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Top 50 Angel Investors in Kenya (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Kenya startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Cem Garih
Angel
5 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Financial Services, FinTech $460k–$17M
Justin Mateen
Angel
5 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $400k–$14M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
2 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $780k–$3M
Darshan Chandaria
Angel
2 Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, B2B, Marketplace $49k–$285k
Aaron Fu
Angel
2 Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Apps, Software $100k–$1M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
2 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Ken Njoroge
Angel
2 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Web Development, Information Technology
Christina Sass
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Seed Medical, Health Care, Social Network
Edward Lando
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$4.5M
Michael Chow
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
Shakir Merali
Angel
1 Kenya, Mauritius Seed, Series C Credit, FinTech, Lending
Melvyn Lubega
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Learning, Information Technology
Peter Kenevan
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Automotive, Marketplace
Patricia Ithau
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Hiroaki Ohta
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Automotive, Marketplace
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Vietnam Seed, Series A Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.5M–$6.2M
Richard Owen
Angel
1 Kenya Series A SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel
1 India, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Education $264k–$5M
Jessica Chervin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Social Network
Samson Larsson
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Keisuke Honda
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A Education, Blockchain, E-Learning $4.3M–$100M
Vidit Aatrey
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Education, Internet, E-Commerce $1.5M–$7.1M
Steven Tamm
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed Software, Analytics, Information Technology $1M–$1.3M
Guillaume Glaunès
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps $1.7M–$2.1M
Peter Bruce-Clark
Angel
1 Kenya Seed InsurTech, Financial Services
Luciano Freitas
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Helena Riese Harstad
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
Yago Arbeloa
Angel
1 Spain, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Apps, Internet $107k–$2.7M
Biz Stone
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Messaging, Mobile $375k–$14M
Christian Jantzen
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$3.5M
Takuma Terakubo
Angel
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Togo Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software $100k–$2M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Construction, SaaS $300k–$3.5M
Vaibhav Kapoor
Angel
1 India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Finance $300k–$3.5M
Ilkka Paananen
Angel
1 Finland, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.2M–$4.4M
Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital $200k–$1.7M
Matilde Giglio
Angel
1 India, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $125k–$125k
Rajesh Sawhney
Angel
1 India, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Internet $100k–$1M
Tom Blomfield
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $307k–$30M
Shane Neman
Angel
1 United States, Kenya, Spain Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2M–$7M
Jeremy Cai
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $600k–$1.1M
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Kwehnui Tawah
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Victor Asemota
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Credit, Banking, FinTech
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Mato Perić
Angel
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $125k–$120M
Cheryl Heller
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Gary Scheft
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Caribou Honig
Angel
1 Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong Seed, Series A InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech $2M–$15M
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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Kenya startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $841k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $460k–$1M; Series A $5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Troop — Troop is an app for retail investors to vote, organize shareholder resolutions and activist campaigns. Sign up for early access today.
  • Moment — Quickly deploy a full suite of fixed income investing tools to your clients in no time via our modern APIs. Trusted by firms representing over $100B in assets.
  • TradeX — TradeX lets you take positions on future events. Predict the outcome using data, earn money and learn something new. Earn Money online with online trading. Download the app & get FREE signup bonus.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · 5 investments in Kenya startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. 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. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $841k–$7M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1M; Series A $4.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
  • Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
  • Somethings — We connect your teen with a professional, trained 20-28 year old mentor who supports your teen via text and video call whenever they need. Start today.
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya startups

Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M; Pre-Seed $780k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
  • Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya startups

Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $49k–$285k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • 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.
  • Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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Aaron Fu
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya startups

Aaron has 10+ years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa - he has led seed stage equity investments in 20+ startups (totaling $2m+), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the board of ofstartups ranging from AgriTech to Transport and has worked with 100s through partners like Visa, MTN, Airbus, Société Générale and the World Bank.Prior to the Catalyst Fund, he was the Managing Director of MEST, Africa’s Largest Pre-Seed Incubator, and Managing Partner for Africa at Nest.vc, a Hong Kong based fund, which he joined after a career in financial services.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$280k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
  • Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Kenya startups

Peter Sandberg is a co-founder of Nordic Secondary Fund, and a venture partner at Startup Wise Guys. He has extensive experience as a Business Angel and in asset management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
  • Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
  • Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
  • Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
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Ken Njoroge
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya startups

