Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Kenya (June 2026)
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At One Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture | $2.9M–$70M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $5M–$500M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.7M–$99M |
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CV VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Switzerland, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Financial Services | $125k–$4M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.3M–$70M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $200k–$22M |
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Third Sphere
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Real Estate, Transportation | $100k–$7.5M |
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Omvestments
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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Jim Sorenson
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed | Gaming, Banking, FinTech | |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $635k–$32M |
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Factor E
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, India | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $20k–$10M |
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Mizizi Africa Consumer Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Sports, Fashion, Outdoors | |
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.9M–$9.2M |
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Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software | $1.2M–$75M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $300k–$4.5M |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $600k–$33M |
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Satgana
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, Renewable Energy | $600k–$6.6M |
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Gary Scheft
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$23M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, Internet | $1.7M–$42M |
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Aster
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Energy, Manufacturing | $1.6M–$27M |
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Synergy Energy
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United Kingdom | Series A | Hardware, Manufacturing, Telecommunications | |
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E3 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $1.3M–$40M |
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Wuri Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $500k–$30M |
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MPGI
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2M–$100M |
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Revolution
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Kenya | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $641k–$18M |
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468 Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$40M |
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Jigsaw VC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, India, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$28M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech | $600k–$12M |
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Social Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $1M–$45M |
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TED
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | ||
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Winshall Walt
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, B2B, SMS | $1.1M–$2.2M |
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Umoja Rubber Products
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Sports, Fashion, Outdoors | |
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Ambo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics | |
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Safaricom
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Apps | |
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Presight Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services | $2M–$125M |
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Invested Development
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, United States | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Analytics, SaaS | $520k–$1.2M |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care | $2M–$12M |
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Talanton
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Series A, Series B | Retail, Sports, Fashion | |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2M–$100M |
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Better Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Software | $75k–$26M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $125k–$10M |
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Equator
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture | $1.8M–$15M |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Energy, Internet | $9.1M–$60M |
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$33M |
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Cheryl Heller
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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MKS
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Switzerland | Series A | Consumer Electronics, Drones, Hardware | |
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Synergy Growth
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Solar, Energy, Hardware | |
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, B2B, SMS | $58k–$285k |
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At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$15M; Series A $6.6M–$45M; Series B $17M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Temo — Looking for an electric motor for your tender, or a practical outboard for your sailboat? Discover TEMO's range of electric motors for boats
- Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
- Inlyte Energy — Inlyte Energy is a company that creates batteries for grid storage. Inlyte Energy's grid battery uses the most abundant commodities - iron and salt - to create an energy storage solution with the unique combination of high efficiency, long lifetime, competitive energy density, and exceptional safety.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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- 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.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
- Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
We invest in blockchain
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $150k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- fija Finance GmbH — Fija offers high-yield, regulated DeFi products without its own token. MiCA-compliant, transparent & secure.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 814
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
- POC Pharma — POC Pharma is a SaaS company helping the stakeholders in the Pharmacy Channel to digitally manage their go to market strategy.
- Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
- TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
- GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.
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- Industry: Software, Real Estate, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $100k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M; Convertible Note $125k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- AccessGrid — AccessGrid provides APIs for managing NFC access passes on mobile devices with MIFARE DESFire compatibility. Create and manage secure digital access credentials for your organization.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Earth Force Technologies — Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform.
Omvestments is a financial services company founded by Richard Winston. The company’s areas of interest include nanotechnology, big data, supply chain and logistics, clean technology, and more.
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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Gaming, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- ImpactAlpha — Breaking news, data and analysis to sustain an edge in impact investing. Trusted insights. Climate. Policy. Sustainability. Finance.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $9.2M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
- Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
- Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.6M; Series A $1.3M–$10M; Convertible Note $20k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
- Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
- 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!
A world-class house of African-inspired lifestyle brands
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- Industry: Sports, Fashion, Outdoors
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
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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- 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.
Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 146
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $4M–$19M; Series B $8M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- CloudX — CloudX is a supply side platform for mobile and AI publishers. Boost revenue with AI workflows and a liquid marketplace.
- Landed — LANDED makes hiring top-notch candidates onto your team effortless.
- Nexenta Systems — Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 2,000+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration andSoftware-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment – from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.For more information visit, www.nexenta.com
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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- 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.
We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.
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- 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.
