Top 15 Cryptocurrency VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.4M–$50M |
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency | $650k–$30M |
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $550k–$114M |
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1M–$40M |
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$126M |
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Greycroft
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.5M–$90M |
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Rwanda, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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BnkToTheFuture
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding | FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services | $126k–$14M |
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Draper Associates
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain | $750k–$41M |
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Development Bank of Southern Africa
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, Angola | Debt Financing, Seed, Series H | Mobile, Banking, Finance | $15M–$753M |
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Stephens Investment Management
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Series A | Payments, Finance, Cryptocurrency | |
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Firestartr
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $400k–$37M |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | $60k–$100k |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $675k–$1.3M |
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BitFury Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, The Netherlands | Seed, Series B | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
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Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 396
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Orthogonal — Giving AI agents the tools they need.
- World Foundation — World is the real human network. A new standard of trust on the internet.
- Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT
Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
- Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 391
- Round size: Seed $550k–$8.5M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
- DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
- Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $5M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
- TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
- Tare — Tare uses AI and tokenization to change the entire credit lifecycle.
Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
- Neuron Factory — Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations.
- Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone
Venture capital and technology investments
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 962
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.4M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$90M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $451M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Arey — Arey is anti-aging haircare, clinically proven. Our science-backed hair and scalp treatment slows greys and delivers thicker, fuller, healthier hair.
- Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning
- Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
The online investment platform that brings financial innovation & technology investment opportunities to qualifying investors.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $126k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$8M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
- FV Bank — FV Bank is a US licensed bank and a digital asset custodian that provides banking, payments, digital asset custody, and Visa cards to the U.S. and international customers.
- Hexa Wallet — Own HexaWallet.io today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Round size: Seed $750k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$41M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
- Cloverleaf Bio — Cloverleaf Bio | Developing a new class of RNA therapeutics to revolutionize cancer therapy.
- Poseidon Aerospace — Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for regional commercial air freight and contested defense logistics.
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is a state owned entity with the purpose of accelerating sustainable socio-economic development and improve the quality of life of the people of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by driving financial and non-financial investments in the social and economic infrastructure sectors.-Social infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing backlogs and expediting the delivery of essential social services to support sustainable living conditions and a better quality of life within communities - Economic infrastructure: Infrastructure aimed at addressing capacity constraints and bottlenecks in order to optimise economic growth potentialThe DBSA has prioritised water, energy, transport and ICT as its key focus areas.
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- Industry: Mobile, Banking, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series H
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Angola
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Debt Financing $15M–$753M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zimi Charge — Zimi Charge enables to charge sustainably using our mobile app and network of stations.
- Lobito Atlantic Railway — A secure, efficient and reliable rail link, open to all customers, connecting Africa's Copperbelt to international markets.
- Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.
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- Industry: Payments, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AZA Finance — AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC.
- AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
- Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.
Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $400k–$3.8M; Series A $3.3M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Banked — Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform that lets consumers, businesses and banks process payments in real-time, more securely. To leverage the Banked checkout system, businesses need to embed the company’s API and this can be done across mobile apps, customer portals, emailed invoices or even text messages.
- Qori — Accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies on your POS terminal or iOS or Android device without handling crypto yourself.
- Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.
Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
- Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
FrontEnd Ventures backs early-stage African founders with strategic capital, hands-on guidance, and long-term partnership to build lasting companies.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $675k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M 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!
- 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 — Solving one of East Africa's greatest challenges for road users. The largest network of Quick, Efficient, and Trustworthy roadside assistance operators.
BitFury’s investment arm which supports the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem through strategic partnerships and business opportunities.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UNest — UNest makes it easy to save and invest for your children's future with tax-advantaged investment accounts, life insurance, and more.
- NuCypher — NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Crystal Intelligence — Crystal Intelligence provides blockchain intelligence solutions for governments, crypto businesses, and financial institutions. The company offers tools for investigating cryptocurrency crimes and managing crypto risk. Crystal's AML solution complies with global crypto regulatory requirements, making it suitable for banks, fintechs, exchanges,and other financial entities. The platform is available as a free blockchain explorer, SaaS, or API, and is also used by universities for research purposes.
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