Top 50 Marketplace VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$37M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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8 | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$3.8M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming | $60k–$100k |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $650k–$21M |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $675k–$1.3M |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $400k–$23M |
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Consumer, Payments, Financial Services | $100k–$4.5M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $25k–$12M |
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Talanton
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya | Series A, Debt Financing, Seed | Shoes, Retail, Sports | $1.1M–$23M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments | $30k–$15M |
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | EdTech, Retail, Grocery | $58k–$94k |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$40M |
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Founder Collective
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1M–$68M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $174k–$5M |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Standard Chartered Women in Technology
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Ghana | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $9k–$121k |
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Giant Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1.2M–$56M |
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EDFI Agrifi
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Ghana, Belgium | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Agriculture, Fruit, Beauty | $1.5M–$3.2M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$22M |
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Esas Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Software | $759k–$22M |
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JAM Fund
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, FinTech | $460k–$47M |
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Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon | Pre-Seed, Grant | Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$105M |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$206M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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3 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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Logos Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, B2B, Fashion | $750k–$4.5M |
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Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Uganda, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Internet, Logistics | $1.8M–$2.1M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Sales | $1M–$15M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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TBD Angels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $54k–$16M |
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $18k–$2M |
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, E-Commerce, Beauty | $250k–$5M |
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Beauty, Fashion, Software | $226k–$8.1M |
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Samata Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | $1M–$1.4M |
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Apis Partners
VC Fund
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2 | India, Singapore, South Africa | Private Equity, Series B, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Payments | $10M–$120M |
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Egypt, Morocco, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Logistics, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management | $1M–$5M |
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CFAO GROUP
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Senegal, Mali | Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed | Financial Services, Apps, FinTech | $700k–$2M |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Kenya | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series C | Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $4.8M–$166M |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $250k–$23M |
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$70M |
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Seedstars Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, France, Rwanda | Seed, Series A, Series C | Energy, ISP, Credit | $1.1M–$9.1M |
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Enza Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech | $120k–$31M |
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Artha Group
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software | $71k–$3.1M |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$51M |
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
- Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Irrisol Engineering — Irrisol Engineering is an impact-driven social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable water supply and irrigation systems for underserved rural communities.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2394
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
- ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
- Plouton AI —
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io
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- Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
- Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
- Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 223
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.7M; Series A $6.4M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Vocca — Voice AI for healthcare: 1,500+ practices, 20+ specialties. Vocca answers every patient call, books into your software and follows up with patients, 24/7.
- Clarity Care AI — Clarity Care AI develops healthcare artificial intelligence software that supports care delivery and operations. The platform assists clinicians and care teams with documentation, task management, and communication around patient needs. Features include note drafting, summarization of patient information, and notifications that flag items requiring follow-up. Integrations connect to existing tools to streamline handoffs and keep records consistent across teams. Analytics highlight trends in patient status and operational workload to inform daily decisions. Implementation services, training resources, and ongoing product support help healthcare organizations adopt and use the software.
- Enact Intelligence — Enact Intelligence builds underlying technology for general-purpose robots, reimagining the entire robotic stack from the ground up to solve the ultimate bottleneck in robotics: dexterity. Rather than relying primarily on vision models, Enact builds proprietary actuators that measure force directly inside the joints. This creates a human-like "nervous system" and muscle feedback loop, allowing robots to efficiently learn and robustly execute highly precise, contact-rich physical tasks across industrial, retail, and manufacturing environments.
FrontEnd Ventures backs early-stage African founders with strategic capital, hands-on guidance, and long-term partnership to build lasting companies.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $675k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
- OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Convertible Note $500k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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- Industry: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Run your hardware business with Jumba OS. Build your financial record. Access the credit you need to grow.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects to achieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund. The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies. They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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- Industry: Shoes, Retail, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $1.1M–$23M; Debt Financing $3M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
- Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
Kua Ventures provides inexpensive finance, mentoring, and community to faith-driven, social entrepreneurs that are creating great employment and changing lives while simultaneously demonstrating Christ's love.
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- Industry: EdTech, Retail, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $58k–$94k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
- Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
- Seven Twenty Holdings — Seven Twenty Holdings specializes in the manufacturing of curtain rods and curtain rods accessories and manufactures paints.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 99
- Round size: Seed $200k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
- Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control, entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible. Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 482
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $6M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- Altro Health — Lyv Health develops a healthcare infrastructure platform that enables wellness businesses to offer clinical services, including lab testing, prescription management, peptides, and clinician support. Its platform helps health coaches, gyms, medspas, and wellness providers integrate compliant healthcare services into their offerings, allowing them to expand care delivery and improve the client experience.
- Meadowport — Meadowport is an AI-native ERP implementation that offers AI automation, integration, migration, and managed services.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $174k–$817k; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
- SORAM Afrique — Soram Afrique is a company focused on providing professional services and solutions to meet its customers’ needs.It aims to deliver quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction through its business activities.For accurate details about its specific services and offerings, the website content would need to be reviewed
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
- Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
- Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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Browse database — It's Free!A Startup #incubator located at @iLabAfrica in Strathmore University. We help budding entrepreneurs find a conducive working space,mentorship and seed funding.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $9k–$10k; Grant $9.7k–$121k
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuwe Bora — Tuwebora, we do more than just make clothing—we're building futures and revolutionizing the global fashion industry.
