Top 15 Wellness VC Funds & Investors in Kenya (November 2026)
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1M–$1B |
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Proparco
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Energy, Finance | $400k–$206M |
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Hooge Raedt Social Venture
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Tanzania, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Organic Food, Social Entrepreneurship | $48k–$1.5M |
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Africa Venture Labs
VC Fund
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1 | Cameroon, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care | $200k–$3.5M |
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Pfizer
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, France | Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical | $800k–$320M |
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Series A, Series B | Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech | $1M–$42M |
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RippleWorks
VC Fund
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1 | Ghana, Kenya, South Africa | Debt Financing, Corporate Round | Mobile, FinTech, Fitness | $1.7M–$6.5M |
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Full Circle Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, Mexico | Seed | FinTech, Banking, Wellness | $600k–$4M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Nigeria | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce | $450k–$51M |
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Agence Française de Développement
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Brazil | Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt | Banking, Finance, Waste Management | $13k–$351M |
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Social Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, mHealth | $225k–$5M |
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Blue Leaf Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, FinTech | $1.1M–$23M |
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, Ghana | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Health Care, Wellness, Insurance | $2M–$12M |
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FINCA Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Grant, Series A | Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech | $40k–$4.2M |
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U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today. We invest in projects that create jobs in emerging markets in sectors including energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and financing for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. DFC investments adhere to high standards and respect the environment, human rights, and worker rights.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$468M; Debt Financing $6.7M–$390M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- DTEK — DTEK Group is a diversified energy holding that includes six businesses and Academy DTEK, our corporate university. DTEK Group is the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine, with over €12 billion in invested capital since 2005, employing 55,000 people.
- WIOCC Group — WIOCC Group serves as a provider of interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and managed network services, operating exclusively as a wholesaler to hyperscalers, cloud operators, content providers, and telcos.
- Global Atomic Corporation — The Dasa Uranium Project scheduled to begin production in 2026 is the highest-grade uranium project in Africa; the Turkish Zinc JV provides positive cash flow.
Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. Proparco participates in the financing and support of companies and financial institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Its action focuses on the key sectors of development: infrastructures with a focus on renewable energies, agro-industry, financial institutions, health, education ... Its interventions are aimed at strengthening the contribution of private actors the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the international community in 2015. Proparco finances companies whose activity contributes to the creation of jobs and decent incomes, the supply of essential goods and services, and the fight against climate change.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Finance
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Debt Financing $400k–$206M; Private Equity $10M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.9M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
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.
- Ecoener — Ecoener is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains electricity generation projects based on clean energy sources. The company works across hydropower, wind, and solar photovoltaic technologies, managing the full lifecycle of energy facilities from early development and engineering to construction and long-termoperation. It also engages in energy commercialization activities that support the sale and distribution of electricity generated from its assets. Ecoener handles project planning, permitting, environmental assessment, and technical design as part of its infrastructure development process. The company operates and expands renewable energy plants across multiple international markets while integrating maintenance and operational management services for its facilities. It also participates in storage-related and hybrid energy projects that combine different renewable technologies to support grid stability and energy supply efficiency.
- SOGUIPAL — SOGUIPAL is a prominent food processing company. The company is the primary agro-industrial subsidiary of the Comptoir Commercial Général group.
Our goal is to create opportunities and choices for underserved people in East Africa through investments in socially-minded and viable businesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Organic Food, Social Entrepreneurship
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Tanzania, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $67k–$1.3M; Debt Financing $104k–$540k; Venture - Series Unknown $48k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
- Farmoja — FarmMoja builds integrated, seedling-to-export value chains for global markets.
- YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.
AfricaVentureLabs partners with visionary entrepreneurs building the next generation of fintech and healthtech solutions across Africa, driving financial inclusion and healthcare accessibility.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Cameroon, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monetbil — Monetbil is an IT company that provides secure solutions to optimize e-commerce payment processes for users.
- DOHONE SA — DOHONE est le carrefour des portemonnaies électroniques qui donne une vie à votre argent, et qui vous accompagne partout.
- Smobilpay — Smobilpay is a payment solutions platform connected to a network of third-party collector companies such as banks.
