# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Kenya in June 2026 ## Ken Njoroge - Type: Angel - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Billing, Web Development 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. ## Cem Garih - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Investor ## Rus Newton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: IaaS, SaaS, Mining Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International ## Peter Sandberg - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market - Focus: Internet, SaaS, FinTech 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, Asset Management and Wealth Management ## Olugbenga Agboola - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Olugbenga Agboola is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave. Olugbenga previously worked at Access Bank as a Head of Digital Factory and Innovation. Olugbenga Agboola attended EC-Council University. Olugbenga Agboola has been a Certified Ethical Hacker and a Security Analyst. ## Darshan Chandaria - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, B2B, SMS 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. ## Justin Mateen - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Selma Ribica - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Payments, Apps, Retail Selma Ribica is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of First Circle Capital. She previously worked at Abler Nordic as a Board Member. Selma Ribica attended the University of New York in Prague. ## Rajesh Sawhney - Type: Angel - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet 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. ## Aadil Mamujee - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Software, FinTech 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. ## Gregory Rockson - Type: Angel - Location: Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Consumer Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma. ## Markus Gemuend - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Women's, mHealth, Health Care Markus Gemuend is the former Managing Director of Roche Africa. ## Jessica Chervin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social Network Jessica Chervin ## Michael Chow - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies. ## Shakir Merali - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Lending Shakir Merali ## Patricia Ithau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Beauty, Retail, Fashion Patricia Ithau ## Jesper Drescher - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Content Jesper Drescher ## Aaron Fu - Type: Angel - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, Apps 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. ## Nate Lipscomb - Type: Angel - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, EdTech, FinTech Nate Lipscomb ## Susan Kimberlin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Richard Owen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing Richard Owen is the Founder at OCX Cognition. He Previously worked at Satmetrix as CEO. He Attended MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990. ## Patrick Pichette - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford. ## Abdo Achkar - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions. ## Cheryl Heller - Type: Angel - Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software 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. ## Vaibhav Kapoor - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Vaibhav Kapoor ## Fredrik Jung Abbou - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY. ## Gary Scheft - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software 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. ## Jim Sorenson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Banking, FinTech Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity . ## Winshall Walt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, B2B, SMS Winshall Walt ## Shola Akinlade - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Education, Financial Services Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack. ## Steven Tamm - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology 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. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Justin Ziegler - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social Network Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP ## Bhavik Bajaj - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech Bhavik Bajaj ## Johnny Falla - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Social Network Johnny Falla ## Jackson Kibigo - Type: Angel - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Billing, Software, Business Development Jackson Kibigo is the COO and CFO at WorkPay. Jackson attended Y Combinator. ## Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Type: Angel - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Nadav Ben-Chanoch ## Wes Schwalje - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology 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 ## Guillaume Glaunès - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Logistics Angel Investor ## Christian Jantzen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Danish angel investor, based in London. ## Yago Arbeloa - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note - Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Internet Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP ## Tony Nicalo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management Tony Nicalo ## Christina Sass - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Social Network 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 $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University. ## Benjamin Fernandes - Type: Angel - Location: Stanford, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Billing, Software, Business Development Benjamin Fernandes is the Founder & Chief Eating Officer of NALA. He previously worked at TING - Tanzania Integrated Network Group as a Technical and operations manager. Benjamin Fernandes attended Stanford Graduate School of Business. ## Takuma Terakubo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Mobile Apps Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC. ## Mato Perić - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents. ## Paul Kimani - Type: Angel - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Billing, Software, Business Development Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay. ## Dr Ritesh Malik - Type: Angel - Location: Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist. ## Jean Case - Type: Angel - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: TV, Energy, Mobile 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. ## Jon Oringer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co