Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Kenya in September 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Publishing Startup Investors in Kenya in September 2025
Investor | Publishing Kenya investments |
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Grenfell Holdings | 2 |
SOSV | 2 |
Artha Group | 2 |
Orbit Startups | 1 |
Dr Ritesh Malik | 1 |
Rajesh Sawhney | 1 |
Inflection Point Ventures | 1 |
UNCOVERED FUND | 1 |
Renew Capital | 1 |
Niche Capital | 1 |
Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Logistics, Consulting
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Uganda, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
- Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
- Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
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- KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
- Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- HiWi — HiWiPay offers secure & fast international B2B payment solutions built for Indian exporters. HiWipay is RBI-compliant cross-border platform to receive global payments.
- Kluisz.ai — Kluisz.ai is an enterprise AI startup building an autonomous, AI-native private cloud platform designed to simplify and secure the operation of enterprise and AI workloads across hybrid, on-premise, edge, and sovereign cloud environments.
- SaveSage Club — SaveSage Club provides a centralized, AI-powered solution to simplify management and aims to empower users by addressing the lack of awareness about reward optimization.
Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University.
He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fambo — Fambo is a technology-based food service company that offers semi-processed foodstuffs to restaurants and cloud kitchens.
- CargoFL — CargoFL is a B2B logistics technology platform that offers transport management software for enterprises in retail, pharma, and manufacturing sectors. It provides a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that focuses on capturing the logistics market by digital technology, automates dispatches, consolidates truckers, and provides supplychain visibility and vehicle tracking.
- ProcureYard — ProcureYard aims to revolutionize B2B raw materials procurement by modernizing traditional processes with cutting-edge AI technology, creating a transparent and reliable marketplace that reduces costs and simplifies sourcing for businesses.
Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Order For Health — Order For Health operates as a health food start up.
- Mooev Technolgies — MOOEV Technologies provides a holistic System Engineering approach to solve key challenges of commercializing electrified heavy-duty vehicles
- Mushin Innovation Labs — Affordable Industry 4.0 Solution Providers | Factory & Warehouse Automation Hardware & Software Company | Integrate Production-Planning-Control Infrastructure | Startup Incubators | IoT Product Development Company | Mushin Innovation Labs Private Limited | Mushin Labs | New Delhi NCR
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
- 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.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
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
Venture Capital firm
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Bemi — Bemi is an automatic audit trail for Postgres that tracks data changes reliably without the engineering complexity and costly infrastructure: Bemi Captures and stores data changes with 100% reliability and accuracy.
- Anchor — Anchor is building the infrastructure needed for businesses to build, launch, and scale banking and payment solutions.
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