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
- Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
- Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
Satgana is a global Climate Tech Venture Capital firm backing purpose-driven founders building a planet-positive future, in Europe and Africa.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Orbio — Orbio helps oil & gas companies reduce methane emissions. We do this by utilising cutting-edge satellite analytics fused with ground data sources to deliver Actionable methane intelligence to power the energy transition.
- Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
- Loewi — Loewi allows you to sell your two-wheeled companion.
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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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 302
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- VeriSIM Life — Make confident decisions about drug development, quickly and efficiently, using a decision-engine that takes your toughest translational questions and generate actionable insights to guide your next steps.
- Forethought — Leverage human-centered AI to transform your customer service experience. Resolve cases faster, predict and prioritize tickets, and assist support agents.
- Flower — Flower Computer Company creates technology that turns everyday objects like flowers into interconnected computers.
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- 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!
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 136
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $281M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Iceotope — Iceotope has developed technology with a blank drawing board and an open mind. So when we look at conventional problems, we find unconventional solutions.Built around our liquid-cooling approach and shaped by an extensive portfolio of patents, we’ve proven what our technology can do for HPC and data centre applications - dramatically reducingenergy consumption, space and noise. But it’s just the start. We’re going to keep innovating, working toward a day when wasteful, inefficient air-cooling is a thing of the past. We have created a business to look forward, but we’re also proud of the heritage that British engineering is built on. Iceotope is delighted to own the Made in Sheffield mark to show our dedication to the area’s tradition of engineering excellence. With decades of technical, design and engineering experience, we’ve established Iceotope as a trusted partner at the forefront of liquid-cooling technology. Now we’re investing to make sure we stay there: refining our designs, improving performance and engineering new applications.
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Synergy Energy is a private tech investment fund, established in 2011 by Steve Brooks and Nat Billington. Their purpose is to make early stage investments in disruptive technologies that aim to change the way they live their lives for the better. They invest resources in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams to help accelerate their growth andbring to market their innovative ideas and products. Their current portfolio has a strong focus on clean energy production and storage, and transport, as climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today. They have also invested in start-ups that harness the latest technologies to alter the way They work, communicate, travel and learn, towards more efficiency and less waste. They work with incredible people that inspire them with their passion to succeed and share Their desire for transparency, simplicity, and disruption.
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- Industry: Hardware, Manufacturing, Telecommunications
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Vantage Power — Vantage Power design and manufacture retrofit hybrid powertrains for buses, enabling operators to reduce their fuel consumption and emissions at a fraction of the cost of purchasing new hybrid buses. By designing the whole hybrid system - everything between the fuel tank and the wheels - we ensure optimal performance of every component, resultingin higher fuel economy, lower emissions, and greater reliability than other systems.The company's engineering team - drawn from the heavy-duty vehicle, Formula 1 and aerospace industries - is continuously challenged to develop innovative solutions, and this has culminated in a truly unique product offering.
E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $8.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
- Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $634k–$13M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M; Series A $15M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
- Cauri Money — Collect funds locally in EUR and GBP and settle in hard currency via SWIFT. Infrastructure designed for banks in emerging markets.
- Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.
MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3.3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
- inyad — Run and grow your business with one powerful platform: POS, invoicing, staff & payroll, TPE, business wallet, and secure payment links. Simple. Fast. Reliable.
- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 179
- Round size: Seed $641k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DemandJump — Combining your data with data beyond your four walls DemandJump provides a roadmap of the actions you should take to ensure your marketing drives revenue.
- DraftKings — The best place to play daily fantasy sports for cash prizes. Make your first deposit!
- Resonate — Resonate's pioneering approach goes beyond traditional targeting on broad demographics, past behaviors or general interests. Political campaigns, advocacy groups and major consumer brands now use Resonate's motivations based targeting to deliver successful online ad campaigns based on otherwise unidentifiable values such as patriotism,environmentalism, taste for luxury, interest in innovation and thousands of other human dimensions.
468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $11M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Minoa — Pricing & Value Management for B2B SaaS Companies
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- Earthly Technologies — Earthly is a build automation system for the post-container era.It builds upon technologies like Docker and BuildKit to deliver builds that are self-sufficient, reproducible, portable and parallel. You can use Earthly to create Docker images, output artifacts or to run tests. Earthly is meant not to replace build systems, but rather to act as theglue layer between them.Run Earthly on your laptop, in your current CI, or across a cluster via Earthly Cloud Build.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.2M; Series A $5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
- Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
- Tide — Our award-winning business account gives time back to people who work for themselves. Join our community of entrepreneurs just like you!
