{"id":643633,"date":"2026-08-18T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643633\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:35:19","slug":"nigerias-terra-industries-gets-18-million-in-extended-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643633\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Terra Industries gets $18 million in extended seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terra Industries, a Nigerian defence technology startup, has raised an additional $18 million, extending its seed round for the second time this year and bringing the total funding it has raised to $51.7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest extension follows two funding announcements earlier in 2026. In January, Terra Industries announced <a href=\"https:\/\/thecondia.com\/terra-industries-raises-11-75-million\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an $11.7 million round<\/a> before raising a further $22 million in February. Existing investors 8VC and Nova Global participated in both rounds, signalling continued confidence in the company\u2019s strategy and growth prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest $18 million extension includes participation from existing investors 8VC, Nova Global, Silent Ventures, Belief Capital, and SV Angel. It also brings two new investors into the company: Norleo Space Investments and angel investor Grant Gordon.<\/p>\n<p> Read the full storyThis story is for Condia Insiders only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"condia-paywall-sub\">Keep reading free. Join the community at the forefront of African tech.<\/p>\n<p>   Continue with Google   Continue with email <\/p>\n<p class=\"condia-paywall-signin\">Already an Insider? <a href=\"#\" class=\"js-condia-modal\" data-tab=\"login\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"condia-post-update-note\">Last updated: August 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terra Industries, a Nigerian defence technology startup, has raised an additional $18 million, extending its seed round for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[178],"tags":[79,12802,18,236,19,17,272381],"class_list":["post-643633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-defense-tech","tag-eire","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-terra-industries"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117116779226330951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}