# Kennedy Kitheka

> Kennedy Kitheka is a startup investor at UNICEF Innovation Fund (New York). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [UNICEF Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unicef-innovation-fund)
- Location: New York, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennedy-kitheka-6b6a6879

Kennedy Kitheka is a Portfolio Strategist at UNICEF Innovation Fund. He previously worked as the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Funda. Kennedy attended the University of Cape Town.

## About UNICEF Innovation Fund

VC Fund · New York, United States

The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that canbenefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.

3 contacts available at UNICEF Innovation Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Fabian | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-fabian |
| Kennedy Kitheka | Portfolio Strategist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kennedy-kitheka |
| Edmond Nonie | Drone Technical Specialist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edmond-nonie |

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