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Top 50 Angel Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 2026

Investor	Kenya investments
Cem Garih	5
Justin Mateen	5
Ken Njoroge	4
Peter Sandberg	3
Patricia Ithau	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Federico Pirzio-Biroli	2
Darshan Chandaria	2
Aaron Fu	2
Kevin Ambrosini	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Rajesh Sawhney	1
Yuri Milner	1
Larry RosenBerger	1
Hiroaki Ohta	1
Peter Bruce-Clark	1
Biz Stone	1
Jim Villanueva	1
Guillaume Glaunès	1
Peter Kenevan	1
Kwehnui Tawah	1
Wes Schwalje	1
Tomasz Gasienica-Szostak	1
Yago Arbeloa	1
Cheryl Heller	1
Peter Njonjo	1
Rus Newton	1
Justin Ziegler	1
Jeremy Cai	1
Dr Ritesh Malik	1
Tom Blomfield	1
Caribou Honig	1
Markus Ament	1
Victor Asemota	1
Camilla Hagen Sørli	1
Paul Kimani	1
Benjamin Fernandes	1
Ian McCaig	1
Andrea Iannelli	1
Steven Tamm	1
Peter anker	1
Ilkka Paananen	1
Trond Riiber Knudsen	1
Oskar Hartmann	1
Markus Gemuend	1
Kiprono Elvis Terigin	1
Josh Sandler	1
Jessica Chervin	1
Takuma Terakubo	1
Sanjeev Barnwal	1

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.

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

Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

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.

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, Asset Management and Wealth Management

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder

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 — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

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, Series A
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.

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

Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit
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.
CRE Venture Capital — Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

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, Software, Apps
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.

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.

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.

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

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.
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
H Company — H is an AI Research Lab and Product Company

Larry Rosenberger was named FICO's first Research Fellow in 2007, following more than 33 years of service to the company. In this capacity, he continues to pursue research projects that advance FICO's analytic science. From 1999 to 2007, he led FICO’s Research Unit, focused on early stage innovation in such areas as decisionanalytics/Strategy Science and Consumer Capacity Index. From 1991 to 1999, he served as President and CEO. During that time, FICO experienced consecutive years of record growth, with annual revenues increasing from $31 million to over $276 million. Prior to that position, he managed the Engineering, Research, and Development Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for the technical development, production and marketing of the company's most advanced products. Mr. Rosenberger holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in physics and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Marin Education Fund and board member of the Marin Community Foundation.

Investment focus

FinTech, Analytics, Finance
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

MeasureOne — Our consumer-permissioned data exchange platform provides verifications, credit decision and more. See how it works. Request a demo today!
Nudge Money — Nudge Money is an AI financial guidance platform leveraging behavioral economics and financial planning to infuse timely and personalized advice into automated marketing channels at community financial institutions and fintechs, increasing conversion 7x while building loyalty.
Fenris — The single best API for data and insight used to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Our clients (agencies, carriers, financial services providers) leverage our APIs to inject insights and data into their workflows, to increase conversions, and deliver killer Amazon-like customer journeys.Developer-first in our approach, it's the easy, secure way to access external data and custom algorithms that identify your best customer and ease the way. Our suite of APIs covers 95% of the US (255m adults, 130m households, 99% properties (residential and commercial), 35m small businesses, and 40m new life events annually). Machine learning analytics engine that consistently hones our predictive scores to deliver more results right at the point of quotesignals and scoring that streamline work flows and improve turn around time in traditional and embedded purchase pathways.

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.
Power Diamond Systems — Power Diamond Systems is a research and development firm that focuses on diamond semiconductor devices.

Peter is Founder, Managing Partner, and General Partner of Kalytix Ventures, as global, impact-focused venture capital firm focused on adaptation, resiliency, and survival.Prior to Kalytx, was Partner at Social Impact Capital, a global impact-focused VC firm based in New York City. A top-decile fund producing competitive venture returns, SICinvests in the “Best Ideas in Impact” by deploying an “Impact Arbitrage” strategy across geographies, sectors, and challenge domains. SIC is backed by legacy VCs including Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon, Peter Thiel, Phil Black, David Sacks, Rob Hayes, Matt Ocko & Zachary Bogue, along with family offices, RIAs, and fund-of-funds.Prior to joining the firm Peter was Head of Business Development at Real Capital Innovation (acquired by Addepar), an investment technology platform backed by 8VC and Soros Fund Management. Peter started his career in Silicon Valley by creating an early-stage venture capital firm focused on high-impact areas of AI application, and institutional investor strategy consultancy, Kalytix Partners (acquired).In his spare time Peter is an advisor to global funds focused on the environment, health, and sustainability, such as Extantia in Berlin, Andon Okapi in Africa, and Brace VC in Greece. Peter is also an active angel investor in +30 global impact startups. A leading theorist on private market impact investments, Peter has led research over the last decade on impact finance, collaborating with Oxford University, Stanford University, Planet Heritage, and White Sand Investor Group (Donnelley family). His publications include Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation (2021), widely endorsed by organizations such as the SEC and G7, and Sovereign Development Funds: The Governance and Management of Strategic Investment Institutions (2018), which was published in The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds.In addition to his work, Peter is a volunteering Ambassador to the Rockefeller family’s BankFWD initiative, which is focused on climate justice in global banking, and a Counsel Member of the Saïd family’s (Saïd Business School) Toucan Project, which cultivates future leaders from across the world. He is also a member of Rebalance VC, Impact Capital Managers, TTI and GBx.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Financial Services
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Yupp — Every AI for everyone
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.
Vantage Discovery — Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.

Jim Villanueva - Investment Director, Managing Director, Global Partnerships Social Venture Fund @ Global Partnerships

Investment focus

Agriculture, Energy, Travel
Series A, Series B, Seed
Kenya, Uganda, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Treasure8 — Through our commercial partnerships and USDA-patented dehydration technologies, Treasure8 transforms food streams and food waste into nutrient-dense elements that can be enhanced, shaped, shipped, and enjoyed almost anywhere and when needed most.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
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

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Voyage — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rain AI — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.

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.

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 — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

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.

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.

Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

Investment focus

Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

Peter Njonjo is the current CEO and Co-founder of Twiga Foods. He previously worked at Coca-Cola West Africa as a President. Peter Njonjo attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
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.
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.

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.

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.

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 — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).

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.

Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.

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.

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

Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.

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.

Camilla Hagen Sørli

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

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.

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 brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.

Ian McCaig is the CEO of lastminute.com.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
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

Andrea Iannelli

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.

Peter anker

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.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Lovable — Lovable is an AI app and website builder that turns ideas into production-ready software without coding. Launch faster with AI.

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

Investment focus

Software, Construction, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Norway, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
Ciloo — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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.

Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Malaica — Experience Obstetrician-gynaecologist led antenatal clinics, digital support, emergency access,and a community that walks with you.

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uncover — Learn your skin, Love your skin. K-Beauty Crafted for Melanin

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 — Your favorite supermarket on every street.

Jessica Chervin

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
India, Kenya, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Snabbit — Snabbit is a platform that connects people who want to help with housework. Snabbit provides an application for finding information on professionals in household duties, allowing users to acquire rapid and dependable domestic assistance in just a few minutes.
AlmaBetter — AlmaBetter provides risk-free education to students and helps them realize their potential.
Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.

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