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $600k–$4.2M; Series A $2.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
- Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
- Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 378
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
- ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
- Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors. The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.
TED is a platform for ideas worth spreading. Started in 1984 as a conference where technology, entertainment and design converged, TED today shares ideas from a broad spectrum — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independent TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
- 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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- Industry: Mobile, B2B, SMS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
- Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
Umoja Rubber Products is an investment Firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Fashion, Outdoors
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity solutions, information management solutions, voice solutions, and communication solutions. It serves small businesses, medium businesses, and large corporates.The company’s services and offerings include international calls and roaming; data storage, recovery, and backup;online information storage and archiving; mobile banking services; wide area networks, managed Wi-Fi solutions, point-to-point connectivity, 4G connection, and Fiber to Buildings; IT consultancy; virtual collaboration, voice conferencing, and video conferencing; messaging services and voice services; music services; and more.Safaricom was founded in 1997 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
- Lynk Jobs — Lynk solves the problems faced by informal workers and the households and businesses seeking their services. Lynk’s digital platform connects informal workers with customers who require services such as housekeeping, plumbing, electrical work and carpentry. Lynk’s systems enable the effective recruitment of workers, smart matching of the workers tojobs and a customer rating system that helps workers to build the skills profile.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$75M; Series B $8.2M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2021
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- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.
- Alloy Therapeutics — Alloy Therapeutics empowers scientists with access to pre-competitive biologics drug discovery technologies and services across 6 modalities
Invested Development (ID) is an investment management company founded in Boston, MA in 2009 and now based in Atlanta, GA. ID launched the BSP Fund in 2011 which was fully vested across 19 companies in 2020. Exits include: Simpa (India) acquired by Engie (France); OnFarm (US) acquired by SWIIM (US); iHub (Kenya) acquired by ccHub (Nigeria), and GELI(US) acquired by Hanwha Q-Cells (Korea).
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $520k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Angani — Angani offers cutting-edge & affordable solutions in cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery, media streaming, cloud PABX and data analytics. Enjoy local support, low latencies, and faster response times.
- 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.
- iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
- 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.
Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.
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- Industry: Retail, Sports, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3.3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- 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.
A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5M; Series A $14M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
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.
- Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
- SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Energy, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Series B $10M–$43M; Series C $9.1M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Loggi — Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient, and reliable network across e-commerce, wholesale food delivery, and courier services. Loggi is unlocking the growth of the on-demand economy, supporting new commerce for Brazil’s large, young, urban population.The company was founded in 2013 and isbased in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Coursera — Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personalenrichment goals throughout their lives.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
- TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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- 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
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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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
MKS is a precious metals and financial services company part of the MKS PAMP GROUP, specializing in all aspects of gold and other precious metals processing and trading. It develops and maintains long-term relationships, and offers a wide range of services in those markets. MKS draws from more than 50-years of experience.Networked throughmodern communications systems between its various offices worldwide, MKS is closely involved in the latest gold and price developments throughout the world, 24-hours a day. With its direct involvement in the physical precious metals market, and through its subsidiary refinery, PAMP SA, MKS maintains a thorough understanding of the industry, as well as consistently high quality products and services.Moreover, the Group is headed by an uncommonly experienced team of precious metals professionals, with over 600 employees worldwide and more than 14 offices on five continents.As market leader, MKS remains on the pulse of the global gold business, advising the financial services industry on the commodity that lies at the heart of their monetary system.
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- Industry: Consumer Electronics, Drones, Hardware
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Flyability — Flyability is an EPFL spin-off dedicated to creating safe, collision-tolerant robotics to access inaccessible places, replacing dangerous human operations with unmanned devices.
Synergy Growth is a private tech investment fund, established in 2011 by Steve Brooks and Nat Billington. Their purpose is to make early stage investments in disruptive technologies that aim to change the way we live our lives for the better. They invest resources in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams to help accelerate their growth and bringto market their innovative ideas and products. Their current portfolio has a strong focus on clean energy production and storage, and transport, as climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today. They have also invested in start-ups that harness the latest technologies to alter the way they work, communicate, travel and learn, towards more efficiency and less waste.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, B2B, SMS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $58k–$285k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
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