Top 15 Automotive VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in May 2025
A list of 15 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in May 2025
Investor | Automotive Kenya investments |
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At One Ventures | 2 |
Renew Capital | 1 |
Playfair Capital | 1 |
AngelList | 1 |
Factor E | 1 |
PanAfrican Investment Co. | 1 |
Village Global | 1 |
Satgana | 1 |
Raba Partnership | 1 |
Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Musha Ventures | 1 |
EchoVC Partners | 1 |
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners | 1 |
Ambo Ventures | 1 |
Chandaria Capital | 1 |
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.
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
- Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Canada
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- axiTrust — Trust Platform serving MSMEs with Technology and Consulting towards obtaining Surety Bonds
- Phonicx AI — Phonicx AI is an advanced AI audio platform built for creators, businesses, and developers. Leveraging cutting-edge speech synthesis and voice intelligence, Phonicx empowers users to generate ultra-realistic AI voices, create custom voice clones, and build smart AI voice agents — all in one seamless platform.From scalable text-to-speechcapabilities to dynamic voice automation, Phonicx AI is designed to accelerate content production, enhance customer interactions, and enable voice-led experiences across industries. With support for multiple languages and accents, Phonicx AI is perfect for media creators, podcast producers, marketing teams, and enterprises seeking high-quality synthetic voice solutions.Whether you're building lifelike audio for video content, automating support with voice bots, or scaling global communication — Phonicx delivers fast, flexible, and human-sounding voice technology at scale.
- Whisper Software — Whisper Software is an AI-powered sales chatbot to grow fans business.
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.
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 — Travel More, Work Less, Be Curious
- 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.
- Bridge International Academies — Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, freeof cost, for a brighter future.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
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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