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Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in April 2025

Investor	Transportation Kenya investments
Golden Palm Investments	6
Novastar Ventures	5
4DX Ventures	5
EchoVC Partners	4
Village Global	4
Launch Africa	4
Outlierz Ventures	3
Ground Squirrel Ventures	3
Musha Ventures	3
Kepple Africa Ventures	3
Renew Capital	3
Lynett Capital	3
Betatron Venture Group	3
Moxxie Ventures	3
Chapel Hill Denham	2
Quona Capital	2
FJ Labs	2
Trucks Venture Capital	2
Interswitch	2
Breyer Capital	2
Timon Capital	2
GE32 Capital	2
Chandaria Capital	2
At One Ventures	2
Saviu Ventures	2
Mobility 54	2
Dynamo	2
JAM Fund	2
Esas Ventures	2
Vertex Ventures US	2
MPGI	2
Climate Capital	2
Raba Partnership	2
Oui Capital	2
British International Investment	1
Garage Technology Ventures	1
Beyond Capital Ventures	1
Angel Investment Network	1
Rackhouse Venture Capital	1
British International Investment	1
Factor[e] Ventures	1
UNCOVERED FUND	1
Arzan Venture Capital	1
Crystal Stream Capital	1
Artha Group	1
Satgana	1
UTEC - The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners	1
OnCapital	1
CFAO Kenya	1
Equator	1

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Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sabipay — Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.
Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.

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?

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.
MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
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.

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

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Voiceops — Your high-volume calls contain the blueprint for business growth, cost reduction, and risk management. Voiceops doesn't just analyze calls - it works alongside your team to automatically implement improvements that most businesses miss.Founded in New York and backed by top-tier investors on both coasts, Voiceops has driven billions ofdollars of revenue and cost-savings for industry leaders in education, financial services, and insurance. Real results: 80% increase in close rates, 98% reduction in compliance violations, 70% reduction in post-call work, 93% reduction in attrition, and 50% reduction in cost per lead.We're a fast-growing AI platform, with customers who have called our AI teammate “stunning” and the most advanced capability they’ve seen “by a landslide” — and we're just getting started.
Breakout — Breakout is the always-available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by offering personalized engagement and ive demos to your website visitors.
Orpheus Ocean — The first AUV to unlock scalable seafloor access

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
PBR Life Sciences — A cloud-based real-world, non-observational pharmacy sell-out data

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.

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.
Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Moxxie invests in founders who make life and work better.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
Pharos — Pharos is a Hospitals and Health Care tech that helps with quality reporting without any manual chart review.
Bluenote Health — Accelerate innovation with AI built for and trusted by leading life sciences companies.

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.

Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. 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
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paro — A Paro fractional CFO/COO shares his strategies for aligning finance and operations in order to connect performance goals with financial impact.
ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.

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

Teleo — Teleo is revolutionizing material moving industries by turning heavy equipment into supervised autonomous machines.
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.
Carvis.AI — Get instant, accurate diagnostics, easy-to-follow repair guides, essential tool lists, recommended parts, and helpful YouTube tutorials, all in one place.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
SlimTrader — SlimTrader is an e-commerce and mobile commerce firm. Its platform, MoBiashara, seeks to relieve the burdens associated with everyday transactions in developing countries by providing the missing link to completting these important activities: easy and affordable access. The company has developed the first platform in Africa that allows consumersto purchase services or shop for goods with their mobile devices.

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

Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.
SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
Network Bio — Network Bio is a clinical and molecular data library enabling precision medicine approaches for common human diseases. Its platform delivers a centralized repository for clinical and molecular data that allows researchers to identify patterns and correlations that can be used to develop new treatments and diagnostic tools.

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.
OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
Thepeer — API infrastructure for businesses

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

Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Adden Energy — Adden Energy is a developer of stable, lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. With demonstrated charge times as low as 3 minutes and capacity retention for over 10,000 cycles in a lab-scale cell, Adden Energy develops cutting-edge technologies to enable mass adoption of EVs around the world and contribute greatly to a cleaner future.
Blue Energy — Blue Energy is a nuclear power plant company that provides reliable, clean, and abundant electricity.
Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave the latest in HVAC innovation. Help the Climate. Reduce Energy Use. Improve Indoor Comfort. Perform Reliably. Lower Costs.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Mello — Looking to cut logistics costs? Mello empowers your business to harness the power of invoice data, automating workflows and uncovering actionable insights to help you save more. Schedule your demo today!

