Top 10 Machine Learning VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Machine learning startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Machine Learning VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in May 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Kenya investments
54 Collective	3
Accion Venture Lab	2
Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge	1
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	1
Anthemis	1
Flourish Ventures	1
Musha Ventures	1
Factor E	1
OEL Venture Investments	1
Newid capital	1

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Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
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.

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.

Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity.

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Farming
Grant, Pre-Seed
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

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.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).

digitally native finance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

LiquidTrust — Confidently make and receive your business payments worldwide. Direct Pay for fast transactions across 229 countries, or Pay by Trust for enhanced protection against fraud and delays.
Burbank — Burbank's technology creates the most seamless customer experience by enabling authentication of users anytime, at any time, using the widely known "Tap and PIN." Burbank gives companies the ability to produce the remarkable.
SimpleClosure — The easiest and most trustworthy way to shut down your startup. Simplify your company dissolution process, saving time and money while getting everything done right.

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.
MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

Factor[e] Ventures impact venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging & frontier markets.Working across the globe, we bring disruptive innovation to the worlds’ fastest-growing markets.We serve as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors who are like-minded in their pursuit of de-carbonized development through market-driven forces.