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Food Security
Africa imports $65B in food annually. Sunclave builds the integrated value chains that convert Nigeria's agricultural potential into food sovereignty and regional export capability.
…Redefining Agribusiness and Technological Sovereignty in AfricaBuilding Africa's
Infrastructure for
Food, Trade & Technology
123,000 ha Pipeline · 1.2M Cocoa Seedlings · BYD Alliance Confirmed
All figures: Sunclave group operations, verified FY2026. Pipeline figures reflect signed LOIs and programme frameworks.
Nigeria's vertically-integrated agri-industrial operator. Fourteen years cultivating food infrastructure, cooperative networks and processing assets that now anchor a sovereign technology platform across the continent.
COMPANY PROFILE
Volume I · MMXXVI
Est. 2011 · Victoria Island, Lagos · NigeriaCONFIDENTIAL · FOR STRATEGIC PARTNERS
Executive SummaryFor Strategic Partners · 2026
Sunclave Investment Limited is Nigeria's vertically-integrated agri-industrial operator. Fourteen years building the food infrastructure, cooperative networks and processing assets that now underpin a sovereign technology platform.
Operational Today
- 10,000+ farmers across active cooperative and PPP programmes
- 2,550+ hectares under active cultivation — maize and cocoa
- NCX Master Aggregator status — Nigeria Commodity Exchange
- DELCOM: 123,000-hectare oil palm PPP, Delta State Government
- BYD alliance confirmed via CFAO Nigeria — HELIOS in active build
The Two-Pillar Model
Sunclave Agri is the proving ground: fourteen years of physical infrastructure that no technology company can buy its way into. Technological Sovereignty is the multiplier: the intelligence stack that makes the agribusiness uncopyable and exportable to other sectors. The agribusiness and the technology are not in sequence. They compound each other.
Current Opportunity
Investment memorandum and programme documentation available to qualified institutional partners on request. Engagements structured across three lanes: institutional investors (equity and structured debt), development finance institutions (blended capital and programme co-design), and state governments (PPP structuring on the DELCOM model).
Emailinfo@sunclaveinvest.com
Phone+234 908 079 0000
Websunclaveinvest.com
The Future We See
The 21st century will be defined by who controls food, energy, critical minerals, data and trade.
Africa possesses many of these resources in abundance. Yet today, the continent captures only a fraction of the value they create. It exports raw commodities while importing finished goods, processed food, digital infrastructure, and the capital that finances its own development. This is the central economic problem of the continent.
Sunclave exists to change that. Today we cultivate 2,550+ hectares of maize and cocoa, operate as master aggregator on the Nigerian Commodity Exchange, and convene a network of 10,000+ farmers across active states. On that operating base we are building the platforms, infrastructure and alliances that turn Africa's strategic resources into value that stays in African hands and grows over time, at the scale Nigeria's agricultural economy demands.
This is what Technological Sovereignty means in practice.
Who We Are
Sunclave is Nigeria's vertically-integrated agri-industrial operator. Fourteen years of cultivated farmland, processing plants, state PPP programmes and cooperative networks form the foundation. The sovereign technology layer, spanning intelligence infrastructure, EV mobility, critical minerals and data sovereignty, is what that foundation is now becoming.
14+
Years Operating
Sunclave Investment Limited, incorporated 2011, Victoria Island, Lagos
$250M+
Value Structured
Aggregate programme and transaction value, group entities, 2011–2025. Includes PPP design, green finance and commodity trade.
10,000+
Farmers in Network
Cumulative across cooperative programmes, state PPP engagements and NCX aggregator relationships, FY2011–2025
123,000+
Hectares Pipeline
DELCOM Oil Palm PPP programme scope. Delta State Government counterparty. Programme framework signed.
Trusted By & In Alliance With
BYD
CFAO Nigeria
Nigeria Commodity Exchange
Solidaridad
Rainforest Alliance
Access Bank
Why We Exist
Five Strategic Imperatives That Define Our Work.
02
Industrialisation
Raw commodity export has been Africa's economic trap for generations. Sunclave builds the processing infrastructure that captures value locally before products leave the continent.
03
Trade Expansion
The AfCFTA opens a $3.4 trillion market. Sunclave's commodity networks, NCX relationships and logistics infrastructure position us as a meaningful participant in intra-African and global trade flows.
04
Technology Adoption
The defining competitive advantage in 21st-century agriculture is not land. It is intelligence. Sunclave's technology platform puts AI-powered data, monitoring and traceability in the hands of African operators.
