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Top 50 Financial Services VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Kenya Financial Services startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Financial Services startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
8 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Payments $400k–$40M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
7 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
54 Collective
VC Fund
7 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
6 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture $100k–$35M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
6 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $510k–$48M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
5 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$33M
Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech $625k–$30M
Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
5 Kenya, India, Uganda Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $1M–$3M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
4 Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $165k–$5M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
4 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $57k–$15M
Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Zambia Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $400k–$5M
Acumen
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services $300k–$13M
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
True Capital Management
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$59M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $700k–$3.7M
Greycroft
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$75M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
3 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech $6.5M–$65M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $5.4M–$175M
TEN13
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Financial Services $634k–$46M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
TQ Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $2.1M–$72M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$500M
Fenway Summer Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1M–$50M
GAN Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Ireland, Kenya Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.9M
Nexo
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $2.1M–$60M
Visa
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Series B, Series C FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Peer Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Cryptocurrency, Web3, Blockchain
Enza Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
DCG Expeditions
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
FSD Africa
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Sayani Investments
VC Fund
2 Kenya Seed FinTech, Lending, Supply Chain Management $1M–$12M
AXIAN
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Tanzania Seed Lending, Health Care
Acadian Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
Khosla Impact
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.9M–$9.2M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Series A, Series B Agriculture, Health Care, Internet $1.7M–$42M
Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Better Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $75k–$26M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Alameda Research
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.3M–$35M
Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $500k–$15M
Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$33M
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 7 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 7 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 6 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
  • PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
  • Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • SkillMagic — SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to junior engineers, and helps you track progress.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $510k–$7.7M; Series A $3M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
  • Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$33M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $625k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojito — Mojito is an NFT studio and tech platform company that designs, powers, and operates NFT marketplaces for industry leading brands and IP holders.
  • AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
  • Token — Tokenize develops Token, a biometric-based wearable ring that can make payments, power up a computer, and part doors. The ring is integrated with MasterCard, Microsoft, Visa, HID, FitPay and the FIDO Alliance.Token uses a combination of fingerprinting (there’s a fingerprint sensor at the base of the ring) and an optical proximity sensor toensure that a user’s credentials can’t be accessed by a third party. Using an app (available for iOS and Android), Tokenites can pair the ring and their biometric information with anything from their credit cards to their car keys.
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 5 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, India, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 4 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 4 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$250k; Series A $2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 267
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$19M; Series A $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Chronicled — Automating business rule enforcement in the life sciences industry through the blockchain-powered MediLedger Network
  • Filament — Automating vehicle usage history and vehicle payments for Automakers, OEMs and Enterprise Fleets.
  • Brave — The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 4 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $1.8M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
  • MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
  • Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.2M; Series A $1.6M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2.8M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AgroEknor — AgroEknor provides agricultural research, integration, technology based optimization & global delivery of the agro superfoods.
  • Juhudi Kilimo — Juhudi Kilimo is a social enterprise that provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro-businesses.
  • Gulu Agricultural Development Company — GADC was established in northern Uganda in the aftermath of the LRA-instigated war which devastated the region for nearly 20 years.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

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 — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$725k; Series A $9.1M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $18M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
  • CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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UNCOVERED FUND
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$850k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 693
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $3.1M–$23M; Series B $6.2M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Peer AI — The AI platform for life sciences regulatory submissions. Author documents faster, orchestrate programs in real time, and anticipate queries before filing.
  • Guidesly — Find the best fishing charters & fishing guides. Search and book from THOUSANDS of top fishing charters across the United States. Explore trips today
  • Veritonic — Veritonic is a marketing analytics platform that offers online testing and optimization services for firms in the music industry.Veritonic’s product portfolio consist of testing, analytics, and workflow. Testing assists its users in making data-driven decisions, measuring emotional response, and obtaining qualitative and quantitative responses.Analytics assists its users in benchmarking their brand progress. Workflow enables its users to manage, save, and share tracks with others.Veritonic was founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$35M; Series B $8.3M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spade — Providing AI merchant extraction, brand logos, merchant locations, and categorization as a service to fin-techs.
  • Spry — Simplify your physical therapy practice with SPRY. Our all-in-one software streamlines billing, EMR, documentation, and insurance verification. Experience the SPRY difference today.
  • Hummingbird — Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financialcrime.Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 3 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
  • Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Series B $5.4M–$110M; Private Equity $10M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
  • RenewBuy — Simplest way to renew your car insurance. Get quote and insure your car in couple of minutes - no pesky calls/ salesmen...And avail best deals too..
  • Paymentology
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TEN13
VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $634k–$8M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $3.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drawboard — Remarkable markup tools for WIndows 10, iOS and your web browser. Download for free today.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
  • Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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TQ Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$13M; Series A $6.5M–$38M; Series B $18M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RLcore — Reimagining intelligent control with reinforcement learning. Shaping the future of industrial control with real-time autonomous optimization.
  • Cleanlab — Cleanlab helps teams build safer AI agents by preventing incorrect responses from reaching users. Detect and remediate incorrect responses from any AI agent to ensure safety, compliance, and trust at scale.
  • Manifold — Building scientific infrastructure for the modern era
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$500M; Debt Financing $5M–$410M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
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Fenway Summer Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

