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Top 50 Angel Investors in Kenya in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in Kenya in January 2025

Investor	Kenya investments
Justin Mateen	5
Cem Garih	5
Ken Njoroge	3
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Patricia Ithau	2
Peter Sandberg	2
Darshan Chandaria	2
Aaron Fu	2
Jeremy Cai	1
Mato Perić	1
Dr Ritesh Malik	1
Christina Sass	1
Caribou Honig	1
Keisuke Honda	1
Markus Ament	1
Sajid Rahman	1
Luciano Freitas	1
Victor Asemota	1
Hiroaki Ohta	1
Peter Kenevan	1
Miki Kuusi	1
Shane Neman	1
Samson Larsson	1
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	1
Takuma Terakubo	1
Andrea Iannelli	1
Benjamin Fernandes	1
Jackson Kibigo	1
Johnny Falla	1
Camilla Hagen Sørli	1
Tomasz Gasienica-Szostak	1
Biz Stone	1
Michael Chow	1
Helena Riese Harstad	1
Yago Arbeloa	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Melvyn Lubega	1
Rus Newton	1
Oskar Hartmann	1
Kwehnui Tawah	1
Justin Ziegler	1
Markus Gemuend	1
Josh Sandler	1
Yuri Milner	1
Vaibhav Kapoor	1
Shintaro Yamada	1
Tom Blomfield	1
Paul Kimani	1
Pierre Martensson	1

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Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
Moment — Quickly deploy fixed income trading and data tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.

Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Billing, Web Development
Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Patricia Ithau

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
Cavea — Cavea helps esports organizations and streamers monetize their work in the new creator economy by providing a suite of tools and services for media analysis and media activation. Through dynamic-live-driven sponsorship activation campaigns and computer vision driven analysis, Cavea enables brands to understand ROI and reach massive Gen-Z audiences.
Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.

Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

Jeremy Cai is the Founder and CEO at Italic . Jeremy Cai attended Babson College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
Pluto (getpluto.com) — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.

Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Social Network
Seed
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.

Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, E-Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Anything World — Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice.

Sajid currently works as Managing Partner at MyAsiaVC He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

Luciano Freitas

Investment focus

E-Commerce
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.

Victor Asemota

Investment focus

Credit, Banking, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

Hiroaki Ohta is the Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder and Board Member of Blue Laser Fusion. He previously worked at ACSL Ltd. as a Representative Director, President, CEO, Chiarman, Board Member. Hiroaki Ohta attended Kyoto University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Quantum Computing, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Japan, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

Peter Kenevan, VP, Head of Japan at PayPal.

Investment focus

Automotive, Marketplace
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Seed, Angel, Series A
Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
Taito.ai — We automate employee performance enablement with AI, letting your people drive their growth and development, instead of just analyzing it.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Lindy — Lindy is an AI assistant that puts your life on autopilot.
Cortina — Cortina is an ecommerce marketplace saas platform helping brands sell complementary products without inventory or capital risk.
Dorsia — Dorsia is the # 1 clinic in cosmetic surgery and medicine in Spain. We have 84 clinics throughout Spain and Andorra and we continue to grow because you ask us to. We like to fulfill your wishes for improvement and we advocate for a Responsible Beauty.

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

Investment focus

Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, Togo

Portfolio highlights

MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

Andrea Iannelli

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Benjamin Fernandes is the Founder & Chief Eating Officer of NALA. He previously worked at TING - Tanzania Integrated Network Group as a Technical and operations manager. Benjamin Fernandes attended Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years

Jackson Kibigo is the COO and CFO at WorkPay. Jackson attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

Johnny Falla

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

Camilla Hagen Sørli

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Tomasz Gasienica-Szostak

Investment focus

Logistics, Last Mile Transportation
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Mloka — Mloka is a dynamic Kenyan start-up revolutionizing the way parcels are handled and delivered. With a strong focus on electronic locker systems, Mloka offers secure, convenient, and efficient solutions for package storage and retrieval. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Mloka aims to streamline the last-mile delivery process, reducing costs andenhancing customer satisfaction. With a user-friendly mobile app and a growing network of strategically located lockers, Mloka is poised to disrupt the traditional parcel delivery industry in Kenya and beyond.

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Messaging
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.

Helena Riese Harstad is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Optimizer Foundation. She previously worked at SBAB Bank as a Project Specialist. Helena Riese attended Stockholm University.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Spain, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
Rentuos — Rentuos is a Real Estate company specializing in rental sector. Their mission is to revolutionize the rental sector, incorporating the latest technologies and an innovative approach. For this, they have 60 years of experience in the real estate and new technologies sectors, and they have the support of a group of investors with proven success andsolvency.
Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

Investment focus

IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Seed
Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa.

Investment focus

Women's, mHealth, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Malaica — Malaica is on a mission to make the pregnancy journey convenient and safe for millions.

Josh Sandler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lori Systems. He Previously worked at AFIG FUNDS as a Consultant. Josh Sandler attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.

Yuri Milner is the Founder of the Breakthrough Prize. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Moscow State University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNOTE — HiNOTE: modern messaging for any occasion. Customize & send your best text, card, invite, social post with individuality, high-touch humor & style.
Lori Systems — Lori is a venture-backed start-up building the cutting-edge logistics infrastructure for trucking in Africa. The start-up is tackling a massive issue - $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, which means that up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).Lori’s tech-enabled and operations-drivenmarketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The supply chain management system brings transparency and has pushed significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (savings upwards of 18%).The company has experienced 30% month-over-month compounded growth since product launch in May 2017. The market demand for Lori’s platform is increasing exponentially. To continue this pace of growth, Lori recently closed a landmark raise from globally leading institutional and strategic investors. The company won Techcrunch Battlefield Africa.
XiaoBangGuiHua — XiaoBangGuiHua is an intelligent investment advisory service platform. Through intelligent robot algorithm and advanced asset allocation model, it provides investors with scientific and systematic financial management solutions, including small help investment app, Bin Xu said investment series, love said finance and economics

Vaibhav Kapoor

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Japan, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Autify — AI software testing company aimed at solving the challenges associated with automation testing. We are passionate about making software testing faster and easier, empowering companies to release faster and keep their applications stable.
Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs is an AI firm developing an operating system for AI agents to automate manual, repetitive tasks.

Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

Pierre Martensson

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

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