Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2025

Investor	Software Kenya investments
iHub	8
54 Collective	7
Novastar Ventures	5
Musha Ventures	5
DOB Equity	5
Savannah Fund	3
P1 Ventures	3
TLcom Capital Partners	3
MaC Venture Capital	3
Kepple Africa Ventures	3
Kua Ventures	3
U.S. International Development Finance Corp	3
Social Capital	3
Safaricom	3
Betatron Venture Group	3
Accion Venture Lab	3
Chandaria Capital	3
GreenTec Capital Partners	3
Launch Africa	3
British International Investment	2
AAIC Investment	2
Antler	2
Finnfund	2
Golden Palm Investments	2
Soma Capital	2
Sherpa Africa Partners	2
VilCap Investments	2
Invested Development	2
Investisseurs & Partenaires	2
Acumen	2
Chapel Hill Denham	2
HAVAÍC	2
International Finance Corporation	2
Interswitch	2
Acadian Ventures	2
Renew Capital	2
Saviu Ventures	2
Kapor Capital	2
PayPal	1
Norrsken22	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Olugbenga Agboola	1
Africa's Talking	1
AE Ventures	1
Khosla Impact	1
Cheryl Heller	1
GMC coLABS	1
Save the Children	1
Selma Ribica	1
Kara Ventures	1

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.

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.

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Enabling businesses pay and get paid twice as fast
Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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?

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Health Care, Farming
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.

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.

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.

P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
Stakpak — Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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.

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.
Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
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.

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Coval — Coval is a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents, enabling engineers to deploy reliable assistants across chat and modalities.
Era Finance — Unlock the power of AI-driven personal finance management with Era. Take control of your finances effortlessly, optimize investments, and maximize savings. Let Era guide you through key financial terms, making every dollar count. Experience the future of wealth management today.
Cosmic Robotics — Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

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
Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, E-Learning
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Twiva — Twiva is an influencer marketing and social commerce startup that gives Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) affordable, efficient, and digital access to markets. This is done by leveraging social media influencers to market and sell MSMEs’ products and services on social media platforms. Twiva was created to harness the vast penetration ofsmartphones, internet connectivity, accessible mobile banking, and the power of influencer marketing to create dignifying digital and digitally-enabled jobs.
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.

U.S. International Development Finance Corp is America’s development bank.

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).

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Biz AI Last — Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business.
Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
Perimeter Medical Imaging — Perimeter Medical Imaging is a medical device company driven to transform cancer surgery with advanced OCT technology for surgeons as they strive for clean margins to avoid re-excisions.

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.

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.

Betatron Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Hong Kong, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
Botsync — Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimalchanges to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry.
Varadise — Varadise is a digital twin platform offering technology services, cloud platforms, and business services comprising IoT and AI.

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Foyer — Saving the American Dream with the "401k" for homeownership
Finfra — From application to decisioning to operations - FINFRA provides the necessary infrastructure and services for technology companies to embed financial services to their environment through a seamless integration.
Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.

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.

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.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

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.

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.

We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!

Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Xac Bank — Xac Bank is the fourth largest bank in Mongolia with a loan portfolio of 395M USD, serving 298,000 borrowers and savers clients and deriving a yearly ROE of 22%. Xac Bank has demonstrated its ability to adapt to a fast growing and fast changing economic environment in Mongolia, on the back of a booming mining industry, and has re-focused itsoperations away from microfinance to SME, consumer lending and mortgages. In order to manage the associated risk, the bank has heavily invested in systems and human capabilities in order to serve the increasing need of underserved SMEs and urban as well as rural population. Xac Bank has also built an in-house mobile platform currently under upgrade in order to better serve the needs of its customers. Xac Bank is actively involved in deploying government and developmental funds to provide easier access to low cost housing and environment friendly energy to the lower layers of the Mongolian population. Finally, Xac bank is constantly providing non-financial services to the community under the form of financial literacy programs and business support to its lowest income customers via association with NGOs.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
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.

Welcome to Soma Capital

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Podqi — Podqi is an AI-powered platform specifically designed for entertainment companies to automate monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for infringement on their portfolio of IP.
Artisan AI — Artisan is on a mission to build the first generation of AI employees, called Artisans, who can automate specific roles & workflows.
Flashnet — Flashnet is commited to build a Bitcoin exchange that anyone can use and where people keep their own money.

A venture fund for pre-seed startups in Africa, led by Startup Operators, backed by Startup Operators.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
Jackfruit Finance — Jackfruit Finance provides money, technology, and rewards to enable low-cost African schools to expand access to education.

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
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.

