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Top 15 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Kenya in September 2025

A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Kenya in September 2025

Investor Manufacturing Kenya investments
At One Ventures 2
Kepple Africa Ventures 1
54 Collective 1
Opes Impact Fund 1
PanAfrican Investment Co. 1
VilCap Investments 1
AngelList 1
Playfair Capital 1
Victoria Commercial Bank 1
Ben Franklin Technology Partners 1
Factor E 1
Chandaria Capital 1
Ambo Ventures 1
VestedWorld 1
Novastar Ventures 1
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At One Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Sustainability, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
  • Provectus Algae — Provectus Algae leverages novel biomanufacturing processes to create sustainable stockfeeds, reducing methane emissions in ruminant livestock by up to 95%.
  • ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
54 Collective VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
  • 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.
Opes Impact Fund VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
  • Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Italy, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
PanAfrican Investment Co. VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
PanAfrican Investment is a private investment firm focused on the growth and development of companies in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Local, Content, Automotive
  • Series A, Series B
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Savoteur — I'm Casandra, a full-time travel writer and luxury travel expert.
  • Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
VilCap Investments VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
AngelList VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • axiTrust — Trust Platform serving MSMEs with Technology and Consulting towards obtaining Surety Bonds
  • Phonicx AI — An AI-powered task management website template designed to streamline workflows, showcase features, and help users stay organized with ease and efficiency.
  • Whisper Software — Whisper Software is an AI-powered sales chatbot to grow fans business.
Playfair Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Warden AI — Warden AI is an AI assurance platform for validating fair, compliant, and trustworthy AI systems. Schedule a demo to learn more!
  • Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
  • Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
Victoria Commercial Bank VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
  • Debt Financing
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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?
Ben Franklin Technology Partners VC Fund · University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Ben Franklin has provided the Capital, Knowledge and Networks that help innovative enterprises compete in the global marketplace, generating wealth and supporting regional economic growth. Ben Franklin has invested more than $165 million to grow more than 1,750 regional enterprises, across all areas of technology. It has launcheduniversity/industry partnerships that accelerate scientific discoveries to commercialization. The Ben Franklin Technology Partners is an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and is funded by the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • United States, Kenya, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Zenapse — Zenapse is a internet publishing industry.
  • PolicyMap — PolicyMap is a mapping and analytics platform. Make an impact with good data.
  • NovaData Solutions — NovaData Solutions is an InsurTech company offering a platform for automated restoration invoice scraping, auditing, and analysis. The company's platform, called Rest-Assured, leverages advanced data strategies, OCR data capture, and AI learning to drive operational efficiencies, increase the effectiveness of financial anomaly detection, andaccelerate the audit process that enables customers to have automated invoice review, validation, and reconciliation.
Factor E VC Fund · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Factor E is a finance company that impacts 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 and frontier markets. It serves as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors throughmarket-driven forces.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Kenya, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
  • 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.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Ambo Ventures VC Fund
Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics
  • Seed
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
VestedWorld VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
  • Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.
Novastar Ventures VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
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