Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Kenya in November 2024
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Consumer startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Kenya in November 2024
Investor | Consumer Kenya investments |
---|---|
Cem Garih | 3 |
Justin Mateen | 3 |
Patricia Ithau | 2 |
Peter anker | 1 |
Pierre Martensson | 1 |
Jim Sorenson | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Tony Nicalo | 1 |
Kwehnui Tawah | 1 |
Kiprono Elvis Terigin | 1 |
Matt Kalish | 1 |
Gary Scheft | 1 |
Andrea Iannelli | 1 |
Gregory Rockson | 1 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Trond Riiber Knudsen | 1 |
Shola Akinlade | 1 |
Cheryl Heller | 1 |
Camilla Hagen Sørli | 1 |
Investor
Show more
Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
- Moment — Quickly deploy fixed income trading and data tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
- TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.
Justin Mateen is the Founder 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 top 10 techentrepreneurs. 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.
Show more
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
- Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Patricia Ithau
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya
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 — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Peter anker
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Pierre Martensson
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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 .
Show more
Investment focus
- Gaming, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Funium — Playing games will be more interesting and fun if you play them with your friends or partners, there are many multiplayer games that you can play together only in Family Games.
- 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 — ImpactAlpha is chronicling the emergence of this investment thesis from the margins into the mainstream. From the handful of high-net worth individuals and forward-thinking foundations that today represent perhaps $40 billion in capital committed to impact investing, to pension funds and other institutional asset managers that represent the tens oftrillions in capital that will be invested in the sustainable future.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
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.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- 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.
Tony Nicalo
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Matt Kalish is the founder and CRO of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website.
Show more
Investment focus
- Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya
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.
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Kenya
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.
Andrea Iannelli
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Consumer
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
- Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
- PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
- Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Construction, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Norway, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- OTee — OTee's Industrial Automation platform makes it possible to create and manage industrial-grade virtual control systems, based on open standards and architecture!
- Ciloo — Ciloo is an operator of a global on-demand platform intended to provide e-commerce software for branded products and corporate gifts.
- Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
- Earnipay — Earnipay simplifies business operations with a single dashboard. From high-yield accounts and flexible credit options to efficient payments, payroll processing, and on-demand pay, streamline your financial operations and drive your business growth.
- 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.
Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
Show more
Investment focus
- Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Kenya
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.
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Show more
Investment focus
- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Investors by industry
Health Care
Google
Gaming
Climate
Energy
Community
Marketplace
Hardware
Biotech
Consumer
Proptech
Artificial intelligence
FinTech
Impact
EdTech
Sustainability
Venture Capital
Fashion
Big Data
Finance
Web3
B2B
Beauty
Retail
Education
Clean Energy
Oil and Gas
Food and Beverage
Real Estate
Video Games
Payments
Infrastructure
Photography
Financial Services
Organic Food
Publishing
Social Media
Social Network
Wellness
Enterprise Software
Medical
Android
Digital Media
Music
Legal
Franchise
Local
Internet
Construction
Sports
eSports
Manufacturing
Email
Mobile
Art
Hospitality
Biotechnology
Travel
Fitness
Recruiting
Platforms
Cannabis
Mobile Advertising
Medical Device
Automotive
Wine And Spirits
Crowdfunding
Social
CleanTech
Mobile Apps
Transportation
InsurTech
Enterprise
LGBT
Theatre
Film
Life Science
Non Profit
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Sporting Goods
Restaurants
Social Impact
Software
Celebrity
Cryptocurrency
Agriculture (agtech)
Media (entertainment)
Facebook
Blockchain
Investors by country
Germany
United Kingdom
India
Canada
South Korea
Australia
Ireland
New Zealand
United States
Africa
Vietnam
Saudi Arabia
Japan
South Africa
Europe
Oceania
LATAM
Indonesia
Middle East
Asia
Sri Lanka
China
Singapore
Brazil
Armenia
Qatar
Spain
Chile
Belgium
France
Belarus
Egypt
Ghana
Croatia
Ethiopia
Costa Rica
Gibraltar
Kenya
Lithuania
Greece
Liechtenstein
Finland
Panama
Myanmar
Belize
Lebanon
Denmark
Cayman Islands
Mexico
Hong Kong
Philippines
Barbados
Mali
Bahrain
Norway
Hungary
Malta
Israel
Italy
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Cambodia
Peru
Bermuda
Czech Republic
Kuwait
Malaysia
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Bulgaria
Liberia
Mauritius
Morocco
Algeria
Jersey
Slovenia
Thailand
Estonia
Uzbekistan
Serbia
Zimbabwe
Sierra Leone
Zambia
Venezuela
Taiwan
Faroe Islands
Togo
Dominican Republic
Portugal
Iraq
Turkey
Seychelles
San Marino
Uganda
Rwanda
Uruguay
Bahamas
Ukraine
Sweden
Azerbaijan
Nigeria
Senegal
Tanzania
Tunisia
Iceland
Russian Federation
El Salvador
Poland
Puerto Rico
Namibia
Tajikistan
United Arab Emirates
Honduras
Luxembourg
Bolivia
Isle of Man
Pakistan
Albania
Argentina
Jordan
Bangladesh
Grenada
Romania
Cameroon
Oman
Cyprus
Latvia
Austria
Switzerland
Colombia
Guatemala
Marshall Islands
Angel Investors in Kenya by industry