Top 10 Blockchain Startup Investors in Kenya in April 2025
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 April 2025
Investor | Blockchain Kenya investments |
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Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
Greycroft | 1 |
Artesian VC | 1 |
Pantera Capital | 1 |
Animoca Brands | 1 |
Chandaria Capital | 1 |
AE Ventures | 1 |
Digital Currency Group | 1 |
Future Perfect Ventures | 1 |
Rus Newton | 1 |
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.
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
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- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Ohmie Go — EV charging solutions, shared electric vehicles, shared e-bikes & e-scooters delivered to residents as a premium managed service and amenity - An intelligent way to get EV ready with one seamless experience.
- Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
- Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
- Infinity Ground — Infinity Ground Technology supports developers in using AI with Web3, making these technologies accessible to all.
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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
- CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International
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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.
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