- Timao Group — Timao Group manufactures durable plastic fencing posts and interlocking blocks from recycled waste, delivering strong, eco-friendly solutions for construction.
- POLLEN PATROLLERS — Pollen Patrollers' mission is to combat bee colony collapse and enhance food security by providing innovative smart hive solutions and precision pollination services. Pollen Patrollers is a startup that leverages advanced technology.
Giant backs purpose-driven founders building companies that matter.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $10M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Cyera — Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk.
- Efficient Computer — Efficient Computer is ushering in a new era of computing with our ultra-energy-efficient programmable processors.
- Lumilab — Lumilab is a Copenhagen-based startup building an agentic operations platform for energy assets, currently focused on EV-charging networks and expanding toward solar, battery parks, and other distributed energy infrastructure.
AgriFi is financed by the European Union and managed by the EDFI Management Company. Responding to the lack of financing mechanisms it is adapted to smallholders with limited market orientation, vulnerable groups, women and youth, farmers and entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Fruit, Beauty
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.5M–$3.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alterfin — Alterfin is a cooperative investing in microfinance and sustainable agriculture worldwide. Nearly 6,000 co-op members invest in Human Yield.
- sommalife — Vitara (formerly Sommalife) partners with women small-scale farmers in West Africa to supply traceable, high-quality shea and agro-commodities to global food and cosmetic manufacturers.
- East Africa Fruits — EA Fruits Farm is a business that engages in the large production and distribution of fruits and vegetables. As fruits are an essential part of a human's diet for maintenance of good health and wellbeing, the business will take part in providing the opportunity for Tanzanian citizens and other people overseas to get such fruits and motivatemore people to increase their intake of fruits whereby the company will strive to increase the supply to match the increased demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. The business envisions to be among the leading producers, distributors, and exporters of the fruits within the Country and overseas. The company is a highly profitable and viable business that expects to rise to about 5,000 USD from its current small-scaled operations, while more than 450,000 USD will be raised as a result of further expansion within a period of 2-4 years.
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of the business.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.2M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
- Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
- Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate.With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in earlystage companies globally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $759k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RubiBrands — Established in 2021, RubiBrands is a beyond Amazon roll-up business that acquires and partners with e-commerce native brands. It then grows these brands into global powerhouses through investments, centralizing and optimizing operations, focusing sourcing to Turkey, brand building and introduction to new markets and channels.
- River — Easily buy Bitcoin in minutes. Zero fees on recurring buys. Invest in Bitcoin with confidence with world-class security.
- GoWit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $460k–$3.9M; Series A $8M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
- Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
- Last Energy — Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy.
Women Entrepreneurship for Africa
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- Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant
- Geography: Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 116
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
- Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
- Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 915
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
- Egoist Machines — Egoist Machines builds efficient full-stack ML infrastructure for reliable AI systems, from model serving and evaluation to secure deployment and operations.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. Proparco participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action focuses on the key sectors of development: infrastructures with a focus on renewable energies, agro-industry, financial institutions, health, education ... Its interventions are aimed at strengthening the contribution of private actors the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community in 2015. Proparco finances companies whose activity contributes to the creation of jobs and decent incomes, the supply of essential goods and services, and the fight against climate change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
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.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- SOGUIPAL — SOGUIPAL is a prominent food processing company. The company is the primary agro-industrial subsidiary of the Comptoir Commercial Général group.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- DTEK — DTEK Group is a diversified energy holding that includes six businesses and Academy DTEK, our corporate university. DTEK Group is the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine, with over €12 billion in invested capital since 2005, employing 55,000 people.
- WIOCC Group — WIOCC Group serves as a provider of interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and managed network services, operating exclusively as a wholesaler to hyperscalers, cloud operators, content providers, and telcos.
- Global Atomic Corporation — The Dasa Uranium Project scheduled to begin production in 2026 is the highest-grade uranium project in Africa; the Turkish Zinc JV provides positive cash flow.
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Browse database — It's Free!Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, B2B, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chargel — Chargel is a freight brokerage platform that connects shippers and carriers with available loads.
- 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.
- Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Run your hardware business with Jumba OS. Build your financial record. Access the credit you need to grow.
Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
- KaliSpot — KaliSpot is a 24/7 automated network of ATMs servicing Mobile Money, Bank and Fintech consumers in West & Central Africa. Combined with a mobile app, we provide a PhyGital transformative solution to Financial Services access in WCA.
- Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- 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.
- Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly connects marketplace benchmarking with practical real-estate AI for property portals, MLSs and real-estate organizations.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $334k–$6M; Angel $54k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penny Finance — Get a tailored financial & investing plans, track your money making, learn about personal finances & get new insights, all in the Penny Finance investing app for women.
