Top 5 Hardware Angel Investors in Kenya in May 2026
Top 5 Hardware Angel Investors in Kenya in May 2026
| Investor | Hardware Kenya investments |
|---|---|
| Jim Sorenson | 1 |
| Darshan Chandaria | 1 |
| Winshall Walt | 1 |
| Gary Scheft | 1 |
| Cheryl Heller | 1 |
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Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity .
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- Gaming, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Funium — Funium, a Provo, Utah-based Facebook games developer. The flagship game is Family Village, which is currently in Alpha testing. A limited beta test is planned for Q2 2011.
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, B2B, SMS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
- Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
Winshall Walt
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- Mobile, B2B, SMS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
- StoryFit — StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios.StoryFit is a technology company that delivers artificial intelligence insights and solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The name StoryFit comes from that simple idea: know how your story fits in the landscape; finda story to fit your audience, and an audience that fits your story. It represents their motivation and their promise to their customers: to support creative decision-makers in their production of memorable stories by providing the smartest, most adaptable, and most dynamic machine learning insights to narrative content available.
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Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.
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- Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
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- Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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