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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Kenya (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Kenya Software startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Software startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Antler
VC Fund
11 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
iHub
VC Fund
10 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $100k–$10M
Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund
10 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$20M
54 Collective
VC Fund
8 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$2M
Adanian Labs
VC Fund
8 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming $60k–$100k
DOB Equity
VC Fund
8 Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture $1M–$3.8M
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
7 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $400k–$14M
FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
6 Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Travel, Software, Marketing $675k–$1.3M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
6 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech $200k–$37M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Safaricom
VC Fund
5 Kenya, India, Ethiopia Seed, Corporate Round, Series A Information Technology, Software, Analytics $1M–$11M
Pantera Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.4M–$50M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Mobile, Software, Information Technology $1.9M–$20M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $550k–$114M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
5 Egypt, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics $50k–$40M
Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $650k–$30M
Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
5 Kenya, Rwanda, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $125k–$10M
Kua Ventures
VC Fund
4 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown EdTech, Retail, Grocery $58k–$94k
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$23M
Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund
4 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$1.7M
Future Africa
VC Fund
4 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$40M
Flori Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $100k–$11M
Streamlined
VC Fund
4 United States, Mexico, Colombia Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$68M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Series A, Series B Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech $1M–$42M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
4 India, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $328k–$500M
Rus Newton
Angel
4 Kenya, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed IaaS, SaaS, Mining $285k–$1.5M
QuantumSavanna VC
VC Fund
4 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics $200k–$300k
Aristarichus Weru
Angel
3 Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
Microtraction
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Ghana Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$1.3M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments $30k–$15M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Logistics, Information Technology, Retail $50k–$1M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $25k–$12M
Flourish Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, India, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.3M–$65M
Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $25k–$15M
Social Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $850k–$46M
Artesian VC
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, China Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$17M
Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Uganda, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Internet, Logistics $1.8M–$2.1M
Injini
VC Fund
3 South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed Education, EdTech, E-Learning $7k–$500k
Chapel Hill Denham
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Debt Financing, Seed Renewable Energy, Apps, Solar $1.5M–$24M
Untapped Global
VC Fund
3 Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services $1.2M–$30M
Aaron Fu
Angel
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Internet, Software $100k–$4M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
3 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$420M
British International Investment
VC Fund
3 India, Kenya, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $2.5M–$122M
Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$126M
Norrsken Evolve
VC Fund
3 Sweden, France, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $125k–$5.8M
Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$40M
Betatron Venture Group
VC Fund
3 Hong Kong, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $30k–$10M
Act Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$13M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$30M
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 11 investments in Kenya Software startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 10 investments in Kenya Software startups

iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in Kenya Software startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
  • Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Everywhere Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 10 investments in Kenya Software startups

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1305
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2.5M; Series A $6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $4.4M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 8 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$2M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • 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.
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Adanian Labs
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 8 investments in Kenya Software startups

Adanian Labs Africa, is a venture building studio with a mission to build tech powered impact driven startups across Africa. We are a smart tech hub powered by smart technologies like blockchain and AI to ensure that the solutions built are scalable and sustainable. www.adanianlabs.io

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Developer Platform, Financial Services, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $60k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
  • Savabyte — Savabyte is a capacity builder and tech talent enricher with a pool of quality software engineers trained and mentored across our African ecosystem. It aims to empower more women to join the tech space and access the technical skills
  • Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 8 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • Irrisol Engineering — Irrisol Engineering is an impact-driven social enterprise dedicated to providing affordable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable water supply and irrigation systems for underserved rural communities.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$3M; Series A $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $35M in 2024

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
  • Lua — Build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents. Ship your first agent without touching infrastructure.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 6 investments in Kenya Software startups

FrontEnd Ventures backs early-stage African founders with strategic capital, hands-on guidance, and long-term partnership to build lasting companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $675k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $5M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
  • Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
  • OKOA Rescue — OKOA Rescue is a provider of maintenance and repair services intended for the freight and logistics sectors in East Africa,
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 6 investments in Kenya Software startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
  • Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
  • African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $200k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
  • Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
  • Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.
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Safaricom
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity solutions, information management solutions, voice solutions, and communication solutions. It serves small businesses, medium businesses, and large corporates.The company’s services and offerings include international calls and roaming; data storage, recovery, and backup;online information storage and archiving; mobile banking services; wide area networks, managed Wi-Fi solutions, point-to-point connectivity, 4G connection, and Fiber to Buildings; IT consultancy; virtual collaboration, voice conferencing, and video conferencing; messaging services and voice services; music services; and more.Safaricom was founded in 1997 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, India, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Corporate Round $3.9M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • M-Pesa — M-Pesa is a fast, secure, and convenient way to transact on mobile brought to you by Vodafone.
  • 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.
  • Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia — Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia is a purpose-driven technology and communication company dedicated to supporting Ethiopia's digital transformation and inclusion goals.
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

