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Top 45 Community VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Kenya Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
54 Collective
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Agriculture, Health Care, Internet $1.7M–$42M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $328k–$500M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$30M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Acumen
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Solar, Health Care $300k–$12M
The Innovation Fund
VC Fund
2 Switzerland, Kenya Debt Financing, Seed Women's, mHealth, Health Care $96k–$192k
AXA Investment Managers
VC Fund
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services $3M–$158M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
Global Partnerships
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States Series A, Seed Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar $1.7M–$10M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising $1.1M–$15M
Artha Group
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce $71k–$2.5M
Mani Kapital
VC Fund
2 Kenya Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Beyond Capital
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services $357k–$44M
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
Ceniarth
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana Debt Financing, Seed, Series B Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship $1.5M–$45M
Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Ghana Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail $2M–$12M
daba
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Travel, Lending, Internet
African Development Bank
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Banking, Finance $200k–$692M
Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Kenya, Malawi Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing $5k–$2.6M
World Within Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Health Care, Fitness, Internet $2.2M–$8M
Mulago Foundation
VC Fund
1 United States, Ghana, India Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Agriculture, Health Care, Education $190k–$4M
Change Com
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Italy, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Travel, FinTech $400k–$1.3M
Quona Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, Indonesia Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $3M–$87M
Khosla Impact
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.9M–$9.2M
Gullit
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Travel, Shipping, Software $250k–$1.3M
Finnfund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $2.7M–$135M
Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Zambia, Senegal Grant, Debt Financing, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar $66k–$50M
Kapor Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Education, Health Care $1M–$50M
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce $500k–$790k
Incofin Investment Management
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Rwanda Series A, Series B Financial Services, Finance, Banking $3.5M–$46M
Kiva
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Ghana Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Energy, Software, Agriculture $15k–$18M
FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Travel, Software, Marketing $1.1M–$1.3M
Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software $1.2M–$75M
Ajim Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Travel, Lending, Hospital $245k–$1.3M
Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care $100k–$1.7M
Anglo American
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series C Energy, Renewable Energy, Mining $5M–$200M
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $336k–$31M
Grameen Foundation
VC Fund
1 Kenya Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship
Sobrato Family Foundation
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mexico, United States Seed, Grant EdTech, Lending, Forestry
XA Network
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Indonesia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $681k–$10M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Water Unite Impact (WUI)
VC Fund
1 Kenya Series B Recycling, Waste Management, Environmental Engineering
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Kenya Community startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Kenya Community startups

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$24M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Moniepoint — Moniepoint provides an all-in-one payments, banking and operations platform for businesses and their customers.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Grant $328k–$5M; Post-IPO Debt $18M–$500M; Debt Financing $5.5M–$410M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Pela Global — Pela Global Limited is an Australian company focused on critical and precious metals mining, primarily advancing projects in North Macedonia's Tethyan Belt. It specializes in antimony and gold resources, emphasizing sustainable development and global supply chain contributions.
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
  • Pintek — Pintek is a financial technology company aiming to democratise access to education in Indonesia through affordable and flexible credit.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Solar, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
  • EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
  • Energy Assured Nigeria — Energy Assured is an energy and utility procurement market provider for smaller businesses ranging from independent retailers and local franchisees to affinity group members in any sector. Users and customers benefit from economies of scale, more agile energy purchasing, and consistently lower gas, electricity, and water costs. Their expertsunderstand the pressures that small and medium-sized businesses face: they work to provide clients with exactly what they require so that clients can use energy as an asset to propel their business forward.
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The Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Langenbruck, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

