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Top 50 Startup Investors in Kenya

Last updated: Sep 2023 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Startup Investors in Kenya

Investor	Kenya investments
Novastar Ventures	16
DOB Equity	15
Musha Ventures	14
Launch Africa	13
Future Africa	12
Kepple Africa Ventures	11
Savannah Fund	11
Acumen	10
Chandaria Capital	10
iHub	9
Golden Palm Investments	9
4DX Ventures	8
E3 Capital	8
VilCap Investments	7
Saviu Ventures	6
LoftyInc Capital Management	6
MaC Venture Capital	6
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	5
Mercy Corps Ventures	5
EchoVC Partners	5
P1 Ventures	5
GreenTec Capital Partners	5
Accion Venture Lab	5
Cem Garih	5
Justin Mateen	5
Electrification Financing Initiative	5
Logos Ventures	4
Proparco	4
Village Global	4
1776 Ventures	4
GreenHouse Capital	4
Investisseurs & Partenaires	4
Global Partnerships	4
Blue Haven Initiative	4
Zephyr Acorn	4
JAM Fund	4
Future\Perfect Ventures	4
Digital Currency Group	4
UNCOVERED FUND	4
Consonance Investment Managers	4
HAVAÍC	4
Finnfund	4
V8 Capital Partners	3
Outlierz Ventures	3
Better Ventures	3
TEN13	3
Betatron Venture Group	3
Gray Matters Capital	3
Opes Impact Fund	3
Century Oak Capital	3

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Investment focus

Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Revivo — Buy electronics spare parts and accessories easily online.
Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
Balad — Balad enable smooth, cheaper and faster money transfer remittance into Egypt bank accounts, mobile wallets and cash on counter.
Sytemap — We are building a blockchain-based property record to help home buyers and financial companies access, view and verify properties starting from digitizing Estate project layouts (Sytemap) Sytemap is a first step that allows us access to a large pool of property data. The end goal can really be described as building Zillow for Africa.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

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.
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 — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Egypt

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.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed
Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

ntemata — ntemata enables you automate assessment processes for teachers and holistically analyse competency learning
LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
SILABU — Make every mind curious! Silabu is a new skill-learning, social networking app that allows Africa's 700 million youths learn academic subjects and new skills from their peers online, attend live group classes from the top 1% tutors with a fee being 10x cheaper than traditional tuition services and to request the top tutors on-demand.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

Energy Access Ventures 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.

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Tajiri — Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits.
Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.
Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
Haiqu — Clumsy Hardware needs Careful Software

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure,telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

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.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

P1 Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Gameball — Gameball is a one-stop platform to market your products and keep your customers engaged, leading to boosted conversion and increased RoI with a data-driven success strategy.
MoneyFellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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.
freshbag — freshbag is a wellness nutrition turnkey solution that supports corporate wellness programs by making it easy and convenient to live - and eat! - healthier.

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.

Investor

Investment focus

Internet, Financial Services, FinTech
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.
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.
Zetwerk — Zetwerk offers high-quality production, globally competitive costs, and unparalleled lead times in every area of manufacturing.

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.

Impact investment in sustainable energy

Investment focus

Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
Okra Solar — Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Energy
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
TUHF — TUHF provides commercial & residential property development finance loans in South Africa. Contact us for property development investment or loans to buy residential property.

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
Akooda — AI-powered wizard for understanding and optimizing how you deliver value as a team

1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
Yep! — Yep! is a financial super app leveraging technology to deliver seamless financial services and solutions to all Africans.

Investisseurs et Partenaires

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

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.
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ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.

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.

Investment focus

Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sun King — Sun King solar lanterns and home systems enables underserved communities to achieve more with inclusive distribution and flexible financing options.
Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
PayGo Energy — Globally, three billion people cook with biomass. The use of open fires and inefficient cookstoves with fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene causes serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionately affect underserved communities. PayGo Energy is a revolutionary cookstove solution and distribution system that enables consumersto access clean and efficient fuel at a price point that is within their daily energy budget.

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

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
Kenya, United States, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa

Zephyr Acorn provides equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa. Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, India

Portfolio highlights

Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
Vesto — Fintech
Fun — Fun is building decentralized multi-chain access control applications.