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

Movo — Movo is ai-powered workforce management software, full of HR automation features like employee scheduling, smart task management, mobile time clock software, shift balancing, hiring and onboarding automation. With Movo, your high-volume workforce can be up and running in one to two weeks.
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.
Rollup — Rollup is a collaborative platform that develops hardware solutions. It's primary features are system modeling and real-time communication.

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 — AI procurement software to transform your procurement process. Our procurement system streamlines purchase, optimize spend, and boost efficiency - Get a Free Demo
Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.

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

Riley AI — The simplest way to turn customer data into impactful product decisions.
LightBeam.ai — LightBeam.ai - zero trust data protection pioneer, converges & simplifies data security, privacy, & AI governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed & confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, We tie together sensitive data cataloging, control, & compliance across structured, unstructured, & semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, & compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations.
HUMAN — HUMAN is a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human.

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

Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

Climate Capital is an investment firm that supports companies that directly or indirectly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rosy Soil — Crafted for the specific needs of indoor plants, this blend contains all-natural, renewable ingredients that optimize drainage, deliver plant-boosting nutrients, and support a diverse community of beneficial fungi and microbes.
Moment Energy — Moment is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage. We create battery units that can be used in a variety of applications. Moment is currently focused on storing energy for off-grid, end of grid customers, and plans on powering remote communities in the future.
Orpheus Ocean — The first AUV to unlock scalable seafloor access

The Raba Partnership, Raba Capital, Raba

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Swypex — The all-in-one financial platform empowering businesses with control, visibility, and efficiency. Swypex simplifies business finances, freeing you to focus on growth.
Kera — We are on a mission to connect health ecosystems and enable healthy lives for all communities. Starting in Senegal.
Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.

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

Investment focus

Transportation, Information Technology, B2B
Pre-Seed, 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.
Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
Aye Finance — Aye Finance (aka ayefin) is a fintech organization with aim to empower the economic transformation of micro enterprises. We are focused on priortizing customer satisfaction and providing quality service to change the way micro businesses fund themselves
Magnum Polymers — Magpet Polymers Private Limited is a part of the Magnumgroup, specializing in the conversion of PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate). As a significant PET converter in Eastern India, the company plays a crucial role in the packaging and containers industry. The company's operations encompass a wide range of activities, from manufacturing todistribution, providing comprehensive solutions to its clients. The company's authorized capital stands at Rs 63.0 lakhs, with 95.793655% paid-up capital, which is Rs 60.35 lakhs.

A seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Acerta Analytics — Your data is complex. Acerta provides integrated insights into part quality that will optimize production and improve throughput using machine learning and AI.
Diamond — Setup an entire backend system for your online business in a few clicks.
HiGeorge — HiGeorge allows news publishers to easily create compelling visualizations from public data that are on par with the New York Times. We do this by cleaning and aggregating public datasets so that anyone can instantly use our data visualizations with a simple copy/paste. Think Tableau with all the necessary data attached.

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

Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
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.

Angel Investment Network is a London-based investment company founded in 2004 whose aim is to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Today they have 35+ angel networks worldwide covering over 80 countries. They have over 150,000 investor members and over 600,000 entrepreneurs have signed up to use their services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Denmark, India

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.

We’re an early-stage venture capital fund that backs data founders, regardless of sector or geography.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Prelude — Purpose-built to help cannabis dispensaries improve sales, profitability and cash flow by optimizing purchasing and inventory management
Crosshatch — Crosshatch enables developers to build hyper-personalized applications with data users share.
Reality Defender — Reality Defender is deepfake detection done right. With billions of visual and audio assets indexed, we offer the most robust deepfake detection available.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
India, Kenya, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Fasal — Fasal, an agri-tech platform, developed by Wolkus Technology Solutions, is an AI-powered platform for the Agriculture ecosystem that records a variety of growing conditions on the farm. It then uses artificial intelligence and data science to make on-farm predictions, before delivering the insights anywhere on any device including (iOS, Android,Tablet, and web).Its data-driven precision agriculture solution recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climate data collected through agnostic sensors that helps farmers with cost savings in terms of water, energy, fertilizers, and pesticides.
TymeBank — TymeBank is a subsidiary of the Tyme Group, which focuses on financial technology and banking solutions. TymeBank focuses on providing accessible financial services to the lower-income market. It emphasizes digital banking and minimal fees. Customers can open secure personal and business accounts online, benefiting from low banking charges and highsavings interest rates through their digital platform.
ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.