05
Sustainable Development
Every project Sunclave structures is aligned with ESG principles, Fairtrade standards and Rainforest Alliance certification. Sustainability is the condition of our operating licence.
Our Platform
One Operating Core. One Force Multiplier.
Agriculture is not what Sunclave is leaving behind. It is the proving ground that everything else is built on. The sovereign technology layer exists to make the agri business uncopyable, and to make the same operating playbook exportable to mobility, minerals and digital infrastructure.
Pillar I · Operating Core
Sunclave Agri
Fourteen years of integrated food infrastructure. We produce, process, finance and export across Nigeria's agricultural corridors. The cash-generating base, the data source and the proving ground for everything Sunclave builds next.
- Food production & soft commodities
- Agro-processing plants & warehousing
- Government PPP programme management
- Green finance & ESG structuring
- Cooperative network development
- Export market linkages & trade finance
This is the network no technology company can buy its way into. It took 14 years to build. It is the foundation that makes Sunclave's technology platform structurally defensible.
Core — 14 Years Operating
Pillar II · Force Multiplier
Technological Sovereignty
The intelligence, energy, security and compute infrastructure that compounds the agri business: making it uncopyable inside Nigeria, and making the same operating playbook exportable to mobility, critical minerals and digital public infrastructure.
Chapter A — Sunclave Intelligence
- Sovereign AI & Models
- Satellite Command & Control
- Border & Security Technology
- IoT Infrastructure
- Super App & Digital Public Infrastructure
- Sovereign Compute & Data Centres
Chapter B — Sunclave Resources
- Critical Minerals — Tin, Lithium, Columbite
- Trans Alliance Minerals JV — Plateau State
- EV battery supply chain integration
Chapter C — Sunclave Mobility · HELIOS
- EV fleet operations & solar charging hubs
- BYD · CFAO Nigeria · Northwest Petroleum alliance
- Driver financing & fleet intelligence
Built on top of 14 years of real agricultural infrastructure, not in spite of it.
Multiplier — Active Build
The agribusiness is not the past. It is the competitive advantage. Every cooperative, every PPP contract, every tonne processed and every farmer onboarded becomes harder to compete with when it is running on a sovereign intelligence stack. The agribusiness and the technology are not in sequence. They compound each other.
Our Operating Model
Sunclave Spans the Entire Value Chain.
Most companies occupy one node. Sunclave is built to operate across all of them.
Market Opportunity
The Scale of What We Are Building Into.
This is not a Nigeria story. It is a continental infrastructure opportunity created by a structural shift that will not repeat.
- Sub-Saharan Africa population by 20502.1BUN World Population Prospects 2024
- Annual African food import bill$65BAfrican Development Bank, 2023
- AfCFTA projected GDP impact$450BAfrican Union Commission, AfCFTA Secretariat
- Critical mineral demand growth by 2040400%IEA Critical Minerals Report 2024
- Nigeria addressable agri-finance gap$10B+Central Bank of Nigeria, agricultural finance gap estimate
- African EV mobility market by 2030$12BBloombergNEF Africa EV Market Outlook 2024
- Digital agriculture market — Africa$2.5BGSMA AgriTech Africa Report 2024
- Nigeria's arable land currently utilised<40%FAO Nigeria Agricultural Assessment 2023
54
Nations in AfCFTA
1.4B
Current Population
60%
World Uncultivated Arable
30%
Global Critical Minerals
Traction & Footprint
Proof, measured on the ground.
Verified as of FY 2026
10,000+
Farmers Networked
Cooperative and PPP programme network, cumulative FY2011–2025
30,000+
Hectares Pipeline
Land under advanced LOI discussions for mechanised cultivation, Q2 2026
2,550+
Hectares Cultivated
Active cultivation — Kishi maize (Oyo State) and Akwa-Ibom cocoa, verified Q2 2026
1.2M
Cocoa Seedlings
Akwa-Ibom State PPP, Phase 1 deployment
200+
Farmworkers Engaged
Directly employed on active farmlands, Q2 2026
NCX
Master Aggregator
Nigeria Commodity Exchange designation confirmed
Signature Projects
Proof in the Ground. Verified by programme partners.
Signature Programme · 2024
Delta State, Nigeria · Oil Palm · 25-Year PPP
DELCOM Oil Palm Revolution
The Delta State Commercial Oil Palm Plantation Growers Cooperative Society. A landmark 25-year government-backed programme. Sunclave served as Green Finance and Transaction Advisor, structuring the cooperative to bring together growers, processors, aggregators and investors to industrialise Nigeria's oil palm sector at state scale.
