Top 40 Software Angel Investors in Kenya (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Peter Sandberg
Angel
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2 | Denmark, Kenya, Estonia | Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market | Internet, SaaS, FinTech | $150k–$212k |
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Rus Newton
Angel
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2 | Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | IaaS, SaaS, Mining | $285k–$1.5M |
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Michael Chow
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | |
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Melvyn Lubega
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | E-Learning, Information Technology | |
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Yago Arbeloa
Angel
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1 | Spain, United States, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Apps, E-Commerce, Internet | |
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, B2B, SMS | $58k–$285k |
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Shola Akinlade
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Education, Insurance | $181k–$4M |
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Benjamin Fernandes
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Billing, Compliance | $700k–$1.2M |
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Leonard Stiegeler
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, South Africa, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, B2B | $1.3M–$6M |
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Isaak Hayes
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Agentic AI, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection | |
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Nijhad Jamal
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United Kingdom, Luxembourg | Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, CleanTech | $735k–$4.2M |
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Abdo Achkar
Angel
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1 | United States, Lebanon, Japan | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS | $150k–$3M |
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Ken Njoroge
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Billing, Web Development | $1.2M–$20M |
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Jim Sorenson
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed | Gaming, Banking, FinTech | $1.8M–$3.3M |
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Gary Scheft
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $125k–$6.1M |
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Winshall Walt
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, B2B, SMS | $1.1M–$2.2M |
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
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1 | Nigeria, Kenya, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $625k–$7.5M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5.5M |
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Selma Ribica
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria | Pre-Seed, Seed | Payments, Apps, Retail | $120k–$780k |
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Takuma Terakubo
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Togo | Seed, Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Mobile Apps | $100k–$2M |
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Jesper Drescher
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Denmark | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Gaming, Content | $800k–$1.2M |
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Tony Nicalo
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management | |
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Guillaume Glaunès
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Logistics | $1.8M–$2.2M |
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Susan Kimberlin
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya, Denmark | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.5M–$4.9M |
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Wes Schwalje
Angel
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1 | India, United States, Mexico | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $150k–$2M |
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Aaron Fu
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, Apps | $100k–$4M |
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Aadil Mamujee
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | SaaS, Software, FinTech | $300k–$4M |
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Christian Jantzen
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Sweden, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $233k–$3.5M |
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Steven Tamm
Angel
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed | Software, Analytics, Information Technology | $1M–$5.8M |
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Paul Kimani
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Billing, Software, Business Development | |
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Richard Owen
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Series A | SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing | |
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Jackson Kibigo
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Billing, Software, Business Development | |
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Shakir Merali
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Mauritius | Seed, Series C | Credit, FinTech, Lending | |
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Patrick Pichette
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $943k–$95M |
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Mato Perić
Angel
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1 | Germany, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce | $2M–$100M |
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Nate Lipscomb
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Angel | Education, EdTech, FinTech | $1.2M–$10M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $175k–$56M |
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Fredrik Jung Abbou
Angel
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1 | Kenya, Sweden, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery | $1M–$4.8M |
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Cheryl Heller
Angel
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1 | Kenya | Seed | Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software | |
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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
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $150k–$212k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
- Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
- November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder
Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International
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- Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Mining
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $285k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
- Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
- Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
- Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP
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- Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: Spain, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
- Gloop — Gloop manufactures edible and 100% sustainable cutlery by providing environment friendly alternative for single-use plastic.
- Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.
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.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, SMS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $58k–$285k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
- UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
- Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
Shola Akinlade s based out of Sunnyvale, California and currently works as the CEO for Paystack.
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- Industry: FinTech, Education, Insurance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M; Pre-Seed $181k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
- Earnipay — Earnipay is Nigeria's trusted e-invoicing partner. As an accredited NRS and NITDA systems integrator, we deliver secure, compliant invoicing for every business.
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Billing, Compliance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $700k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.