The Innovation Fund association promotes sustainable startups by offering equity capital in the form of investments or loans.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Women's, mHealth, Health Care
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $96k–$128k; Debt Financing $126k–$192k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Malaica — Experience Obstetrician-gynaecologist led antenatal clinics, digital support, emergency access,and a community that walks with you.
  • Oomnium — OOMNIUM AG specializes in providing financial services with a focus on venture crowd capital. The company offers a platform for responsible investing through crowdinvesting, allowing individuals to invest in various opportunities and successfully completed campaigns. OOMNIUM AG is involved in projects that emphasize sustainability and innovation,such as supporting vegan bakeries and technology initiatives like ZüriCityGPT. The company aims to make investment accessible and meaningful, catering to a diverse range of investors looking for impactful ventures.
  • Voltiris — Unlock renewable energy in your greenhouse with Voltiris' spectral filtering technology.
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AXA Investment Managers
VC Fund · Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Biotechnology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $16M–$100M; Series C $14M–$158M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Meva Energy — Meva Energy provides gasification technology for the development of renewable energy from small fraction fuels. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Sweden.
  • Latour Capital — In creating the VCF Latour Capital at the request of some great French entrepreneurs, we wanted to build a new tool entirely focused investment , majority LBO in business to potential.
  • Hayfin Capital Management — Hayfin is one of Europe's leading alternative private debt asset management firm, providing finance to companies and superior risk-adjusted returns...
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
  • Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.
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Global Partnerships
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
  • Sun King — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coraly — Coraly is a real estate growth platform that unifies listings, leads, transactions, marketing, and compliance in one AI-powered system for agents and teams.
  • Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
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Artha Group
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $141k–$2.5M; Angel $71k–$652k
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
  • GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
  • KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
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Mani Kapital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Kenya Community startups

Mani Kapital is an investment management firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!
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Beyond Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $357k–$4M; Pre-Seed $800k–$1.5M; Series B $20M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
  • Floworks AI — Deploy AI agents that prospect, personalise emails, handle replies and book meetings 24/7. Floworks AI replaces repetitive SDR work so your team closes more deals.
  • Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1820
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Agentio — Agentio's patent-pending ad platform empowers marketers to finally unlock scalable, creator-led advertising. Programmatically buy the highest quality creator and influencer ad reads to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance.
  • Codis.io — COD LEGAL BLOG CONTACT US Areas We Serve California Florida TEXAS Ohio Trusted Insights on Birth Injury and Medical Negligence Law COD LEGAL BLOG is a dedicated legal information platform created to help readers understand complex legal matters in a clear and structured way. Click here to learn more. The legal system can often feel
  • Quantflo — Options market intelligence and structured trade planning for Indian markets.
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Ceniarth
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Worldwide Reach We invest globally, with exposure across developing, emerging, and developed economies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$1.7M; Series B $9M–$28M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Salad Money — Salad Money provides short-term, affordable loans to people who are experiencing financial difficulties. They are a for-profit social enterprise and the first truly responsible lender.
  • Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
  • INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
  • Clinikk — Dedicated Care team of Doctors and Health Assistants, available 24/7.Budget friendly payment plans with comprehensive claim support.Holistic Healthcare coverage for the underserved.
  • Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
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daba
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Lending, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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African Development Bank
VC Fund · Belvédère, Tunis, Tunisia · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups, 22 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Grant $200k–$17M; Post-IPO Debt $35M–$692M; Debt Financing $15M–$500M
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $58M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Tamwilcom — TAMWILCOM represents the sole intervenor of the state in matters of public guarantee of financing.
  • African Trade & Investment Development Insurance — African Trade & Investment Development Insurance is a multilateral political risk and credit insurer (rated A/Stable S&P and A3/Stable Moody's). ATI currently counts 16 African nations and 10 institutional members as shareholders. Established by treaty in 2001, ATI supports trade and investment in African member statenations by providing comprehensive risk solutions such as political risk and credit insurance products.
  • ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) — The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has metamorphosed into a fully-fledged development finance institution (DFI) over the years. As a major regional DFI, the Bank, for over forty years, has focused on helping Member States to meet infrastructural, social and institutional challenges in the ECOWAS sub-region, through financingprojects under its private and public sector windows
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund · Kampala, Kampala, Uganda · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $18k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
  • Kamp Feed — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
  • Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.
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World Within Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

