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Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Investor SaaS Kenya investments
Novastar Ventures 9
Musha Ventures 9
54 Collective 9
iHub 8
Savannah Fund 7
Golden Palm Investments 6
Future Africa 6
LoftyInc Capital 5
Kepple Africa Ventures 5
Launch Africa 5
DOB Equity 5
Reflect Ventures 5
SOSV 5
P1 Ventures 5
UNCOVERED FUND 5
Chandaria Capital 5
V8 Capital Partners 4
Mercy Corps Ventures 4
EchoVC Partners 4
Ken Njoroge 4
GreenHouse Capital 4
Remapped Ventures 3
TEN13 3
British International Investment 3
Betatron Venture Group 3
VilCap Investments 3
Renew Capital 3
JAM Fund 3
Social Capital 3
Cem Garih 3
Zephyr Acorn 3
MaC Venture Capital 3
4DX Ventures 3
Mercy Corps Ventures 3
Kapor Capital 3
TLcom Capital Partners 3
U.S. International Development Finance Corp 3
VU Venture Partners 3
Orbit Startups 3
Enza Capital 3
Vastly Valuable Ventures 3
Kua Ventures 3
Accion Ventures 3
GreenTec Capital Partners 3
Safaricom 3
Soma Capital 2
Grenfell Holdings 2
Tekton Ventures 2
Global Partnerships 2
British International Investment 2
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Novastar Ventures VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Musha Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
  • Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
54 Collective VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
iHub VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.
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Investment focus
  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Seed
  • Kenya, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • SILABU — Silabu is a platform that links students with skilled teachers to help them achieve their learning objectives, offering an alternative to traditional education.
  • ntemata — ntemata an Edtech platform that allows you to automate teacher assessment processes and analyze competence-based learning holistically.
  • LoHo Learning — Loho Learning is an e-Learning platform that provides customized and interactive education to the schooling generation in a variety of digital formats.
Savannah Fund VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • 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.
Golden Palm Investments VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.
Future Africa VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
LoftyInc Capital VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Salus Cloud — Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security.
  • Nucleon Security — Nucleon Security is a cybersecurity software company that develops advanced, AI-powered endpoint protection solutions based on Zero Trust principles. Our mission is to help organizations of all sizes detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in real time—without compromising performance, usability, or sovereignty.At the core of our offeringis Nucleon EDR, a next-generation Endpoint Detection & Response platform designed to provide deep visibility, proactive defense, and automated response capabilities. Complemented by our MDR (Managed Detection & Response) services and Malprob, our malware detonation sandbox, we deliver a comprehensive security stack that adapts to evolving threat landscapes.Headquartered in France with operations across Europe and Africa, Nucleon Security partners with critical infrastructure, governments, and enterprises to strengthen their cyber resilience and accelerate secure digital transformation.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
Kepple Africa Ventures VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Launch Africa VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
  • Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
DOB Equity VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
Reflect Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States
Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Pakistan, United States, Peru
Portfolio highlights
  • goFlux — GoFlux is a SAAS platform that allows companies to connect to service providers such as carriers and logistics operators. The company gives transparency to the quotation process and hiring of transport. through a Cloud platform, shippers can manage the entire hiring process of a carrier.The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in SaoPaulo, Brazil.
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
P1 Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Egypt, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
UNCOVERED FUND VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Chandaria Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
V8 Capital Partners VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
  • Fluna — We help high-growth African exporters and importers tap into global markets via proprietary trade data, flexible financing and global treasury solutions
  • Zuri Health — .ts-banner-image-1:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} .ts-banner-image-2:hover .overlay{background-color:#ffffff} Popular categories Pharmacy Doctor at home Covid Labs & Diagonstics Wellness Telemed Show all Our Services PharmacyBuy both OTC and prescription medication and have it delivered to your doorstepLabs & DiagnosticsBook labs and Diagnostic tests and get your samples collected from the comfort of your home, hotel
  • 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.
Mercy Corps Ventures VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
  • Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
EchoVC Partners VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
  • Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
  • Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
Ken Njoroge Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
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.
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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.
GreenHouse Capital VC Fund · Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
  • Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
  • 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.
Remapped Ventures VC Fund
Remapped Ventures invests in early-stage companies remapping the world for a better future.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology
  • Series A, Convertible Note
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
TEN13 VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
  • Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
British International Investment VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 30 investments in the past 12 months
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
  • India, Kenya, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Asha Ventures — Asha Ventures is an India-focused equity investor for innovative businesses targeting India's emerging middle class.
  • Arnergy — ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets.
  • ReNew Photovoltaics — ReNew Photovoltaics is a solar manufacturing company that provides reliable, quality, and top-tier solar products.
Betatron Venture Group VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Hong Kong, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Toku — Toku is a software provider that creates bespoke cloud communications and customer engagement solutions to reimagine customer experiences for enterprises. We offer an end-to-end approach to help businesses overcome the complexity of digital transformation in APAC markets. Enhance your customer experience with our unique blend of local strategic consulting expertise, bespoke technology, regional in-country infrastructure, connectivity, and global reach.
  • ZhenHub — We provide eCommerce shipping software, fulfillment centers, global partnerships, strategically-located warehouses & multichannel integrations. [More...]
  • Bookairfreight — Save more than 20% on international door-to-door shipping. We're a one-stop freight solution for SMEs, ecommerce, and Amazon Merchants. Get a quote now!
VilCap Investments VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
  • Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
Renew Capital VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
  • Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
  • Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa
JAM Fund VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Mexico, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
  • Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.