- Eunice — We are an AI fintech company solving B2B challenges in digital asset. Our first product is digital asset due diligence and monitoring to help financial institutions, regulators, and businesses navigate the complexities of the digital asset space. Powered by a proprietary knowledge base, Eunice’s platform enables token classification, risk analysis,and asset disclosure requirements. With a mission to bring transparency to the digital asset industry, Eunice builds products that drive regulatory clarity and operational efficiency, with the goal of accelerating the mainstream adoption of digital assets.
Leonard Stiegeler is an entrepreneur & investor in projects unlocking potential. Educated in Europe, he founded companies across EMEA and is now investing globally. He is passionate to develop opportunities with & for others. The companies he co-founded include Jumia, now a leading eCommerce company in Africa and Pulse, now a leading mediacompany in Africa. His investments include Paystack, Flutterwave, Scalable Capital, Conversion and many more. Dedicated to creating trusted connections to enable potential, he founded two networks - Africa Collective, focused on elevating the continent's role globally, and Counder, focused on enabling visionary leaders embrace emerging trends & regions collectively.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
- Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Founder & Product Leader | Built Hidden Genius Project + Nafasi Connection | 20+ years scaling founder ecosystems and product platforms
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- Industry: Agentic AI, Cyber Security, Fraud Detection
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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Browse database — It's Free!Nijhad Jamal is the managing Partner of Equator
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- Industry: Energy, Software, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $735k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IBISA — IBISA is an index-based insurance marketplace with satellite adoption. Inclusive mutual risk sharing solution with low fees and fast assessment and payment. Crop Protection for Smallholder Farmers
- SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Abdo Achkar is the Founder & CEO at Sowlutions.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Lebanon, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $960k–$3M; Pre-Seed $150k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoBEBA — GoBEBA is an on-demand e-commerce logistics platform operating in emerging Africa markets. We bring together local merchants, consumers and logistics service providers to enable efficient discovery and ordering of frequently purchased products and services in one platform. This combination delivers an asset-light convenient, multi-categoryon-demand ordering service for everyday essentials. We do this by aggregating demand for merchants through a curated digital marketplace which connects merchants directly to consumers and logistics service providers in an on-demand basis . GoBeba is an ‘everything’ app’ for a wide range of services including grocery shopping, food delivery, cargo, and many other on-demand services.
- uPaint — Discover uPaint, premium paint by numbers kits for all ages. We craft all components in-house, ensuring top quality. Customize any image to create your own masterpiece. It's the perfect, thoughtful gift idea that's stress-free and easy for everyone. Experience a relaxing and joyful activity with stunning results.
- Lemonade Fashion — Lemonade Fashion is an online designer platform that combines technology innovation and designers to bring the latest trends and designs in fashion. They provide foundation and luxury designs to customize every outfit. They make custom-made and made-to-measure designer outfits accessible anytime and anywhere.
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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- Industry: Software, Billing, Web Development
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3M; Convertible Note $20M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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.
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 .
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- Industry: Gaming, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Funium — Funium, a Provo, Utah-based Facebook games developer. The flagship game is Family Village, which is currently in Alpha testing. A limited beta test is planned for Q2 2011.
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
- ImpactAlpha — Breaking news, data and analysis to sustain an edge in impact investing. Trusted insights. Climate. Policy. Sustainability. Finance.
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.
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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 344
- Round size: Seed $605k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Humera — Humera develops AI-based solutions for CAPTCHA and bot detection, focusing on minimizing user disruption during online verification processes. Its technology uses real-time machine learning to identify bots and prevent fraud without relying on traditional visible CAPTCHA challenges. The system aims to help platforms detect automated activity whilemaintaining user privacy and reducing friction for legitimate users.
- Allonic —
- Heywa Labs — Heywa Labs develops Generative UX (GenUX), an AI-driven interface layer that creates dynamic, adaptive user experiences beyond static text or links. Their flagship app, Heywa, delivers visual, tappable "stories" of cards for tasks like cooking, travel, fitness, and DIY, reconfiguring in real-time based on user interactions.
Winshall Walt
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- Industry: Mobile, B2B, SMS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voatz — Voatz uses cutting edge technology to enable secure and accessible mobile voting from anywhere.
