Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Kenya in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Mobile apps startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile apps companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Kenya in July 2025
Investor | Mobile Apps Kenya investments |
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Sherpa Africa Partners | 2 |
Antler | 2 |
HAVAÍC | 2 |
Kua Ventures | 2 |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK | 1 |
Sherpa Healthcare Partners | 1 |
AAIC Investment | 1 |
FrontEnd Ventures | 1 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1 |
Abdo Achkar | 1 |
Loyal VC | 1 |
Health54 | 1 |
Best Nights VC | 1 |
LoftyInc Capital | 1 |
Takuma Terakubo | 1 |
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
- CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
- Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
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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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Investment focus
- EdTech, Training, E-Learning
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
- HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
- Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.
Sherpa Venture Capital is an investment firm that focuses on the investment and cultivation of the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industry. It also specializes in the investment and management of sector leaders and innovators within the Pharma, GeneTech, MedTech, Medical services, and various sub-sectors, where they have established robust portfoliosources, lasting value-adding cooperations and relationships, as well as mature all-cycle services with key resources. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- China, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- AusperBio — AusperBio is a Phase II clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming hepatitis B treatment for a cure and advancing oligonucleotide therapeutics. Leveraging their innovative and proprietary Med-Oligo™ ASO platform with effective targeted delivery technologies, AusperBio strives to unleash the power of ASO therapeutics to treata wide range of diseases, including viral infections, metabolic conditions, genetic disorders, and immune diseases.
- Kunwei Technology — Kunwei Technology manufactures high-precision force sensors (six-axis force sensors) as well as force control systems. It is involved in the research and development, manufacturing, sales, and technological promotion of intelligent force sensors, as well as the development of force sensor products for the robot and other intelligent equipmentindustries. It provides force measurement systems as well as goods connected to measurement and other industries.
- New Vision Medical — New Vision Medical is an IT infrastructure service provider that offers clinical trial-related digital platforms and services.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...
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Investment focus
- Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
- Pre-Seed
- Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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!
JPMorgan Chase & Co. provides innovative financial solutions for consumers, small businesses, corporations, governments, and institutions. The firm is serving customers, helping small businesses, or putting its skills to work with partners, they strive to identify issues and propose solutions that will propel the future and strengthen both itsclients and communities.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FairPlay — The world's first Fairness-as-a-Service company, offering tools that embed fairness into AI decision-making and reducing algorithmic bias.
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- Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- United States, Lebanon, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
- uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
- Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Edept — Edept empowers students with global opportunities and academic excellence, bridging industry and academia to develop skilled citizens.
- Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
- Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, France
Portfolio highlights
- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- Tibu Health — Tibu Health uses the most sophisticated health and logistics technology to provide patients with a convenient and coordinated end-to-end healthcare experience, resulting in improved health outcomes, healthier lifestyles, and more time to concentrate on the things that are important to our patients.
- Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
Best Nights VC is the Venture Capital Investment Unit of Mast-Jägermeister SE. Teaming up with those who shape the future of nightlife today and tomorrow, BNVC’s mission is to partner with passionate, diverse entrepreneurs that challenge conventional ideas of live entertainment – creating joyful and meaningful interactions in a free and alwayschanging environment.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Dating
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Plots — A social media app for live experiences.
- Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.
- Hustle Sasa — Hustle Sasa is a mobile-first platform that allows entrepreneurs to start and develop businesses, both online and offline. They enable businesses to build and manage storefronts, integrate with third-party payment providers, and manage orders across various channels.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Mtor — Mtor is an online marketplace that is reshaping the automotive aftermarket and provides sophisticated technology solutions.
- EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, Togo
Portfolio highlights
- MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
- RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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