# FrontEnd Ventures

> FrontEnd Ventures is a VC fund in Nairobi backing Travel, Software and Marketing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ke.linkedin.com/company/frontend-ventures
- Website: https://www.frontend.vc/

FrontEnd Ventures is a venture capital fund committed to supporting local and diverse founder teams that are ridiculously passionate about innovating and changing their value chains.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $675k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 11% |
| Software | 1 | 11% |
| Marketing | 1 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 11% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 11% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OKOA Rescue | OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa, | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Buupass | BuuPass aims to provide seamless movement for people. They work with operators to provide digital transport solutions to facilitate convenient movement for commuters. BuuPass is Kenya's first marketplace for bus, shuttle, and train bookings; it's the fastest, easiest way to book. BuuPass is driven by young entrepreneurs who are passionateabout solving real everyday problems by making simple and powerful solutions. They envision a world where people can travel on their terms, be connected to opportunities, and live a life without borders. They provide simple transport solutions to help people get from Point A to Point B. BuuPass believes everyone’s time is valuable. When it comes to booking tickets they believe you should be able to reserve your seat and make payments with convenience. They strongly believe you should have the right to choose what works best for you in regards to your time and money. They offer digital solutions for bus booking. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2023 |  |
| Twiva | Twiva is an influencer marketing and social commerce startup that gives Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) affordable, efficient, and digital access to markets. This is done by leveraging social media influencers to market and sell MSMEs’ products and services on social media platforms. Twiva was created to harness the vast penetration ofsmartphones, internet connectivity, accessible mobile banking, and the power of influencer marketing to create dignifying digital and digitally-enabled jobs. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| IntaSend | Mobile, Card, Bitcoin, ACH Services, Wallet as a Service platform for developers and businesses in Africa. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| BulkBox Wholesale | BulkBox Wholesale is an e-commerce marketplace that offers same-day delivery of FMCG products at trade prices. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Mawu Africa | Mawu is the online African crafts market for the world. We are on a mission to showcase exceptional goods made by talented craftspeople throughout Africa and make them easily accessible to global consumers.Today, the trade of African crafts provides an income to over 8 million craftspeople. However, they operate in informal and fragmentedmarkets, limiting their ability to find global buyers. They also lack access to affordable credit and the right digital tools to manage their growing businesses.Mawu solves these challenges and bridges the gap so that authentic African crafts can now be bought from one, globally accessible marketplace: mawuafrica.com |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| GoBEBA | GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| DIal Afrika Inc | Dial Afrika helps businesses define the future of work, and improve team Efficiency, Productivity, and output all while understanding their customer behavior through our omnichannel customer support tool.70% of businesses in Africa do not have access to proper and affordable tools through which they can communicate with their customerseffectively leading to the loss of up to $47 billion in revenue in Africa. | $675K | Pre-Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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- [Artha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artha-india-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does FrontEnd Ventures invest in?

FrontEnd Ventures invests primarily in Travel, Software and Marketing startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is FrontEnd Ventures's check size?

FrontEnd Ventures typically joins rounds of $675k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds FrontEnd Ventures participates in.

### When did FrontEnd Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for FrontEnd Ventures closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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