FSV provides insights and capital to entrepreneurs re-inventing the multi-trillion dollar financial services industry and building innovative companies, strong brands, and world-class teams. FSV primarily makes early stage investments but will also consider promising growth stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $4.1M–$24M; Series B $9M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Occupi — Streamline your property management with digital rent payments and comprehensive tenant screening. 20+ payment methods, seamless integrations.
  • Wavvest — Wavvest is an AI-native platform purpose-built for independent financial advisors, offering an all-in-one solution that unifies planning, investments, estate, insurance, and tax workflows. Its signature AI financial planning tool empowers advisors to create interactive, visual-first financial plans that model real-life scenarios and enhance clientengagement. The platform streamlines everything from AI-generated meeting notes to integrated tax and estate planning—all within a co-branded, modern interface.Built on top of custodians like Apex, Wavvest simplifies operations by replacing fragmented tools with a unified advisor experience. The platform helps reduce time spent on manual tasks, improves data accuracy, and enhances client service—from onboarding through portfolio monitoring. Backed by Fenway Summer, Wavvest is reimagining the tech stack for the next generation of wealth management.
  • Prism Layer — Prism Layer develops an AI-native platform for enterprise risk management. The platform encodes organizational risk frameworks, regulatory context, and institutional knowledge into a governed agentic execution layer. It supports functions such as risk assessments, key risk indicators, controls testing, and product risk reviews.
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GAN Ventures
VC Fund · Denver, Colorado, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.9M; Series A $4.3M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Mesh++ — Mesh++ is a solar-powered routers developer. Mesh++ uses mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places.
  • Stax — Stax is all of your bank accounts, mobile wallets, crypto in a single app that works without mobile data.
  • Icon Source — This is Icon Source: Your portal into the world of powerful athletic endorsements.
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Nexo
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Discover Nexo, the comprehensive platform that's driving the next generation of crypto wealth. Grow, trade, borrow and earn on your digital assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$23M; Series A $6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaleidoco — KALEIDOCO is a technology company built for Web3 experiences.
  • zulu — USD mobile digital wallet for Latin America.
  • Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Car IQ — Car IQ is the first payment solution developed for vehicles and fleets that enables vehicles to autonomously initiate and complete payments for services such as tolls, fuels, parking and more.
  • Cart.com — Cart.com's end-to-end solution provides brands with the software, infrastructure, and expertise of the world's largest online retailers.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 456
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

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  • Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
  • Empowerly — We triple students' chances of getting into their top-choice colleges and universities. Get college counseling, essay editing, track university deadlines, and more. Learn more.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 285
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onton — We're building better e-commerce search. Type like you speak and search by image (or both) across all product sites. Save time and money by finding the right products, faster.
  • Ciphero AI — Ciphero is the first AI Verification Layer that collects, verifies, and governs all corporate AI interactions, promoting safe and ethical AI use across all enterprises.
  • FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.
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Peer Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

PEER is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage opportunities in peer-to-peer assets, marketplaces, and technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Web3, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Perle AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
  • Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
  • ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Affinity — Join over 100,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
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DCG Expeditions
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

