Top 50 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in July 2025
A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Marketplace VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in July 2025
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
- Dastgyr Technologies — Simplifying Global Trade
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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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
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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Investment focus
- Education, EdTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Kenya, Brazil
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.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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 toachieve 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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- 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.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
- Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.
- Filmmakers Mart — Find and book film locations, equipment, and services across Africa. Filmmakers Mart simplifies production logistics from start to finish.
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Giant backs purpose-driven founders building companies that matter.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Pano — Pano offers hardware and software technology solutions for fire professionals to detect threats and respond faster.
- GridFree AI — GridFree AI is redefining computing infrastructure by integrating power generation and energy expertise with cutting-edge data center technology.
- Cosmic Robotics — Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
- PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
- 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.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
- Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
- Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
- Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
- Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
EQ2 Ventures is an investment firm that invests in Seed to Series B-stage startup companies. It was incorporated as a spin-off of Equitrust, a corporate VC arm launched in 2015 by Choueiri Group to capture opportunities linked to the digital transformation of the Middle East. Relying on a strong network of strategic investors and mentors, EQ2Ventures helps talented entrepreneurs solve major consumers and business problems, build sustainable companies. and create long-term value.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, Retail
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
- Liquify Digital — Liquify is an invoice marketplace that transforms invoices from SMEs in emerging markets into an investable asset class for financiers seeking reliable yield
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
- Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Weavy — Weavy is a company focused on enhancing team collaboration by providing developers with pre-built, seamlessly integrated collaboration features for web applications. Their platform offers components such as chat, messaging, file sharing, AI tools, and cloud integrations designed to save developers from repetitive coding tasks, enabling them tobuild smarter and faster without reinventing the wheel. Weavy's tools emphasize developer-friendliness, intuitive user experience, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to empower developers across skill levels to embed collaboration and AI-driven capabilities into internal apps efficiently.
- Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
- General Medicine — General Medicine provides accessible healthcare services, including virtual visits, lab testing, imaging, referrals, and prescriptions to cater to patient needs. The organization is committed to supporting patients throughout their healthcare journey, whether through local specialists or in-house clinicians for various health concerns.
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igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty
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Investment focus
- Fashion, Beauty, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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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Investment focus
- Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
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.
- 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.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Brazil, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- enza — Our focus on providing the richest possible API environment means that enza clients can concentrate on solving business challenges and not waste valuable time and effort on technical integrations.
- Belvo — Belvo is the leading Open Banking API platform in Latin America and the easiest way for users to connect their account to an app
- Ideem — Manual 2FA (SMS/WhatsApp One Time Passcodes, Authenticator Apps and Soft Tokens) are plagued with friction, fraud, and costs. Ideem cryptographically binds to the device to replace traditional possession factor 2FA and device fingerprinting solutions. Ideem's drop-in SDK works across all browsers and native apps. No user interaction isrequired - no effort, no permissions, no exceptions. Just an easy and invisible 2FA that reduces friction, fraud and costs.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Kenya, Colombia, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Kenya, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- FeMMA — FeMMA is a technology platform that connects women through workouts and social events inspired by Mixed Martial Arts.
- 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.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
- Affinity — Join over 70,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
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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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
- Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
- Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve
Talanton helps you combat poverty in developing countries by creating jobs. You can free those in poverty by coming alongside them through investments in growth-stage businesses.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Sports, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
- Enda Sportswear — Kenyan running shoes that reward a natural midfoot landing and match the way runners train. Proudly made in Kenya and certified Climate Neutral. The most socially conscious running shoes in the world.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Qanooni — Qanooni is a legal technology company offering an AI-powered platform designed specifically for lawyers and legal professionals.
- Stately Bio — Stately Bio is the trade-off between measuring cells and keeping them alive. Our patented ML technology measures cell identity, behavior, and maturation—all directly from live-cell, label-free imaging.
- Forethought — Leverage human-centered AI to transform your customer service experience. Resolve cases faster, predict and prioritize tickets, and assist support agents.
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- France, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Everytable — Everytable aims to redefine the food landscape the same way McDonald’s did fifty years ago. But this time, instead of burgers and fries, they are selling nutritious, fresh, made-from-scratch food, at fast-food prices.
- 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.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Kenya, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.
UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
- Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Energy, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, France, Nigeria
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- Bizao — Bizao helps companies accept all local payment methods across Africa. We build powerful APIs and smart financial flows wich greatly simplify the challenge of accepting Mobile Money, Visa/Mastercard and Airtime payment. We power all types of businesses: local retailers, online merchants, international digital content providers, money transferoperators, microfinance institutions. Our objective: accelerate mobile payment adoption in order to support economic development across the continent
- Shamba Pride — Shamba Pride is a revolutionary Rural Distribution system for African Farmers, it provides online-to-offline DigiShop marketplace.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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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- EdTech, Training, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya
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- Twiva — Twiva is an influencer marketing and social commerce startup that gives Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) affordable, efficient, and digital access to markets. This is done by leveraging social media influencers to market and sell MSMEs’ products and services on social media platforms. Twiva was created to harness the vast penetration ofsmartphones, internet connectivity, accessible mobile banking, and the power of influencer marketing to create dignifying digital and digitally-enabled jobs.
- Zydii — For the African workforce, Zydii is the premier localized digital training solution which is engaging and accessible, leading to transformative growth for businesses. Zydii is providing localized (African) digital courses via our proprietary online and offline (USSD & SMS) platform.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Ontik — Ontik provides a modern payment platform that helps merchants achieve a greater number of trade customers. The platform automate key credit processes and reduces the administrative burden and enables real-time reporting, minimise credit losses, and get paid on time.
- ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
- Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market
We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.
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- Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.
A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Cluely — Cluely is a desktop assistant that uses AI to help users in virtual meetings and sales calls.
- Nuvo — The only onboarding platform with native fraud prevention and automated credit risk assessment from a portfolio of credit risk insights.
- Optura — Optura is healthcare’s AI orchestration platform designed to turn disconnected pilots into a unified, enterprise-scale AI program.
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
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- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Canada, United States, Japan
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- NiaHealth — Get advanced at-home biomarker testing, proactive healthspan diagnostics, and expert guidance to elevate your health. HSA-eligible.
- Vessel — One platform for all your investor relations needs.
- Pillar Security — One platform to identify, assess and mitigate security risks across your entire AI lifecycle.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
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- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya, India, Ghana
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- Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
- 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.
- Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.
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- Financial Services, Payments, FinTech
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Singapore, South Africa
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- Xoxoday — Loyalty program is crucial for big companies. We can help you engage and reward your customers online, discover our loyalty programs
- Thunes — Experience white-labelled cross border payment solutions for any use case. Real-time, traceable and interoperable across 130 countries via our direct network.
- RenewBuy — Simplest way to renew your car insurance. Get quote and insure your car in couple of minutes - no pesky calls/ salesmen...And avail best deals too..
CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...
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- Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Nigeria
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
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- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
- Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.
We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa
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- Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Morocco, Egypt, Kenya
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- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
- 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.
Lightrock is a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to innovation for systemic change at scale.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Series C, Series B, Series E
- India, Brazil, United States
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- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
- Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
- CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exception experience transacting across the African continent. Verdant Capital operates in two segments, Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance. It operates from offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Accra.
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- FinTech, Finance, Marketplace
- Seed
- Kenya
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- Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
Experience the Ultimate
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- Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing
- Kenya
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- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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