Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Kenya (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Justin Mateen
Angel
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3 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $400k–$26M |
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Cem Garih
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $460k–$38M |
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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
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2 | United States, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Series B, Series A | E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion | $2.5M–$60M |
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Patricia Ithau
Angel
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2 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Retail, Fashion | |
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Tony Nicalo
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management | |
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Gary Scheft
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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Babatunde Soyoye
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Grant, Series A | Apps, Sales, Fitness | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, Nigeria, India | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $50k–$5M |
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Matt Sutton
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Consumer Goods | |
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $300k–$3.5M |
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Shola Akinlade
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Education, Financial Services | $181k–$4M |
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Jim Sorenson
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed | Gaming, Banking, FinTech | |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $625k–$7.5M |
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Matt Kalish
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods | $1.5M–$5M |
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Kwehnui Tawah
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Pierre Martensson
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Peter Njonjo
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed | Fashion, Software, E-Commerce | $1M–$3M |
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Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 144
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — Create a business or unlock new streams of income.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
- Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
Investor
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; Series A $5M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
- Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
- Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.5M; Series B $39M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
- buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
Patricia Ithau
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Andrea Iannelli
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Camilla Hagen Sørli
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Tony Nicalo
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- Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.
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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
Mr. Soyoye holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and a Board member of Africatel Holdings B.V.
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- Industry: Apps, Sales, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wasoko — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
- Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
- The Medic App — Medic was formed to provide the go-to integrated solution for patients, clinicians and carers globally. In doing so we want to improve medication management, enhance healthcare services and ultimately improve patient prognosis.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 625
- Round size: Seed $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
- System Ghana Limited — System Ghana Limited is a Ghana-based telecommunications startup headquartered in Accra, focused on delivering reliable.
- Manufacturing Electronics Cards — it is a startup built on the idea of putting advanced electronics engineering expertise at the service of local and regional businesses.
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Matt Sutton is an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD.
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- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$933k; Pre-Seed $672k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ciloo — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
- laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
- Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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- Industry: FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $181k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
- Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity .
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- Industry: Gaming, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Funium — Funium, a Provo, Utah-based Facebook games developer. The flagship game is Family Village, which is currently in Alpha testing. A limited beta test is planned for Q2 2011.
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
- ImpactAlpha — Breaking news, data and analysis to sustain an edge in impact investing. Trusted insights. Climate. Policy. Sustainability. Finance.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Matt Kalish is the founder and CRO of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website.
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- Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FaZe Media — FaZe Media intends to return creative control to the personalities that created the brand in the first place.
- Nifty League — A game studio at the cutting edge of Web3 with a mission to inspire other indie game developers to build a decentralized future with us.
- Playtertainment — Playtertainment provides combination of classic arcade games and mobile technology and offers real live-streaming games with real prizes, enabling gamers to play live games directly from their phone.
Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Pierre Martensson
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Peter Njonjo is the current CEO and Co-founder of Twiga Foods. He previously worked at Coca-Cola West Africa as a President. Peter Njonjo attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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