DCG Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Craftt — Craftt is building a frictionless and fairer future of work. It's on a mission to deliver universal benefits that enable financial confidence for the modern workforce.
  • NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
  • Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It appliesa combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cavex — Cavex uses digital finance and innovative technologies to drive environmental and socio-economic benefits for the people and communities most in need.
  • WIC Capital — Capital investissement - Gender investing - Gender initiative - Impact investing - Early stage - PME - SME - Equity - Fund manager - Empower women
  • Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
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Sayani Investments
VC Fund · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Sayani Investments focus on property-related investments but also invests patient long-term capital in public and private markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Lending, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zanifu — Zanifu is a financial technology company, that enables MSME's in the African FMCG supply chain get access to working capital.
  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
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AXIAN
VC Fund · Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lending, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • LipaLater — LipaLater is a lending marketplace that provides postpaid payments at e-commerce stores. They are making technology affordable for you. Get the electronic of your choice today and pay for it in comfortable monthly installments.
  • Dawa Mkononi — Dawa Mkononi (DM) is a registered company that mainly focuses on innovations to improve pharmaceutical supply chain. The app is run by DM Pharmacy located at Kariakoo in Dar es Salaam. The app currently serves for wholesale business only to pharmacies, ADDOs, and health facilities such as Hospitals and Clinics.
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Acadian Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Acadian Ventures is a global company that builds long-lasting businesses that make work better, fairer, more meaningful, and ultimately more productive. They invest in firms in their early stages that are leading the work revolution and reinventing how people will work in the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
  • Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
  • datascalehr — Use our global payroll API to connect, merge, aggregate, validate and reconcile any payroll and HR data. Designed for payroll folks, loved by software
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2012

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 — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
  • Smile ID — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
  • Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund · Dakar, Dakar, Senegal · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Wuri Ventures focuses on innovating the spectrum between market-based solutions and pure public goods. It realizes that much successful innovation in Africa has occurred in this space, where innovation around market failures such as information asymmetry (data), fragmentation (platforms) and public goods (electricity, mobility) can solve previouslyintractable problems. Its unique mathematical properties, from cellular automata and emergence to numerical methods, studied by researchers, links ancient African culture to modern technology. It supports world-class entrepreneurs in solving Africa’s biggest challenges using innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
  • Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
  • Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Better Ventures
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $75k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $575k–$2.7M; Series A $2.5M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • dehaze — dehaze provides healthcare services by bringing medical AI models into clinical practice.
  • Oasys Health — AI-native EHR and practice management system with real-time patient monitoring for private practices and therapy networks. Increase your efficiency via automated documentation, scheduling, billing, and teletherapy— all while leveraging advanced data from patients to personalize care.
  • Critical Loop — Critical Loop is an energy technology company that provides on-demand power solutions for industrial and infrastructure applications by combining modular hardware and software systems. Its platform integrates behind-the-meter battery storage, on-site generation, and grid power through intelligent controls that dynamically manage energy supply basedon availability and demand. The company develops and deploys scalable microgrid systems, including relocatable batteries and control units, which can be implemented rapidly to address delays or limitations in traditional grid capacity. It also handles project development, system design, deployment, and ongoing operations and maintenance, enabling continuous monitoring and optimization of power performance. Critical Loop’s solutions are used across sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, data centers, and critical infrastructure to ensure consistent and flexible energy access.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

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.
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Alameda Research
VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.1M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stocktwits — Stocktwits provides real-time stock, crypto & international market data to keep you up-to-date. Find top news headlines, discover your next trade idea, share & gain insights from traders and investors from around the world, build a watchlist, buy US stocks, & create and manage your portfolio.
  • Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
  • Farmington State Bank — Do more with a Moonstone FDIC insured bank account and manage your non-traditional assets from the same place.
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
  • Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
  • Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Financial Services startups

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$15M; Series A $5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Blocknative — Blocknative's proven platform is the easy way to work with mempool data. See why hundreds of projects rely on our infrastructure.
  • Landed — LANDED makes hiring top-notch candidates onto your team effortless.
  • Bitwave — Unlock the benefits of holding digital assets with the first finance platform designed specifically to manage cryptocurrency tax, accounting, and compliance.
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Financial Services VC funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 169 deals from 252 investors.

252
investors
in Kenya Financial Services startups
169
deals
in Kenya Financial Services startups
$1.9M
median round
in Kenya Financial Services startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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