- Yuva Biosciences — Using cutting edge mitochondrial science to develop cosmeceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
- Cayuga Biotech — Cayuga Biotech is a startup developing novel hemostatic drugs and devices to reduce uncontrollable bleeding which is a leading cause of death from traumatic injuries. The company's polyphosphate-based drug accelerates the body's own clotting process to contain clotting at the injury site and thus minimize the risk of side effects. Cayugais developing drugs for indications that treat traumatic hemorrhage as well as rare bleeding disorders.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 727
- Round size: Seed $18k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
- Fyrii — Fyrii.ai builds an AI based platform to enable individual experts to brand and monetize their individual innovative potential while driving business growth for organizations
- Benefitbay — Our ICHRA administration platform includes real-time plan modeling and a best-in-class premium payment solution. All backed by direct, human support.
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Tuteria — Get Home Tutoring Matched to Your Child's Needs. Prepare for IELTS, Common Entrance, IGCSE, GRE & JAMB. Book Lessons in 150+ Subjects Including Music, Coding & Languages.
WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty
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- Industry: Beauty, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $226k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Musely — Musely develops an online platform intended to provide medical skincare treatments through technology. The company's offerings include personal products made from natural ingredients and also provides wellness tips, enabling users to offer prescription formulas, natural beauty brands, professional hair care, and makeup products.It wasfounded in 2013 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
- Maeva — Maeva is a science-backed metabolic wellness brand built for people on GLP-1 medications — and anyone committed to a smarter weight-loss journey. Founded by Steven and Dean Neiger after Steven's own firsthand experience with GLP-1 therapy, Maeva was created to solve a real gap: when you're eating less, your body still needs completenutrition. Muscle loss, energy dips, hair thinning, and digestive discomfort shouldn't be the price of progress. Our Daily Nutrition Shakes — formulated separately for women and men — deliver 20–25g of plant protein, clinically dosed functional ingredients, and zero sugar, dairy, soy, or maltodextrin. Every product in our lineup is made in an NSF-certified, cGMP, FDA-registered U.S. facility and third-party tested for heavy metals and microbial safety. We don't believe in fairy-dust dosing or empty promises. Every ingredient is included at a level that actually works — so you can stay strong, energized, and feeling like yourself while you slim down.
- 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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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Solar Taxi Ghana — Solar Taxi Ghana app provides various electronic vehicles that are powered by solar energy.
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Browse database — It's Free!Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B, Series C
- Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Series C $45M–$78M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- BIPO — Streamline your global workforce with BIPO's award-winning HR solutions. HRMS, payroll outsourcing & EOR services across 170+ countries. Get a free demo today!
- Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
- Paymentology — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa
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- Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Morocco, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Socium — Socium these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
CFAO is a multinational company engaged in the sale of manufactured goods
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- Industry: Financial Services, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Senegal, Mali
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Pre-Seed $700k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
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- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
- Kai Senegal — Kai Senegal is a digital ride-hailing app that connects customers with drivers and a fleet management solution that allows private owners and institutional investors to buy and maintain high-quality vehicles.
- Touch Group — Touch Group provides a single-account, multichannel, and modular payment solution. Their device manages all the transactional needs of their customers. They offer payment acceptance, digital credit, real-time reporting, service distribution, mass payments, invoicing, cash-flow management, money transfer, and intercontinental settlement services.
Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.
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- Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Series B $5.4M–$37M; Series C $10M–$57M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.8M–$166M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nxtfood — Nxtfood offers a range of food products, including vegetarian irish pie, vegetarian shepherd's pie with sweet potato, vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian mushroom pie, vegetarian pithiviers, welsh vegetarian, vegetarian stuffed cabbage, vegetarian stuffed butternut, and more.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
- DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 515
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Legato Audio — Legato Hearing develops stylish glasses with built-in hearing technology, offering a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.
- Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
- General Compute — General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference.
A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 334
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.2M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $14M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Firefly — Firefly provides an integrated safety platform that helps organizations manage daily operations and emergency response through software and hardware solutions. Its Ember Safety Platform combines cloud-based tools like AI-driven mapping, mass communications, and emergency service integration with physical devices such as panic buttons, gunshot detection, and readiness systems. The platform supports tailored safety workflows that streamline procedures and improve situational awareness across different environments. Firefly’s onboarding process includes generating 3D site maps and connecting existing infrastructure to enable protocol customization and real-time alerting. The company’s offerings aim to unify safety functions in a single system that assists teams in coordinating actions from routine tasks to urgent incidents.
- Ridgeway — Ridgeway provides web development, digital strategy, experience design, digital marketing, hosting, support, cloud hosting, proactive client support packages, ecommerce platform development.
- Namespace Labs — Cloud agents on Devboxes, fast GitHub Actions runners, and remote execution for Bazel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The developer platform for agent scale.
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Energy, ISP, Credit
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, France, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.5M; Series A $8.2M–$9.1M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
- 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.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Industry: Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Seed $141k–$3.1M; Angel $71k–$652k
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $47M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
- GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
- KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $16M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
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