Top 40 Finance Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2025
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Finance Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2025
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
- Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, United Kingdom
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+.
- Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
- CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Whatnot — Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. All items on Whatnot are verified. Shop on web or download the app.
- Reflexivity — Say goodbye to stodgy terminals and clunky, decades-old interfaces. By asking questions in natural language, our institutional-grade analytic tools come alive and at your service.
- Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.
Venture firm backing companies tackling challenges at the intersection of finance & technology.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Parlay — Discover Parlay Finance's cutting-edge platform designed for community banks and credit unions. Elevate your loan processing with tailored analytics, efficient underwriting, and seamless SBA lending integration. Join our mission to transform financial experiences with technology-driven services that boost conversion rates and foster growth.
- Summer — Summer partners with employers help their populations navigate and reduce student loan debt. Summer is a certified B-Corp.
- Green Check Verified — Green Check Verified is the leading provider of cannabis banking solutions and expert advisory services for financial institutions.
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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cold — Cold is a sustainability compliance platform for startups and medium-sized businesses. Spend less time managing compliance and more time on work that matters.
- Frate — First-of-its-kind automated peer-to-peer returns solution. Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability while also saving money on every return.
- Skillfully — Skillful.ly builds AI-powered pre-hire simulations so employers can see past the resume to see applicant skills in action.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
- Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
- Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Phaseshift Technologies — Phaseshift Technologies is developing a Computational Materials Engineering (CME) platform to help accelerate the Research and Development of High-Performance Alloys. The CME platform is driven by Quantum Chemistry calculations and aided by Machine Learning based predictive algorithms.
We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
- Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
- Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
ARCH is a specialist emerging markets investment advisor with deep experience of emerging markets, private equity, asset management and legal and governance matters over many decades.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Finance, Consumer
- Series D, Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Kenya, South Africa, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
- Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.
- The Sun Exchange — Sun Exchange delivers risk-free commercial solar power with full financing, installation, and maintenance.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
- Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
- Smile ID (formerly Smile Identity) — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Series B, Funding Round
- India, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
- Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
- Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, B2B, Farming
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Side — Side is an e-commerce distribution channel that leverages the power of “community” or “group buying” to provide goods to end customers more cheaply.
- BRYT Knowledge —
- Powerstove Energy — Powerstove Energy, which uses advanced technology to deliver a superior smokeless, IoT-enabled cookstove that generates electricity.
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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Investment focus
- Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
- Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
- India Grid Trust — IndiGrid was established on October 21, 2016 by our Sponsor, Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Limited, and is registered with SEBI pursuant to the InvIT Regulations.Their Sponsor is one of the leading independent power transmission companies operating in the private sector, with extensive experience in bidding, designing, financing, constructing andmaintaining power transmission projects across India.
As a global specialist in energy management and automation in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Solar
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, France, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- ATEC — We provide sustainable, affordable and accessible clean cooking products for all Base of Pyramid households. Through sales of our two flagship on-grid and off-grid products, ATEC* Biodigester and eCook induction stoves, ATEC delivers data-driven scalable impact.
- EIT InnoEnergy — Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.
- Nozomi Networks — Nozomi Networks keeps operational technology cyber resilient with OT network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Trans-Oil Group of Companies — TRANS-OIL GROUP is an agro-industrial holding with oilseeds crushing, grain handling, commodities trading, and exports. It produces vegetable oil, flour.
The online investment platform that brings financial innovation & technology investment opportunities to qualifying investors.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong
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 — Hexa Wallet primarily offers fintech services.
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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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
- Rosy Soil — Crafted for the specific needs of indoor plants, this blend contains all-natural, renewable ingredients that optimize drainage, deliver plant-boosting nutrients, and support a diverse community of beneficial fungi and microbes.
- Firehawk Aerospace — Firehawk Aerospace builds hybrid rocket engines that throttle by 3D printing rocket fuel improving safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Qoala — Asuransi online yang siap melindungi kamu dan orang tersayang, di mana aja, kapan aja. Premi murah, proses klaim mudah, dan 100% digital!
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
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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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Seam AI — Chat with all of your sales and marketing data. Answer questions, get summaries, and sync information across GTM tools.
- Sensydia — The Sensydia Cardiac Performance System (CPS) enables the rapid assessment of critical care and heart failure patients by non-invasively measuring key hemodynamic metrics.
- Vergent Bioscience — Targeting cancer through enhanced tumor visualization
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
- Tembo Money — Need help boosting your budget or accessing lower rates? Voted Best Mortgage Broker 2023 & 2022, our award-winning service is available 7 days a week.
- Kast — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.
