The Chrysalis Company

What The Chrysalis Company does

The Chrysalis Company is a Lagos-headquartered financial, investment, and strategy advisory firm serving emerging market technology companies. The firm operates through two core divisions under The Chrysalis Co umbrella: The Chrysalis Advisors, which delivers Vision, Strategy, and Execution consulting services to clients across Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, Asia, and Latin America, and The Chrysalis Capital, an emerging market-focused technology investment fund. The firm also operates GreenHouse Lab, Nigeria's first female-focused tech accelerator and the first 'Powered by Google' accelerator in Africa, which targets the funding gap for women-led startups. Across these entities the firm has advised or invested in 100+ early-stage companies that have collectively raised over $500M in follow-on funding.

The company has no proprietary technology platform; its offering is human capital-based advisory. Service delivery is structured around three phases: Vision (defining objectives), Strategy (formulating approaches), and Execution (implementing plans). Named clients include African fintech and tech companies such as Flutterwave, PiggyVest, Helium Health, Branch, Bankly, Farmcrowdy, Bitsika, CrowdForce, Rensource, Arca, and Clane, alongside nonprofit clients including Jacobs Foundation and GreenHouse Lab accelerator alumni. The firm is led by Founder and Managing Director Nichole Yembra, whose prior experience includes Ernst & Young LLP and a CFO role at a PE-backed $80M fintech holding company.

The revenue model is professional services fees for advisory engagements, with no publicly disclosed pricing as engagements are quote-based. Operations span four office locations: Lagos (HQ), New York (US), Bengaluru (India), and Ontario (Canada), supporting clients across 13+ countries. The 18-person organization has 6 named team members including the founder, a Chief-of-Staff, Operations Associate, Finance and Investment Analyst, People and Culture Lead, and an additional team member. No external funding rounds, institutional investors, or parent company are disclosed; ownership and control rest with the founder.

Name

The Chrysalis Company

Legal name

Chrysalis Advisors Africa Ltd

Website

https://thechrysalisadvisors.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Chrysalis Company is a Lagos-headquartered advisory and investment firm providing financial, strategy, and execution consulting alongside a tech-focused fund and accelerator to emerging market technology companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices (551114), Offices of Other Holding Companies (551112)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Investors, Nec (6799)

akta.pro primary industry

Multi-Sector / Generalist Growth Equity (FSANACAO)

Keywords

• Financial advisory services
• Strategy consulting
• Investment advisory
• Emerging market venture capital
• Tech startup accelerator

Headquarters

HQ city

Lagos

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Advisory and Consulting Services: Professional fees for financial, investment, and strategy advisory services to emerging market tech companies. Services structured around Vision, Strategy, and Execution phases.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Chrysalis Company is a financial, investment, and strategy advisory firm serving emerging market technology companies. It provides advisory services structured around three pillars — Vision (defining objectives), Strategy (formulating approaches), and Execution (implementing plans) — alongside an emerging market-focused tech investment fund (The Chrysalis Capital) and the GreenHouse Lab accelerator program for women-led startups.

Product overview

The Chrysalis Co is an umbrella organization comprising The Chrysalis Capital (an emerging market-focused tech fund) and The Chrysalis Advisors (a financial, investment, and strategy firm). These entities operate together to support emerging market tech companies: The Chrysalis Capital provides investment capital while The Chrysalis Advisors delivers strategic advisory services spanning Vision (identifying objectives), Strategy (formulating approaches), and Execution (implementation). Additionally, GreenHouse Lab is an accelerator program they founded to support women-led startups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Chrysalis Capital: An emerging market-focused tech fund operating under The Chrysalis Co
• GreenHouse Lab

Products and services

• The Chrysalis Advisors Financial, investment, and strategy advisory services structured around three pillars: Vision (defining objectives), Strategy (formulating approaches), and Execution (implementing plans). Targeted at emerging market technology companies globally.
• The Chrysalis Capital An emerging market-focused technology investment fund that provides capital to early-stage tech companies building globally relevant institutions.
• GreenHouse Lab Nigeria's first female-focused tech accelerator and the first 'Powered by Google' accelerator in Africa, aiming to close the investment funding gap for women-led and gender diverse startups.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100+ early-stage companies invested in or advised
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Google Launchpad AfricacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNichole Yembra serves as a mentor for Google Launchpad Africa, and GreenHouse Lab is the first 'Powered by Google' accelerator in Africa. This partnership provides access to Google's developer ecosystem and resources for portfolio companies.
• The Cortex HubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNichole Yembra serves as an Advisor to The Cortex Hub, a South African incubator.
• Shared Value Africa InitiativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNichole Yembra serves on the Council of 8 for the Shared Value Africa Initiative, a strategic council focused on shared value business models in Africa.
• Obama Foundation Leaders: AfricacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNichole Yembra is a member of the Inaugural Obama Foundation Leaders: Africa Class, providing access to a global network of emerging leaders.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Ingressive Capital: Nigeria-rooted venture firm investing in and providing growth support to early-stage African tech companies. Closely mirrors Chrysalis's combination of capital plus hands-on advisory for African founders.
• Microtraction: Nigeria-based pre-seed and seed vehicle for African tech startups with embedded founder-support services. Comparable in fund-stage focus, geography, and the bundling of capital with hands-on support.
• EchoVC (Echovc): Early-stage venture firm investing in African tech and tech-enabled businesses, with founder-advisory and ecosystem support comparable to Chrysalis's integrated offering.
• Consonance Investment Managers: Africa-focused investment management firm combining fund vehicles with operational support for portfolio companies. Similar integrated model of capital plus strategic/value-add advisory across emerging markets.
• Future Africa: Early-stage African tech investor and operator community offering capital, advisory, and a founder community — directly comparable to the Chrysalis Capital plus Chrysalis Advisors plus GreenHouse Lab stack.

Broad incumbents

• Partech Africa: Pan-African tech growth fund operated by global firm Partech Partners. Targets later-stage African rounds than Chrysalis but competes for many of the same founder relationships and ecosystem mindshare.
• TLcom Capital: Lagos- and London-based Africa-focused venture firm with multi-fund scale (including TIDE Africa and a $70M+ Africa fund). Competes for the same Nigerian founder relationships but with substantially larger capital base.
• Norrsken22: Africa-focused growth fund backed by the Norrsken Foundation with large anchor capital. Competes with Chrysalis Capital for high-quality African tech rounds and provides a more institutional LP structure.

Regional players

• Novastar Ventures: East Africa-led VC with consumer and services focus. Comparable early-stage emerging-markets investing plus founder-support orientation, though oriented toward Kenya rather than Nigeria.
• Sawari Ventures: Cairo-based VC investing in North African and MENA tech founders with advisory support. Comparable fund-plus-advisory model but concentrated in a different regional corridor than Chrysalis's primarily Anglophone Africa focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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