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Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Kenya in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Saas startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Kenya in December 2024

Investor	SaaS Kenya investments
Ken Njoroge	3
Cem Garih	3
Darshan Chandaria	2
Justin Mateen	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Olugbenga Agboola	2
Richard Owen	1
Steven Tamm	1
Jean Case	1
Jon Oringer	1
Tony Nicalo	1
Fredrik Jung Abbou	1
Rus Newton	1
Cheryl Heller	1
Winshall Walt	1
Abdo Achkar	1
Michael Chow	1
Edward Lando	1
Vaibhav Kapoor	1
Takuma Terakubo	1
Jackson Kibigo	1
Paul Kimani	1
Wes Schwalje	1
Christian Jantzen	1
Shola Akinlade	1
Johnny Falla	1
Selma Ribica	1
Markus Gemuend	1
Rajesh Sawhney	1
Peter Sandberg	1
Patrick Pichette	1
Justin Ziegler	1
Aadil Mamujee	1
Aaron Fu	1
Christina Sass	1
Melvyn Lubega	1
Gregory Rockson	1
Mato Perić	1
Shakir Merali	1
Dr Ritesh Malik	1
Jessica Chervin	1
Guillaume Glaunès	1
Yago Arbeloa	1
Nate Lipscomb	1
Bhavik Bajaj	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Jesper Drescher	1
Patricia Ithau	1
Gary Scheft	1
Susan Kimberlin	1

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Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.

Investment focus

Software, Billing, Web Development
Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
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.

Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
Moment — Quickly deploy fixed income trading and data tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States

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.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Richard Owen is the Founder at OCX Cognition. He Previously worked at Satmetrix as CEO. He Attended MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
Series A
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.

CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.

Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist, investor and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and the amazing potential of technology to change theworld for the better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to address significant social challenges, harnessing the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.Prior to co-founding the Case Foundation, Jean spent her career as a technology executive in the private sector. As a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL), Jean directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as a household utility. Before joining AOL, she held strategic marketing positions at GE’s Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation’s first online service.In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean has served in two appointed roles leading strategic public-private efforts, including the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, to which she was appointed as Chair by President George W. Bush, and as Co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership.In addition to her role as Chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees, Jean serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Company, Inc. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund and the U.S. National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investing Task Force (SIITF) established by the G8.Jean and Steve joined The Giving Pledge, started by Melinda and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to fund worthy charitable causes. In recognition of their innovative work in philanthropy, Jean and Steve have received a number of accolades, including Barron’s “25 Best Givers”, the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) Citizens of the Year, and Washingtonians of the Year. Jean was also named Corporate Philanthropist of the Year by the Washington Business Journal, which also named her as a finalist for “Most Admired Nonprofit CEO” award, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Washington DC. She has also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Indiana University and from George Mason University.

Investment focus

TV, Energy, Mobile
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.
Hello Alice — Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services.The company's partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small and medium business owners to ensure increasedrevenues.Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, Hello Alice is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.
SnagFilms — SnagFilms is an online film distribution company that allows viewers to stream thousands of films for free. Its platform broadcasts multi-lingual movies and TV programs to customers that enable them to stream and download shows on their platform of choice. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Tony Nicalo

Investment focus

FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.

Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

Investment focus

IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Seed
Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

Investment focus

Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

Winshall Walt

Investment focus

Mobile, B2B, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your
Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.

Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
United States, Lebanon, Japan

Portfolio highlights

GoBEBA — Shell Afrigas 13KG Cooking Gas Refill
uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
Ur My Type — Ur My Type is an app that uses personality types to make dating and finding friends online more meaningful.

Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

Vaibhav Kapoor

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
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.

Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Togo

Portfolio highlights

MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.

Jackson Kibigo is the COO and CFO at WorkPay. Jackson attended Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay.

Investment focus

Billing, Software, Business Development
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

Danish angel investor, based in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Medusa — The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides the world's most flexible commerce platform for developers to handle specialized commerce cases.
Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

Investment focus

FinTech, Education, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda

Portfolio highlights

Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
Earnipay — Earnipay simplifies business operations with a single dashboard. From high-yield accounts and flexible credit options to efficient payments, payroll processing, and on-demand pay, streamline your financial operations and drive your business growth.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Johnny Falla

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

Selma Ribica

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.

Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa.

Investment focus

Women's, mHealth, Health Care
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Malaica — Malaica is on a mission to make the pregnancy journey convenient and safe for millions.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
India, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.

Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.

Investment focus

Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
Cavea — Cavea helps esports organizations and streamers monetize their work in the new creator economy by providing a suite of tools and services for media analysis and media activation. Through dynamic-live-driven sponsorship activation campaigns and computer vision driven analysis, Cavea enables brands to understand ROI and reach massive Gen-Z audiences.
Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

Aadil has spent the last decade working in technology in Europe and USA. He was most recently VP of Product Management at Pocket Gems, a mobile entertainment company, where he was one of the founding employees and first product manager. He helped grow the company profitably to 200+ staff and 200M users. Previously Aadil worked in the early-stageinvestment team at Index Ventures and at Google in London. Aadil has a MEng from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Aadil was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Blanq — Next-generation self-custody crypto wallet - secure and easy
Lottielab — Create and ship animations to your products faster. Bring your websites and apps to life with the simplest editor for Lottie animations.
Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.

Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Social Network
Seed
Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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.

Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Consumer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
Caantin — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

Shakir Merali

Investment focus

Credit, FinTech, Lending
Seed, Series C
Kenya, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BiteSpeed — Drive 10% of your Shopify store's revenue from WhatsApp & FB Messenger. Recover abandoned carts, send promotional & shipping messages. Trusted by 1500+ brands!
The Hive Hostels — The Hive Hostels offers PG & Hostel accommodations that provide its community with the best co-living accommodation for our residents.
First Coffee — First Coffee a specialty coffee brand, combines design, culture and a new customer experience, with premium coffee

Jessica Chervin

Investment focus

Social Network
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Voyage SMS — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
Rain AI — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Spain, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
Gloop — Gloop manufactures edible and 100% sustainable cutlery by providing environment friendly alternative for single-use plastic.
Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.

Nate Lipscomb

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, FinTech
Seed, Angel
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
Codingal — Codingal offers kid-friendly programming and coding classes for kids and teens of all ages! Try a free coding class and start creating your own apps, websites, games, and much more.

Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Jesper Drescher

Investment focus

SaaS, Gaming, Content
Seed, Angel
Kenya, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Sky.Garden — Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform that allows African retailers to sell inventory with ease. Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box.
GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —

Patricia Ithau

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya

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 — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.

Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.

Investment focus

Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

Susan is an angel investor and startup advisor in San Francisco, where she has a front-row seat to an amazing variety of new ventures. She is passionate about making connections and helping people meet their potential. Susan believes that diversity is an essential and under-utilized asset to all businesses. She focuses on enterprise businessesand technology. Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

fiifi — fiifi is founded on the belief that private company investing will continue to have exponential growth, and in order for investors to stay competitive, they need to have better decision making tools. Designed to be the product of choice for analysis of portfolio, deal flow, diligence, group collaboration, workflows, and expedient investing. Thesoftware works for scouts, angels, funds, family offices & PE firms.Fintech, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Seed Investing, SaaS, Private Company Investing
Question Base — Question Base helps customer-facing teams close more deals and support tickets by accessing instant verified answers to their questions in Slack. Powered by AI.
Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.

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