Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Kenya (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Antler
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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4 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $83k–$15M |
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1776 Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Education, EdTech, Software | $400k–$23M |
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech | $200k–$37M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $100k–$10M |
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Canada, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.5M–$49M |
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TBD Angels
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, Hong Kong | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $54k–$16M |
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Mo Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria | Seed | Travel, Software, Blockchain | $20k–$2M |
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Samata Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A | Retail, Solar, Beauty | $1M–$1.4M |
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DOB Equity
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania | Private Equity, Seed | Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture | $1M–$3.8M |
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Creadev
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Kenya | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series C | Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture | $4.8M–$166M |
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Alphamundi
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Colombia, Ghana | Debt Financing, Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services | $1.7M–$16M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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Susa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$70M |
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, South Korea, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion | $270k–$7.5M |
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OPIC - Overseas Private Investment Corporation
VC Fund
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2 | India, United States, Kenya | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant | Financial Services, Solar, Energy | $4.1M–$500M |
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, United States, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture | $100k–$35M |
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Matthew Kalish
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Series A | Gaming, Web3, Retail | $1.5M–$5M |
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Altree Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $50k–$6M |
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Standard Chartered Women in Technology
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Grant | Health Care, Information Technology, AgTech | $9.7k–$121k |
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Victoria Commercial Bank
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Debt Financing | Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing | |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Travel, Software, Marketing | $1.1M–$1.3M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services | $600k–$65M |
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Analog Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.1M–$25M |
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Victor Asemota
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed | Credit, Retail, Banking | $1M–$1M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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Chui Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce | $250k–$5M |
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Future Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $100k–$40M |
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Pierre Martensson
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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54 Collective
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech | $40k–$2M |
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Patricia Ithau
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Beauty, Retail, Fashion | |
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Zedcrest Capital Limited
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $500k–$3.7M |
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Blink
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Series B, Series A | ISP, Retail, Internet | $3.5M–$16M |
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $700k–$34M |
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Peter anker
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Ghana | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Insurance | $2M–$12M |
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Beauty, Retail, Consumer | |
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Good & Well
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, Kenya, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care | $1M–$4.1M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1M–$42M |
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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Consumer, Payments, Financial Services | $100k–$4.5M |
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EQ2 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Retail, Sales | $1M–$15M |
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Raba Partnership
VC Fund
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1 | United States, South Africa, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $600k–$32M |
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Flexport Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management | $2.5M–$50M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$4M |
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
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1 | Norway, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Machine Learning | $300k–$3.5M |
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Lateral Frontiers
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Energy | $500k–$15M |
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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Ghana | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, Solar, Finance | $2M–$22M |
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2394
- Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
- ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
- Plouton AI —
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $83k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $318k–$632k
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $50M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
- SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4M; Series A $2.2M–$23M; Convertible Note $500k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
- HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
- Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
- Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
- African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 215
- Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; 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.
Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 207
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Series A $6.5M–$32M; Series B $10M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $103M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
- Smplify — Smplify provides device management infrastructure for security and IT platforms. Its API connects Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Linux device-management capabilities without requiring a separate agent. The platform supports Declarative Device Management and webhooks for event-driven workflows. It also provides multi-tenant organization management and role-based access control for platforms serving multiple enterprises.
- Brodie Rec Leagues — Brodie Rec Leagues specializes in basketball tournaments, leagues, and training.
TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Seed $334k–$6M; Angel $54k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Penny Finance — Get a tailored financial & investing plans, track your money making, learn about personal finances & get new insights, all in the Penny Finance investing app for women.
- Yuva Biosciences — Using cutting edge mitochondrial science to develop cosmeceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
- Cayuga Biotech — Cayuga Biotech is a startup developing novel hemostatic drugs and devices to reduce uncontrollable bleeding which is a leading cause of death from traumatic injuries. The company's polyphosphate-based drug accelerates the body's own clotting process to contain clotting at the injury site and thus minimize the risk of side effects. Cayugais developing drugs for indications that treat traumatic hemorrhage as well as rare bleeding disorders.
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $20k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Umazi — We speed up corporate identity verification.
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
- Mamy Eyewear — MAMY Opticians: eyeglasses, sunglasses and free computerised eye tests in Nairobi. Five stores, frames from Ksh 1,900 with lenses, free delivery across Kenya.
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- Industry: Retail, Solar, Beauty
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Solar Taxi Ghana — Solar Taxi Ghana app provides various electronic vehicles that are powered by solar energy.
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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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
- FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
- Irrisol Engineering — Irrisol Engineering is an impact-driven social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable water supply and irrigation systems for underserved rural communities.
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- Industry: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Agriculture
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Series C
- Geography: France, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Series B $5.4M–$37M; Series C $10M–$57M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.8M–$166M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nxtfood — Nxtfood offers a range of food products, including vegetarian irish pie, vegetarian shepherd's pie with sweet potato, vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian mushroom pie, vegetarian pithiviers, welsh vegetarian, vegetarian stuffed cabbage, vegetarian stuffed butternut, and more.
- InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
- DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Financial Services
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Series A $10M–$12M; Series B $3.5M–$16M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $21M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
- AgriCapital — AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- DTEK — DTEK Group is a diversified energy holding that includes six businesses and Academy DTEK, our corporate university. DTEK Group is the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine, with over €12 billion in invested capital since 2005, employing 55,000 people.
- WIOCC Group — WIOCC Group serves as a provider of interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and managed network services, operating exclusively as a wholesaler to hyperscalers, cloud operators, content providers, and telcos.
- Global Atomic Corporation — The Dasa Uranium Project scheduled to begin production in 2026 is the highest-grade uranium project in Africa; the Turkish Zinc JV provides positive cash flow.
A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 334
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.2M; Series A $6.9M–$30M; Series B $14M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $175M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Firefly — Firefly provides an integrated safety platform that helps organizations manage daily operations and emergency response through software and hardware solutions. Its Ember Safety Platform combines cloud-based tools like AI-driven mapping, mass communications, and emergency service integration with physical devices such as panic buttons, gunshot detection, and readiness systems. The platform supports tailored safety workflows that streamline procedures and improve situational awareness across different environments. Firefly’s onboarding process includes generating 3D site maps and connecting existing infrastructure to enable protocol customization and real-time alerting. The company’s offerings aim to unify safety functions in a single system that assists teams in coordinating actions from routine tasks to urgent incidents.
- Ridgeway — Ridgeway provides web development, digital strategy, experience design, digital marketing, hosting, support, cloud hosting, proactive client support packages, ecommerce platform development.
- Namespace Labs — Cloud agents on Devboxes, fast GitHub Actions runners, and remote execution for Bazel on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The developer platform for agent scale.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $270k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Maeva — Fill the nutrition gaps cause by rapid weight loss when you're on GLP-1
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Makemake — Makemake is a cutting-edge beauty tech startup that harnesses advanced chemical technology to develop innovative, high-performance skincare and cosmetic solutions—bridging the gap between science and beauty to create products that are both effective and sustainable.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is a self-sustaining U.S. Government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets. Established in 1971, OPIC provides businesses with the tools to manage the risks associated with foreign direct investment, fosters economic development in emerging market countries, and advances U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities. OPIC helps American businesses gain footholds in new markets, catalyzes new revenues and contributes to jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad. OPIC fulfills its mission by providing businesses with financing, political risk insurance, advocacy and by partnering with private equity investment fund managers. OPIC services are available to new and expanding businesses planning to invest in more than 160 countries worldwide. Because OPIC charges market-based fees for its products, it operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost to taxpayers. All OPIC projects must adhere to best international practices and cannot cause job loss in the United States.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant
- Geography: India, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $40M–$500M; Debt Financing $4.1M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Twiga Foods — Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
- 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.
- Peak Rare Earths — Peak Rare Earths Limited (ASX:PEK) is focused on becoming one of the few integrated suppliers of NdPr Oxide (rare earths) outside of China.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
- Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
- ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.
Matt Kalish is the founder and CRO of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website.
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- Industry: Gaming, Web3, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FaZe Media — FaZe Media intends to return creative control to the personalities that created the brand in the first place.
- Nifty League — A game studio at the cutting edge of Web3 with a mission to inspire other indie game developers to build a decentralized future with us.
- Playtertainment — Playtertainment provides combination of classic arcade games and mobile technology and offers real live-streaming games with real prizes, enabling gamers to play live games directly from their phone.
Altree Capital is a provider of African asset management and investment advisory services to institutional investors across the globe.
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
- CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator Kenya is Africa’s leading incubator programme for female founded businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $10k–$10k; Grant $9.7k–$121k
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tuwe Bora — Tuwebora, we do more than just make clothing—we're building futures and revolutionizing the global fashion industry.
- UzimaNexus — UzimaNexus is a cutting-edge healthcare platform that links pharmaceutical corporations, biomedical companies, and research institutions worldwide with healthcare facilities throughout Africa. Combining AI and blockchain technology.
- Timao Group — Timao Group is a clean tech company that recycles waste and produces plastic constructive systems.
Experience the Ultimate
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- Industry: Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
- Stage:Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...
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- Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$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 — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- HeyBreez AI — Breez AI is a no-code voice orchestration platform built for reliable, scalable real-time voice AI. The system unifies carrier connectivity, media delivery, AI models, and orchestration into one global routing layer, stabilizing phone operations and enabling companies to scale voice automation without engineering or additional headcount.
- Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
- Anecdote —
Investing at the earliest moment. An idea-stage venture capital firm writing the first check to startups reshaping foundational industries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$17M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$6M; Series A $6M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $39M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Taxwire — Automate compliance across your finance and commerce stack. Easy implementation from our tax experts and engineers. Save time, money, and headache on sales tax.
- Character Quilt — Character Quilt enriches your target account lists with qualitative data. That allows marketers to build precise campaigns around pain points, helps AEs/SDRs research accounts 10X faster, and helps demand gen marketers automate with the voice of your ideal customer.
- Crux Labs — Crux Labs is an AI platform that turns enterprise judgment into continuous agent improvement.
