Top 15 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in October 2024
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotech startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotech companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in October 2024
Investor | Biotech Kenya investments |
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GreenTec Capital Partners | 2 |
Shell Foundation | 2 |
DILA Capital | 2 |
Opes Impact Fund | 2 |
CoCapital | 2 |
EcoEnterprises Fund | 2 |
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative | 2 |
U.S. International Development Finance Corp | 1 |
Alphamundi | 1 |
Finnfund | 1 |
Triodos Bank | 1 |
iLabAfrica | 1 |
Endeavor | 1 |
Endeavor Catalyst | 1 |
Standard Chartered Bank | 1 |
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.
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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.
Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Solar, Agriculture
- Grant, Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Mexico, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
- Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
- Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, India, Italy
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.
- MunyaxEco — Munyax ECO is an East African solar energy company that is dedicated to providing innovative renewable energy solutions while promoting gender equality. Discover how our sustainable practices and inclusive approach are driving positive change in the industry and beyond.
- WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
- Series A, Series C
- Kenya, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy
- Series A, Series C
- Kenya, Mexico
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- Nuu — Nuu is a food-based company that makes old-fashioned food with future generations in mind. Nuu is not to make the best products in the world, but the best products for the world.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Sistema Biobolsa — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Agriculture, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- France, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Enogrid — Enogrid provides energy monitoring solutions. It also allows users to measure and optimize the performance of building operations, visualize energy flows, customize distribution coefficients, monitor self-energy consumption, access transaction documents, and more.
- Frontier Markets — Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denyingtheir ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
- Qarnot — Qarnot provides economical and ecological cloud HPC on a disruptive platform. Qarnot designs and develops Q.rad, a computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet. The company has built three generations of computing heaters with multiple CPU's and sold it to construction companies looking for heatersfor new buildings. Qarnot offers affordable HPC to avoid data center costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, and cooling.Qarnot was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Montrouge, France.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Stone Pagamentos SA — Stone Pagamentos is a THE platform for your online shop to accept debit, credit cards and payment slips. Have access to tools to increase you conversion, simple integration.
- Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
- Emerging Markets Global Advisory — Emerging Markets Global Advisory offers advisory services to financial institutions, institutional investors and large-cap and middle-market corporates.
AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Solar, Energy
- Series A, Series B, Debt Financing
- Kenya, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Mr. Green Africa — Mr. Green Africa - Recycling company that sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact - fairly traded plastic.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- India, Germany, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
- Harmony Energy — Harmony Energy creates, constructs, and runs wind and solar energy projects. They build substantial solar PV farms, supporting landowners all along the way with their project. They have a range of project and technical abilities to share with landowners because they developed and operated wind power facilities.Established in 2010, Harmony Energyis one of the UK’s leading developers, owners, and operators of utility-scale battery energy storage. It also has expertise in developing, building, and running wind and solar facilities, both independently and in conjunction with others.
- La Bolsa Social — La Bolsa Social is an equity crowdfunding platform that aims at funding the growth of companies with a positive social and environmental impact. The platform is focused on the investors who seek a comprehensive profitability in the economic, social, and environmental sectors. It connects impact investors with companies that improve society and theenvironment. Its objective is to improve the financing of companies with growth potential that has a positive impact on society and the environment and promoting ethical finance. Founded in 2015, La Bolsa Social is authorized in Spain by the CNMV.
Research Centre under the Faculty of Information Technology at Strathmore University, @iLabAfrica was established in January 2011 to spearhead research, innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT for Development (ICT4D) ecosystem towards the attainment of the UNDP Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Kenya’s Vision2030. They recognise that the spread of ICT technologies in developing countries remains painfully slow; condemning a large fraction of Africa’s population to poverty, undernourishment, disease and disempowerment. They also recognise that this situation is improving in some countries as a result of the phenomenal growth of the mobile telephony services. This improvement in data access and connectivity has created a wealth of opportunities for entrepreneurs to engage in mobile-based services delivery business.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Arbres Biotech — Arbres Biotech focuses on supplying seedlings of various plants to nurseries.
About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Brazil, United States, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
- Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
- Build A Rocket Boy — We are a diverse, multinational group of developers, dedicated to making an all-new multi-world gaming experience, EVERYWHERE and MindsEye.
Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Brazil, Mexico
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- Xocean — Using unmanned surface vessels (USVs), XOCEAN offers turnkey data collection services to Surveyors, Companies and Agencies.
- Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
- Harbor Lab — Designed to streamline the port cost management processes and optimize operational efficiency for cargo operations and husbandry services by leveraging technology and automation.
Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Singapore, India, United Kingdom
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- Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
- AdaniConneX — AdaniConneX is the largest Hyperscale Data Center provider. Avail the maximum uptime, highest energy efficiency, full scalability and security to your business and customers.
- Fosun International — Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.
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