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Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Transportation startups based in Kenya. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Kenya. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Kenya in January 2026

Investor	Transportation Kenya investments
54 Collective	10
Golden Palm Investments	6
Justin Mateen	5
4DX Ventures	5
Novastar Ventures	5
EchoVC Partners	4
Village Global	4
Launch Africa	4
Cem Garih	4
Kepple Africa Ventures	3
Moxxie Ventures	3
Musha Ventures	3
Ground Squirrel Ventures	3
Outlierz Ventures	3
Betatron Venture Group	3
Renew Capital	3
Lynett Capital	3
Timon Capital	2
Oui Capital	2
Chandaria Capital	2
Dynamo	2
Climate Capital	2
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	2
Trucks Venture Capital	2
Vertex Ventures US	2
Mobility 54	2
Savannah Fund	2
Breyer Capital	2
JAM Fund	2
Telos Ventures	2
Kevin Ambrosini	2
Esas Ventures	2
MPGI	2
FJ Labs	2
Saviu Ventures	2
Quona Capital	2
Chapel Hill Denham	2
4Di Capital	2
GE32 Capital	2
Interswitch	2
Raba Partnership	2
At One Ventures	2
Babatunde Soyoye	1
Variant Investments	1
Oskar Hartmann	1
FrontEnd Ventures	1
Beyond Capital Ventures	1
Keiki Capital	1
Ajim Capital	1
Tomasz Gasienica-Szostak	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Billboxx — Empowering SMEs to pay and get paid on time, every time.
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.

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ILLA — Digital trucking and delivery platform powered by reliable drive to enable businesses with different volumes handle and optimize their trucking and logisitcs processes effeciently.
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.

Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
PALM — PALM rewards users for consistency and advancement by fusing contemporary behavioral nudges with conventional investment techniques. To assist customers in achieving their objectives, PALM selects the best asset allocations among asset types, such as fixed income, stocks, and precious metals. PALM improves savings value and lowers out-of-pocketexpenses by fusing exclusive offers from an expanding merchant network with strong investment returns.
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.

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

Investment focus

Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Adora — Adora is the AI-native performance marketing engine that gives enterprise brands direct control over the inputs that drive their results.
AirOps — Deploy task specific AI where you need it most with AirOps Apps. Install and configure in minutes, scalable and available everywhere.
Lore — Being a fan used to be fun. We are going to fix it.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.

Investor

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

TuMeke Ergonomics — Computer vision joint tracking for ergonomic risk assessments. Automate assessments so you can focus on implementing solutions.
Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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
TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Moxxie invests in founders who make life and work better.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

Investment focus

Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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 — We provide eCommerce shipping software, fulfillment centers, global partnerships, strategically-located warehouses & multichannel integrations. [More...]
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!

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

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

Investment focus

FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
Juxta — Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals.
Ribbon — Go live with an inheritance center that your members deserve

At Timon Capital, they have tremendous respect for the entrepreneurial journey—especially in emerging markets. As former entrepreneurs, they have built companies and gone through the frustration of trying to manage wayward investors. They decided to hold themselves to a higher standard and named ourselves Timon: a Greek word that means ‘the oneinfluenced by honor’ as well as ‘fairly priced.’

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Logistics
Seed, Series A
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses
Buoy Pay — Buoy Pay is an on-demand float for remittance and payment companies. It helps remittance and payment companies stay on top of their liquidity needs.

Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
Herconomy (Ex AGS Tribe) — Herconomy is a platform that allows women build their finances, capacity, collaborate and access opportunities.

Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

We invest in extraordinary founders building startups in supply chain and mobility. We are equipped to support founders through the seed stage in their effort to transform global trade and commerce.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Vallor — Board AI is a SaaS AI developer.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Milk Moovement — Milk Moovement is a powerful tool that connects all players in the raw milk supply chain. With features for transportation monitoring, production tracking, quality monitoring and producer payment, Milk Moovement is the only tool your team needs to manage raw milk.

Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Magnefy — Leverage AI-powered maintenance with our predictive maintenance solutions using advanced magnetic sensor technology for transformers.
Copper — Thoughtfully designed, meticulously engineered, well-made home electrification products.
ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.

UTEC-The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co., Ltd.. UTEC is a seed/early stage technology focused venture capital firm associated with The University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Japan, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Piece — Piece is a digital real estate platform offering the easiest and most transparent way to participate in income-producing real estate in Europe. Our mission is to make real estate ownership inclusive and more accessible.
Forest — Forest Co., Ltd. operates as an e-commerce aggregator, seeks to identify sustainable, high-quality products and brands that embrace the spirit of Japan and help them grow and enter the global market by using the power of technology.
Celaid Therapeutics — Celaid Therapeutics specializes in manufacturing and sales of regenerative medicine products utilizing human hematopoietic stem cells.

Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation.

Investment focus

Transportation, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Veecle — Veecle is a modern software development platform for vehicle function development. Our carmaker customers use to to design, program, simulate and update all vehicle software. It makes car development dramatically faster and cheaper. It's a clean-slate approach focused on ease of use and scalability. Car functions can be programmed like asmartphone app - with security and safety by design.
Bingo Tech — A Shopify style marketplace for last-mile electric fleet needs. Looking to launch a fleet of electric vehicles? Bingo's solutions will enabled you to launch in a matter of weeks: select a vehicle from a wide selection of 2, 3 and 4-wheel options which can all run on the same battery, select battery swapping stations to keep your fleet charged,then launch & manage the entire operation with Bingo's turnkey white label software.
Maritime Fusion — Maritime Fusion specializes in the development and construction of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) fusion reactors.