Invested Development (ID) is an investment management company founded in Boston, MA in 2009 and now based in Atlanta, GA. ID launched the BSP Fund in 2011 which was fully vested across 19 companies in 2020. Exits include: Simpa (India) acquired by Engie (France); OnFarm (US) acquired by SWIIM (US); iHub (Kenya) acquired by ccHub (Nigeria), and GELI(US) acquired by Hanwha Q-Cells (Korea).

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Kenya, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Angani — Angani offers cutting-edge & affordable solutions in cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery, media streaming, cloud PABX and data analytics. Enjoy local support, low latencies, and faster response times.
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.
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.

Investisseurs et Partenaires

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

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.
Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
Lapaire — Discover a wide range of high-quality & affordable eyeglasses at Lapaire Glasses. Book a free vision test with our professional optometrists to help you find your perfect pair of glasses to enhance your vision and style. Shops in 7 african countries: Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya and Uganda.

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

Investment focus

Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BioMassters — Biomassers aim to replace charcoal production and charcoal cooking by providing modern, affordable, and low-carbon pellet fuel production and cooking solutions based on locally produced fuel from waste materials.
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.

Chapel Hill Denham is a leading independent investment banking, securities trading and investment management firm.

Investment focus

Apps, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed
Kenya

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.

HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

NjiaPay — Payments-as-a-Service platform that will streamline your operations and elevate your online payments across the African continent.
Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
Yondr Group — We are Yondr, a global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centers. Our mission is: global capacity responsible delivery.
Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone provides exceptional infrastructure facilities and services.

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organisations on a timely and consistent basis. The company started operations in 2002 as a transaction switching and electronic payments processingcompany that builds and manages payment infrastructure as well as deliver innovative payment products and transactional services throughout the African continent.

Investment focus

Transportation, Logistics, Apps
Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

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.
Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
SlimTrader — SlimTrader is an e-commerce and mobile commerce firm. Its platform, MoBiashara, seeks to relieve the burdens associated with everyday transactions in developing countries by providing the missing link to completting these important activities: easy and affordable access. The company has developed the first platform in Africa that allows consumersto purchase services or shop for goods with their mobile devices.

Acadian Ventures is a global company that builds long-lasting businesses that make work better, fairer, more meaningful, and ultimately more productive. They invest in firms in their early stages that are leading the work revolution and reinventing how people will work in the future.

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
datascalehr — Use our global payroll API to connect, merge, aggregate, validate and reconcile any payroll and HR data. Designed for payroll folks, loved by software

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.

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

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Kenya, Japan

Portfolio highlights

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.
Penny Finance — Get a tailored financial & investing plans, track your money making, learn about personal finances & get new insights, all in the Penny Finance investing app for women.

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Ireland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.

Norrsken22 is a tech growth fund, backed by an international network of tech founders, partnering with exceptional African entrepreneurs in scaling disruptive businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, B2B
Series B, Series C, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Africa's Talking is a Kenya-based mobile solutions firm integrating reliable two-way SMS, voice, and USSD functionality across mobile providers in Africa. The firm offers bulk SMS, short codes, and premium SMS, USSD, MMS, and customized mobile messaging solutions for individuals, businesses, and developers. With the API developers, it canconnect a short code, use an alphanumeric sender id, and send SMS messages across Kenya. Africa's Talking’s users need to register to access documentation.Africa's Talking was established in 2010 by Eston Kimani and Samuel Gikandi, two MIT graduates to explore applications that enhance the growth and use of information technology in and for Africa. It is based in Nairobi.

Investment focus

Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Cloud Data Services
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Angani — Angani offers cutting-edge & affordable solutions in cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery, media streaming, cloud PABX and data analytics. Enjoy local support, low latencies, and faster response times.

Investment focus

IaaS, Big Data, Computer
Pre-Seed
Kenya, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

AMPnet — AMPnet is a set of white-label crowdinvesting platforms with a central P2P marketplace for renewable energy shares. Through our platform, renewable energy communities all over Europe are providing much-needed liquidity to their investments and connecting directly to large financers of renewables such as NGOs, carbon offseting schemes, etc...
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
India, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
Smile ID (formerly Smile Identity) — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.

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

Investment focus

Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

B2B, Mobile, Consumer
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, Tanzania

Portfolio highlights

Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
WomenChoice Industries — WomenChoice Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, affordable, reusable sanitary towels.

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.

Investment focus

E-Learning, Information Technology
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.

Selma Ribica

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Klump — Use Klump to buy today, and pay in 4 equal instalments over 3 months! Businesses accept payments and increase conversion rate and revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
Ilara Health — Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.

Kara Ventures is a passionate tech angels who decided to embark on a learning expedition.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Compliance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Kenya, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud