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Top 15 Automotive Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2025

A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Automotive startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Automotive Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2025

Investor Automotive Kenya investments
At One Ventures 2
Satgana 1
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners 1
PanAfrican Investment Co. 1
Playfair Capital 1
EchoVC Partners 1
Village Global 1
Raba Partnership 1
Factor E 1
Hiroaki Ohta 1
AngelList 1
Musha Ventures 1
Kepple Africa Ventures 1
Shintaro Yamada 1
Chandaria Capital 1
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At One Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Sustainability, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Puna Bio — By researching bacteria from 3.5 billion years ago, we were able to develop the first extremophile bioinoculant in the world. Our seed treatment can consistently improve yields 10-15% in fertile soils and grow crops in extreme environments and degraded soil
  • Ravel — Ravel revolutionizes textile recycling through purification technology, effectively separating and repurposing blended materials. Join us in shaping a circular textile economy.
  • Simplifyber — Simplifyber is changing the way clothes are created, transforming the world's $1.5 trillion Apparel Industry and 250-year old factory system into sustainable, additive manufacturing. By assembling clothes with chemistry rather than with sewing machines, the Simplifyber process eliminates much of the waste, carbon emissions, and water pollutionthat have led to fashion’s devastating environmental and social impact in recent years. Efficient, plant-based and closed-loop, Simplifyber is revolutionizing the way the world manufactures clothing with its proprietary technology and cutting-edge techniques.
Satgana VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.
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Investment focus
  • Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Kenya, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
  • NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
  • Brineworks — Brineworks is making sustainble CO2 and H2 production afforable. The building blocks for green fuels - from seawater.
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 11 investments in the past 12 months
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Triorb — Triorb is a technology company that specializes in robot mobility development with the help of software and hardware solutions.
  • Aerem — Make the switch to rooftop solar effortlessly with Aerem solution's innovative solar finance and technology solutions. Discover how we're making solar adoption easier than ever before and start saving on your energy costs.
  • Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
PanAfrican Investment Co. VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Local, Content, Automotive
  • Series A, Series B
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Savoteur — SAVOTEUR is a digital publication that focuses on celebrating what makes cities rich and unique. Savoteur explores the relevant people, places, and things-to-do around the world. Through its global team of editors and contributors, it gains an insider’s perspective to the world around us, one city at a time. The company was founded in 2010 andheadquartered in New York, United States.
  • Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
Playfair Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
  • Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
  • NetFabric — NetFabric is building a next-generation network observability platform that seamlessly combines all network data sources and provides real-time responses to any network question.
EchoVC Partners VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
  • Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
Village Global VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • 1Fort — Get peace of mind from digital threats with combined cyber insurance and security. All in a few clicks - no tech expertise needed.
  • P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
  • Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
Raba Partnership VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, South Africa, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Swypex — The all-in-one financial platform empowering businesses with control, visibility, and efficiency. Swypex simplifies business finances, freeing you to focus on growth.
  • Kera — We are on a mission to connect health ecosystems and enable healthy lives for all communities. Starting in Senegal.
  • Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Factor E VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Factor[e] Ventures impact 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 & frontier markets.Working across the globe, we bring disruptive innovation to the worlds’ fastest-growing markets.We serve as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors who are like-minded in their pursuit of de-carbonized development through market-driven forces.
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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 — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.
Hiroaki Ohta Angel
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.
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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 — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • Power Diamond Systems — Power Diamond Systems is a research and development firm that focuses on diamond semiconductor devices.
AngelList VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Apply privately to 130,000+ remote jobs and startup jobs near you with one application. See salary and equity upfront. Find the latest tech jobs, company overviews, benefits and more at AngelList Talent.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
  • Vidyut — Vidyut offers end-to-end solutions for purchase and financing to resale which provide superior economics on electric vehicles compared to petrol & diesel vehicles.
  • Myko AI — Myko AI is a data-driven financial planning and analysis platform that helps companies spend less time budgeting while making better decisions. They help finance professionals to directly access data and reports from QuickBooks into the Excel or google sheets.
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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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
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Shintaro Yamada Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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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 — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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