Vertex Ventures US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Metaview — Metaview uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews.
Recce — Solving the data context problem
Ambi Robotics — AI-powered robotic parcel sorting solutions for shipping, ecommerce and logistics. Automate package handling with robotic sorting systems.

Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

Breyer Capital is an independent global venture capital and private equity investor. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, we make long-term, idea-driven investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Biocogniv — Biocogniv helps hospitals avert preventable deaths and reduce costs by detecting critical conditions earlier than the standard of care.
SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Mexico, India

Portfolio highlights

Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

We want to see the Holy Spirit unleash the entrepreneurial spirit by making disciples through building God-glorifying Gospel-centered ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Q&A, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wasoko — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
Sokowatch — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
VendorHawk — ServiceNow Software Asset Management runs on a single-architecture platform, enabling faster outcomes to reduce spending and license compliance risks.

Kevin Ambrosini is Chief Strategy Officer at Payoneer, a publicly-traded fintech with $80bn volume (+21% year-over-year), $1bn revenue and 28% adj EBITDA margins [2024]. Previously, Kevin was the Head of Global Strategy & GM, North America at Alibaba.com, where he helped take the business from revenue of $800m and 4% annual growth to $3bn and30% annual growth over 4 years. Kevin join Alibaba through its acquisition of OpenSky, where he was Co-founder and CFO. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Egypt, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

MaxAB — The Region's Leading Retailer Super App At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food & grocery e-commerce platform At MaxAB, we change how the supply chain works through our B2B food
buywith — buywith is a video commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to transform their e-commerce into engaging shoppable videos and dynamic video-led experiences, including an AI-powered digital studio for creating video ads for retail media at scale.
Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.

Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate.With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in earlystage companies globally.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Procol — Procol is a leading AI procurement software and e-procurement platform trusted by 200+ enterprises. Automate sourcing, vendor management, and P2P workflows with the best procurement management system.
Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
Gowit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.

MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
inyad — We're on a mission to move the Offline Business to the Online World in Africa & the Middle East
Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, Brazil, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
Shivalik Small Finance Bank — Welcome to Shivalik Bank, home for all your financial needs. Contact us for savings accounts, current accounts, fixed deposits, recurring deposits gold loans & internet banking.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.

4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Casai — Uncover exclusive holiday home deals on Casai.com. Compare rates from reputable travel platforms to secure the best offer on luxury homes. Your dream getaway is just a booking away.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
Shuttlers — Book safe, reliable, and affordable transportation services with Shuttlers across Lagos and 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.

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, South Africa, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature.

Investment focus

Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Simplifyber — Simplifyber is changing the way clothes are created, transforming the world's $1.5 trillion Apparel Industry and 250-year old factory system into sustainable, additive manufacturing. By assembling clothes with chemistry rather than with sewing machines, the Simplifyber process eliminates much of the waste, carbon emissions, and water pollutionthat have led to fashion’s devastating environmental and social impact in recent years. Efficient, plant-based and closed-loop, Simplifyber is revolutionizing the way the world manufactures clothing with its proprietary technology and cutting-edge techniques.
Bettani — Climax Foods is a data science company innovating the future of food. It has developed sophisticated machine intelligence tools to unlock smarter paths from plants to products, creating a new generation of plant-based foods that will out-compete animal-based predecessors.Together, a team of top data and food scientists from around the globe areintelligently harnessing the vast biodiversity of the plant kingdom to create the pinnacle of flavor, texture, and nutrition — at a price point for everyone.Climax Foods was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.
STELLARIA — Stellaria is reimagining sustainable rapid neutron nuclear energy.

Mr. Soyoye holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and a Board member of Africatel Holdings B.V.

Investment focus

Apps, Sales, Fitness
Seed, Grant, Series A
United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Wasoko — Increasing purchasing power across Africa. Making every retailer thrive, every shopper happy and every community shine! We are Wasoko.
Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
The Medic App — Medic was formed to provide the go-to integrated solution for patients, clinicians and carers globally. In doing so we want to improve medication management, enhance healthcare services and ultimately improve patient prognosis.

Variant Investments is an innovator in alternative income investing.

Investment focus

FinTech, Supply Chain Management
Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Zanifu — Zanifu is a financial technology company, that enables MSME's in the African FMCG supply chain get access to working capital.

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

FrontEnd is a strategic partner for innovative ventures offering support to diverse leaders with high market potential, proven traction...

Investment focus

Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
Pre-Seed
Kenya

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!

Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Kenya, India, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.

Early Stage Climate Tech Investor

Investment focus

Finance, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Automotus — Curb management for cities, airports and fleets. Real-time data. Automated payments. Smart loading zones. Zero emissions delivery zones.
WattCarbon — WattCarbon develops decarbonization measurement and verification tools to track the carbon intensity of building energy use. The company was founded in 2021 with its headquarters in Lafayette, California.
Othersphere — Othersphere identifies the most profitable and sustainable locations for deployment of zero / low greenhouse gas industrial technologies, with initial focus on hydrogen. Utilizing a breakthrough software platform which tightly integrates energy systems models and geospatial data, Othersphere will ac

We are investing in the next generation of exceptional African founders.

Investment focus

Travel, Lending, Hospital
Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Kenya

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!
Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

Tomasz Gasienica-Szostak

Investment focus

Logistics, Last Mile Transportation
Pre-Seed
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Mloka — Mloka is a dynamic Kenyan start-up revolutionizing the way parcels are handled and delivered. With a strong focus on electronic locker systems, Mloka offers secure, convenient, and efficient solutions for package storage and retrieval. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Mloka aims to streamline the last-mile delivery process, reducing costs andenhancing customer satisfaction. With a user-friendly mobile app and a growing network of strategically located lockers, Mloka is poised to disrupt the traditional parcel delivery industry in Kenya and beyond.

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