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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Kenya (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and 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 Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $650k–$30M
Antler
VC Fund
5 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $650k–$48M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$50M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Greycroft
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.5M–$79M
Microtraction
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Visa
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series B, Grant FinTech, Financial Services, Payments $7.3k–$60M
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Payments $400k–$40M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Apis Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Singapore, South Africa Private Equity, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $10M–$120M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $125k–$35M
Acadian Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Human Resources, SaaS $1M–$25M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $100k–$4.4M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $100k–$11M
Vasiliy Shapovalov
Angel
2 Kenya, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), B2B $50k–$4.9M
Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
2 Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce $165k–$5M
Adanian Labs
VC Fund
2 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming $60k–$100k
James Waugh
Angel
2 Kenya Seed B2B, FinTech, Payments $50k–$4.9M
FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Travel, Software, Marketing $675k–$1.3M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, SaaS, FinTech $150k–$212k
Sunu Capital
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, FinTech, Information Technology $50k–$23M
Hustle Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$25M
AXIAN
VC Fund
2 Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Payments $1M–$14M
Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$33M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $2M–$65M
Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, South Korea Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$31M
TRK Group
VC Fund
1 Norway, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $400k–$510k
Stephens Investment Management
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Payments, Bitcoin, Finance
Enviu
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed B2B, Mobile, Internet
Khosla Impact
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.9M–$9.2M
KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Hong Kong Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $850k–$100M
Proparco
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Finance $447k–$169M
GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
FSD Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa Grant, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $10k–$14M
pani
VC Fund
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Benjamin Fernandes
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Billing, Compliance $700k–$1.2M
Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa Seed Retail, Internet, Payments
Viktoria Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt Seed Medical, Software, Health Care
True Capital Management
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software
E3 Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $900k–$40M
Social Justice Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Payments, Customer Service, Business Development
Google Cloud
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology $2k–$595k
Plesion Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, AgTech, Billing $250k–$2M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Jackson Kibigo
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
Ken Njoroge
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Billing, Web Development $1.2M–$20M
Paul Kimani
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Billing, Software, Business Development
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • Everledger — Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created throughthe ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem.The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built.Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.
  • Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab based in San Francisco and Toronto. It has developed an architecture that uses dramatically less data and compute to train while delivering a state-of-the-art model-size/performance tradeoff.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 5 investments in Kenya Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 323
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.5M; Series A $3.4M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
  • DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
  • Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% 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.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$19M; Series A $5.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Polkadot — Products for People.
  • World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
  • Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 217
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.
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Greycroft
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Venture capital and technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 797
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.2M–$26M; Series B $6.5M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $378M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Biproxi — Streamline and shorten commercial real estate transaction cycles with access to better data, front-loaded deal information & streamlined communication. Join our verified community.
  • Laminar — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
  • Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
  • Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Visa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Visa is an American multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world. The company operates the retail electronic payments network through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Series B, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Grant $7.3k–$52k; Series B $6.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SCORE — Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 20 million entrepreneurs start, grow or successfully exit a business through expert mentoring, resources and education.
  • Replit — Replit is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages.
  • P-Agro Minerals — P-Agro Minerals develops chemical-free solutions for wastewater treatment plants, addressing phosphorus pollution.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
  • Salus Cloud — Empowering developers worldwide with seamless and secure application deployment and management. Join the revolution. #Salus_Cloud
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Payments startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.
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Apis Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Apis Partners LLP backs growth financial services innovators who create transformative impact in their communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series B
  • Geography: India, Singapore, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Series B $10M–$110M; Private Equity $10M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $550M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • BIPO — Streamline your global workforce with BIPO's award-winning HR solutions. HRMS, payroll outsourcing & EOR services across 170+ countries. Get a free demo today!
  • Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.
  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 928
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.8M; Series A $6.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
  • Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure
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Acadian Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Acadian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the new architecture of work. Founded in 2019 and led by executives from Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and Workday, Acadian is the world’s leading firm focused at the intersection of work and technology, on a mission to make work better and meaningful, creating a progressiveapproach to human productivity. For more information, visit acadianventures.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $6.7M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
  • Kombo — Kombo is an API for HR, Payroll, ATS and Recruiting integrations
  • Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We back founders building the future of Africa. We invest in companies that solve for non-consumption, plug infrastructural gaps and democratise prosperity in Africa, by eliminating the barriers for access and reducing the costs of delivering goods and services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
  • ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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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 — We eliminate chains, bridges, and gas for your users with the OneBalance Toolkit. Abstracting leading EVM chains and Solana.
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$817k; Series A $2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
  • Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
  • 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.
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
  • Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
  • Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
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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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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

FrontEnd Ventures backs early-stage African founders with strategic capital, hands-on guidance, and long-term partnership to build lasting companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $675k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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!
  • Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
  • OKOA Rescue — Solving one of East Africa's greatest challenges for road users. The largest network of Quick, Efficient, and Trustworthy roadside assistance operators.
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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: 17
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Eupry — Be in full control of your temperature compliance at all times. Collect temperature monitoring, mapping, and calibration in one GxP-compliant solution.
  • Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
  • TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
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Sunu Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

