38 Y Combinator companies based in Lagos, with team size, growth, open roles and funding.
Updated weekly, last on November 9, 2026. Roster from Y Combinator's public directory.
| Company | Batch | Team | 6 mo | 12 mo | Open roles | Total raised | Last round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa. | S16 | 893 | +3% | −1% | 0 | $476M | Undisclosed round$250M, Jul 2026 |
We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible | W17 | 578 | −1% | −8% | 6 | $48.3M | Series B$40M, Feb 2022 |
Global Business Banking for Africa's Ambitious Businesses. | W17 | 423 | +1% | −2% | 0 | $50.7M | Debt$3M, Sep 2026 |
Modern payments infrastructure for Africa | W16Acquired | 320 | +3% | +4% | 0 | $11.7M | Series A$10.2M, Aug 2018 |
B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa | W22 | 224 | −3% | −10% | 0 | $17.4M | Series A$8M, Jul 2023 |
ISP for Africa | W17 | 183 | −5% | −8% | 0 | $5.1M | Debt$3M, Oct 2023 |
CredPal is a buy now pay later company in Africa that allows… | W19 | 155 | −5% | +14% | 0 | $18.5M | Undisclosed round$16.7M, Jun 2022 |
Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa | S22 | 130 | −4% | −13% | 0 | $2.2M | Seed$1.7M, Jan 2024 |
Africa's leading supply chain technology platform. | S18Inactive | 127 | −2% | −7% | 0 | $164M | Secondary$79M, Mar 2025 |
Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies | W21 | 124 | −6% | −16% | 0 | $33.2M | Series A$20M, Sep 2022 |
Precision medicine for Africans and the global population | W19Inactive | 112 | +1% | 0 | $94.7M | Convertible note$50M, Oct 2022 | |
Digitizing and processing Microtransactions in Africa | W22 | 110 | +1% | +4% | 0 | $5M | Grant$50K, Oct 2022 |
Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa. | W17 | 99 | +5% | 0 | $10.3M | Debt$10M, Feb 2020 | |
Group Financing for small businesses across Africa. | W22 | 81 | +7% | +14% | 0 | $1.1M | Non-equity support$700K, Feb 2024 |
Plaid for Africa, but better. | W21Acquired | 72 | +1% | −4% | 0 | $30.6M | Series A$15M, Oct 2021 |
Termii is an AI-native reliability infrastructure company. | W20 | 62 | +5% | +11% | 0 | $5.2M | Non-equity support$3.6M, Apr 2026 |
Fulfillment by Amazon for African merchants | W21 | 42 | −11% | −14% | 0 | $1.8M | Seed$1.8M, Oct 2021 |
Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere | S17 | 39 | −5% | −9% | 0 | $9.5M | Non-equity support$250K, Apr 2025 |
Embedded finance platform for African businesses | S22 | 34 | −6% | −8% | 0 | $3.4M | Non-equity support$2.4M, Nov 2023 |
B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa | W23 | 31 | +11% | 0 | $10.6M | Debt$4M, Nov 2023 | |
Identity Verification API for Emerging Markets | W22 | 29 | +12% | +21% | YC | ||
Eazipay powers effortless payroll and financial access in Africa. | W22 | 28 | +40% | +40% | 0 | $500K | YC investment$500K, Jan 2022 |
Prevent Fraud and Onboard Users Faster | W22 | 23 | −12% | −18% | 0 | $510K | Non-equity support$500K, Feb 2024 |
We enable FMCG distributors in Africa buy inventory on credit | S21 | 22 | 0% | 0% | 0 | $125K | YC investment$125K, Aug 2021 |
Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa | W19 | 21 | 0% | −9% | 0 | $290K | Seed$100K, Jan 2021 |
B2B payments platform for emerging markets. | W23 | 19 | −21% | 0 | $8.6M | Debt$5M, Aug 2024 | |
Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp | W22 | 18 | −14% | −22% | 0 | $1.2M | Pre-seed$1.2M, Mar 2022 |
Flexport for African Merchants - Building the OS for Global Logistics | W22 | 18 | −18% | YC | $3.5M | Seed$3M, May 2022 | |
Asset Light Chipotle for Africa | S23 | 9 | −10% | −25% | 0 | Undisclosed roundSep 2023 | |
Africa's Preventative Health System | W20 | 8 | 0% | 0% | 0 | $5M | Non-equity support$100K, Sep 2022 |
Financial tools for cross-border trade | W22 | 7 | +17% | +40% | 0 | $1.2M | Seed$1.2M, Mar 2022 |
Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and… | W21 | 6 | +20% | +20% | 0 | $125K | YC investment$125K, Jul 2021 |
Bamboo ― the first online brokerage service for Africans and their… | W20 | 326 | 0 | $33.6M | Undisclosed round$17.4M, Mar 2022 | ||
Card issuer for Africa | S22Inactive | ||||||
Digital Bank for Freight Carriers in Africa. | S22Inactive | ||||||
Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours | S21 | ||||||
Flexport for Africa - Digital Freight forwarder and Customs Broker. | W20 | ||||||
Digitizing wealth management in Africa | S18 |
Every launched company in YC's public directory, with its batch, status, industry and location. New companies show up the week YC lists them.
Each company is matched to Crustdata by its website. Crustdata adds team size and its change over 6 and 12 months, open roles from job postings, reported funding, and founders' past employers.
Hiring the most counts distinct roles posted in the last 60 days. Growth needs 10+ people today, shrinking 20+ a year ago, so tiny teams do not top the lists. Rebuilt every week.
The numbers on this page come from three Crustdata API calls. Crustdata tags 5,000+ companies with Y Combinator as an investor; swap the filter for any investor, industry or headcount range and track your own list, with founders' work emails one call away.
# 1. every company with Y Combinator as an investor curl https://api.crustdata.com/company/search \ -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \ -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \ -d '{ "filters": { "field": "funding.investors", "type": "in", "value": ["Y Combinator"] }, "fields": ["basic_info.name", "headcount.total", "headcount.growth_percent", "funding.total_investment_usd"], "limit": 100 }' # 2. open listings per company, last 60 days (limit 0 = counts only) curl https://api.crustdata.com/job/search \ -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_API_KEY" \ -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \ -d '{ "filters": { "op": "and", "conditions": [ { "field": "company.basic_info.company_id", "type": "in", "value": [...] }, { "field": "metadata.date_added", "type": "=>", "value": "2026-08-24" } ]}, "limit": 0, "aggregations": [{ "type": "group_by", "field": "company.basic_info.company_id", "agg": "count" }] }' # 3. the same company filter as a weekly watch: POST /watch/company/search
38 Y Combinator companies are based in Lagos; 32 are active.
1 companies posted roles in the last 60 days, led by Reliance Health (6 roles). 2 mark themselves as hiring on YC's directory.
By team growth over 6 months (10+ people): Eazipay Inc. (+40%), Prembly (formerly Identitypass) (+12%) and Rank (formerly Moni) (+7%).
Largest latest rounds in the last 12 months, after their YC batch: Flutterwave ($250M).