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Top 15 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 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 15 Artificial intelligence VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in January 2026

Investor	Artificial intelligence Kenya investments
54 Collective	4
Accion Ventures	2
Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge	1
Leaps by Bayer	1
Newid capital	1
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	1
Factor E	1
OEL Venture Investments	1
CV VC	1
Equator	1
The GSMA Innovation Fund	1
Anthemis	1
GreenTec Capital Partners	1
Flourish Ventures	1
Musha Ventures	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.
mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
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.
Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

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 is the strategic impact investment unit of Bayer. By accelerating transformative biotechnologies, we aim to shift key paradigms in life science, changing the world for better.In health, we pursue breakthroughs that could set new standards in medical care, moving from treating symptoms to curing or preventing diseases. In agriculture, wedrive innovations that could nourish a growing population while restoring the planet.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
Soufflé Therapeutics — Soufflé Therapeutics is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of nucleic acid medicines designed for precise delivery and targeting of disease-causing cells. The company's mission is to create potent, precise, and safe medicines that can be tailored for a broad range of diseases by leveraging breakthroughs in genetic medicineand drug delivery technology.

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 business funding 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

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).

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

Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!

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

We invest in blockchain

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

fija Finance GmbH — Fija offers high-yield, regulated DeFi products without its own token. MiCA-compliant, transparent & secure.
Mycel — Mycel is a decentralized cross-chain asset management platform with an intent-based token transfer layer.
Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership

A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Kenya, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

The GSMA Innovation Fund supports innovative digital solutions in emerging markets. The GSMA Innovation Fund believes digital solutions have the power to reduce inequalities within our world by connecting everyone and everything to a better future.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round
Nigeria, Pakistan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Somleng — Somleng is an open-source cloud communications platform, similar to Twilio. It's made up of several open source applications which, when used together, provide the necessary functionality and APIs to build powerful voice and SMS applications. The goal of Somleng is to break down the economic and accessibility barriers to building telephonyapplications.
Crop2Cash — Farmers, especially smallholder farmers, have always had trouble accessing financing as banks are wary of fund mismanagement. Crop2Cash makes formal financing a 100% transparent process for banks while providing much-needed capital to responsible farmers.
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%.

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.
Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Liquid — A plataforma definitiva para CFOs maximizarem liquidez e receita.
Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.

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.
Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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