123,000
Hectares
5,000
Farmers
$150M
Programme Value
25 Year
Tenure
7
Key Stakeholders
123,000 ha: DELCOM full programme scope, Delta State Government, programme framework signed. $150M: Programme design value, 25-year PPP tenure. Farmers: Target programme participants across Delta State cooperative network.
Programme Partners
Delta State Government
FCMB
Sunclave Mobility · Flagship · 2026
HELIOS
Lagos · EV Fleet · Solar Energy · Driver Finance
Sovereign Urban Mobility.
Powered by the Sun.
HELIOS pairs an electric ride-sharing fleet with a network of solar-powered charging hubs and a flexible driver-financing programme. Built on the Sunclave Technology Platform, integrated with our minerals upstream and engineered to eliminate the two costs that have always strangled African mobility: fuel and foreign capital.
100%
Electric Fleet
Solar
Charging Hubs
NGN
Vehicle Finance
Alliance Partners
BYD
CFAO Nigeria
Northwest Petroleum
Northwest Petroleum
Akwa-Ibom State · Cocoa
Cocoa Cultivation Revolution
Cooperative-led cultivation with Rainforest Alliance certification pathway, post-harvest processing and direct export linkages. Transforming subsistence farming into certified export-grade production.
1,200 Hectares1.2M SeedlingsPPP-backed
Certification Partner
Rainforest Alliance
Oyo State · Maize
Kishi Mechanisation Programme
1,350 hectares of active maize cultivation in Kishi with Agboola Farms — modern irrigation, cooperative formation and integrated offtake into Sunclave's processing footprint.
1,350 Hectares200+ WorkersAgboola Farms JV
Programme Partners
Agboola Farms
Agboola Farms
Benue · Rice & Soya
Abadini Rice Programme
End-to-end programme — irrigation, cooperative aggregation and SACAM Rice Mill processing. Field to finished SKU, structured around CBN-backed financing rails.
3,000 Hectares5,000+ Farmers$4M Structured
Programme Partners
GIZ
NADF
NADF
Lagos · Lekki Free Trade Zone
Imperial Cartons — Export Hub
World-class packaging and warehousing at Lekki FTZ. The downstream layer that converts Sunclave's agricultural output into premium, internationally compliant finished products.
0.5ha Facility10 SKUs$7.5M Assets
Programme Partners
Lekki Free Trade Zone
Lekki Free Trade Zone
Technology Platform
Most Agribusinesses Have Farms.
Sunclave Has a Platform.
"The companies that will define African agriculture in the next 30 years are not the ones with the most land. They are the ones with the most intelligence: about the soil, the supply chain, the weather, the market, and the farmer. Sunclave is building that intelligence layer as sovereign African infrastructure."
What Sunclave is building underneath its agricultural infrastructure is not a software product. It is the sovereign technology foundation that makes the entire operation irreplaceable.
Agricultural Intelligence
AI-native operating system for African agriculture. Farmer data, commodity pricing, supply chain traceability and risk analytics on sovereign in-country infrastructure.
Core LayerFinance & Payments
Digital identity and proof-of-income enabling financial inclusion for smallholder farmers. Integrated with Paystack, Flutterwave and Nigeria Commodity Exchange payment rails.
DeployedEV & Energy Management
Fleet telemetry, solar charging hub management, route optimisation and driver payments for BYD-alliance urban mobility operations.
In BuildTraceability & Exchange
Blockchain-enabled supply chain tracking from farm origin to export destination. Compliance for Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade and international buyers.
ActiveData Sovereignty & Security
Critical data on in-country sovereign systems. Security architecture for asset protection and digital governance — independent of foreign platform dependencies.
StrategicSatellite Farm Monitoring
Per-hectare crop health, yield prediction and risk flagging across cooperative networks.
Farmer Digital Identity
Verified identity, proof-of-income and credit history for previously unbanked smallholders.
Supply Chain Traceability
Origin-to-shelf tracking with certification proofs for export buyers and auditors.
EV Fleet Intelligence
Real-time telemetry, charging orchestration and driver payouts for urban mobility fleets.
The Sunclave Intelligence Platform
The digital infrastructure layer connecting food systems, trade networks, mobility operations and strategic resources.
FOOD SYSTEMS · TRADE NETWORKS · MOBILITY · STRATEGIC RESOURCES
↓ SUNCLAVE INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM ↓
Insights · Decisions · Transactions
01SUBSTRATE
Agricultural & Operational Data
The foundation layer for data collection, storage, governance and residency across all Sunclave operations. Farmer records, land data, yield history and transaction trails held on in-country infrastructure.
