# Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Kenya in June 2026 ## E3 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors. ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet For the many, not just the few. For good. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## Global Partnerships - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar 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. ## Lion’s Head Global Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets ## EDFI ElectriFI - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy Impact investment in sustainable energy ## Alphamundi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets. ## Aster - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Energy, Manufacturing Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017). ## 54 Collective - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network. ## DOB Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies. ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services 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. ## British International Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years. ## Better Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources toaddress them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back. ## GIIG Africa Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Health Care, Environmental Engineering, Fuel GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies. ## ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Solar, Energy, Agriculture ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support. ## Triodos Bank - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Solar Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate. ## Mani Kapital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy Mani Kapital is an investment management firm. ## CoCapital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products. ## SunFunder - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series C - Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets. ## Opes Impact Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Communities, Agriculture, Energy Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets. ## Social Investment Managers & Advisors - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions ## Manuela Raith - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact Manuela Raith ## Shell Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Grant, Seed - Focus: Energy, Solar, Finance Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions. ## DILA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners. ## AXA Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients. ## EcoEnterprises Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth. ## At One Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature. ## Gray Matters Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Health Care We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work. ## FMO - Type: VC Fund - Location: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development. ## Endeavor Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies ## Nexus Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that helps founders build product-focused companies. The firm actively partners with founders at inception, seed, or series-A stages and stays involved throughout the company's growth. With $2.6 billion in capital, Nexus invests mainly in enterprise software in the US and digitally-drivenbusinesses in India. ## Generation Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series D, Series E - Focus: Software, SaaS, Energy For over a decade, Generation Investment Management has played a pioneering role in the development of sustainable investing. Click to discover more. ## Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Farming Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity. ## Lateral Frontiers - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more. ## Norfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy Norwegian investment fund for developing countries ## Factor E - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces. ## Khosla Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance 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. ## Virgin Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Learn about the Virgin Group, the home of Virgin, supporting the Branson family and growing of the brand by developing and nurturing valuable Virgin businesses. ## Schneider Electric - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rueil-malmaison, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C, Seed - Focus: Software, Energy, Solar As a global specialist in energy management and automation in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments. ## Garage Technology Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology A seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation. ## Revolution - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses. ## Électricité de France - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series B, Seed - Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy EDF is an electric utility company that provides heat humps. wind turbines, photovoltaic, and geothermal energy. It serves small businesses, local authorities, and industrial and residential customers. They also generate electricity through nuclear, fossil fuel, hydro, solar, wind, biomass, biogas, tidal, geothermal, and cogeneration plants.EDFalso manages low and medium-voltage public electricity distribution networks, operates, develops, and maintains high-voltage and very-high-voltage electricity transmission networks; and services and produces equipment and fuel for nuclear reactors. The company is present in all businesses such as transport, trading, production, sale, and the distribution of energy.EDF was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. ## Threshold - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. ## Beyond Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device 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. ## Nordic Development Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Solar, Farming, Agriculture The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is the joint Nordic international finance institution focusing on the nexus between climate change and development in lower-income countries and countries in fragile situations. ## SAHEL Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage Sahel Capital is a leading fund manager and advisory firm focused on West Africa with deep roots in private equity, financial advisory, management consulting and agribusiness. When you partner with Sahel, you benefit from quality financial and operating experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships. Through anintegrated approach, we work closely with companies and investment partners to deliver capital solutions and advisory services tailored to fit your unique needs. The power of a partnership with Sahel leads to better investments, stronger businesses, and shared success. ## Lendahand - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy Invest in sustainable projects through Lendahand and contribute to positive change. Earn financial returns while supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. Discover how it works! ## Blue Haven Initiative - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Health Care Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change. ## Jean Case - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: TV, Energy, Mobile Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist, investor and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and the amazing potential of technology to change theworld for the better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to address significant social challenges, harnessing the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.Prior to co-founding the Case Foundation, Jean spent her career as a technology executive in the private sector. As a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL), Jean directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as a household utility. Before joining AOL, she held strategic marketing positions at GE’s Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation’s first online service.In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean has served in two appointed roles leading strategic public-private efforts, including the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, to which she was appointed as Chair by President George W. Bush, and as Co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership.In addition to her role as Chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees, Jean serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Company, Inc. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund and the U.S. National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investing Task Force (SIITF) established by the G8.Jean and Steve joined The Giving Pledge, started by Melinda and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to fund worthy charitable causes. In recognition of their innovative work in philanthropy, Jean and Steve have received a number of accolades, including Barron’s “25 Best Givers”, the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) Citizens of the Year, and Washingtonians of the Year. Jean was also named Corporate Philanthropist of the Year by the Washington Business Journal, which also named her as a finalist for “Most Admired Nonprofit CEO” award, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Washington DC. She has also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Indiana University and from George Mason University.