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

CapStack — CapStack is a banking system that encourages collaboration among banks and financial services providers in order to boost asset profitability and diversification.
Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Right Now Response — Right Now Response is a breakdown management platform.It offers round-the-clock breakdown visibility, including live location tracing and monitoring from acceptance to roadside and workshop repair, allowing businesses to improve productivity by reducing cost.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
Kasha — Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
Satya MicroCapital — Satya MicroCapital is an NBFC-MFI that offers collateral-free credit to micro enterprises on the basis of strong credit assessment and a centralised approval system.SATYA started its microfinance operations by adopting the “Joint Liability Group (JLG) Model” with adequate use of technology and new adaptations. JLGs of SATYA means implementationsof Joint Liability of group members which exists up to 10 instalments in Bi-Weekly collections. The Company believes in the ideology to bring social touch and high technology in the Indian microfinance industry.The JLG lending operation mainly focuses on a woman (in case of SATYA, her husband acts as co-borrower) through a credit product that allows her to start a new business or enhance her existing business as well. SATYA provides prompt, convenient and affordable collateral-free credit to people at the bottom of the pyramid through a strong credit assessment and centralized approval.The Company started its microfinance operation from Sikandrabad Branch, Bulandshar District of Uttar Pradesh and the first token disbursement was done in November 2016. SATYA utilized demonetization as an opportunity to rework on the business strategy through cashless transactions. SATYA is an institution build with a vision of change, transformation and will be a differentiator in financial inclusion space and its approach is well recognized by industry experts and professionals across different sectors. SATYA is committed to being a socially responsible organization with a focus on Health, Education, Financial Literacy, Nasha-Mukt Samaaj, Gender Equality, and Swachh Bharat. The Company is spreading social awareness messages in its area of operations.

V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
Yemaachi Biotechnology — Yemaachi Biotechnology uses cutting-edge immunogenomics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of cancer detection and cure strategies for lowering the economic burden of cancer.

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.

Better Ventures is the amplifier of essential science and technology startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HILOS — Our mission is to change the way the world makes so that nothing goes to waste and everything that's put in can be taken back. We do this through our zero-waste manufacturing process paired with our circularity program.
Funga — Funga uses the forest fungal microbiome to improve forestry outcomes and address the climate crisis. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.
Beni — The Beni browser extension scours the internet to find the best resale alternatives and then shows them to you in the click of a button. Shopping Secondhand has never been easier! See what Beni finds for you and start saving today.

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
PT Kini Teknologi Indonesia — Kini adalah teknologi HR terbaru yang akan membantu perusahaan membangun kesehatan finansial karyawan secara mudah, cepat dan gratis 100%.
Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.

Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hong Kong, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
Toku — At Toku, we help businesses in APAC build better customer experiences that drive more customer engagement. Headquartered in Singapore, we’re Asia Pacific’s bespoke cloud communications provider helping businesses overcome the complexity of digital transformation in the region, enhance their customer experience and cater to the growing demandfor hybrid work. As a channel-agnostic provider, Toku combines the most robust carrier-grade connectivity in APAC with local expertise and in-country infrastructure into bespoke CPaaS, CCaaS and UCaaS solutions that adapt to your business needs. Since its inception in 2018, Toku has worked with organisations as diverse as Gojek, JCDecaux, Public Utilities Board Singapore and foodpanda. Whether you are a sophisticated fully digital business or just starting your digital transformation journey, we have products to suit your internal collaboration and customer engagement needs.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
Applied Cognition — Applied Cognition is developing a novel medical device and platform for translational measurement of a newly discovered biology of the brain whose failure has been shown to cause neurodegeneration in preclinical models. We will be the first to non-invasively, continuously measure this biology in humans enabling us to develop treatments that stop or reverse the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Indian School Finance Company — ISFC is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of lending to educational institutions and entrepreneurs managing such institutions. The company started its operations in December 2008 from Hyderabad and has expanded since to other cities.

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

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.
Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.

Century Oak Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in Europe and Emerging Markets.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Pakistan, Kenya, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.
Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
Dastgyr Technologies — Making trade and capital seamless and reliable

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