# Top 45 Community Startup Investors in Kenya in June 2026 ## 54 Collective - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network. ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet For the many, not just the few. For good. ## AXA Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients. ## Global Partnerships - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives. ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal. ## Accion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management. ## Mani Kapital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy Mani Kapital is an investment management firm. ## EQ2 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR. ## CRE Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria. ## Savannah Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact. ## U.S. International Development Finance Corp - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Banking U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank. ## Manuela Raith - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact Manuela Raith ## Tim Draper - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School. ## Change Com - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Travel, FinTech, Software Change Com AS is an Oslo-based advisory and investment company,founded by long-term Telenor research scientist, business developer and senior project manager Endre Skolt. ## Kapor Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Education, Software, Health Care Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California. ## Darshan Chandaria - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, B2B, SMS Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School. ## daba - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Lending, Internet Provider of a fintech platform intended to access investment analysis and build wealth by investing in the African private and public capital markets. The company's platform offers an application for investing and trading the best African startups, stocks, and digital assets at once, enabling users to get all the latest news and curatedupdates in one place to maximize their investments. ## Ajim Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Travel, Lending, Hospital We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders. ## Goodwater Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Burlingame, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. ## Gullit - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Travel, Shipping, Logistics Gullit advises and finances scalable early-stage tech firms in Africa. Additionally, Gullit provides funding for startups during the seed, pre-seed, debt acquisition, and restructuring phases. ## Javelin Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value. ## Artha Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all. ## Khosla Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions. ## Five35 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups. ## Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom. ## Sobrato Family Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant - Focus: EdTech, Lending, Forestry Sobrato Family Foundation is a provider of a strong vibrant Silicon Valley community through business and philanthropic leadership. ## Renew Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance 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. ## Ceniarth - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy Worldwide Reach We invest globally, with exposure across developing, emerging, and developed economies. ## Beyond Capital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Grameen Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship Grameen Foundation was founded in 1997 to help the world’s poor address their own unique needs. They believe that all of us desire to improve Their lives, and that all of us – even the poorest among us – can reach Their full potential if They are given access to the right tools and information.Their work focuses on harnessing theunderappreciated strengths of the poor, an approach inspired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Grameen Foundation President Alex Counts also trained under and worked closely with Professor Yunus in Bangladesh for six years. While Professor Yunus is a founding director and a current director emeritus of Their board, Grameen Foundation and Grameen Bank are independent organizations and have no financial or institutional links. ## Beyond Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies in East Africa and India. The fund invests in companies that aim to improve access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion, all of which can help consumers at the bottom of theeconomic pyramid live better lives. Despite the fact that the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, allowing the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate.Beyond Capital, headquartered in New York, was established in 2009. ## Finnfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech 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. ## Quona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world. ## Markus Gemuend - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Women's, mHealth, Health Care Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa. ## Pearl Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kampala, Kampala, Uganda - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses. ## Private Infrastructure Development Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Debt Financing, Series C - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Private Infrastructure Development Group is an infrastructure development firm that offers finance and funds for economic growth. ## World Within Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Internet World Within works directly with social entrepreneurs to empower marginalized communities, driving impact in education, food security, and economic inclusion. ## Water Unite Impact (WUI) - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B - Focus: Recycling, Waste Management, Environmental Engineering Water Unite Impact Investment Vehicle provides risk-tolerant capital to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the water, sanitation and plastics recycling sectors ## Kiva - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here. ## Incofin Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) manages funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. MFIs provide financial services, such as credits, savings and insurances, to people who cannot have recourse to regular banks. As a specialist in rural microfinancing, Incofin IM’s main goal is to reach out to people wholive in more secluded rural areas and/or who are active in the agricultural sector. ## Mulago Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Education Mulago finds and funds high-performance organizations that tackle the basic needs of the very poor. We fight poverty. Our job is to find the organizations best able to create change and give them what they need to do it. ## Anglo American - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Mining Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio that spans diamonds, platinum, copper, iron ore & more. ## African Development Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belvédère, Tunis, Tunisia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Energy African Development Bank operates as a multilateral development finance institution in Africa. It finances development projects and programs in collaboration with national and international development institutions. The bank provides technical assistance for project selection, study, and preparation. It facilitates investments from the public andprivate sectors in initiatives aimed at economic and social progress. The African Development Bank serves the development finance and economic growth sectors.