Microtraction is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in African technology startups at the pre-seed stage. Microtraction's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #99,084 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Microtraction was co-founded by Yele Bademosi and Kwamena Afful as Founding Partners, with the firm established in 2017 to address the early-stage funding gap facing African entrepreneurs. Its standard investment terms are $100,000 for 7% equity in a pre-seed company, and the firm is sector-agnostic, backing technical founders building globally scalable businesses. Backers of Microtraction include PAVE Investments, Michael Seibel, Andy Volk, and Chris Schultz.
Microtraction announced a $15 million first close for its second fund, Microtraction Community Limited, which explicitly covers sectors including crypto and gaming. The firm has also outlined plans to launch an invite-only Web3 community vehicle structured similarly to a DAO, using social tokens as its membership mechanism. Microtraction has published 7,510 posts on the platform.
Microtraction has been mentioned by 16 accounts, with 116 total mentions.
Microtraction's portfolio includes Afropolitan.
Who follows Microtraction on X?
The accounts that follow Microtraction include 48 founders, 13 angel investors, 9 influencers and 5 VCs, among them Toly, Matthew Graham, Austin Federa, Cuy Sheffield, Jane Lippencott and Alex Masmej.