- StoryFit — StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios.StoryFit is a technology company that delivers artificial intelligence insights and solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The name StoryFit comes from that simple idea: know how your story fits in the landscape; finda story to fit your audience, and an audience that fits your story. It represents their motivation and their promise to their customers: to support creative decision-makers in their production of memorable stories by providing the smartest, most adaptable, and most dynamic machine learning insights to narrative content available.
- Percent Pledge — Promote corporate philanthropy in your workplace with Percent Pledge. Learn about our Workplace Giving Platform, Employee Volunteer Programs, and impact reports.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $329k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
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.
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- Industry: Payments, Apps, Retail
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $120k–$735k; Pre-Seed $550k–$780k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
- Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Togo
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
- RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
- Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
Jesper Drescher
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- Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Kenya, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sky.Garden — With Sky.Garden you can upload products and start selling your products immediately via your own free mobile webshop. No cost upon entry. No hidden fees. Fully automated payment and shipping options are integrated out-of-the-box. 100% Safe and secure.
- GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
- ReFlow - engineering a circular economy —
Tony Nicalo
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- Industry: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Logistics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voyage — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
- Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
- Rain AI — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fiifi — fiifi | 151 followers on LinkedIn. portfolio intelligence, simplified | fiifi is founded on the belief that private company investing will continue to have exponential growth, and in order for investors to stay competitive, they need to have better decision making tools. Designed to be the product of choice for analysis of portfolio, deal flow, diligence, group collaboration, workflows, and expedient investing. The software works for scouts, angels, funds, family offices & PE firms.
- Question Base — Question Base helps customer-facing teams close more deals and support tickets by accessing instant verified answers to their questions in Slack. Powered by AI.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
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
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: India, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $360k–$740k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
- HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
Aaron Fu is based out of New York, New York and is the Head of Venture Investments of DCG. Aaron previously worked at Catalyst Fund as a Partner. Aaron Fu attended the University of Oxford. Aaron Fu has received the LEAD Certificate: Corporate Innovation.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$280k
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
- Ongair — Carry out great customer service and support via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WeChat and Line. Get your business on Instant Messaging today. Enjoy a 14 day free trial.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $735k–$4M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
- Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
- Newly — Newly is the easiest way to build and ship cross-platform mobile apps — no senior engineering team required.Our mission is to empower a new generation of builders to launch high-quality native mobile apps without getting blocked by code, complexity, or cost.We’re building the first truly accessible mobile app development tool — combining thespeed of no-code with the power of real code when you need it — and opening the door for the estimated 99.5% of people who currently can’t build mobile apps on their own.Newly is used by early-stage founders, junior developers, designers, and product teams who want to ship faster and smarter.
Danish angel investor, based in London.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $233k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Medusa — The most flexible commerce platform for developers and agents
- Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
- Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
- Perfect Price — Get expert GTM strategy advice & achieve results for your business. We support & advise technical founders in many areas from marketing to pricing strategy.
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Browse database — It's Free!Paul Kimani is the co-founder and CEO of Workpay.
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- Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Richard Owen is the Founder at OCX Cognition. He Previously worked at Satmetrix as CEO. He Attended MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Jackson Kibigo is the COO and CFO at WorkPay. Jackson attended Y Combinator.
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- Industry: Billing, Software, Business Development
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Shakir Merali
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- Industry: Credit, FinTech, Lending
- Stage:Seed, Series C
- Geography: Kenya, Mauritius
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
- Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $943k–$10M; Series A $10M–$95M; Series B $15M–$95M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
- Kaedim — AI-powered 3D asset creation service delivering fast, production-ready 3D assets. Scale 3D pipelines without hiring, accelerate 3D game art production, and reduce 3D asset costs by up to 90%.
- Clove — Building the financial institution of the future.
Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
- Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
Nate Lipscomb
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
- Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
- Codingal — Codingal offers engaging & fun online coding & AI classes for kids & teens using the K12 Computer Science Framework. Sign up today to get a free class!
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Seed $375k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
- Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
- OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Sweden, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
- HackCapital — Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system
- Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
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.
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- Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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