Top 20 Internet Angel Investors in Kenya
A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Internet startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Internet Angel Investors in Kenya
Investor | Internet Kenya investments |
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Darshan Chandaria | 2 |
Jessica Chervin | 1 |
Justin Ziegler | 1 |
Fredrik Jung Abbou | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Christina Sass | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Dr Ritesh Malik | 1 |
Winshall Walt | 1 |
Peter Sandberg | 1 |
Rajesh Sawhney | 1 |
Christian Jantzen | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Susan Kimberlin | 1 |
Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
Jesper Drescher | 1 |
Steven Tamm | 1 |
Gregory Rockson | 1 |
Johnny Falla | 1 |
Cem Garih | 1 |
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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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
- Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
Jessica Chervin
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
- Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 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.
Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care, Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
- Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Airblack — Learn makeup, beauty and culinary skills from India's top experts and get professionally certified. Join a student community of 35,000+ students.
- BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
- The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
Winshall Walt
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Investment focus
- Mobile, B2B, Cyber Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Voatz — Voatz is a mobile election voting platform, secured via smart biometrics, real time ID verification, and the blockchain for irrefutability. Voatz enables citizens to vote in all kinds of elections or voting events via a smartphone. Past attempts at internet based voting have failed or not gone mainstream due to fundamental concerns around security,auditability, and voter anonymity. With Voatz, using biometrics for security and the Blockchain for irrefutability, it is able to tackle all challenges and significantly streamline the process of voting and identity verification.Voatz was a part of the Techstars Boston 2017 and Masschallenge Boston 2017 cohorts.The company was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
- Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys.
He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
- Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
- Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University.
He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
- Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
- hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
- Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Susan is an angel investor and startup advisor in San Francisco, where she has a front-row seat to an amazing variety of new ventures. She is passionate about making connections and helping people meet their potential. Susan believes that diversity is an essential and under-utilized asset to all businesses. She focuses on enterprise businessesand technology. Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- fiifi — fiifi is founded on the belief that private company investing will continue to have exponential growth, and in order for investors to stay competitive, they need to have better decision making tools. Designed to be the product of choice for analysis of portfolio, deal flow, diligence, group collaboration, workflows, and expedient investing. Thesoftware works for scouts, angels, funds, family offices & PE firms.Fintech, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Seed Investing, SaaS, Private Company Investing
- Fireflies.ai — Fireflies uses generative AI to bring ChatGPT to meetings. Generate transcripts and smart summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and several other platforms.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- 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.
Jesper Drescher
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Gaming, Content
- Seed, Angel
- Kenya, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Sky.Garden — Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform that allows African retailers to sell inventory with ease. Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box.
- GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
- ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —
CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Seed
- United States, Kenya
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.
- Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
- Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.
Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Consumer
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
- TopUp Mama — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
Johnny Falla
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Investment focus
- Social Network
- Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
- Moment — Quickly deploy fixed income trading and data tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
- TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.
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