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Top 25 Startup Investors in Rwanda

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in Rwanda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Rwanda. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Startup Investors in Rwanda

Investor	Rwanda investments
Factor[e] Ventures	3
Nestcoin	2
Shola Akinlade	2
TotalEnergies Ventures	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
ODBA	2
Ground Squirrel Ventures	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
pledges.com	2
Akitoye Balogun	2
Ecosystem Integrity Fund	2
Folarin Falana	2
Norrsken Foundation	2
DOB Equity	1
Blockchain Founders Fund	1
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	1
Oikocredit International	1
Angaza Capital	1
VestedWorld	1
Fejiro Hanu Agbodje	1
Blue Haven Initiative	1
Acumen	1
International Finance Corporation	1
Techstars Ventures	1
Opes Impact Fund	1

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Impact venture builders dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that turn challenges in energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste into de-carbonized solutions for emerging and frontier markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
enee.io — enee.io designs and develops battery monitoring systems that make both users and suppliers of renewable power systems more profitable.
Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure

Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Education
Pre-Seed
Rwanda, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.
Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

Investment focus

FinTech, Education, InsurTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

Casava — Casava is a financial services company that offers insurance and life microinsurance. Casava uses technology to provide world-class, trusted, and affordable insurance to everyone.
Earnipay — Gain access, consolidate, and manage all your financial needs in one place.
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.

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total.As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future.Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, NewMobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Transportation
Series B, Funding Round, Series C
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Autogrid — Building a Resilient and Sustainable Grid with Distributed Energy Resources. Enabling a smarter, cleaner, more distributed electric power grid.
45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

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.

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.

We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Rwanda, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Kenya, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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.

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Investment focus

Education
Pre-Seed
Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.

Akitoye Balogun

Investment focus

Education
Pre-Seed
Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund (“EIF”) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies contributing to environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that there is no trade-off between having a positive impact and achieving outstanding financial returns. The movement toward environmental sustainability is making incrementalimprovements to the largest industries in the world. Over the next several decades, the economy will be transformed by this movement.Sustainability is fundamentally about making things better: more efficient, more functional, less toxic, less costly. This is the next phase of the Industrial Revolution.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, India, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

Folarin Falana

Investment focus

Education
Pre-Seed
Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.

Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Rwanda, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fixa — Digitizing informal workers and businesses to drive financial inclusion.
Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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.

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Layer Edge — First Optimistic Rollups with Modular DA Layer on #Bitcoin. Fast, Inexpensive & Familiar EVM environment for #BTC ecosystem.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
Unstable Protocol — Unstable Protocol implements zkOracles to enhance the DeFi utility for the LRTfi market.

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stone Pagamentos SA — Stone Pagamentos is a THE platform for your online shop to accept debit, credit cards and payment slips. Have access to tools to increase you conversion, simple integration.
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Emerging Markets Global Advisory — Emerging Markets Global Advisory offers advisory services to financial institutions, institutional investors and large-cap and middle-market corporates.

Oikocredit is guided by the principle of empowering people. Their experience proves that the most effective and sustainable means of assisting those in need is providing an opportunity to help themselves.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.

Angaza Capital is an investment firm that provides funding for ecosystem creation and project developments.

Investment focus

Medical, Payments, Software
Seed, Series B
Rwanda, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

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.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Hanu is the Founder/CEO of Patricia, a User-experience expert with a deep understanding of user-centered designs (USD) and strong skills for conducting user research and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. He is a graduate of mathematics and statistics

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, Communities
Pre-Seed, Seed
Rwanda, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rooomxix —
AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.
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.

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

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

AquaRech — AquaRech includes Farm management that enhances fish production, enables access to the market & promotes equal trade.
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Lion's Head — Lion's Head is a commercial property platform that focuses on prime office properties with international blue-chip tenants in the CEE region.
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Shadowfax — Best last mile delivery service provider across Food, E-commerce, Groceries, Pharma, FMCG, Consumer durables, Auto, BFSI, Telecom, Freight forwarding & Apparel.

Techstars Ventures (formerly Bullet Time Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Techstars. Bullet Time Ventures is a $150 million fund based in Boulder, Colorado.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chargerzilla — Search and Book EV Charging stations near you. List your charger with us and start earning $$.
Season Share — There are 3.2M season tickets holders in the U.S. and 70% of season ticket holders share their tickets with other fans. We are the only mobile app that enables fans to buy, group, split and share season tickets to live sporting events. Season Share was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports and ticketing. Ourtechnology is ready to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team and league revenue while making the fan experience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. Let’s change the game together.
Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.

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

Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
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.

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