Top 20 Consumer Angel Investors in Kenya in September 2025
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 September 2025
Investor | Consumer Kenya investments |
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Justin Mateen | 3 |
Cem Garih | 3 |
Patricia Ithau | 2 |
Kevin Ambrosini | 2 |
Wes Schwalje | 1 |
Peter anker | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Gregory Rockson | 1 |
Tony Nicalo | 1 |
Kwehnui Tawah | 1 |
Cheryl Heller | 1 |
Trond Riiber Knudsen | 1 |
Camilla Hagen Sørli | 1 |
Kiprono Elvis Terigin | 1 |
Gary Scheft | 1 |
Pierre Martensson | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Shola Akinlade | 1 |
Matt Kalish | 1 |
Matt Sutton | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
- Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kenya
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.
Patricia Ithau
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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.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Egypt, Kenya
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.
- Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.
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
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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 — Jam tangan pintar modern dengan fitur kesehatan, notifikasi real-time, dan review asli dari pengguna.
Peter anker
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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.
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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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.
Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.
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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.
Tony Nicalo
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
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Investment focus
- Software, Construction, SaaS
- 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 — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
- Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
Camilla Hagen Sørli
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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
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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.
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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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.
Pierre Martensson
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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.
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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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.
Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Education, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Portfolio highlights
- Chowdeck — Chowdeck is a food delivery service and marketplace to buy meals from a wide range of restaurants.
- Earnipay — Earnipay enables employers to offer employees access to their earned salaries instantly at any time without making changes to their existing payment process.
- 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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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.
Matt Sutton is an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods
- Seed
- Kenya
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
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