World Within works directly with social entrepreneurs to empower marginalized communities, driving impact in education, food security, and economic inclusion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Fitness, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4.9M; Series A $6.3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • StartBox — Track medical errors and reduce medical liability insurance costs through a real-time, data-driven approach.
  • RecoverX — Making medical knowledge computational
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
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Mulago Foundation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Education
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Ghana, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.2M; Grant $190k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turn.io — Turn.io powers life-improving conversations across the globe. Turn.io's chat platform enables health and education organisations to scale access to trusted information, empathic support and vital services.
  • ARC Marine — ARC marine delivers nature-inclusive design, scour protection and reef technologies for coastal defence, offshore and habitat restoration worldwide.
  • Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
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Change Com
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Travel, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Italy, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
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Quona Capital
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$25M; Series B $8M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
  • Franq — Hyperlocal and phygital marketplace that connects financial products to retail & SME customers with the support of a baking agent.
  • Twinco Capital — Twinco Capital provides suppliers, both large and small, with access to affordable funding and helps buyers build a competitive and socially responsible supply chain. Twinco Capital is the first company to have successfully launched this type of supply chain financing, offering to finance as early as the time of issuance of purchase orders.purchase.
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
  • Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
  • Smile ID — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
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Gullit
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Shipping, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Morocco, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $250k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
  • Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$135M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.
  • Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
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Private Infrastructure Development Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Private Infrastructure Development Group is an infrastructure development firm that offers finance and funds for economic growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Series C
  • Geography: Kenya, Zambia, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Grant $66k–$17M; Series C $50M–$50M; Debt Financing $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SupaMoto — Supamoto is a social enterprise that aims to provide clean energy solutions. The company's main product is the Supamoto cookstove, a pellet gasifier stove designed for field testing in multiple African locations. This stove is part of the company's commitment to renewable home energy. Supamoto also offers opportunities for individuals toinvest in Zambia's renewable energy sector, further promoting the use of clean energy. The company has a significant impact on the renewable energy industry, as evidenced by its various campaigns and initiatives.
  • LOCA — LOCA offers a ride-hailing app and LOCA PAY for QR payments, available 24/7.
  • Sanivation — Sanivation really has its beginnings from 2006, when Emory approached Georgia Tech looking for a toilet that would be more reliable in treating human fecal sludge. Ideas for a solar toilet were tossed around, and prototypes were built in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. Work continued through GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders on various iterations ofthe prototypes. In 2011 a group of Georgia Tech and Emory students and recent graduates submitted an application to Start-Up Chile (a business incubator) to begin an organization based on solar sanitation. In July 2011, 5 Tech students moved to Chile to work full time on solar sanitation. Initial prototypes went well, and the team designed service models to create a more viable business model.
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $126M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
  • Reportwell — An easy-to-use compliance & reporting platform saving your team hundreds of hours and headaches. From smart report templates to streamlined performance framework dashboards, simple has arrived for compliance & reporting to governmental agencies.
  • Hamlet — Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter.
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$790k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
  • HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
  • Keep IT Cool — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
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Incofin Investment Management
VC Fund · Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Series A $4M–$8.1M; Series B $3.5M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $42M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Namdev Finvest — Namdev Finvest operates a non-banking finance platform that provides loans to rural and semi-urban agriculture, as well as the priority sector.
  • Save Solutions — Elopments of the weaker section of the community/society as well as society in general under the respective philosophy of Indian Constitutional Justice, Liberty, Equlity & Fraternity as Socialist, Secular, Democratic, people's welfare Society for the National Development and Management through alternative naturing system of IndianSocial Service in participatory way.
  • Mufin Green Finance — Mufin Green Finance is an NBFC that specialises in the electric vehicle (EV) market.
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Kiva
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Agriculture
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Debt Financing $15k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • Let Me Snack — Let Me Snack is a Houston-based specialty snack company producing popped water lily seed snacks with clean ingredients.
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
  • OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
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Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $8M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • CloudX — CloudX is a supply side platform for mobile and AI publishers. Boost revenue with AI workflows and a liquid marketplace.
  • Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
  • Nexenta Systems — Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 2,000+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration andSoftware-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment – from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.For more information visit, www.nexenta.com
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Ajim Capital
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Lending, Hospital
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $245k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
  • Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund · Gauteng, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
  • Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
  • Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
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Anglo American
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio that spans diamonds, platinum, copper, iron ore & more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Mining
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$12M; Series A $20M–$200M; Series C $19M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PeroCycle
  • Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
  • Alloyed — Alloyed delivers cutting-edge innovation in materials science, additive manufacturing, and advanced metallurgy. Explore our technologies and career opportunities.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 550
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $336k–$3M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kyash — Kyash is a fintech platform providing mobile banking services with full-stack banking technology currently offering digital wallet app. It has built proprietary full-stack banking infrastructure from the ground up to offer mobile-first consumer-facing digital wallets in Japan.The platform offers online payment and personal remittance apps underthe Kyash service name, and issues prepaid cards that can be used at Visa merchants. It also provides a new card that is available in three colors, navy, silver, and pink and adopts a simple design with card numbers and card names placed on the back. The first Visa card in Japan with an IC chip and contactless payment function that has no card number on the front side.Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Karrot Market — Karrot is the largest local community marketplace to buy, sell and trade new and used home decor, furniture, fashion and more. Join our growing community of over 10 million verified users!
  • Koala Go — Your student's favorite online classroom. 24/7 live support. Co-browser. Gamified teaching environment. Worldwide invoicing. Interactive whiteboard.
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Grameen Foundation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Juhudi Kilimo — Juhudi Kilimo is a social enterprise that provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro-businesses.
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Sobrato Family Foundation
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Sobrato Family Foundation is a provider of a strong vibrant Silicon Valley community through business and philanthropic leadership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Lending, Forestry
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Kenya, Mexico, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
  • Kueski — Kueski is the online lender for the Middle Class of Mexico and Latin America. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and deliver loans in a matter of minutes. Simple, paperless and available 24/7, Kueski is the most convenient lending platform for those who need an immediate loan. The company has become the fastest growingplatform of its kind in the region and has already granted thousands of loans.
  • Drexel Schools — Drexel Schools is a resource-rich, cutting-edge approach to Catholic education. Committed to redefining student engagement through robust technology and data-driven instruction, Drexel Schools is transforming Catholic education. Drexel Schools seeks to prove that the creation of a new model of Catholic schools is possible and scalable. The networkof Drexel Schools forms the whole person through faith, knowledge, community, and by leveraging the resources and knowledge of a network of Catholic schools. Drexel Schools are recognized for sending forth into the greater community Christ-centered, compassionate, and confident leaders and problem solvers who exercise moral courage and service to others in their daily lives.
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XA Network
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