ACTIVE BUILD
TodayData architecture deployed across active farm operations in Kishi and Akwa-Ibom. Farmer records and transaction data on sovereign infrastructure.
Next 18 MonthsFull data residency framework across all programme states. NGN-billed regional capacity contracted.
02GEOSPATIAL
Geospatial Intelligence
Satellite imagery, mapping and per-hectare monitoring across cultivated farmland, PPP programme areas and resource operations.
ACTIVE BUILD
TodaySatellite imagery operational for crop health and yield monitoring across active cultivation. Third-party tools integrated.
Next 18 MonthsProprietary monitoring layer across all cultivated hectares and DELCOM programme scope.
03EDGE
Field & Fleet Intelligence
Sensors, telemetry and operational monitoring across physical assets — farm blocks, processing facilities, and vehicle fleets. The nervous system that feeds the intelligence layer.
ACTIVE BUILD
TodayField-sensor deployment on maize blocks. HELIOS fleet telemetry in pilot.
Next 18 MonthsNetwork scale-out across all cultivated hectares and HELIOS charging hubs.
04INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence & Decision Systems
AI-enabled forecasting, optimisation and decision support across agriculture, commodity trade and mobility operations. Africa-native models trained on African data.
ACTIVE BUILD
TodayAgronomy and credit models in pilot on live farm data from Kishi and Akwa-Ibom operations.
Next 18 MonthsDomain-specific intelligence models for agronomy and commodity flow released across active programme network.
05SURFACE
Platforms & Services
Applications enabling farmer onboarding, payments, supply chain traceability and ecosystem participation. Where the intelligence platform reaches the ground.
OPERATIONAL
TodayAgricultural platform live across 10,000+ farmer network. Payments integrated via Paystack and Flutterwave. Traceability active.
Next 18 MonthsPlatform extended to HELIOS mobility operations and first state-government partner.
The Sovereign ClaimEvery application Sunclave builds, whether it touches a farmer, a city, or a government institution, runs on the same sovereign stack. The intelligence layer is ours. The data is ours. The infrastructure cannot be switched off.
The Sovereignty Test
The Dependent Stack
Status Quo
Africa as a consumer of foreign technology.
- ComputeForeign hyperscalers · USD-billed
- Data ResidencyOffshored · subject to foreign jurisdiction
- Intelligence LayerImported SaaS · opaque models
- Identity & PaymentsExternal rails · no national fallback
- IP & Value CaptureLicensed in · royalties out
- Continuity RiskSanctions, FX shocks, vendor exit
The Sovereign Stack
Sunclave · 2026
Africa as the owner of its operating system.
- ComputeIn-country sovereign infrastructure · NGN-billed
- Data ResidencyResident in Nigeria · governed under local law
- Intelligence LayerAfrica-native AI · trained on African data
- Identity & PaymentsPaystack · Flutterwave · NCX rails
- IP & Value CaptureSunclave-owned platform · value retained
- Continuity RiskOperationally independent · cannot be switched off
Sovereignty is not nationalism. It is the operational right to keep serving customers, growing capital and protecting data when global conditions change. Every layer of the Sunclave stack is engineered to that test.
Strategic Partnerships
An Ecosystem Built for National Scale.
SUNCLAVE
INVESTMENT LIMITED
Government & Institutions
Nigeria Commodity Exchange
NSIA
NIRSAL
Bank of Agriculture
NADF
NADF
Delta State Government
Akwa-Ibom State
Federal Ministry of Agriculture
EV, Mobility & Energy
BYD
CFAO Nigeria
Northwest Petroleum
Northwest Petroleum
Greenbaq Technologies
Greenbaq Technologies
Agribusiness & Trade
Saroafrica International
Flour Mills of Nigeria
Kewalram Chanrai
NAHCO
ECOM
Solidaridad
Springfield Agro
Springfield Agro
Prolific Foods
Prolific Foods
Finance & International
Access Bank
Jaiz Bank
GIZ
FICO
FICO
Agrinexus International
Agrinexus International
Imperial Cartons FZE
Imperial Cartons FZE
Greenwell Technologies
Greenwell Technologies
Governance & Advisory
Tax & Digits
Leadership
Leadership
Investors Buy Teams Before They Buy Companies.
Sunclave is led by practitioners who have built, advised and operated at scale across Africa, the GCC, Europe and global markets.
TB
Teslim Bello-Osagie
Co-Founder & Group CEO
20+ years across agribusiness, transaction advisory, cooperative development and large-scale agricultural transformation. Structured government PPP programmes exceeding $250M in combined value. Deep expertise in green finance, international trade, and building institutional partnerships across the full spectrum from smallholder cooperative to sovereign wealth fund.
