Top 15 Real Estate VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in December 2024
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Real estate startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Real estate companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Real Estate VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in December 2024
Investor | Real Estate Kenya investments |
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FirstCheck Africa | 2 |
Logos Ventures | 2 |
Enza Capital | 2 |
FirstCheck Africa | 2 |
SunFunder | 1 |
Future Africa | 1 |
Chandaria Capital | 1 |
Accion Venture Lab | 1 |
Maris Capital | 1 |
Lateral Frontiers | 1 |
Speedinvest | 1 |
DOB Equity | 1 |
InfraCo Africa | 1 |
LocalGlobe | 1 |
Lundin Foundation | 1 |
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- B2B, FinTech, Logistics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
- Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.
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Investment focus
- Consumer, Financial Services, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Series C
- The Netherlands, Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow — Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life-changing products and services through a digital technology platform called Ofeefee.
- d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
- Zola Electric — ZOLA Electric designs renewable energy solutions based on the latest in solar, battery and power electronics technology. Adaptable to energy need and income, ZOLA Electric’s solar systems can be bought over time using PAYGo micro-finance leasing and mobile money payments. ZOLA Electric powers more than 180,000 homes and businesses across Tanzania,Rwanda, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Investors include Tesla, Vulcan Capital, DBL Partners, Helios Investment Partners, EDF, Total and GE Ventures. ZOLA Electric is a recipient of the UN Momentum for Change Award, the Zayed Future Energy Prize and is a member of the Global Cleantech 100.
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
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- Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
- Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
- Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- TransBnk — Transbnk | Revolutionizing 'Global Transaction Banking' for Enhanced Business Agility, Security, and Resilience
- Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
- Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
Maris Africa is a diversified investment holding company, committed to responsible, long-term growth in Africa's unique frontier markets.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Real Estate, Property Management
- Funding Round
- Kenya
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- Africa Logistic Properties — We acquire, develop and manage modern grade-A warehousing across East Africa. Our headquarters in Nairobi has a dedicated team of international and local professionals with track records in the delivery and management of Grade A logistics and distribution facilities across East Africa.
Lateral Capital is a mission driven venture fund investing in early and growth stage opportunities in Africa. We back companies that provide foundational technologies for the continent. We make debt and equity investments technology-enabled businesses that profitably solve significant pain points across financial services, healthcare, education,energy, agriculture, housing, logistics, mobility and more.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- CNote — CNote created technology to streamline community-centered impact investing at scale. Further Racial Equity and Social Justice by investing with CNote.
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Masa — Masa Finance seeks to disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses, and developers with the tools to access credit and enable untapped wealth creation for 4.95B people globally.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
- Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania
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- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
- Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
InfraCo seeks to fund and develop projects in sectors or geographies where the private sector would not otherwise work at such an early stage, seeking to exit its projects to private sector developers/financiers once project viability has been demonstrated, normally at or shortly before financial close. InfraCo will not compete directly withthe private sector but seeks to mobilise private sector involvement by bearing the time and cost risk of front end project development in order to mobilise private sector investment.
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- Electric Vehicle, AgTech, Energy
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Kenya, France
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- Zembo — Discover Zembo - The African Electric Motorcycle. High-performance electric bikes designed for sustainability.
- Africa GreenCo — Our mission - addressing creditworthiness to increase generation and growth of renewable energy markets through partnerships and innovative solutions.
- Mobility for Africa — Mobility for Africa produces electric tricycles, bicycles, and other small vehicles that are affordable, high-quality, and sustainable.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
The Lundin Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded originally by the Lundin family. The Foundation is currently supported by a number of publicly traded natural resource companies committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. The Lundin Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lundin family. TheFoundation provides risk capital in the form of investments into high potential small- and medium-sized businesses, with a view to generating wealth and employment needed to alleviate poverty on a sustained basis. It also provides strategic grants to early stage innovations and for technical and managerial assistance.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, Energy
- Series A, Series D, Funding Round
- Kenya, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- Esoko Networks — Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcinggoods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support.Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way.Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
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