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Top 50 Software VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
iHub
VC Fund
8 Kenya, South Africa Seed Education, E-Learning, EdTech
54 Collective
VC Fund
7 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
5 Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Agriculture $1M–$4M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
4 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, Banking $5M–$500M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
4 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Series A, Series B Agriculture, Health Care, Internet $1.7M–$42M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
Betatron Venture Group
VC Fund
3 Hong Kong, Singapore, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $30k–$11M
Safaricom
VC Fund
3 Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps
P1 Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Payments $400k–$40M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$33M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Mobile, Information Technology $494k–$13M
Social Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, SaaS $1M–$45M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $770k–$40M
Chandaria Capital
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech $250k–$37M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
3 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Kua Ventures
VC Fund
3 Kenya Pre-Seed EdTech, Training, E-Learning
Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
2 Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $165k–$5M
Interswitch
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Seed, Series A Logistics, Transportation, Apps $1.5M–$2.6M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $350k–$40M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
VilCap Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $50k–$6M
Acumen
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund
2 France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
AAIC Investment
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce $450k–$794M
Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture $100k–$35M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Payments $30k–$15M
Acadian Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Human Resources, SaaS $1M–$25M
Kapor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Education, Software, Health Care $1M–$50M
Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $50k–$6M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
2 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $57k–$15M
International Finance Corporation
VC Fund
2 India, Brazil, United States Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Invested Development
VC Fund
2 Kenya, India, United States Seed, Convertible Note Software, Analytics, SaaS $520k–$1.2M
Finnfund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, India, South Africa Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $2.7M–$99M
Chapel Hill Denham
VC Fund
2 Kenya Seed Apps, Logistics, Supply Chain Management $1.5M–$1.5M
British International Investment
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Nigeria Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Save the Children
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed E-Learning, Information Technology
468 Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Newid capital
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Turkey Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
AE Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Croatia Pre-Seed IaaS, Big Data, Computer
Angel Investment Network
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Denmark, India Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Kiva
VC Fund
1 Ghana, Kenya, Uganda Debt Financing, Seed, Series A Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
Synergy Growth
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Solar, Energy, Hardware
Plug and Play Tech Center
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Seed, Series A Payments, Software, Financial Services
Untapped Global
VC Fund
1 South Africa, Kenya Seed FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
Logos Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, FinTech, Logistics
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iHub
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 8 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: 11
  • 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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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 7 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: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • 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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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 5 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, Rwanda, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FarmWorks — FarmWorks is an agricultural technology company that gives farmers access to farm inputs as well as a market for the produce .FarmWork is to unlock agricultural potential by building clusters of mid-sized farms while working with thousands of small-holder farmers and establishing direct linkage to local and global markets.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
  • Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 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: 138
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
  • SkillMagic — SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to junior engineers, and helps you track progress.
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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, Banking
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $50M–$500M; Debt Financing $5M–$410M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% 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.
  • Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.
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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, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Series A $1.7M–$13M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
  • Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • 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.
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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: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% 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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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: 49
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $30k–$150k; Series A $2.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Toku — Toku is a software provider that creates bespoke cloud communications and customer engagement solutions to reimagine customer experiences for enterprises. We offer an end-to-end approach to help businesses overcome the complexity of digital transformation in APAC markets. Enhance your customer experience with our unique blend of local strategic consulting expertise, bespoke technology, regional in-country infrastructure, connectivity, and global reach.
  • ZhenHub — Add Your Tooltip Text Here
  • Bookairfreight — Save more than 20% on international door-to-door shipping. We're a one-stop freight solution for SMEs, ecommerce, and Amazon Merchants. Get a quote now!
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Safaricom
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 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: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • 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.
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P1 Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 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, Software, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $400k–$2M; Series B $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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
  • Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
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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: 123
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$33M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$13M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hub2.Io — Welcome to HUB2, the leading FINTECH startup in interoperability and payment infrastructure in Francophone Africa. We are proud to work with all financial industry players in Africa who need stable and high-performing infrastructure, and contribute to their success.
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.
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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, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 378
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $10M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $600M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
  • 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.
  • Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors.  The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 240
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4.3M; Series A $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Shekel Mobility — B2B marketplace for auto dealers to grow their dealerships leveraging on flexible inventory financing and management solutions. Available on web and mobile.
  • Thrive Market — High quality organic groceries, delivered to you! Great prices on healthy products and diet-friendly foods from the best brands. Most orders ship free!
  • Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
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Chandaria Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 investments in Kenya Software startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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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 toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

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.
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Kua Ventures
VC Fund · Westlands, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 3 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, Training, E-Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • 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.
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$250k; Series A $2M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
  • 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.
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Interswitch
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Interswitch is a leading pan-African digital payments and commerce company, enabling secure, reliable transactions across multiple African markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Transportation, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

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 — Commute better with Shuttlers. Join 100k+ professionals using our safe, affordable bus sharing, vehicle rental, and employee transport services across Nigeria.
  • 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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
  • TicketRev — TicketRev helps fans find cheaper tickets to their favorite games and concerts. Fans name their price for their preferred seating location, enabling resellers and teams to sell their inventory faster.
  • Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 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: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 935
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Gyodi
  • Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
  • Unseen — Unseen is a market intelligence platform for commercial real estate.
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
  • Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Investisseurs & Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Investisseurs et Partenaires

