Top 25 Blockchain Startup Investors in Kenya (November 2026)

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• 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+.
• CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
• Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.

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• AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
• Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
• SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.

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• Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
• Fission Labs — 24/7 liquidity, atomic settlement, institutional market infrastructure for tokenized funds.
• Solana Company — Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) is a listed digital asset treasury dedicated to acquiring Solana (SOL), created in partnership with Pantera and Summer Capital.

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• Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
• Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
• Sensydia — The Sensydia Cardiac Performance System (CPS) enables the rapid assessment of critical care and heart failure patients by non-invasively measuring key hemodynamic metrics.

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• Axiom — Axiom is an AI technology company that builds next-generation AI mathematicians.
• Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
• Rocker — Rocker develops a secure, cloud-deployed AI assistant designed to integrate into corporate environments to automate tasks, manage project workflows, and enhance internal collaboration across teams.

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• NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
• PhotonPay — Founded in 2015, PhotonPay is a digital financial infrastructure provider offering global payment solutions to businesses. Our innovative core products include Global Accounts, Card Issuing, Online Payments, Payouts, FX Management and Embedded Finance. PhotonPay has become a Mastercard issuer in Hong Kong and the fintech card issuer in the GreaterChina region of Discover® Network. With a strong compliance culture and technological innovation capabilities, PhotonPay is building a digital payment network to take the friction out of global payments and enhance operational efficiency for businesses operating on a global scale. Headquartered in Hong Kong and providing localized services through nine international offices, PhotonPay partners with a network of top-tier banks and global financial institutions and serves more than 200,000 customers globally.
• Predicate — Define transaction rules to secure financial products.

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• Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
• MARAMOJA transport — Find the transport you need through the people you trust. Download MARAMOJA IOS : https://t.co/sgWCdBSTin Android:https://t.co/XSrGFWg2z6

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• Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
• FV Bank — FV Bank is a US licensed bank and a digital asset custodian that provides banking, payments, digital asset custody, and Visa cards to the U.S. and international customers.
• Hexa Wallet — Own HexaWallet.io today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
• Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health

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• Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
• Coherence Neuro — Opto Biosystems specializes in the development of innovative healthcare technologies that bridge the gap between cancer neuroscience and bioelectronics. The company focuses on creating smaller, softer, and wireless biological interfaces designed to offer a new treatment modality. By leveraging advancements in neural engineering and bioelectronics,Opto Biosystems is dedicated to building new tools that interface with the body, aiming to improve patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Their work includes exploring the stability of thin-film electrodes for neuromodulation, highlighting their commitment to advancing medical technology.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.

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• Thebhub — We Organize Software Engineering Teams For Startups & Develop Web and Mobile apps on Credit.
• BlockchainCybertech Limited — A Technology Company that specializes in internet-related services and products, which include blockchain solutions, cyber security and A.I

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• Wisecut AI — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
• mogul club — Mogul is a real estate investment company specializing in crowdfunded commercial property investment and acquisition. Mogul can help you buy rental property and expand your investment portfolio.
• Austin Sensing Company — Austin Sensing Company develops sensing systems and autonomy software for airspace awareness, drone operations, and defense applications. The company designs and manufactures radar, passive RF, and acoustic sensors to detect and track aircraft and drones.

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• AZA Finance — AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC.
• AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
• Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.

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• Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
• Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.

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• Vereign — Digital authenticity infrastructure for regulated sectors. 800,000+ verified deliveries monthly in Swiss healthcare. Open source, Swiss made.
• Hypermine — Trust, Transparency & Technology
• Cryptic Legends — Cryptic Legends Limited is a game studio based in Malta, EU, building original squad management game with strategic elements, automatic turn-based battles and player to player trading.

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• Funtrench — Funtrench is a technology company that builds distributed-ledger, AI, and VR solutions for various emerging challenges. Its key focus in solutions is in bringing the strengths of distributed ledgers to common problems such as counterfeit goods, electoral fraud, cross-border payments, and automated escrow among others. It aims to develop a pool oftalent skilled in the practical application of 4th industrial revolution technologies - DLT, AI, and VR. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

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• Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Bullshot Inc — Bullshot is redefining the way meme tokens are launched, traded, and adopted. By combining AI-driven automation with the power of community culture, Bullshot creates an ecosystem where creativity, speed, and scalability thrive.

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• Tuwe Bora — Tuwebora, we do more than just make clothing—we're building futures and revolutionizing the global fashion industry.
• Timao Group — Timao Group manufactures durable plastic fencing posts and interlocking blocks from recycled waste, delivering strong, eco-friendly solutions for construction.
• POLLEN PATROLLERS — Pollen Patrollers' mission is to combat bee colony collapse and enhance food security by providing innovative smart hive solutions and precision pollination services. Pollen Patrollers is a startup that leverages advanced technology.

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• 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.
• TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

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• Zimi Charge — Zimi Charge enables to charge sustainably using our mobile app and network of stations.
• Lobito Atlantic Railway — A secure, efficient and reliable rail link, open to all customers, connecting Africa's Copperbelt to international markets.
• Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.

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• Vatar — Vatar is building safety infrastructure for Africa — a small device and on-device AI (Ogbon) that turns the CCTV cameras a home or business already owns into intelligent systems that understand what's happening, act on it in real time, and dispatch help when it matters.
• Lagos Life — Lagos Life a massively popular browser-based life-simulation game modeled after Nigeria's commercial capital. Within nine days of launch, the game attracted over 4.7 million players, featuring fully simulated career tracks, social hubs, local virtual economies, and real-time multiplayer functionality directly inside web browsers.
• Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure

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• Grail Capital — Grail Capital is to make it easy, profitable, and safe for investors to collect digital art.
• expand.network — Expand.network offers a unified API for transacting and sourcing historical and real-time on-chain data.
• XBTO Humla Ventures — XBTO Humla Ventures is a trusted digital asset innovator and investor. XBTO Humla Ventures invest in entrepreneurs with a combination of strong experience, vision and execution.

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• UbaPesa — UbaPesa is the best peer to peer lending app in Kenya which allows you to lend and borrow money in real-time.
• The Kueq Limited — The kueq is a Virtual Bank mobile based user initiated Automated & manual lending & borrowing app providing a platform for Individual funders to loan to individual borrowers on 10 days & 20 days, World major currencies FX trading (USD/KES, EUR/KES, GBP/KES) Have a physical and or virtual prepaid card, credit card& or debit card, Make RTGS & international TT using SWIFT Pesa linked – local payment gateway Pay water, electricity, cable bills. Buy government treasury bond and treasury bills, Buy insurance covers both life & general insurance covers et al. Crowd funding of it’s own shares, (Buy shares of The kueq limited on it’s own app. The next level crowd funding) based on real time company performance information e.g toplines, PAT, EBITDA, D/E, EPS, DPS, statutory ratios; cash ratios, core capital, Business accounts, Bid bond & invoice discounting

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• Banked — Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform that lets consumers, businesses and banks process payments in real-time, more securely. To leverage the Banked checkout system, businesses need to embed the company’s API and this can be done across mobile apps, customer portals, emailed invoices or even text messages.
• Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
• Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.

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• UNest — UNest makes it easy to save and invest for your children's future with tax-advantaged investment accounts, life insurance, and more.
• NuCypher — NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Crystal Intelligence — Decision intelligence for digital assets: crypto compliance software turning blockchain data and AI into evidence, from licence reviews to agentic payments.