Top 10 Blockchain Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Blockchain Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Investor	Blockchain Kenya investments
AE Ventures	1
Digital Currency Group	1
Kepple Africa Ventures	1
Artesian VC	1
Animoca Brands	1
Rus Newton	1
Greycroft	1
Pantera Capital	1
Chandaria Capital	1
Future Perfect Ventures	1

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Investor list

Investment focus

IaaS, Big Data, Computer
Pre-Seed
Kenya, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

AMPnet — AMPnet is a set of white-label crowdinvesting platforms with a central P2P marketplace for renewable energy shares. Through our platform, renewable energy communities all over Europe are providing much-needed liquidity to their investments and connecting directly to large financers of renewables such as NGOs, carbon offseting schemes, etc...
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
Cinch Tech — Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides analternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Doppler Finance — Doppler Finance is a yield-earning platform that unlock earning opportunities within the XRPL ecosystem

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
SAMA Fertility — SAMA Fertility is a virtual fertility clinic that offers fertility care and treatments, including preservation and evaluation services.
Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
Cool Cats — Welcome to the official website for Cool Cats. Discover Blue Cat and his friends, shop for merch, watch fun animations, and learn more about Cool Cats today.
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Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

Investment focus

IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Seed
Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Venture capital and technology investments

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MapAnything — Integrate and leverage location-based data and prioritization in your CRM, using Salesforce maps, to optimize your reps' activities.
Optimus Ride — Optimus Ride is a self-driving vehicle company based in Boston, MA. It designs technologies to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable mobility systems and solutions.As an MIT spinoff company, it combines over 30 years of interdisciplinary university research in self‑driving technologies (DARPA Urban Challenge), electric vehicles (CityCar),and Mobility-on-Demand Systems. The team includes decades of industrial and entrepreneurial experience that combines manufacturing robots, urban design, and shared vehicle fleet management.
Resonate — Resonate's pioneering approach goes beyond traditional targeting on broad demographics, past behaviors or general interests. Political campaigns, advocacy groups and major consumer brands now use Resonate's motivations based targeting to deliver successful online ad campaigns based on otherwise unidentifiable values such as patriotism,environmentalism, taste for luxury, interest in innovation and thousands of other human dimensions.

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
FunFair Technologies Ltd — FunFair is a decentralised gaming platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts. Thanks to our breakthrough technology, it is the first platform to solve the big challenges that have made other blockchain casinos unplayable.Our vision is a limitless universe of transparent, secure casinos that can be easily created by anyone, anywhere, where gamesare fun, fast and fair. That’s why we’re called FunFair.

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.

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.
Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.