Zephyr Acorn provides equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa. Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, India, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Launch Africa is a fund with the primary objective of unlocking the capital constraints of Seed Stage tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
- Kredete — Kredete is a digital lending platform that provides free credit scores and reports to underserved individuals and small businesses in Africa to help them gain access to formal credit and improve their financial health. The platform connects borrowers with lenders and enterprises in Africa and is designed to simplify the lending process and makecredit more accessible by leveraging cutting-edge technology. Kredete offers a user-friendly platform that guides borrowers, lenders, and enterprises through the process of offering loans, making it simple for them to provide the right loan products for their needs.One of the key features of Kredete is its instant approval process, which is made possible by advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence. The platform offers flexible lending options by partnering with a variety of lenders and enterprises, enabling borrowers to choose the best option for their specific situation.Kredete is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all users' personal and financial information. It uses robust encryption and security measures to ensure that sensitive data remains safe and secure. Additionally, the platform maintains transparency throughout the loan process, providing lenders, enterprises, and borrowers with clear information about loan terms and associated fees.Kredete believes in empowering its users with the knowledge and resources they need to make informed financial decisions. To this end, the platform offers financial education, tools, and resources to help users better understand and manage their finances. Kredete also works closely with businesses and institutions to provide tailored financial solutions for their unique needs.Through its focus on accessibility, convenience, and transparency, Kredete is transforming the lending landscape in Africa and helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap. The platform remains dedicated to its mission of empowering lenders, enterprises, and borrowers across the continent to access the funds they need to achieve their financial goals.
- Wahu Mobility — Wahu Mobility is an open e-mobility platform that connects drivers, passengers, and goods in a simple, inclusive, transparent, nationwide, and multimodal manner.
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Payments, Bitcoin, Finance
- Series A, Seed
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 23andMe — 23andMe is a saliva-based DNA service. We provide genetic reports on your ancestry, family history and help you connect with your DNA relatives.
- 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.
- 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.
Larry Rosenberger was named FICO's first Research Fellow in 2007, following more than 33 years of service to the company. In this capacity, he continues to pursue research projects that advance FICO's analytic science. From 1999 to 2007, he led FICO’s Research Unit, focused on early stage innovation in such areas as decisionanalytics/Strategy Science and Consumer Capacity Index. From 1991 to 1999, he served as President and CEO. During that time, FICO experienced consecutive years of record growth, with annual revenues increasing from $31 million to over $276 million. Prior to that position, he managed the Engineering, Research, and Development Division. In that capacity, he was responsible for the technical development, production and marketing of the company's most advanced products. Mr. Rosenberger holds a B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in physics and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Marin Education Fund and board member of the Marin Community Foundation.
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- FinTech, Analytics, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya
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- MeasureOne — Our consumer-permissioned data exchange platform provides verifications, credit decision and more. See how it works. Request a demo today!
- Nudge Money — Nudge Money is an AI financial guidance platform leveraging behavioral economics and financial planning to infuse timely and personalized advice into automated marketing channels at community financial institutions and fintechs, increasing conversion 7x while building loyalty.
- Fenris — The single best API for data and insight used to streamline customer acquisition and improve retention for insurance products. Our clients (agencies, carriers, financial services providers) leverage our APIs to inject insights and data into their workflows, to increase conversions, and deliver killer Amazon-like customer journeys.Developer-first in our approach, it's the easy, secure way to access external data and custom algorithms that identify your best customer and ease the way. Our suite of APIs covers 95% of the US (255m adults, 130m households, 99% properties (residential and commercial), 35m small businesses, and 40m new life events annually). Machine learning analytics engine that consistently hones our predictive scores to deliver more results right at the point of quotesignals and scoring that streamline work flows and improve turn around time in traditional and embedded purchase pathways.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
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- Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
- Ipak Yuli Bank — Kredir, Karta, Visa virtual, Omonat, Valyuta kurslari, Avtokredir, Pul o`tkazmalari
- Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Nigeria, Peru
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- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
- Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
Women's World Banking is dedicated to providing women with the means to gain Financial Inclusion through access to finance and technology. Contact us today
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series B, Funding Round, Seed
- India, Kenya, Uganda
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Bike Bazaar — Bike Bazaar is a two-wheeler life cycle company where you can buy, sell, exchange any two-wheeler or avail finance for your vehicle. The company provides a range of affordable solutions and hassle-free experience along the two wheeler lifecycle, which include financing to purchase new and pre owned two wheelers, access to green bikes, insurance,and a transparent marketplace for buying and selling of preowned two wheelers.Bike Bazaar was founded in 2017 and is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
- Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.
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- Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
- Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya
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- Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.
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- Retail, Sports, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
IO is a technology company pre-eminent in engineering and research in fintech blockchain structures. Best known for the Cardano blockchain platform.
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- FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
- Seed
- Kenya
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
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