Investments made.

A growing portfolio backing the businesses that will reshape markets.

Investment philosophy

Venture Capital

We are sector-agnostic by design, with a deliberate bias toward areas where technology creates durable competitive advantage. We favour B2B, B2B2C, and B2G models for their structural defensibility, without closing the door on B2C where the unit economics justify it.

Our sourcing is Pan-African by conviction and geographically open by instinct. We look across the continent and into emerging markets beyond it, wherever we find founders thinking at continental scale and building with the architecture to get there.

Private Credit

We provide structured private credit solutions to medium and high growth businesses across emerging and frontier markets. Our mandate is simple: deploy capital where traditional lenders cannot, while maintaining rigorous underwriting, governance discipline, and structural downside protection.

We partner with high growth startups and SMEs that require speed, flexibility, and structuring sophistication beyond or in combination with conventional financing channels.

Alternative Investments 

Trust the data, and trust your intuition too.

Our Alternative Investments practice targets the foundational layers of economic infrastructure. We invest across Energy, Digital Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Agribusiness, Healthcare Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics, FMCG, and Industrials. We back bold, experienced operators building scalable businesses with predictable cashflows and a credible path to exponential growth.

We are instrument-agnostic, deploying equity, quasi-equity, and structured instruments depending on the stage and capital needs of the business. What ties this together is a fascination with domestic demand and infrastructure unlock: companies and projects that serve growing local populations, reduce import dependency, and bring economic activity into existence.

Real Estate

Trust the data, and trust your intuition too.

We invest in income-generating real assets with durable yields and long-term appreciation. We look for quality locations, creditworthy tenants or reliable demand, sound fundamentals on an entry basis, and a clear path to value through income, development, or repositioning.

Investing with conviction across the capital stack.

Venture Capital

Private Credit

AfriMillions

A licensed, mobile-first gaming platform building Africa's first transnational draw-and-jackpot game.

Venture Capital

2025

BFREE Africa

Acquiring and managing distressed consumer loan portfolios for lenders across Africa, using AI to let borrowers set their own repayment terms.

Venture Capital

Private Credit

2021

Edves

AI-powered school management and learning platform digitising operations and learning engagement across Africa.

Venture Capital

2021

EMTECH

Digital infrastructure for central banks: sandboxes, CBDCs, supervision, and currency management.

Venture Capital

2021

EndoShunt Technologies

A medical device company that is stopping life-threatening internal bleeding during surgeries.

Venture Capital

2025

Finvar Corporation

Data intelligence for financial institutions, aggregating, structuring, and automating complex reporting.

Venture Capital

2021

AfriMillions

A licensed, mobile-first gaming platform building Africa's first transnational draw-and-jackpot game.

Venture Capital

2025

BFREE Africa

Acquiring and managing distressed consumer loan portfolios for lenders across Africa, using AI to let borrowers set their own repayment terms.

Venture Capital

Private Credit

2021

Edves

AI-powered school management and learning platform digitising operations and learning engagement across Africa.

Venture Capital

2021

EMTECH

Digital infrastructure for central banks: sandboxes, CBDCs, supervision, and currency management.

Venture Capital

2021

EndoShunt Technologies

A medical device company that is stopping life-threatening internal bleeding during surgeries.

Venture Capital

2025

Finvar Corporation

Data intelligence for financial institutions, aggregating, structuring, and automating complex reporting.

Venture Capital

2021

Fundably

Embedded finance platform matching SMEs to commercial lenders instantly.

Venture Capital

2022

Herconomy

A digital bank for women, combining savings, credit, education, and community.

Venture Capital

2021

Our Real Estate and Alternative Investments

Real Estate

Alternative Investments

Real Estate

Anthony, Lagos Development

A six-unit townhouse development on the mainland corridor where Lagos's middle-income households are looking for homes.

Real Estate

Birmingham Investment Property

A tenanted, furnished one-bedroom property bought for income in a city where major employers arrived well before the housing to accommodate them was built.

Real Estate

Dawaki, Abuja Development

A two-unit townhouse development in partnership with the landowner, on the north-western corridor housing the working population Abuja's original plan left out.

Real Estate

Ikoyi, Lagos Development

A 2,500-square-metre waterfront parcel bought outright in one of the city's most supply-constrained districts, held for development where almost nothing comes to market.

Real Estate

Manchester Investment Property

A tenanted two-bedroom property bought for income in a young, fast-growing city that is building far fewer homes than its population needs.

Alternative Investments

Undisclosed – Upstream Energy, Nigeria

An indigenous Nigerian oil and gas exploration and production business that acquires under-developed assets and returns them to production. Operating a marginal field that had lain dormant for close to two decades, it secured the licence and has since re-entered and completed multiple wells. It also holds development trusts in its host communities.

Alternative Investments

Undisclosed – Sports & Entertainment Platform Investment

A Nigerian-based sports and entertainment promotions group focused on premium live sporting events, staging local and international talent with global distribution reach. It sits at the intersection of sports, culture, broadcast, tourism, and youth development.

Alternative Investments

Undisclosed – Technology Company Investment

An African integrated payments and digital commerce company, founded in Nigeria to build the country's electronic payments infrastructure. It operates the switching and processing rails connecting banks, merchants and government agencies; runs consumer and business platforms; and maintains an API marketplace for developers and aggregators.

Alternative Investments

Undisclosed – Mature AI & Technology Company Investment

An applied artificial intelligence business building the software layer that runs critical physical infrastructure. Its platform sits above the systems that operate water and wastewater networks, power grids, telecoms networks, health systems, and city services, giving operators unified visibility, predictive models of what happens next, and graduated levels of automated control. It is deployed in production across the globe, with engineering and delivery teams in North America, Europe and Africa.

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2026

Octerra Capital

NB: This website is provided for general information only. Nothing on it constitutes an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or to make any investment.

©

2026

Octerra Capital

NB: This website is provided for general information only. Nothing on it constitutes an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or to make any investment.

©

2026

Octerra Capital

NB: This website is provided for general information only. Nothing on it constitutes an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security or to make any investment.