Terra Industries leads $1m pre-seed into Aeon, a Nigerian cyberdefence startup chasing Global South infrastructure

Aeon , a Nigerian cybersecurity startup, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Terra Industries, the hardware company that has itself pulled in $51.7 million so far in 2026. Resilience17, the early-stage firm founded by Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola, joined the round, alongside DFS Labs, Kaleo Ventures, Seedstars and Ajim Capital. The startup was founded by Samuel Ogbonyomi, Ben Eluan and Alex Idowu, three engineers who came out of PipeOps, where they built cloud infrastructure pr