Pfizer provides access to safe and effective and affordable medicines and health care services. They have a portfolio of products and medicines that support wellness and prevention, as well as treatment and cures for diseases across a broad range of therapeutic areas; and they have an industry-leading pipeline of promising new products that have the potential to challenge some of the most feared diseases of their time, like Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $800k–$11M; Series A $4M–$310M; Post-IPO Equity $10M–$320M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CellCentric — CellCentric’s primary programme targets a deubiquitinase (DUB) enzyme which is strongly associated with prostate cancer, a leading cause of mortality among men. The target modulates the androgen receptor pathway and can potentially combat the multiple resistance mechanisms seen with recently approved prostate cancer drugs such Xtandi and Zytiga.The programme also has potential clinical utility in non-small cell lung, breast and colon cancer.
- Promise Bio — Promise Bio develops a virtual AI platform that helps to identify multiple Post-Translational Modifications in proteins from a single blood sample. It helps to cure chronic diseases.
- RNT Health Insights — RNT Health Insights is developing an AI assisted detection tool, that aids endoscopists in the real-time detection of debilitating upper gastrointestinal lesions, including early gastric cancer and associated malignant lesions, having received the US FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for their product.
Since 2014, Novastar Ventures has backed the bold entrepreneurs transforming African markets and sectors.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Series A $1M–$23M; Series B $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $147M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
- ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
RippleWorks pairs the most promising social ventures with Silicon Valley expertise to jointly identify and address immediate and critical scaling challenges. RippleWorks' volunteer program provides a high-skilled opportunity for tech executives and successful entrepreneurs to apply their domains of expertise and drive meaningful impact aroundthe world. RippleWorks is a non-profit that operates with a heightened sense of urgency to drive business results faster, which in turn will accelerate social and economic impact.
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- Industry: Mobile, FinTech, Fitness
- Stage:Debt Financing, Corporate Round
- Geography: Ghana, Kenya, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Debt Financing $1.7M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zoona — Zoona is an interoperable payments business that enables the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring a large variety of safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities in Zambia.
- Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
- Penda Health — With medical centres throughout Nairobi, Penda provides healthcare you can trust.
Full Circle is a proprietary investment firm, based in Africa, investing in Venture capital, Commercial Real Estate and Hospitality.
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- Industry: FinTech, Banking, Wellness
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $600k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laylo — Laylo is a boxed wine brand.
- Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
- Incredible — Pay off credit cards faster, reduce your interest payments and reclaim your financial freedom.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $9.4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
- Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $450k–$11M; Series A $3M–$51M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
- Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
- Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
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- Industry: Banking, Finance, Waste Management
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Kenya, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Grant $13k–$1M; Post-IPO Debt $80M–$286M; Debt Financing $1.5M–$351M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Caixa Econômica Federal — A Caixa é uma instituição financeira, sob a forma de empresa pública do governo federal brasileiro.
- Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) — Empresas Públicas de Medellín provides Public utility service company.
Social Venture Fund, an impact investment fund at the University of Michigan, finances companies based on social and environmental impact.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, mHealth
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $225k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
- Hydrosat — Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Leveraging our first-in-history thermal capabilities, we also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.
- Chirps Chips (Six Foods) — As seen on Shark Tank. Delicious soy, grain, and gluten free snacks made from high protein cricket flour. Non-GMO, gluten-free, and great for kids!
Investment focus
- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.1M; Series A $6.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bookelicious — Browse children's books for all ages recommended by teachers & librarians with personalization enabled by AI to match your kid with books they'd be interested in.
- Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
- Leda Health — Our mission is to empower survivors of sexual assault in an effort to end sexual violence.
Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Insurance
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.5M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
- Lissun — Lissun is an online counselling platform, which allows you to get expert advice and counselling for any mental health problem anytime and from the comfort of your own home.
- BimaKavach — Buy business insurance online from India's top 25 insurers in minutes with AI-powered risk analysis, policy comparison, and customised coverage for businesses in India
FINCA Ventures is an impact investing initiative of FINCA International that provides patient capital and support to early-stage social enterprises.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Grant $40k–$100k; Series A $1.1M–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
- Karpolax — Offering innovative fruit preservation products! For the grower, the packer, and the retailer.
- Affinity — Join over 145,000 who trust the Affinity to manage their personal and business banking needs, from payments to savings, as well as loans
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