XA Network is a highly selective, invitation-only global community for senior technology executives, founders, and investors shaping the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $681k–$2M; Series A $1.8M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peakflo — If your finance team spends hours on tasks like manual data entry, 2-way/3-way matching, data validation, document categorization, vendor reconciliation, and cash application, it's time to streamline the entire process with Peakflo AI!
  • Datakrew — Datakrew delivers real-time EV battery analytics and AI-powered fleet intelligence. Smarter, safer fleets start here. Explore our solutions.
  • Mito Health — An AI-Powered medical team dedicated to optimising your health. Focusing on in-depth diagnostics and evidence-based strategies across 5 key pillars of nutrition, sleep, exercise, supplements and mental well-being.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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Water Unite Impact (WUI)
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Community startups

Water Unite Impact Investment Vehicle provides risk-tolerant capital to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the water, sanitation and plastics recycling sectors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recycling, Waste Management, Environmental Engineering
  • Stage:Series B
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sanivation — Sanivation really has its beginnings from 2006, when Emory approached Georgia Tech looking for a toilet that would be more reliable in treating human fecal sludge. Ideas for a solar toilet were tossed around, and prototypes were built in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. Work continued through GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders on various iterations ofthe prototypes. In 2011 a group of Georgia Tech and Emory students and recent graduates submitted an application to Start-Up Chile (a business incubator) to begin an organization based on solar sanitation. In July 2011, 5 Tech students moved to Chile to work full time on solar sanitation. Initial prototypes went well, and the team designed service models to create a more viable business model.
  • Mr. Green Africa — Mr. Green Africa - Recycling company that sells pre-processed recycling materials with a traceable social and environmental impact - fairly traded plastic.
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Community VC funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 84 deals from 96 investors.

96
investors
in Kenya Community startups
84
deals
in Kenya Community startups
$1M
median round
in Kenya Community startups
53%
lead investors
lead at least one round
20%
Grant
most common funding stage

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