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Top 35 Marketplace Angel Investors in Kenya (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Kenya Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $460k–$38M
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $400k–$26M
Kevin Ambrosini
Angel
2 United States, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series B, Series A E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion $2.5M–$60M
Manuela Raith
Angel
2 Kenya Seed Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
Patricia Ithau
Angel
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Rus Newton
Angel
2 Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed IaaS, SaaS, Mining $285k–$1.5M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$212k
Tom Blomfield
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $500k–$47M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $625k–$7.5M
Vidit Aatrey
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Education, E-Commerce $495k–$17M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, SaaS $300k–$3.5M
Babatunde Soyoye
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Grant, Series A Apps, Sales, Fitness
Abdo Achkar
Angel
1 United States, Lebanon, Japan Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS $150k–$3M
Ilkka Paananen
Angel
1 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1.2M–$68M
Gregory Rockson
Angel
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Finance, Consumer
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel Internet, Finance, Content $320k–$28M
Biz Stone
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Mobile $375k–$20M
Josh Sandler
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Luciano Freitas
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Samson Larsson
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Darshan Chandaria
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, B2B, SMS $58k–$285k
Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Vietnam Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, E-Commerce $1.5M–$28M
Jeremy Cai
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, FinTech $592k–$8.2M
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Justin Caldbeck
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, iOS $300k–$18M
Miki Kuusi
Angel
1 Finland, Lithuania, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.9M–$29M
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Matt Sutton
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Consumer Goods
Peter Njonjo
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Fashion, Software, E-Commerce $1M–$3M
Christian Jantzen
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $233k–$3.5M
Jesper Drescher
Angel
1 Kenya, Denmark Seed, Angel SaaS, Gaming, Content $800k–$1.2M
Bhavik Bajaj
Angel
1 United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Software, FinTech $15k–$3M
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Hiroaki Ohta
Angel
1 Japan, Kenya Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Quantum Computing, Information Technology, Energy $4.5M–$5M
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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; Series A $5M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3.9M; Series A $6.8M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — Create a business or unlock new streams of income.
  • 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.
  • Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
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Kevin Ambrosini
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Logistics, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7.5M; Series B $39M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
  • buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
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Manuela Raith
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Manuela Raith

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Point of Sale, Social Impact
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mwingi — Everywhere for Everyone
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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Patricia Ithau

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Mining
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $285k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
  • Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
  • Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
  • Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
  • November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$500k; Series A $11M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
  • Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
  • Arcane — Turn insights into valuable content, craft thought leadership posts with your TOV and re-purpose long-form content in one platform.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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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Vidit Aatrey
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Education, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Pre-Seed $495k–$650k; Series A $5.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medbikri — Medbikri provides a free pharmacy app for managing inventory and repeat orders. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Pep — Learn live & buy digital products with lifetime recording at affordable price
  • Mesa School of Business — Learn entrepreneurship and build real-world business skills. Discover a non-traditional, new-age business school in Bangalore offering startup leadership programs.
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$933k; Pre-Seed $672k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ciloo — The global brand management platform for local, on-demand production of branded products. Reduce costs, waste + shipping distances. Full brand control.
  • laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
  • Campanyon — Campanyon is a provider of an outdoor accommodation booking platform intended for people to find and book their next outdoor adventure by connecting campers with hosts.
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Babatunde Soyoye
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Mr. Soyoye holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and a Board member of Africatel Holdings B.V.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sales, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wasoko — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
  • Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
  • The Medic App — Medic was formed to provide the go-to integrated solution for patients, clinicians and carers globally. In doing so we want to improve medication management, enhance healthcare services and ultimately improve patient prognosis.
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Abdo Achkar
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Lebanon, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $960k–$3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
  • uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
  • Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$16M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.7M; Series A $8M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • Taito.ai — Taito.ai provides an AI platform that allows users to develop and deploy intelligent applications. It supports various tools and features for building machine learning models. Users can access resources for training and optimizing their AI solutions.
  • Lovable — Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software.
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Gregory Rockson
Angel · Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Finance, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
  • Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$28M; Angel $320k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AssetHub — AssetHub is an AI-powered 3D modeling tool that enables game developers to create and edit 3D assets 100 times faster, enabling mass production of content and combining AI with manual work, enabling faster prototyping and editing.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
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Biz Stone
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $375k–$2M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yupp — Every AI for everyone
  • Subtle Computing
  • Vantage Discovery — Vantage Discovery is a generative AI-powered SaaS platform that enables intelligent search, discovery, and personalized recommendations so apps can deliver breathtaking customer experiences.
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Josh Sandler
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Josh Sandler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lori Systems. He Previously worked at AFIG FUNDS as a Consultant. Josh Sandler attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
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Luciano Freitas
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Head Trainer, entrepreneur and consumer-reaction driven professional with 10+ years of experience creating business opportunities all around the world. Strong teamwork background and #madly in love with people and technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Pierre Martensson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Samson Larsson
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, SMS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $58k–$285k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