SUNU Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies that are creating a more prosperous, inclusive, and self-sustaining future across the global south.SUNU makes tailored investments to help companies pursue game-changing opportunities and realize their vision. Post-investment, we draw upon our network to offer additionalcapacity and capital that helps businesses grow and prepare to access follow-on investments. We move swiftly and responsively. They commit long-term. We love a good challenge.​

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$23M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M; Series A $3.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
  • Nandi Labs — Nandi Labs, Home of Nandi Cowry, Digital FESTAC and MoveMint Magazine
  • 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.
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Hustle Fund
VC Fund · San Carlos, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Hustle Fund is a seed fund that invests in early-stage startups operating in software, business-to-business, fintech, and digital health sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 503
  • Round size: Seed $808k–$6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.
  • EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
  • Orbital Sentry — Orbital Sentry delivers real-time wildfire detection and continuous geostationary monitoring to protect communities, reduce losses, and power next-generation risk intelligence. Our persistent infrared data helps insurers, governments, and first responders act faster and build true climate resilience
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AXIAN
VC Fund · Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Hub2.Io — B2B solution for e-merchant in WEST AFRICA, that allows payment trough Mobile Banking, Credit Card.
  • WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
  • Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
  • Fabric Cryptography — Building towards a trustless future with custom chips for advanced cryptography.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $5.2M–$33M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
  • Akua — Transformative payments infrastructure, Akua's cloud-native platform offers acquiring-as-a-service for all payment rails
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 875
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Series A $4.5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
  • RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
  • Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
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TRK Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

An Oslo-based Advisory and Active Ownership Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Norway, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Relynk — Six AI agents that monitor, diagnose, and report on your buildings around the clock - built on your existing BMS data. Faults caught before tenants notice.
  • NoMy — Norwegian startup that researches and develops sustainable material and food solutions using mycelium
  • Travelin.ai — Business and Leisure travel no longer just exist in silos but are intertwined. Travelin.ai is the Next Generation Corporate Travel Management Platform which reflects the true way we live, work and travel.
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Stephens Investment Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Bitcoin, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 23andMe — 23andMe is a saliva-based DNA service. We provide genetic reports on your ancestry, family history and help you connect with your DNA relatives.
  • AZA Finance — AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC.
  • Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.
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Enviu
VC Fund · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We are Enviu. We kick-start impact-driven companies. Companies aimed at creating environmental and social impact. The products and services of our start-ups aim to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible in a sustainable way.VisionHow can we maintain our quality of life, end poverty and restore our planets eco-systems atthe same time? The world needs new models for production, distribution, education and how we do business. We believe that kick-starting impact-driven ventures is the key to do this. By starting impact-driven companies we give meaning to our vision The Economy of the Crowd; an inclusive economy where companies create value for people and planet. Through our work we aim to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible in a sustainable way.How we workEnviu has two core activities; Co-Creation and Business Development. Through Co-Creation we generate Business Concepts together with our community of entrepreneurs and innovators. We then act as risk taking partner with the entrepreneurs that have the most promising Concepts and make them investor ready. In short: issue > Business Concept > investor ready impact-driven company.Co-CreationTogether with our community, we identify environmental and societal issues around the world and analyse the needs of the people that are confronted with these problems. We start a Challenge on our online platform and invite entrepreneurs and innovators from all over the world to co-create on business concepts that aims to solve this issue. At the end of the Challenge, we deliver several business concepts ready for validation. Learn more about our Co-Creation Challenge.Business DevelopmentOur business development starts at a business concept, created at one of our Challenges or one that’s presented to us by an entrepreneur. We act as risk taking partner for the entrepreneur, validate the business model and make it investor ready. At the moment we mostly work in The Netherlands, India and Ghana. Learn more about our Business Development activities.Economy of the CrowdWe believe that the Economy of the Crowd is the economy of the future. A system where companies are the drivers for change and create more value than just financial profit. A system that’s all about relationships between living systems, human trust and technology with a human face. Where companies create positive impact for their employees, society and the environment. We see more and more people, entrepreneurs and organisations heading into this direction. This is the only way we can make this change, but we can’t do it alone. Will you join us?