Pantera is a technology investment firm investing at the intersection of money, markets, and machines, backing multi-stage founders at the frontier.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 400
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$18M; Series A $3.5M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
  • Fission Labs — 24/7 liquidity, atomic settlement, institutional market infrastructure for tokenized funds.
  • Solana Company — Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) is a listed digital asset treasury dedicated to acquiring Solana (SOL), created in partnership with Pantera and Summer Capital.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

TLCOM finds and funds exceptional founders building technology companies across Africa. Seed to Series C. Lagos, Nairobi, London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.5M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
  • Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$9.7M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $456k–$8M; Pre-Seed $50k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $49M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
  • Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
  • Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market
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Future Perfect Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
  • CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
  • Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 5 investments in Kenya Software startups

Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
  • Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund · Westlands, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

Kua Ventures provides inexpensive finance, mentoring, and community to faith-driven, social entrepreneurs that are creating great employment and changing lives while simultaneously demonstrating Christ's love.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Retail, Grocery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $58k–$94k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
  • 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.
  • Seven Twenty Holdings — Seven Twenty Holdings specializes in the manufacturing of curtain rods and curtain rods accessories and manufactures paints.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series A $1.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
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Right Side Capital Management
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2082
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $50k–$450k; Convertible Note $50k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $55M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Athel AI — Athel AI provides an AI-powered clinical intake platform for physicians and healthcare teams. Its tools conduct patient interviews through voice, chat, and video, capture clinical histories, and generate structured summaries for physicians. The platform also supports AI-assisted reception, dictation, multilingual interviews, and automated clinical workflows. Athel AI provides clinical decision support while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions under the physician's authority.
  • Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
  • Juicyway — Juicyway moves money across borders for people and businesses. Send, receive, hold, and exchange multiple currencies from one account. | NG
  • Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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Flori Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$11M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
  • Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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Streamlined
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups, 12 in the past 12 months

We partner with seed-stage founders to build exceptional companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $5M–$24M; Series B $7M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
  • Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
  • Flagler Health — Flagler Health is the AI-native operating system for musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Flagler seamlessly coordinates clinical and administrative workflows across the full patient lifecycle inside providers' existing EMRs.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$23M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $147M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
  • ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Grant
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Grant $328k–$5M; Post-IPO Debt $18M–$500M; Debt Financing $5.5M–$410M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
  • Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
  • Pela Global — Pela Global Limited is an Australian company focused on critical and precious metals mining, primarily advancing projects in North Macedonia's Tethyan Belt. It specializes in antimony and gold resources, emphasizing sustainable development and global supply chain contributions.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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Investment focus

  • 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

  • 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.
  • MARAMOJA transport — Find the transport you need through the people you trust. Download MARAMOJA IOS : https://t.co/sgWCdBSTin Android:https://t.co/XSrGFWg2z6
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QuantumSavanna VC
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 4 investments in Kenya Software startups

QuantumSavanna VC is an Africa-first venture capital firm investing in GPU-native deeptech startups addressing infrastructure-scale challenges across energy systems, climate modeling, industrial digital twins, advanced agriculture, and AI infrastructure. The firm focuses on accelerated computing platforms, physics-informed machine learning, andedge-to-cluster AI architectures that deliver measurable performance advantages in real-world infrastructure environments. QuantumSavanna backs technical founders building defensible, compute-intensive systems companies designed for emerging markets and globally scalable deployment across LATAM, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The fund invests from Pre-Seed to Series A and partners closely with teams on architecture strategy, infrastructure deployment pathways, and institutional fundraising readiness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FlockVoice — FlockVoice is an AI-powered poultry health intelligence platform that detects respiratory diseases 3–5 days before visible symptoms by analyzing chicken vocal patterns in real time. The company uses GPU-accelerated acoustic AI to reduce mortality, improve farm profitability, and enable predictive biosecurity.
  • SteelCheck — SteelCheck is an AI-powered construction compliance platform that verifies steel reinforcement and structural steel installations in real time. Using GPU-accelerated computer vision and spatial analysis, the platform detects rebar sizes, spacing, and placement on construction sites and validates them against engineering drawings and BIMspecifications before concrete placement.The platform helps contractors, structural engineers, inspectors, and infrastructure developers prevent costly structural errors, reduce rework, and ensure compliance with building standards and safety regulations. SteelCheck integrates mobile inspection tools, edge AI devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, and cloud-based analytics to deliver instant compliance alerts and automated inspection reports.Backed by Techstars pre-seed funding and QuantumSavanna VC seed investment, SteelCheck is building the intelligence layer for construction verification, transforming manual inspection into real-time structural compliance for the global construction industry.
  • MetraEstate — MentraEstate is an AI-driven real estate intelligence platform designed to optimize property investment, valuation, and development decisions across emerging markets. The platform leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and infrastructure-scale data modeling to provide investors, developers, and financial institutions with actionableinsights for portfolio optimization and risk management. MentraEstate focuses on emerging urban markets where data fragmentation limits investment efficiency, delivering structured intelligence tools that enhance transparency, forecasting accuracy, and capital allocation decisions.
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Aristarichus Weru
Angel · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Founder & CEO @ The Kueq Limited