Victor Asemota
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- Industry: Credit, Retail, Banking
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $9.4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
- Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $250k–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $17M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR helps organizations manage their global employee life-cycle with an all-in-one people management software. Request a demo to see how PaidHR can help you scale your HR operations today.
- Socium — Socium these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Tuteria — Get Home Tutoring Matched to Your Child's Needs. Prepare for IELTS, Common Entrance, IGCSE, GRE & JAMB. Book Lessons in 150+ Subjects Including Music, Coding & Languages.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
- 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.
- Talent Nation — Talent Nation trains and places AI engineers with businesses through its Learn2Earn academy.
Pierre Martensson
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Browse database — It's Free!Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
- REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
- Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
Camilla Hagen Sørli
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Patricia Ithau
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Zedcrest Capital is a full-service capital management firm, with core interests in fixed income securities trading, asset management and proprietary investments
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- PaidHR — PaidHR helps organizations manage their global employee life-cycle with an all-in-one people management software. Request a demo to see how PaidHR can help you scale your HR operations today.
- Pade HCM — Hire, manage and pay your global team Hire anyone in Africa and automate onboarding, team management, payroll, compliance and much more.
- Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
Invest to change
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- Industry: ISP, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Poa Internet — Poa! provides low cost internet to individuals and small businesses in low-income neighborhoods in East Africa. poa! offers customers access to affordable and reliable data that is 40% cheaper than network operators, free content and free online services and tools.poa! services are delivered through a Wi-Fi network that blankets an entireneighborhood, enabling access to the internet on any Wi-Fi enabled device at any time. Unlike competitors, poa! offers transparent pricing, data bundles that are not time-limited and free content and online services such as job boards and marketplaces.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 319
- Round size: Seed $700k–$4M; Series A $2M–$15M; Series B $5.3M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FluxCap — FluxCap is an AI-powered legal technology company that helps lawyers handle complex litigation and build stronger legal cases. It combines advanced technology with legal expertise to support case strategy, evidence analysis, and legal reasoning. Its mission is to make justice more accessible by helping legal teams take on more high-impact cases.
- Hopelab — Hopelab is a researcher, investor, and convener that supports equity-centered solutions for the mental health and well-being of Black, Brown, and Queer young people.
- 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.
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Peter anker
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Insurance
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
- Lissun — Lissun is an online counselling platform, which allows you to get expert advice and counselling for any mental health problem anytime and from the comfort of your own home.
- BimaKavach — Buy business insurance online from India's top 25 insurers in minutes with AI-powered risk analysis, policy comparison, and customised coverage for businesses in India
Andrea Iannelli
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- Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
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Browse database — It's Free!Good & Well is an investment firm partnering with early-stage social purpose businesses. The firm provides equity investments and strategic advice, operational support, and a network of inspiring and like-minded entrepreneurs to founders. It was established in Toronto, Ontario in 2014.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.1M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dispersa — Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
- Friendlier — Friendlier aims to reduce single-use plastic waste generated by disposable food packaging. We provide businesses with reusable plastic cups and containers, and take care of delivery, pick-up, and washing.
- Common Wealth — Common Wealth offers an innovative digital platform and a retirement calculator that helps you grow your savings for retirement.
Since 2014, Novastar Ventures has backed the bold entrepreneurs transforming African markets and sectors.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Series A $1M–$23M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $147M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
- ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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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- Industry: Consumer, Payments, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Run your hardware business with Jumba OS. Build your financial record. Access the credit you need to grow.
- Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
- Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.
Evergreen venture capital investing in Seed to Series A startups across MENA and Africa. 27 active investments, $71.8M portfolio NAV, 17% IRR.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Sales
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Coraly — Coraly connects marketplace benchmarking with practical real-estate AI for property portals, MLSs and real-estate organizations.
- Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, South Africa, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Pre-Seed $635k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Thndr — Egypt's #1 investing platform by active users. Stocks, gold and mutual funds in one app, licensed and regulated by the FRA. Start with what you have.
- Ezeebit — Accept cryptocurrency payments in your business with instant ePOS transactions under 0.5 seconds. Multi-currency support with stablecoin settlement to ZAR.
- Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
Flexport Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$7M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $24M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
- Amplio — De-risk your supply chain with the purchasing power of a contract manufacturer. Amplio is the first AI powered platform to predict, identify and mitigate electronic component shortages for hardware manufacturers.
- Papaya — Papaya offers a vehicle management system to source, run, and manage electric vehicles. Papaya offers a dashboard that provides a bird's-eye view of fleet location and availability. Papaya enables better fleet decision-making by optimizing vehicle uptime and utilization across hubs and service providers.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- 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 — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
- 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 — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $368k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Soolv — AI that turns messy application documents into structured data - so you can instantly score candidates and reveal early patterns of success.
- SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.
- Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.
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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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.5M; Series A $558k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $28M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
- Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.
Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, Solar, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M-KOPA — M-KOPA provides connected asset financing solutions for underbanked customers. Its platform combines digital micropayments and IoT connectivity to offer access to products including solar lighting, televisions, fridges, smartphones, financial services, and more.
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- BlueMark — BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market.
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