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Top 40 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 40 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in April 2025

Investor	Finance Kenya investments
Future Perfect Ventures	5
Digital Currency Group	5
Pantera Capital	4
Greycroft	3
Blockchain Capital	2
Fenway Summer Ventures	2
GreenHouse Capital	2
Hustle Fund	2
Consonance Investment Managers	2
Flourish Ventures	2
Better Ventures	2
Colle Capital Partners	1
Finnfund	1
Draper Associates	1
Zephyr Acorn	1
Goodwater Capital	1
Verdant Frontiers	1
Firestartr	1
Calvert Impact Capital	1
Norfund	1
FMO	1
Chandaria Capital	1
D3 Jubilee	1
Jua Fund	1
cFund	1
BnkToTheFuture	1
True Capital Management	1
Omidyar Network	1
ARCH Emerging Markets Partners	1
Ceniarth	1
Women's World Banking	1
Talanton	1
Input Output Global	1
Savannah Fund	1
AfricInvest	1
Khosla Impact	1
Google Cloud	1
Launch Africa	1
Stephens Investment Management	1
Verdant Capital	1

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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.

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!

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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.
Merit Systems — Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance.

Venture firm backing companies tackling challenges at the intersection of finance & technology.

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.

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.

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.

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Scout — Scout is a financial planning company that offers financial education, wealth management, and tax preparation services for athletes.
Keebler Health — Keebler Health is an AI-first risk adjustment platform for providers and payers that are at risk for Medicare & Medicaid lives.

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Releaf Earth — 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.

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
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.

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.

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 — See Past the Resume with Realistic Workplace Simulations

Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.

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

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Xac Bank — Xac Bank is the fourth largest bank in Mongolia with a loan portfolio of 395M USD, serving 298,000 borrowers and savers clients and deriving a yearly ROE of 22%. Xac Bank has demonstrated its ability to adapt to a fast growing and fast changing economic environment in Mongolia, on the back of a booming mining industry, and has re-focused itsoperations away from microfinance to SME, consumer lending and mortgages. In order to manage the associated risk, the bank has heavily invested in systems and human capabilities in order to serve the increasing need of underserved SMEs and urban as well as rural population. Xac Bank has also built an in-house mobile platform currently under upgrade in order to better serve the needs of its customers. Xac Bank is actively involved in deploying government and developmental funds to provide easier access to low cost housing and environment friendly energy to the lower layers of the Mongolian population. Finally, Xac bank is constantly providing non-financial services to the community under the form of financial literacy programs and business support to its lowest income customers via association with NGOs.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

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.

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

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

welevel — Building games with attitude
Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.

Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.

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.

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.

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.

Investing in a more sustainable & equitable world

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.

Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

D3 is headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, pioneering the domestic and global impact investment areas. D3 redefines the role of capital by investing in entrepreneurial innovation that improves the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and creates an environmentally sustainable world.Invest in ICT start-ups with highsocio-environmental value in low-income countries such as Korea, USA and South America, Africa and India.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Geogrid — Geogrid is a building water purification plant startup. Geogrid digitizes solutions for tap water, including purification systems, pipe cleaning, water quality control, carbon emissions calculation, building water control, and environmental change monitoring.
RECO — Integrated waste and resource management platform copmany
Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

EARLY-STAGE, PAN-AFRICAN, VENTURE CAPITAL FUND INVESTING CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY IN A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS.

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.

Digital asset capital management with Wave Digital Assets. Our early-stage crypto investment fund has been investing in blockchain companies, protocols, and cryptocurrencies since 2018. The fund takes a thesis-driven

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
EigenLabs — Build verifiable apps - Run AVS infrastructure - Stake hundreds of assets - Scale with EigenDa
Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.

The online investment platform that brings financial innovation & technology investment opportunities to qualifying investors.

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.

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Nigeria, Peru

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

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.

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 — We finance, install, and maintain the solar system. You simply pay for the power it generates and save from day one.

Worldwide Reach We invest globally, with exposure across developing, emerging, and developed economies.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Social Entrepreneurship, Energy
Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
Kenya, Ghana, India

Portfolio highlights

Kheyti — Kheyti helps small farmers battle income variability by providing low cost technologies bundled with services.
iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGOâ€™s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
India, Kenya, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, Sports, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Series B
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Kenya

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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.

Meet your business challenges head on with cloud computing services from Google, including data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, Kenya

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Helo Im Ai — I have an uncanny ability to become completely obsessed with a goal. When I set my sights on something, it’s all I think, eat, and breathe until it’s fulfilled. That’s why I know this venture will be a billion-dollar success—I’ve always accomplished my goals. The only thing that held me back in the past was aiming too low due to low self-esteem.Now, I’m aiming high and putting everything I have into making this dream a reality.With my wife’s support, I’ve been able to dedicate myself fully to this journey. She handles our household bills, allowing me to stay focused on building and creating. I’ve invested in the tools and resources I need, like a Mac Mini with the M4 Pro chip, 24GB unified RAM, and 12-core processors, paired with a 4TB SanDisk external drive. I also got an 8TB external drive, a monitor, and a magic trackpad—perfect for design work in Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, and After Effects. My background in cinematography adds a creative edge, and while I’m still in school, I’ve developed a unique combination of skills that allow me to merge art and technology in ways that feel limitless.Ultimately, I’m not just building for myself—I’m building for the future. My dream is to open a laboratory where people can come together to create, innovate, and share resources, especially for those who can’t afford them. This isn’t just a project for me—it’s a mission to make life easier, to inspire others, and to prove that anything is possible when you aim high and give it everything you’ve got.Helo-im.AI is a groundbreaking platform that bridges technology and humanity by integrating AI into everyday life with empathy, innovation, and spiritual alignment. empower individuals and businesses to embrace AI as a supportive sibling, fostering growth, connection, and solutions that make life easier and more joyful. With a foundation of love and a vision for the future, we’re redefining how AI serves society—one smile at a time. We Implement Ai And tech into everything.
Alife Virtual — Alife Virtual Metaverse is a comprehensive platform, empowering you to create, trade, and thrive like never before! - Design Your Own World: Craft breathtaking virtual assets, from stunning landscapes to unique avatars. - Meet our AI Assistant! Get instant answers to any question. Chat in any language. Create scripts, textures, 3d objects, audio,video and so much more. - Local Coins: Built on robust, secure blockchain to ensure your assets and transactions are protected. - NFT Revolution: Mint NFTs effortlessly and sell them on our bustling marketplace. - User-Friendly Interface: Accessible and intuitive platform designed for both beginners and seasoned creators. - Vibrant Community: Join a thriving network of artists, developers, and entrepreneurs. Collaborate, learn, and grow together. - Support and Guidance: Round-the-clock customer service to assist you every step of the way. Embrace the future with Alife Virtual Metaverse Blockchain. Claim your space in the digital cosmos—where innovation meets opportunity. Learn. Create. Trade. Join Alife Today!
ChainAware.ai — AI and Big Data Analytics based SaaS solutions for DeFi and CeFi companies: - AI based Crypto Fraud Detection / AI-based Transaction Monitoring - AI-based Crypto User Segmentation / 1:1 Marketing - AI-based Crypto Credit Scoring - and more AI solutions

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

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Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

Investment focus

Payments, Bitcoin, Finance
Series A, Seed
United States, Kenya

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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.

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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