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Billing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UbaPesa — UbaPesa is the best peer to peer lending app in Kenya which allows you to lend and borrow money in real-time.
  • The Kueq Limited — The kueq is a Virtual Bank mobile based user initiated Automated & manual lending & borrowing app providing a platform for Individual funders to loan to individual borrowers on 10 days & 20 days, World major currencies FX trading (USD/KES, EUR/KES, GBP/KES) Have a physical and or virtual prepaid card, credit card& or debit card, Make RTGS & international TT using SWIFT Pesa linked – local payment gateway Pay water, electricity, cable bills. Buy government treasury bond and treasury bills, Buy insurance covers both life & general insurance covers et al. Crowd funding of it’s own shares, (Buy shares of The kueq limited on it’s own app. The next level crowd funding) based on real time company performance information e.g toplines, PAT, EBITDA, D/E, EPS, DPS, statutory ratios; cash ratios, core capital, Business accounts, Bid bond & invoice discounting
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Microtraction
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.3M; Angel $30k–$50k; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Growwr — Tell Growwr who you need. Our AI hiring agent finds relevant talent, evaluates candidates, and helps you move from hiring brief to interview.
  • Paycrest — Unifying fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with speed, transparency, and built-in compliance.
  • Cr3dentials — Cr3dentials lets neobanks offer credit inside their app. We handle income verification, underwriting, capital, and collections. You keep the customer.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Financial Services, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $230k–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
  • Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

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.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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 to achieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund. The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies. They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
  • Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
  • Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
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Flourish Ventures
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups, 13 in the past 12 months

