Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in Kenya in April 2025
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 April 2025
Investor | Payments Kenya investments |
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Jesper Drescher | 1 |
Christian Jantzen | 1 |
Peter Sandberg | 1 |
Ken Njoroge | 1 |
Paul Kimani | 1 |
Jesper Drescher
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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.
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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 the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
- 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.
Peter Sandberg is a Co-Founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys.
He has extensive experience as a Business Angel, Asset Management and Wealth Management
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Investment focus
- 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 — Your Ads In Live Streaming! Amplify your brand across every major platform with 100% in-view, high attention advertising.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Billing, Web Development
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay.
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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.
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