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$12M; Series A $3M–$794M; Series B $16M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • 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.
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Mercy Corps Ventures
VC Fund · Portland, Oregon, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $330k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$7M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
  • PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
  • Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
  • 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.
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Acadian Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Acadian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the new architecture of work. Founded in 2019 and led by executives from Cornerstone, SAP SuccessFactors, and Workday, Acadian is the world’s leading firm focused at the intersection of work and technology, on a mission to make work better and meaningful, creating a progressiveapproach to human productivity. For more information, visit acadianventures.com.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.2M; Series A $5M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Colare — Colare is an AI-powered hiring platform that uses real engineering simulations to help hardtech companies assess and hire engineers faster and more accurately.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
  • Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $10M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $126M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • CareCar — CareCar is a supplemental benefit administrator and value-based care services platform. We connect payers, caregivers, and members to close gaps, remove barriers to care, and improve health.
  • TomoCredit — TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.
  • Bloomlife — Bloomlife is a maternal health company improving the health and wellbeing of women and their babies through personalized prenatal care.
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Sherpa Africa Partners
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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 — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $57k–$4M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
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International Finance Corporation
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 386
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • iyzico — iyzico was founded with the aim of providing a secure payment management platform to online companies of different sizes operating in different industries. Currently it offers iyziPos (secure virtualPOS solution with automated fraud prevention and high authorization-rate bank integrations) , iyziBazaar (manage marketplace payments), iyziLink (payby link, without the need of a shopping site), and Buyer Protection (secure shopping experience) as the flagship products.
  • Candela — We build electric hydrofoil boats and ferries for leisure and commercial use. Explore the Candela C-8 and the Candela P-12.
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Invested Development
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

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.
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Kenya Software startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $2.7M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amartha — Amartha Mikro Fintech - P2P Lending Indonesia. Alternatif investasi dengan modal terjangkau mulai 100Rb. Tedaftar OJK, Imbal hasil 15%* & Berdampak Sosial.
  • Mobisol — We transform lives through solar energy access. Our solar home systems and mini-grids benefit millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Chapel Hill Denham
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 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: Apps, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
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British International Investment
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 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, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Xurya — Xurya is a renewable energy platform in providing commercial and industrial rooftop owners access to solar lease product on one side. And investors access to a stable and safe investment in rooftop solar plants on the other side. Both are achieved by maintenance service which enables both parties peace of mind.
  • Grow Indigo — Let's start the transformative movement towards carbon farming in India with expertise of Mahyco and Indigo Ag.
  • BRAC Bank — BRAC Bank Limited provides various commercial banking products and services in Bangladesh. The company offers retail, wholesale, small and medium enterprises (SME), and Probashi banking products and services. It provides various deposit products, such as current accounts, fixed deposits, SME deposits, savings accounts, and term deposits. Thecompany also offers loan portfolio comprising personal loans, auto loans, home loans, and secured loans/overdrafts.
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Save the Children
VC Fund · Fairfield, Connecticut, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for their future. In the United States and around the world, they give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. By transforming children's lives now, they change the course of their future and ours.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenpli — Zenpli makes it easy for enterprises and startups in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
  • Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
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Newid capital
VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding and business banking accounts to make cash flow.
  • NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
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AE Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, Big Data, Computer
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Croatia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Angel Investment Network
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

The UK Angel Investment Network connects business entrepreneurs with Angel Investors. Find an Investor for your business, or access a network of investment opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WAU BIKE — Introducing the WAU X, the long range eBike with indicators and brake lights. Featuring a 100 mile range, smart APP and remote locking system. Finance available.
  • BASANIZOMAI — We are a new social network, based on humor
  • Here We Flo — Shamelessly natural and sustainable period care, sensitive bladder and sexual wellness care - so you can feel crazy confident and empowered in life's messiest moments. Only natural, never harmful, always adorable. B Corp Certified.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
  • Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
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Kiva
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Kiva is the world's first online lending platform. For as little as $25 you can lend to an entrepreneur around the world. Learn more here.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Entrepreneurship, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • I2B — Building, acquiring, and investing in bootstrapped businesses.
  • Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
  • Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
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Synergy Growth
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Synergy Growth is a private tech investment fund, established in 2011 by Steve Brooks and Nat Billington. Their purpose is to make early stage investments in disruptive technologies that aim to change the way we live our lives for the better. They invest resources in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams to help accelerate their growth and bringto market their innovative ideas and products. Their current portfolio has a strong focus on clean energy production and storage, and transport, as climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today. They have also invested in start-ups that harness the latest technologies to alter the way they work, communicate, travel and learn, towards more efficiency and less waste.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Plug and Play Tech Center
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Plug and Play is the ultimate innovation platform.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
  • Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
  • MintNeuro — MintNeuro is pioneering the use of semiconductor technology in next-generation neural implants.
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Untapped Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 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: FinTech, Consumer Goods, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Elimutab — At Elimutab we have safe and secure educational gadgets made for learners and schools. Including; Tablets, Chromebooks, Laptops, Projectors & Interactive smartboards.
  • Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
  • 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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Logos Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Software startups

Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, FinTech, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • 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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
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Software VC funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 80 deals from 91 investors.

91
investors
in Kenya Software startups
80
deals
in Kenya Software startups
$200k
median round
in Kenya Software startups
43%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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