We are an early-stage global venture capital firm investing in fintech founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 259
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.5M; Series A $3.3M–$25M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spiko — Cash management for companies and individuals. Open your account in under 5 minutes, earn daily yield on your treasury and access cash anytime.
  • Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.
  • Parallel Loop — Parallel Loop is a software engineering company that builds AI solutions, and custom software for startups and enterprises.
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Kaleo Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm that invests in pre-seed companies across Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BankWise — Liga123 merupakan situs slot jackpot 888 slots paling gacor dan juga platform ini terdata paling banyak dicari hari ini karena memiliki akses yang mudah tanpa harus menggunakan Apk tambahan seperti VPN untuk memainkan game favorit.
  • ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
  • Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure
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Social Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 493
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $9.7M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ZeroBrush — Clean every surface of your teeth, every time, all at once. ZERObrush is a groundbreaking oral care mouthpiece built from a 3D model of your teeth and designed to clean the hard to reach places better than a manual toothbrush.
  • Biz AI Last — Your dedicated IT department. AI-assisted triage, live expert support via chat, remote connection to fix issues directly, and on-site technicians when needed.
  • Mast Reforestation — No-cost reforestation for post-wildfire burned acreage for landowners and foresters, funded by carbon removal credits.
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Artesian VC
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004, Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 643
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $42k–$553k; Venture - Series Unknown $650k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
  • TerraBlaster — TerraBlaster is a cutting-edge agricultural technology firm focused on transforming sustainable agriculture through enhanced automation and precise technologies.
  • Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
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Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Internet, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$2M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
  • KaliSpot — KaliSpot is a 24/7 automated network of ATMs servicing Mobile Money, Bank and Fintech consumers in West & Central Africa. Combined with a mobile app, we provide a PhyGital transformative solution to Financial Services access in WCA.
  • Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
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Injini
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Injini's EdTech Accelerator and Think Tank aims to support founders of African startups with a mission to improve educational outcomes across the region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $39k–$500k; Grant $55k–$132k; Pre-Seed $7k–$40k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Book Village — Together Let's End The Reading Crisis In South Africa Tutor Young South African Learners From Anywhere with Book Village. Sign up now to hear first...
  • Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
  • The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.
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Chapel Hill Denham
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Renewable Energy, Apps, Solar
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Debt Financing $4.6M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Falcon — Falcon Corporation is an indigenous company operating in Nigeria's oil and gas sector. The company engages in natural gas distribution, pipeline construction, and fabrication services. Additionally, Falcon Corporation is involved in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) trading, offering storage and distribution solutions. The company providestechnical procurement and project management services to support various energy projects. Falcon Corporation aims to deliver energy solutions through operational excellence, people, and partnerships.
  • d.light — Founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise, d.light manufactures and distributes award-winning solar lighting and power products designed to serve the more than 2 billion people globally without access to reliable electricity. Through five distribution hubs in East Africa, West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States, d.lighthas impacted over 65 million lives with its products. d.light is dedicated to providing the most reliable, affordable, and accessible solar lighting and power systems for the developing world, with the goal of reaching 100 million people by 2020. For more information, visit www.dlight.com.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
  • OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
  • Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.
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Aaron Fu
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% 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.
  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • 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.
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 761
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$420M; Debt Financing $20M–$356M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
  • Altobridge — AltoBridge.com is a bold and dynamic domain name that exudes sophistication and innovation. This sleek and memorable name evokes a sense of elevation and connection, making it perfect for a wide range of industries looking to establish a st
  • Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone is a leading industrial and commercial hub in Nigeria, offering businesses world-class infrastructure, tax incentives, and strategic access to global markets.
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$70M; Debt Financing $6.8M–$100M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$122M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
  • SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
  • Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
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Colle Capital Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
  • Neuron Factory — Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations.
  • Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone
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Norrsken Evolve
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Norrsken Evolve is a pre-seed fund that supports the founders who are creating the future of Europe by offering funding,a top-notch in-person sprint, and an exceptional network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Non-Equity Assistance
  • Geography: Sweden, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $67M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Volve — Understand risk before you price, prove coverage before you submit, protect margin before you sign. AI that connects documents, drawings and BIM models.
  • Motion — Motion provides a Humanoids-as-a-Service platform that supports the deployment and operation of humanoid robots across industrial, warehouse, and logistics environments. The platform enables businesses to select and deploy OEM-agnostic humanoid robots based on operational requirements. It manages data collection, task-specific robot training, ITintegration, fleet management, financing, insurance, compliance, and maintenance through a subscription-based model. Motion also supports the integration of humanoid robots into existing workflows and operational systems. Its services cover the lifecycle of deployed robotic fleets, from robot selection and initial configuration to ongoing management and maintenance. The platform is designed to help organizations manage robotic automation without being tied to a single robot manufacturer.
  • Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $5M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
  • TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
  • Tare — Tare uses AI and tokenization to change the entire credit lifecycle.
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Betatron Venture Group
VC Fund · Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Hong Kong, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $30k–$150k; Series A $2.7M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Yarken — Yarken is the connector that conncet the dots between IT and finance.
  • Mappedin — Mappedin lets you create indoor maps using AI-powered tools and share them anywhere. Maps help make the indoors discoverable.
  • Cube Asia — Cube Asia helps the world's leading brands, investors, and consulting firms access best-in-class e-commerce market data and insights.
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Act Venture Capital
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth. We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internet and mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach. Act is based in Dublin, Ireland. Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $146M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubotica — Ubotica delivers live maritime intelligence powered by Orbital AI, using satellites and sensors to predict risk, confirm threats and deliver actionable evidence.
  • Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
  • Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.2M; Series A $2.5M–$17M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $62M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
  • Revrag — Embed AI agents directly into your BFSI product. Automate onboarding, re-engage drop-offs, and drive conversions with In-App and Calling AI agents.
  • Gangkhar — Gangkhar provides AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure for digital platforms, insurers, MGAs, and brokers to launch, optimize, and scale embedded protection.
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Software Investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 167 deals from 189 investors.

189
investors
in Kenya Software startups
167
deals
in Kenya Software startups
$175k
median round
in Kenya Software startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
94/6
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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