data by creating charts.
- May 2015Seed$25K
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