Social Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
  • Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
  • Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
Cem Garih Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
Zephyr Acorn VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation & management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, India, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
  • Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
MaC Venture Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
  • Antioch — Antioch is the development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
  • Catalyte — Catalyte uses AI to discover high-potential talent, develop them and deploy them directly into client organizations.
4DX Ventures VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Egypt, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
  • PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
Mercy Corps Ventures VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States
Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, United States, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
  • Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
  • Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency
Kapor Capital VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Kenya, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Parento — Parento is a pioneering national insurance-based solution for paid parental empowering companies to support working parents with proactive, tangible paid leave coverage and employee resources.
  • Beanstack — At Beanstack, we are in the business of motivating people to read more. Through our platform, you can run reading challenges, readathons, and more.
  • Subscript — Create, understand, and tell the story of your subscription business through numbers.
TLcom Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • littlefishapp — Littlefish is a comprehensive commerce platform that empowers banks to serve small business with tools to streamline operations, drive growth, and enhance customer engagement.
U.S. International Development Finance Corp VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
  • Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
  • Institut Pasteur de Dakar — The Institut Pasteur de Dakar Foundation (IPD) is a non-profit association of public utility, concerned with promoting public health and well-being in West Africa. Since its founding in 1896 by one of Louis PASTEUR's disciples, Émile Marcoux, the IPD has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases. Since 2009, the InstitutPasteur de Dakar has been a Senegalese foundation, jointly managed by the government of Senegal and the Institut Pasteur (Paris).
VU Venture Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
A multi-stage investment fund focused on Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
  • Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
  • JumpStart Fertility — Jumpstart Fertility is investigating novel techniques to aid patients in starting or continuing to increase their families, including approaches that address the effects of biological aging on assisted reproduction. We want to increase IVF success rates so that patients need fewer cycles to get a healthy pregnancy. Our research focuses onenhancing egg quality and embryo development in IVF cycles in later age groups, where IVF success rates tend to drop, necessitating repeated rounds under existing standards of care.
Orbit Startups VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland · 24 investments in the past 12 months
Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • India, Singapore, Pakistan
Portfolio highlights
  • TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
  • Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
  • Tappi — Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.
Enza Capital VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Affinity — Join over 100,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
Vastly Valuable Ventures VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Investing In Vanguard, Visionary, Valiant Founders
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Nigeria, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • Qardy — Qardy provide SMEs with a comprehensive array of financial services, such as factoring, leasing, long-term and short-term loans, and leasing. Our objectives are to empower SMEs, encourage financial inclusion, and close the loan financing gap.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
  • Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Kua Ventures VC Fund · Westlands, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Kua Ventures provides inexpensive finance, mentoring, and community to faith-driven, social entrepreneurs that are creating great employment and changing lives while simultaneously demonstrating Christ's love.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Training, E-Learning
  • Pre-Seed
  • Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
  • Zydii — For the African workforce, Zydii is the premier localized digital training solution which is engaging and accessible, leading to transformative growth for businesses. Zydii is providing localized (African) digital courses via our proprietary online and offline (USSD & SMS) platform.
Accion Ventures VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
GreenTec Capital Partners VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco
Portfolio highlights
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • 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.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
Safaricom VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity solutions, information management solutions, voice solutions, and communication solutions. It serves small businesses, medium businesses, and large corporates.The company’s services and offerings include international calls and roaming; data storage, recovery, and backup;online information storage and archiving; mobile banking services; wide area networks, managed Wi-Fi solutions, point-to-point connectivity, 4G connection, and Fiber to Buildings; IT consultancy; virtual collaboration, voice conferencing, and video conferencing; messaging services and voice services; music services; and more.Safaricom was founded in 1997 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • 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.
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Lynk Jobs — Lynk solves the problems faced by informal workers and the households and businesses seeking their services. Lynk’s digital platform connects informal workers with customers who require services such as housekeeping, plumbing, electrical work and carpentry. Lynk’s systems enable the effective recruitment of workers, smart matching of the workers tojobs and a customer rating system that helps workers to build the skills profile.
Soma Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 60 investments in the past 12 months
Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders that focuses on software. It has invested seed in startups now worth over $60 billion combined including Cruise, Rappi, Ironclad, Human Interest, Razorpay, Rippling, Lambda School among others (20 unicorns) It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Trébol — Automatiza el alta de empresas. Acelera el dictamen de actas y poderes con nuestro OCR para actas constitutivas, actas de asamblea, y poderes.
  • Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
  • Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
Grenfell Holdings VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Logistics, Consulting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Kenya, Uganda, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
  • Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
  • Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
Tekton Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
We partner with visionary founders and investors worldwide, offering capital, network, and expertise needed to turn groundbreaking ideas into market leading companies.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
  • Scorecard — Looking for a simple way to build and test LLM apps? Use Scorecard to deliver predictable AI experiences that improve with every update.
  • Perceptis AI — It's like Gamma, but for Grown-ups. Create business-grade presentations with AI. Editable PPTX. Trackable sources. Insights grounded in your company's data. Not generic AI fluff.
Global Partnerships VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives.
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Investment focus
  • Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
  • Sun King — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.
British International Investment VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 31 investments in the past 12 months
British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • India, Kenya, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Scatec ASA — Scatec is a leading renewable power producer, delivering affordable and clean energy worldwide.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • CLR Facility Services — CLR is a leading Integrated Facility Management (IFM) company with a PAN India presence, providing comprehensive solutions including IFM, Technical Services, Business Support, Aviation Services, Production Support, and Floor Care Services.
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