Top 25 Web3 Startup Investors in Kenya (September 2026)

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Everledger — Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created throughthe ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem.The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built.Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.
• Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
• Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Custora — Turn messy customer data into business growth, powered-up teams, and happy customers.
• Instantly — Buy Instagram followers from Techcrunch50 for as little as $1. Fast delivery, real active followers and friendly 24/7 customer support. Try us today.
• Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.

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• Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
• Sati — Sati is revolutionising financial inclusion, beginning in Latin America, by making digital currencies more accessible. With our revolutionary WhatsApp-based platform, users can easily acquire, trade, and receive stable currencies and Bitcoin
• Aurelius Systems — We defend and protect the people, assets and infrastructure that matter most. Creators of Archimedes, the autonomous laser system for Counter-sUAS defense.

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

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• Thebhub — We Organize Software Engineering Teams For Startups & Develop Web and Mobile apps on Credit.
• BlockchainCybertech Limited — A Technology Company that specializes in internet-related services and products, which include blockchain solutions, cyber security and A.I

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• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Fabric Cryptography — Building towards a trustless future with custom chips for advanced cryptography.

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• Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
• FV Bank — FV Bank is a US licensed bank and a digital asset custodian that provides banking, payments, digital asset custody, and Visa cards to the U.S. and international customers.
• Hexa Wallet — Own HexaWallet.io today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
• Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
• Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone

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• CUZIN — CUZIN is your global shopping family. A community marketplace enabling members to purchase any product worldwide by leveraging other members’ buying access or advantages.Members post requests for any product they want from anywhere in the world. Online or offline, specialist boutiques/clearance outlets and sales. This request is pushed to'cuzins' best placed (geographically or commercially) to purchase the item on their behalf. Cuzins earn a tip for helping out!In addition to accepting a shopping request, any cuzin can instantly monetise being in the right place at the right time posting a purchase opportunity, which is pushed to interested members worldwide. Shopping, shipping, social. Sorted. CUZIN provides the social and logistics platform to facilitate the matching, communication, payment and shipping of the items we love worldwide.
• Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.

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• Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
• MARAMOJA transport — Find the transport you need through the people you trust. Download MARAMOJA IOS : https://t.co/sgWCdBSTin Android:https://t.co/XSrGFWg2z6

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

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• UNest — UNest makes it easy to save and invest for your children's future with tax-advantaged investment accounts, life insurance, and more.
• NuCypher — NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Crystal Intelligence — Crystal Intelligence provides blockchain intelligence solutions for governments, crypto businesses, and financial institutions. The company offers tools for investigating cryptocurrency crimes and managing crypto risk. Crystal's AML solution complies with global crypto regulatory requirements, making it suitable for banks, fintechs, exchanges,and other financial entities. The platform is available as a free blockchain explorer, SaaS, or API, and is also used by universities for research purposes.

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• Grail Capital — Grail Capital is to make it easy, profitable, and safe for investors to collect digital art.
• expand.network — Expand.network offers a unified API for transacting and sourcing historical and real-time on-chain data.
• XBTO Humla Ventures — XBTO Humla Ventures is a trusted digital asset innovator and investor. XBTO Humla Ventures invest in entrepreneurs with a combination of strong experience, vision and execution.

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• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
• TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

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• Vereign — Digital authenticity infrastructure for regulated sectors. 800,000+ verified deliveries monthly in Swiss healthcare. Open source, Swiss made.
• Hypermine — Trust, Transparency & Technology
• Cryptic Legends — Cryptic Legends Limited is a game studio based in Malta, EU, building original squad management game with strategic elements, automatic turn-based battles and player to player trading.

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• Glouse — Glouse is an online application that provides groceries at the lowest prices with the same day deliveries.
• Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.

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• Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
• Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.

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• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Lukhu Inc. — Lukhu provides merchants with tools to manage and grow their businesses such as inventory management, customer management, secure payments, analytics, and fulfilment while enabling consumers to discover, purchase, and get their clothing and footwear delivered in a convenient and affordable manner.
• OKOA Rescue — Solving one of East Africa's greatest challenges for road users. The largest network of Quick, Efficient, and Trustworthy roadside assistance operators.

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• Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
• Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Tuwe Bora — Tuwebora, we do more than just make clothing—we're building futures and revolutionizing the global fashion industry.
• Timao Group — Timao Group is a clean tech company that recycles waste and produces plastic constructive systems.
• POLLEN PATROLLERS — Pollen Patrollers' mission is to combat bee colony collapse and enhance food security by providing innovative smart hive solutions and precision pollination services. Pollen Patrollers is a startup that leverages advanced technology.

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• SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
• Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
• Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.

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• Zimi Charge — Zimi Charge enables to charge sustainably using our mobile app and network of stations.
• Lobito Atlantic Railway — A secure, efficient and reliable rail link, open to all customers, connecting Africa's Copperbelt to international markets.
• Red Rocket South Africa — Red Rocket is a renewable energy integrated power plant (IPP) that designs, develops, and distributes clean energy.

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• Funtrench — Funtrench is a technology company that builds distributed-ledger, AI, and VR solutions for various emerging challenges. Its key focus in solutions is in bringing the strengths of distributed ledgers to common problems such as counterfeit goods, electoral fraud, cross-border payments, and automated escrow among others. It aims to develop a pool oftalent skilled in the practical application of 4th industrial revolution technologies - DLT, AI, and VR. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.