Top 20 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Kenya (September 2026)

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• Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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• FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
• SteelCheck — SteelCheck is an AI-powered construction compliance platform that verifies steel reinforcement and structural steel installations in real time. Using GPU-accelerated computer vision and spatial analysis, the platform detects rebar sizes, spacing, and placement on construction sites and validates them against engineering drawings and BIMspecifications before concrete placement.The platform helps contractors, structural engineers, inspectors, and infrastructure developers prevent costly structural errors, reduce rework, and ensure compliance with building standards and safety regulations. SteelCheck integrates mobile inspection tools, edge AI devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, and cloud-based analytics to deliver instant compliance alerts and automated inspection reports.Backed by Techstars pre-seed funding and QuantumSavanna VC seed investment, SteelCheck is building the intelligence layer for construction verification, transforming manual inspection into real-time structural compliance for the global construction industry.
• MetraEstate — MentraEstate is an AI-driven real estate intelligence platform designed to optimize property investment, valuation, and development decisions across emerging markets. The platform leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and infrastructure-scale data modeling to provide investors, developers, and financial institutions with actionableinsights for portfolio optimization and risk management. MentraEstate focuses on emerging urban markets where data fragmentation limits investment efficiency, delivering structured intelligence tools that enhance transparency, forecasting accuracy, and capital allocation decisions.

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• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
• Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.

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• Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding to make cash flow.
• NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
• Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

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• Pela Global — Pela Global Limited is an Australian company focused on critical and precious metals mining, primarily advancing projects in North Macedonia's Tethyan Belt. It specializes in antimony and gold resources, emphasizing sustainable development and global supply chain contributions.
• Harena Rare Earths — Harena Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company. It focuses on the Ampasindava Ionic Clay Rare Earths Project in Madagascar, which contains 606,000 tonnes of Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO). The company explores and develops critical magnet metals like neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium for use in clean energy, electronics, anddefense sectors.
• Sine Engineering — Sine.engineering is a company that develops and manufactures high-tech modules and components to ensure stable communication and navigation of UAV in difficult conditions. Ukraine

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• Farmhut — Farmhut is a B2B Agtech startup focussing on shortening and bringing efficiency to the agro-supply chain by connecting farmers to restaurants, retailers and vendors.
• Synnefa — We provide an online farm record-keeping software as a service and integrate this platform with IoT solar-powered soil sensors to give farmers a 360-degree view of their farm and eliminate any guesswork. We leverage AI and ML technologies to analyse IoT data and agronomy data to increase production by 60% while reducing farm input costs by 40%.
• Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.

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• BeatO — BeatO, short for beat diabetes (the 'O' being the ring of diabetes), is a mobile platform that motivates a diabetic to increase compliance and reduce their out of pocket expense. Their small and nimble health and tech focused team comprises top talent that brings in the passion and desire to roll out the best user experience for adiabetic in managing their ailment. In their core team (tech & business), we have Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics, with real life practical know-how of diabetes and how to beat it.
• HealthAssure — Building India's first OPD Health Care Plan
• RecoverX — Making medical knowledge computational

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• Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

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• Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
• Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health

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• Matale Hill Brothers — Matale Hill Brothers is a secondary processing and marketing of coffee from smallholder farmers and local markets.
• JKCC General Supplies — JKCC General Supplies is the producer and exporter of quality coffee.
• MiCreditoYa Microfinanciera — MICREDITOYA was established to offer financial solutions to a subset of microentrepreneurs who had limited access to the financial sector because of their socioeconomic and geographic circumstances.

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• Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.
• Enko Chem, Inc. — Enko discovers and develops novel products for farmers to protect their crops from pests and disease. Our discovery platform ENKOMPASS uses DNA-encoded libraries, artificial intelligence (AI), structure based design, and machine learning (ML) to find and select the right treatments for weeds, pests and fungus faster and more effectively than traditional R&D methods.Whether using AI to design safe and sustainable chemistry to combat farmers' biggest crop threats, or by applying AI driven agronomic tools like precision robotics to manage on-farm costs and inputs, our technologies can increase the speed at which agriculture can respond to current and emerging problems while building resiliency and sustainability into our agriculture economy. We grow new.
• Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

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• Somleng — Somleng is an open-source cloud communications platform, similar to Twilio. It's made up of several open source applications which, when used together, provide the necessary functionality and APIs to build powerful voice and SMS applications. The goal of Somleng is to break down the economic and accessibility barriers to building telephonyapplications.
• Crop2Cash — Farmers, especially smallholder farmers, have always had trouble accessing financing as banks are wary of fund mismanagement. Crop2Cash makes formal financing a 100% transparent process for banks while providing much-needed capital to responsible farmers.
• Synnefa — We provide an online farm record-keeping software as a service and integrate this platform with IoT solar-powered soil sensors to give farmers a 360-degree view of their farm and eliminate any guesswork. We leverage AI and ML technologies to analyse IoT data and agronomy data to increase production by 60% while reducing farm input costs by 40%.

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• Susterre — Susterre is pioneering the use of ultra-high pressure fluid jet technology for row crop planting and seeding applications.
• FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
• Cellar Insights — Maximize the value of your potato crop with smart remote monitoring. Monitor storage conditions and prevent crop loss with Cellar Insights.

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/gOw7WpwkJt https://t.co/ot9sGVXU8x
• Despegar — Despegar operates as an online business-to-consumer travel agency that focuses on the Portuguese and Spanish speaking markets. It enables people to research travel plans, check flight availability, book airline, and hotel and car rental reservations online, as well as offer travel-related services, including access to airlines, car rentalcompanies, and hotels and vacation packages. The company serves the leisure and corporate travelers. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Miami, Florida.
• Juicebox — Juicebox is a subscription-based marketplace for businesses to hire independent tech talent. Companies get commission-free access to vetted talent. Independents get the opportunity to work with exciting companies without relying on an agency.

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• Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
• Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
• Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.

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• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

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• InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!

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• Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
• Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
• Jurisphere — Jurisphere.ai is an enterprise-grade AI platform tailored for law firms and in-house legal teams, integrating document review, legal research, drafting, and workflow automation into a unified workspace. The company's platform uses attorney verified AI workflows to surface relevant cases and insights from large volumes of legal documents,generate and refine contract drafts.

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• Sabanto — Sabanto brings autonomy to agriculture with retrofit kits that transform existing tractors into fully autonomous machines. Boost efficiency, reduce labor, and farm 24/7 with the Sabanto Autonomy System. Book a demo today.
• SonoThera — Explore therapeutic ultrasound for non-invasive, targeted genetic medicine delivery that improves precision and biodistribution. Learn more.
• Celea Therapeutics — Celea Therapeutics develops drug therapies for serious respiratory and fibrotic lung diseases. The company focuses on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and is advancing deupirfenidone (LYT-100), an oral investigational therapy. Deupirfenidone is being studied as a potential new standard of care for IPF, with completed Phase 2b data and a pivotalPhase 3 trial planned. Celea also runs an open-label extension study to assess long-term outcomes and collaborates with clinicians and patient groups on IPF patient experience research. Celea is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PureTech Health plc.