# Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in Kenya in June 2026

## E3 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

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.

## Kepple Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Novastar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet

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

## 54 Collective
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Global Partnerships
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives.

## EDFI ElectriFI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

Impact investment in sustainable energy

## 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.

## DOB Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

## Alphamundi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services

AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society.  It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy.  AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg.  AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches  (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.

## Lion’s Head Global Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy

A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets

## Aster
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Manufacturing

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).

## Mani Kapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Mani Kapital is an investment management firm.

## 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.

## CoCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy

CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products.

## Rus Newton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: IaaS, SaaS, Mining

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

## ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Agriculture

ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support.

## Seedstars Africa Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, FinTech, Software

Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.

## DILA Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners.

## Shell Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Finance

Shell Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that enables millions of people in Africa and Asia to increase their incomes with clean energy solutions.

## Gray Matters Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Health Care

We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work.

## AXA Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Biotechnology, Health Care

AXA Investment Managers is a global investment management firm that manages assets on behalf of its institutional and retail clients.

## Opes Impact Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Communities, Agriculture, Energy

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

## Manuela Raith
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact

Manuela Raith

## EcoEnterprises Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing

EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth.

## Triodos Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Energy, Solar

Triodos Investment Management focuses on investments in various areas, including renewable energy, microfinance, and real estate.

## At One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

## GIIG Africa Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Environmental Engineering, Fuel

GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies.

## SunFunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy

SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.

## Social Investment Managers & Advisors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy

SIMA is a social asset manager dedicated to empowering the Bottom of the Pyramid by providing demand-driven commercial capital and advisory solutions

## 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.

## Equator
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Software

A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.

## Blue Haven Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Health Care

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Aster Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: France, Idaho, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Sensor, Battery

VC fund

## Lateral Frontiers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Khosla Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

## Nordic Development Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Solar, Farming, Agriculture

The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is the joint Nordic international finance institution focusing on the nexus between climate change and development in lower-income countries and countries in fragile situations.

## Schneider Electric
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rueil-malmaison, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Seed
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

As a global specialist in energy management and automation in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments.

## Garage Technology Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

A seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation.

## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.

## Endeavor Catalyst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Endeavor Catalyst is the co-investment fund set up to invest exclusively in led companies

## Lendahand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy

Invest in sustainable projects through Lendahand and contribute to positive change. Earn financial returns while supporting entrepreneurs worldwide. Discover how it works!

## Factor E
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture

Factor E is a finance company that impacts venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.

## SAHEL Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Farming, Food and Beverage

Sahel Capital is a leading fund manager and advisory firm focused on West Africa with deep roots in private equity, financial advisory, management consulting and agribusiness. When you partner with Sahel, you benefit from quality financial and operating experience, broad industry knowledge, and a powerful network of global relationships. Through anintegrated approach, we work closely with companies and investment partners to deliver capital solutions and advisory services tailored to fit your unique needs. The power of a partnership with Sahel leads to better investments, stronger businesses, and shared success.

## EDFI Agrifi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Training, Agriculture, Farmers Market

AgriFi is financed by the European Union and managed by the EDFI Management Company. Responding to the lack of financing mechanisms it is adapted to smallholders with limited market orientation, vulnerable groups, women and youth, farmers and entrepreneurs.

## DEG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Overland Park, Kansas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.

## Hooge Raedt Social Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Baarn, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Agriculture, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering

Our goal is to create opportunities and choices for underserved people in East Africa through investments in socially-minded and viable businesses.

## Launch Africa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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

## Anglo American
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Mining

Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio that spans diamonds, platinum, copper, iron ore & more.

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