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Top 10 Payments Angel Investors in Kenya (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Kenya Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Aristarichus Weru
Angel
3 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$1.1M
James Waugh
Angel
2 Kenya Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $50k–$4.9M
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
2 Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B $50k–$4.9M
Jesper Drescher
Angel
1 Denmark, Kenya Seed, Angel SaaS, Gaming, Content $800k–$1.2M
Paul Kimani
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Jackson Kibigo
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Isaak Hayes
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Agentic AI, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection
Benjamin Fernandes
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Billing, Compliance $700k–$1.2M
Christian Jantzen
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $246k–$3.5M
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Aristarichus Weru
Angel · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Founder & CEO @ The Kueq Limited

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UbaPesa — UbaPesa is the best peer to peer lending app in Kenya which allows you to lend and borrow money in real-time.
  • The Kueq Limited — The kueq is a Virtual Bank mobile based user initiated Automated & manual lending & borrowing app providing a platform for Individual funders to loan to individual borrowers on 10 days & 20 days, World major currencies FX trading (USD/KES, EUR/KES, GBP/KES) Have a physical and or virtual prepaid card, credit card& or debit card, Make RTGS & international TT using SWIFT Pesa linked – local payment gateway Pay water, electricity, cable bills. Buy government treasury bond and treasury bills, Buy insurance covers both life & general insurance covers et al. Crowd funding of it’s own shares, (Buy shares of The kueq limited on it’s own app. The next level crowd funding) based on real time company performance information e.g toplines, PAT, EBITDA, D/E, EPS, DPS, statutory ratios; cash ratios, core capital, Business accounts, Bid bond & invoice discounting
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
  • Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Angel $260k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $150k–$226k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
  • Cavea — CAVEA.IO is providing AI based sponsorship and advertising measurement for esports and brands. We help companies make better and more informed decisions based on insights by analyzing the impact of marketing in streaming and social media. We offer authentic and lightning-fast customer support smoother than you ever expected. Working with giantslike FNATIC, ASTRALIS, and DREAMHACK - we continuously strive to become better and deliver more than anyone expects.
  • Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
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James Waugh
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

James Waugh - Head of Business Development @ CanYa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
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Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel · Peyia, Paphos, Cyprus · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Vasiliy Shapovalov

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$4.9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Drop — Breathing new life into the Interchain through liquid staking. Proud member of the @LidoFinance Alliance. https://t.co/P4rK2hzcTd
  • 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.
  • OneBalance — Connecting institutions to next generation financial markets
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Jesper Drescher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sky.Garden — With Sky.Garden you can upload products and start selling your products immediately via your own free mobile webshop. No cost upon entry. No hidden fees. Fully automated payment and shipping options are integrated out-of-the-box. 100% Safe and secure.
  • GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
  • ReFlow - engineering a circular economy — Calculate, document, and reduce your maritime Scope 3 emissions with ISO-compliant LCA software. Built for shipowners, operators, and OEMs. No expert required.
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Paul Kimani
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Jackson Kibigo
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Jackson Kibigo is the COO and CFO at WorkPay. Jackson attended Y Combinator.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Isaak Hayes
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Founder & Product Leader | Built Hidden Genius Project + Nafasi Connection | 20+ years scaling founder ecosystems and product platforms

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agentic AI, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • deeptrack — Enterprise deep fakes detection company
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Benjamin Fernandes
Angel · Stanford, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Benjamin Fernandes is the Founder & Chief Eating Officer of NALA. He previously worked at TING - Tanzania Integrated Network Group as a Technical and operations manager. Benjamin Fernandes attended Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Billing, Compliance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $700k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
  • Eunice — Eunice combines extensive on-chain data with powerful off-chain insights to provide a customisable, AI-driven due diligence and monitoring solution
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $246k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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Payments Angel investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 3 deals from 3 investors.

3
investors
in Kenya Payments startups
3
deals
in Kenya Payments startups
$1.5M
median round
in Kenya Payments startups
0%
lead investors
lead at least one round
100%
Seed
most common funding stage

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