Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in Kenya in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in Kenya in October 2024

Investor	Payments Kenya investments
Jesper Drescher	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Paul Kimani	1
Peter Sandberg	1
Ken Njoroge	1

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Jesper Drescher

Investment focus

SaaS, Gaming, Content
Seed, Angel
Kenya, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Sky.Garden — Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform that allows African retailers to sell inventory with ease. Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box.
GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
Cavea — Cavea helps esports organizations and streamers monetize their work in the new creator economy by providing a suite of tools and services for media analysis and media activation. Through dynamic-live-driven sponsorship activation campaigns and computer vision driven analysis, Cavea enables brands to understand ROI and reach massive Gen-Z audiences.
Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.

Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.