ACCAManchester Business SchoolLondon Business School
OB
Oladeji Bisiriyu
Chief Technology & AI Strategy Officer
Technology executive with experience leading digital transformation programmes across healthcare, telecommunications and financial services spanning the GCC and Africa. Specialist in sovereign AI infrastructure, data architecture and enterprise platform design at institutional scale. Track record building systems in highly regulated, high-stakes environments across multiple continents.
MSc Software EngineeringGCC & AfricaEnterprise AI
SN
Subramani Narayana
Chief Plant Operating Officer
23+ years building and managing large-scale agro-processing infrastructure across Africa and the Middle East. Deep operational expertise in rice milling, cereal processing and the full technical cycle from facility design through commissioning to commercial production. The critical link between Sunclave's strategic ambition and physical execution on the ground.
NIT India23+ YearsAfrica & Middle East
PD
Paul Davis
Head of Digital Transformation
Senior technology executive with 25+ years driving large-scale digital transformation across infrastructure, transportation, aviation and logistics sectors. Former Group IT & Digital Director at a €12 billion turnover infrastructure conglomerate. Advisor to major aviation, logistics and engineering organisations on enterprise technology strategy and AI-enabled operations.
MBA RoehamptonInfrastructure & Aviation25+ Years
Institutional Support Network
Tax & Digits
Governance & Advisory
Tax & Digits serves as Sunclave's legal, accounting and corporate advisory partner — providing tax structuring, statutory compliance, audit support and governance counsel across the group's operating entities. Their work underpins the institutional integrity of Sunclave's cross-border transactions, PPP programmes and partner reporting.
ESG & Community
Sustainability is the operating licence, not the marketing layer.
Community · 10,000+ Farmers
DELCOM — community equity participation model
Smallholder Empowerment
Input financing, mechanisation access and guaranteed offtake. We turn subsistence farmers into commercially viable producers.
Land as Equity
Community equity-participation models on flagship programmes. Farmers and host communities share in the upside they help create.
Certification Pathways
Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade and ESG-aligned operations across cocoa, oil palm and soft commodity programmes.
Sovereign Data Custody
Farmer data, identity and proof-of-income held on in-country sovereign infrastructure. Never offshored, never licensed back.
Vision 2035
Vision 2035
Where We Are Going From Here.
Not aspiration. These are the commitments we are actively building toward, with the infrastructure, the partnerships and the platform already in motion.
01
Become Africa's leading agricultural value-chain platform. We own and operate infrastructure from production to export across multiple African markets.
02
Build a trusted technology sovereignty layer for agribusiness ecosystems: the operating system that cooperatives, governments and financial institutions depend on.
03
Become a strategic participant in global food and resource supply chains. Nigerian-owned infrastructure supplying world markets on African terms.
04
Lead Nigeria's electric mobility transition. Fleet operations, charging infrastructure and energy management at scale with BYD alliance and sovereign technology stack.
05
Be a catalyst for sustainable industrial development. We are proving that African-owned, African-governed infrastructure can attract global capital and create generational economic value.
Forward-looking statements reflect Sunclave's strategic intentions as of 2026 and are subject to execution, partnership development and market conditions.
Everything Sunclave builds is in service of one conviction: that Africa's most strategic assets must be owned, governed and grown by African hands.
Company Profile · 2026
...Redefining Agribusiness and Technological Sovereignty in Africa
4th Floor, The Octagon, 13A A.J. Marinho Drive, Victoria Island, Lagos
+234 908 079 0000 · info@sunclaveinvest.com · sunclaveinvest.com
+234 908 079 0000 · info@sunclaveinvest.com · sunclaveinvest.com
Footprint
Nigerian-rooted. Four continents in scope.
Offices & Operations
Lagos · HQ
4th Floor, The Octagon
13A A.J. Marinho Drive
Victoria Island, Lagos
Lagos · Operations
Badore Road
Ajah, Lagos State
Lekki Free Trade Zone
Imperial Cartons Facility
Lekki FTZ, Lagos
Akwa-Ibom
Cocoa Operations Hub
Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State
Target Markets
- AfricaNigeria · Ghana · Côte d'Ivoire · The GambiaOperating base
- AsiaGCC · ChinaOfftake & technology alliances
- EuropeUnited KingdomCapital & advisory
- North AmericaUnited States · CanadaDiaspora capital & export markets
Anchor countries shown for reference. Sunclave structures across the full continental opportunity set, with selectivity driven by sovereign value capture, not geography alone.