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
  • Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
  • Smile ID — At Smile Identity they believe anyone should be able to prove their identity easily, anywhere in the world. Their team is made up of American and African engineers and financial services professionals with experience across global markets in highly regulated environments. They have built encryption, authentication and security solutions. They havedeveloped image processing technology from the chip level up. They have been part of security investigations and have pursued fraudsters.Having worked with, or for, telecoms, lenders, banks and startups, they know the challenges of building world class technology and they understand the needs of the African consumer and enterprise customer. They are backed by leading Silicon Valley & African investors and they have pan-African reach, with representation in the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda.
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$14M; Series A $3.6M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buy&Ship — Buyandship provides cross-border eCommerce solution focusing on Marketing and Logistics. At Buyandship, is redefining the experience of E-Commerce without changing the sites, disrupting the underlying infrastructure, we provide consolidate, aggregate and load-balance shipments across the world to the consumer's doorstep. Our technologyfocuses on connecting the fragmented existing logistics infrastructure to create a seamless experience for both merchants and consumers, and the benefit is that they get a solution that is 30-50% less than other carriers. We also work with merchants, marketplaces, and platforms to create a channel to reach an audience across our geographies (9 Countries currently) and reaching over 1.5M+ people per month whilst growing. We envision our members being able to purchase from any site around the world and have it seamlessly be shipped home. No more geographical restrictions, No more price monopolies, No more ambiguous shipping situations. We are building towards a transparent system, where both buyers and sellers just focus on the product.
  • 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.
  • Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.
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Proparco
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M; Debt Financing $447k–$169M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
  • Ecoener
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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GreenHouse Capital
VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • 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.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It appliesa combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6M; Grant $10k–$134k; Series B $14M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
  • Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Africa Renewables Katalyst is an environmental firm that supports renewable energy projects.
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pani
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

A village with a heart for Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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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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 — We are an AI fintech company solving B2B challenges in digital asset. Our first product is digital asset due diligence and monitoring to help financial institutions, regulators, and businesses navigate the complexities of the digital asset space. Powered by a proprietary knowledge base, Eunice’s platform enables token classification, risk analysis,and asset disclosure requirements. With a mission to bring transparency to the digital asset industry, Eunice builds products that drive regulatory clarity and operational efficiency, with the goal of accelerating the mainstream adoption of digital assets.
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Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
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Viktoria Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

A consulting & fund management firm, focused on entrepreneur finance in Africa. We do Valuation, Deal Structuring, Fund Management & Structuring Agreements

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Rology — AI-assisted On-demand Teleradiology Platform
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True Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Achieve your financial goals & build generational wealth with our entertainer & athlete wealth management services. Offering comprehensive financial planning.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
  • Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
  • Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
  • SolarX Africa — SolarX commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company that provides clean and efficient solar solutions, through leasing options in frontier markets.
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Social Justice Fund
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Social Justice Fund Northwest is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Payments, Customer Service, Business Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tuma — Turn any Android phone into a contactless payment terminal. Built for Africa's merchants and operators.
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Google Cloud
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Meet your business challenges head on with cloud computing services from Google, including data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Grant, Non-Equity Assistance, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$595k; Grant $2k–$350k; Non-Equity Assistance $2k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sow & Soul — Sow & Soul is building the decision-making infrastructure for livestock and crop farming. The platform integrates real-time data capture through hardware, predictive analytics, and a Dynamic Decision Engine to enable farmers to make the right decisions at the right time. By combining software, data, and future hardware integration, Sow &Soul addresses core inefficiencies in labour, animal and crop health monitoring, and farm productivity. The company is currently working with early-stage farm partners and preparing for pilot deployments in the UK, with a long-term vision to scale across Europe and global livestock markets.
  • Alife Virtual — Alife Virtual Metaverse is a comprehensive platform, empowering you to create, trade, and thrive like never before! - Design Your Own World: Craft breathtaking virtual assets, from stunning landscapes to unique avatars. - Meet our AI Assistant! Get instant answers to any question. Chat in any language. Create scripts, textures, 3d objects, audio,video and so much more. - Local Coins: Built on robust, secure blockchain to ensure your assets and transactions are protected. - NFT Revolution: Mint NFTs effortlessly and sell them on our bustling marketplace. - User-Friendly Interface: Accessible and intuitive platform designed for both beginners and seasoned creators. - Vibrant Community: Join a thriving network of artists, developers, and entrepreneurs. Collaborate, learn, and grow together. - Support and Guidance: Round-the-clock customer service to assist you every step of the way. Embrace the future with Alife Virtual Metaverse Blockchain. Claim your space in the digital cosmos—where innovation meets opportunity. Learn. Create. Trade. Join Alife Today!
  • Deep Space Energy — Deep Space Energy is to become a commercial provider of radioisotope electricity for deep space science missions, the commercial lunar market, and scientific surface missions on the Moon and Mars.
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Plesion Capital
VC Fund · Vienna, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, AgTech, Billing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • 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.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
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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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Ken Njoroge
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Payments startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Billing, Web Development
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3M; Convertible Note $20M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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.
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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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Payments Investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 53 deals from 91 investors.

91
investors
in Kenya Payments startups
53
deals
in Kenya Payments startups
$350k
median round
in Kenya Payments startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
30%
Seed
most common funding stage
98/2
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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