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.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
  • Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M; Series A $5.2M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medbikri — Medbikri provides a free pharmacy app for managing inventory and repeat orders. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Wishlink — Wishlink by promoting brands through its storefront enables social media content providers to monetise their influence.
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Jeremy Cai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Jeremy Cai is the Founder and CEO at Italic . Jeremy Cai attended Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $592k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
  • Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
  • Pluto — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Peter anker

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Justin Caldbeck
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital since July 2014. In June 2017, Justin announced an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital.Previously, Justin was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners from January 2011 to June 2014. Justin invested primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors with afocus on social media, e-commerce and enterprise software. Justin’s past investments include Bloomreach, GrubHub, PetFlow and TaskRabbit. Justin has also been a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful companies including TheFind, INRIX, Adready, Magazine Radar, Oyster.com and DNA Games. Before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and was responsible for launching the firm’s West Coast office. Justin was both a Member of the Board of Directors and Board Observer for a wide variety of consumer internet, enterprise software, and business services companies, including BloomReach, TheFind, Adready, INRIX, DNA Games, Oyster.com, and Magazine Radar. Before Bain Capital Ventures, Justin was at McKinsey and Co. where he served consumer and media companies in a wide range of capacities. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6.5M; Series A $4.8M–$10M; Series B $4M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flippy — Flippy is a social first assisted investment platform that makes makes crypto investing simple.
  • Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
  • HydraDB — Context infrastructure that makes your AI intelligent, stateful, and amazing.
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Miki Kuusi
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Miki Kuusi is based out of Helsinki, Southern Finland and is the CEO of Deliveroo and the Co-founder & CEO of Wolt. Miki previously worked at NoHo Partners as a Board Member. Miki Kuusi attended the Aalto University. Miki Kuusi has been received the Forbes 30 under 30 award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Lithuania, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$8M; Angel $5M–$29M; Pre-Seed $1.9M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
  • Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
  • Saltz — Premium ingredients for your menu with no hidden delivery fees or markups.
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Andrea Iannelli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Matt Sutton
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Matt Sutton is an entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Peter Njonjo
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Peter Njonjo is the current CEO and Co-founder of Twiga Foods. He previously worked at Coca-Cola West Africa as a President. Peter Njonjo attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $233k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medusa — The most flexible commerce platform for developers and agents
  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Jesper Drescher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Kenya, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sky.Garden — With Sky.Garden you can upload products and start selling your products immediately via your own free mobile webshop. No cost upon entry. No hidden fees. Fully automated payment and shipping options are integrated out-of-the-box. 100% Safe and secure.
  • GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
  • ReFlow - engineering a circular economy
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Bhavik Bajaj
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Bhavik Bajaj

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Angel $15k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $43k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
  • ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
  • THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Camilla Hagen Sørli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Hiroaki Ohta
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Hiroaki Ohta is the Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder and Board Member of Blue Laser Fusion. He previously worked at ACSL Ltd. as a Representative Director, President, CEO, Chiarman, Board Member. Hiroaki Ohta attended Kyoto University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Quantum Computing, Information Technology, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Japan, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $4.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quanmatic — Quanmatic is an information and technology company that provides algorithms development and solutions to bridge quantum technologies.
  • Peach Cars — Buy or sell your car in Nairobi-Kenya with ease. Browse a wide range of vehicles, connect with trusted sellers, and find the perfect car today. Simple, fast, and secure transactions.
  • Power Diamond Systems — Power Diamond Systems is a research and development firm that focuses on diamond semiconductor devices.
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Marketplace Angel investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 25 deals from 45 investors.

45
investors
in Kenya Marketplace startups
25
deals
in Kenya Marketplace startups
$1.2M
median round
in Kenya Marketplace startups
13%
lead investors
lead at least one round
52%
Seed
most common funding stage

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