Top 5 Social Impact VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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UNCDF
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Bangladesh, United Kingdom | Grant, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed | Solar, AgTech, Energy | $50k–$5M |
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Calvert Impact Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, Energy | $2.9M–$175M |
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Ceniarth
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana | Debt Financing, Seed, Series B | Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship | $1.5M–$45M |
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Impact Bridge
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, Kenya, Philippines | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Renewable Energy, Energy, Finance | $1.1M–$15M |
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Save the Children
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Seed, Series A | Women's, Education, E-Learning | |
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Debt Financing $2.9M–$175M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- Sunwealth Power — Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm who curates high-performance commercial solar projects that deliver clean energy and boast exceptional return potential for our investors.
Ceniarth is an impact-first, single-family office that focuses on investments benefitting underserved communities globally.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$1.7M; Series B $9M–$40M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salad Money — Salad provide small, affordable loans to meet your urgent needs. The first responsible lender, we offer fair lending to public & private sector employees
- Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.
- INNOVA Health Supplies — The mission of INNOVA Health Supplies is to guarantee that everyone has access to safe and efficient solutions for their needs related to sexual and reproductive health.
Investment focus
- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Spain, Kenya, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ikos Advanced — Ikos Advanced is a digital agricultural logbook designed for Spanish farmers to meet REA regulations on crop traceability. Ikosnotes enables detailed logging of farm activities like planning, task tracking, input applications, and harvests in a centralized digital platform. It automates data entry from connected sensors, irrigation systems, andweather data for real-time updates and official report generation. Users access it via web or mobile apps (iOS/Android) for multi-device management and team collaboration.
- Visalia Energía — Visalia Energía is a Spanish multi-utility energy company focused on electricity, gas, gasóleo, propano, and renewable energy projects.
- Wenea Mobile Energy — Wenea Mobile Energy is a mobile energy operator.
Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for their future. In the United States and around the world, they give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they change the course of their future and ours.
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- Industry: Women's, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
- TotoRegister — Revolutionising attendance data to protect children. #Innovate4Change
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The UN Capital Development Fund is providing public and private finance work for the poor in the least developed countries.UNCDF provides grants, loans, and technical support to ensure that more households and small businesses gain access to financial services. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models thatunlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. UNCDF’s financing models work through two channels: financial inclusion that expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small businesses to participate in the local economy, providing them with the tools they need to climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; and localized investments that show how fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion and sustainable development.The New York, New York-based fund was founded in 1966.
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PayAngel
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SokoFresh
— SokoFresh is a social enterprise that offers cold storage solutions and a digital market linkage platform to small and medium-scale farmers. It provides access to reliable, off-grid, first-mile cold storage facilities and digital market linkage services to farmers and buyers in fruit and vegetable value chains.
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Omia Agribusiness Development
— Leading Regional Distributors of Climate-Smart Agro Inputs for Crop and Livestock production. Free Farmer Support and Ready Market by @omiafoods
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