🎆 👏 Congrats to Decagon for its new seed round! #AfricaNext

Happy to see that Decagon raised a $1,5M seed round led by their first investor Timon Capital and Kepple Africa Ventures, and followed by the japanese app developer United Inc. and the business angel Paul Kokoricha. This equity round is coming with a $25M debt financing with Nigerian institution Sterling Bank.

Decagon, led by Chika Nwobi and founded in 2018, is a Nigerian EdTech start-up running a software engineering program and helps their graduates to be placed in big corporations. With this new round, Decagon will set up a Pay-After-Learning plan for its trainees.

Thanks to Timon Capital who introduced the company to the Africa Next community! 🙌

👉 To learn more about Decagon, click here to see its profile.

👉 Do get back to us if you'd like an introduction to either Decagon or Timon Capital.

Source: Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers - TechCrunch