Factor[e] Ventures impact venture builders, dedicated to supporting the people and ideas that will turn the tables in the global battle for sustainable solutions to energy, agriculture, mobility, and waste challenges in emerging & frontier markets.Working across the globe, we bring disruptive innovation to the worlds’ fastest-growing markets.We serve as a conduit between philanthropic and commercial investors who are like-minded in their pursuit of de-carbonized development through market-driven forces.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Kenya, India

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Terralima — Terralima is building a digital platform where we connect a trusted network of farmers in Africa to food producers and co-operatives who get high-quality, traceable agricultural commodities at a fair, transparent and stable market price. We are also bridging the funding gap for farmers and aggregators through embbeded fintech.Our online Tradingand Fintech platform delivers direct access to markets, on-demand credit, and efficient logistics for smallholder farmers; thus ensuring we can get food from where it is produced to where it's required, while eliminating food waste and maximising profits for farmers.
InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
Open Access Energy — Open Access Energy provides energy management software.

UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Nigeria, Kenya, United States

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Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.
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.

Arzan Venture Capital (Arzan VC) is a Kuwait-born VC firm that has been investing in startups with a MENA angle since 2014, making it one of the earliest VC firms in the region. Arzan VC's portfolio includes 30+ startups. The firm invests in young, fast-growing and innovative tech teams and it remains committed to building long-lastingrelationships with the region’s most talented entrepreneurs at an early stage.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Hulexo — UAE's leading ERP software for retail businesses. Integrated data, accurate info, real-time insights.
Nearpay — Focus On Building Deep Technology To Create Innovations
Revenya Capital — Revenya Capital, providing revenue-based financing to tech startups in MENA.

Crystal Stream Capital specializes in making early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
China, United States, Egypt

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Huang Xiaozhu — Huang Xiaozhu is a convenient fresh food brand that is positioned to cut from Chinese fresh porridge, integrate modern processing and production and patented fresh-keeping technology, to provide young consumers with convenient, healthy and nutritious "light cooking" fresh food. Huang Xiaozhu has now developed four light luxury series ofporridge products, including abalone seafood porridge, bird's nest and white fungus porridge, ginseng chicken porridge, sea cucumber millet porridge, and plans to go online in early April.
Qiutian Manman — Qiutian Manman is a professional brand engaged in developing nutritious food for babies and children, sets a “daily dietary nutrition clock” for babies and children, and assists parents to establish a new concept of nutritious meals for their offspring. The brand offers nutritious products designed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well asnutritional supplements for the morning and afternoon, in a bid to guarantee babies and children aged 3-12 can have a reasonable intake of nutrition 24 hours a day to ensure their healthy growth every day.
Joes Future Food — Joes Future Food develops, manufactures, tests, and sells raw and auxiliary materials for food and biological products. Founded in 2019.

Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
India, United States, Kenya

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Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.

Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.

Investment focus

Electronics, B2B, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Kenya, France, Austria

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Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
NitroVolt — NitroVolt: the next generational step of sustainable ammonia.
Brineworks — Brineworks is making sustainble CO2 and H2 production afforable. The building blocks for green fuels - from seawater.

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, Singapore

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Issin — Issin manufactures bath mats that can measure weight and automatically record daily weight changes on your smartphone.
RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
Eureka Robotics — Eureka Robotics develop robotics technologies and products to automate the mundane, so that humans can focus on the creative.

investment advisory company

Investment focus

Battery, Transportation, Electric Vehicle
Seed
Kenya, France

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.
Stima — Boost your EV business with battery intelligence_ The Battery fleet management SAAS to scale EVs in emerging markets Boost your EV business with battery intelligence_ The Battery fleet management SAAS to scale EVs in emerging markets Boost your EV business with battery intelligence_ The Battery fleet management SAAS to scale EVs in emerging markets Battery ... Read more

CFAO Kenya operates renewable energy and infrastructure projects and scale-up of the various start-ups in the mobility sector.

Investment focus

Transportation, Public Transportation
Series A
Kenya

Portfolio highlights

BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.

A venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled, early-stage ventures that are accelerating an equitable climate transition in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Kenya, United States, United Kingdom

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IBISA — IBISA is an index-based insurance marketplace with satellite adoption. Inclusive mutual risk sharing solution with low fees and fast assessment and payment. Crop Protection for Smallholder Farmers
SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

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