# Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Kenya in June 2026 ## P1 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Payments P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa. ## 54 Collective - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network. ## Launch Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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 ## Musha Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Seed capital for technology startups globally. ## Mercy Corps Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture 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. ## Future Perfect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech 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. ## Zephyr Acorn - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds. ## Accion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. ## HAVAÍC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech 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. ## Pantera Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Saviu Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups. ## GreenHouse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Greycroft - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce Venture capital and technology investments ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people. ## Flourish Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Redwood City, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders. ## Sherpa Africa Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators. ## Future Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## AfricInvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech 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. ## Consonance Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa. ## Ground Squirrel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy ## UNCOVERED FUND - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries. ## True Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning. ## DCG Expeditions - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain DCG Expeditions is a global early-stage investor supporting fintech & crypto founders on their journeys to build the next generation of financial services. ## Better Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources toaddress them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back. ## Savannah Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software 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. ## U.S. International Development Finance Corp - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank. ## Federico Pirzio-Biroli - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Venture Capital, Non Profit Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team. ## Flori Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Peer Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Web3, Blockchain PEER is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage opportunities in peer-to-peer assets, marketplaces, and technology. ## Goodwater Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Burlingame, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. ## Acadian Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Human Resources, Information Technology 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. ## Hustle Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Carlos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors. ## Asymmetry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility. ## FSD Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Enza Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa ## Infinite Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fountain Valley, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Investing in Generational Innovation. Infinite Capital supports teams at the forefront of decentralized networks and deep tech. ## Visa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments 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. ## Plesion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Virginia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, AgTech, Billing Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm. ## TQ Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet For the many, not just the few. For good. ## Lateral Frontiers - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more. ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Fenway Summer Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance 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. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## TEN13 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate. ## Distributed Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. ## Peter Sandberg - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market - Focus: Internet, SaaS, FinTech Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management ## Khosla Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.