Top 10 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in July 2025

Investor	Artificial intelligence Kenya investments
54 Collective	4
Accion Venture Lab	2
Factor E	1
Musha Ventures	1
Anthemis	1
Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge	1
Leaps by Bayer	1
OEL Venture Investments	1
Newid capital	1
GreenTec Capital Partners	1

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Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.

Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, India

Portfolio highlights

Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cariqa — Cariqa: An all-in-one app for EV drivers. It makes charging, trip planning & battery management easy, with personalised recommendations based on your usage.
Burbank — Burbank's technology creates the most seamless customer experience by enabling authentication of users anytime, at any time, using the widely known "Tap and PIN." Burbank gives companies the ability to produce the remarkable.
SimpleClosure — The easiest and most trustworthy way to shut down your startup. Simplify your company dissolution process, saving time and money while getting everything done right.

Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity.

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Farming
Grant, Pre-Seed
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Synnefa — We provide an online farm record-keeping software as a service and integrate this platform with IoT solar-powered soil sensors to give farmers a 360-degree view of their farm and eliminate any guesswork. We leverage AI and ML technologies to analyse IoT data and agronomy data to increase production by 60% while reducing farm input costs by 40%.
Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.

Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences and specializes in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, and scientific breakthrough. The firm's approach is making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies that could have the greatest impact on humanity.It was founded in 2015 andheadquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Agriculture
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, China

Portfolio highlights

one.bio — BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States.
Nuvig Therapeutics — Nuvig Therapeutics is advancing innovative and transformational therapies that are designed to induce natural mechanisms to restore immune homeostasis, rebalance immune function following inﬂammation, and improve the treatment options for patients. Nuvig is building a pipeline of novel immune therapeutics for chronic inflammatory and autoimmunediseases.
Indapta Therapeutics — Indapta Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company developing an NK (natural killer) cell therapy platform for the treatment of blood and solid tumor cancers.

OEL Venture Investments

Investment focus

Agriculture, Farmers Market, Machine Learning
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Kenya, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital funding solutions and business banking accounts to make cash flow.
NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.