Ken is a co-founder and the group CEO of Cellulant. A mobile commerce evangelist and career entrepreneur, Ken previously served as co-founder and Solution Design Director of 3Mice Interactive Media. The company grew from a two-man team to a leading web development firm in East Africa. 3Mice was later acquired by Africa Online- the largestPan-African Internet Service Provider.Ken is unwavering in his pursuit of seeing Cellulant achieve its mission of building a world class, values-driven $1B business for Africa, by Africans, in Africa. Ken has led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2003 with his co-founder Bolaji Akinboro, to a reputable payments company in Africa. Cellulant currently has more than 300 employees across 11 markets; servicing 34 countries in Africa. Over the past couple of years, Ken has invested time in training and advising the next generation of entrepreneurs, and contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa. In recognition of this, in 2017, Ken was selected as the first Sub-Saharan and Kenyan Global Endeavor Entrepreneur for his commitment to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Development, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
  • 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.
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Christina Sass
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selectiveengineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.Christina has built education and employment programs in China, Gaza and the West Bank, Kenya, and Nigeria. Prior to co-founding Andela, she directed the Program department of the Clinton Global Initiative and advised the President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, a $9B global foundation working to advance education and financial inclusion for youth in Africa.Christina serves on the Advisory Council of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights and on the board of the non-profit Global Give Back Circle. She also serves as education topic expert for the Clinton Global Initiative University annual meeting. Christina’s work has been mentioned by Forbes, CNN, The New Yorker, NBC, and WIRED. She has a BA in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs) and a MA in International Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School from Tufts University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Health Care, Social Network
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
  • Journey Clinical — Journey Clinical is a platform that provides services to member psychotherapy practices that are independently owned and operated, and in no way owns, directs, or controls the mental healthcare clinicians providing care.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Michael Chow
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Michael Chow is the Founder and CEO of Dart Technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Rental Property
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Teamble — Teamble dramatically improves how managers coach their people and how employees learn and up-skill. Teamble uniquely combines continuous feedback, performance, employee engagement, and learning & development in one AI-based platform, built to drive higher performance.
  • Boom — Boom is the easiest way to build credit credit with your rent. With Boom, report your rent payments to all three credit bureaus for as little as $2 per month. Enroll in minutes.
  • Tembo Health — Seniors deserve the very best care, no matter where they live. Tembo Health partners with nursing homes to provide residents with high quality telemedicine appointments in specialties like psychiatry, cardiology, and more.
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Shakir Merali
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Shakir Merali

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, FinTech, Lending
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 4G Capital — Our Mission is to provide innovative financial inclusion tools to catalyse growing businesses and markets.
  • Ilara Health — Ilara Health brings accurate and affordable diagnostics to rural Africans through miniature, AI-powered diagnostic devices that are integrated via a proprietary technology platform and distributed directly to primary care doctors.
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Melvyn Lubega
Angel · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
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Peter Kenevan
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Peter Kenevan, VP, Head of Japan at PayPal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Patricia Ithau

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Hiroaki Ohta
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Hiroaki Ohta - Chiarman @ Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.
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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Operator at nexus of policy, tech, and dev, investor, advised 8 unicorns on MENAP entry/scale-up, support Big Tech / startups to get along with govt

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
  • PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
  • Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.
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Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • SolarSquare Energy — Visit Solarsquare, India's only UL-certified solar installation company for hassle-free commercial & residential solar panel installation at 0 cost EMI & PPA options.
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Richard Owen
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Richard Owen is the Founder at OCX Cognition. He Previously worked at Satmetrix as CEO. He Attended MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
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Dr Ritesh Malik
Angel · Delhi, Delhi, India · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $264k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deciml — Deciml is an investment app in India that enables Indians to start investing young by investing the spare change from their online transactions. Download App.
  • BankSathi — Earn Money online with Banksathi. Become a financial advisor and make a regular monthly income from home by sharing demat, loans & credit card leads.
  • The Yarn Bazaar — The Yarn Bazaar is a Purpose-Led, Modern, Efficient, and Transparent managed Marketplace for yarn that allows yarn buyers and sellers to discover real-time yarn prices, information, and market trends in an instant. Our proprietary processes and flexible unsecured financing options enable yarn sellers to expand their reach and sales whilemaintaining higher margins, and buyers to discover and purchase high-quality yarn at unbeatable prices while reducing raw material and procurement costs, saving time, money, and effort.
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Jessica Chervin
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Jessica Chervin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Network
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
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Samson Larsson
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.
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Keisuke Honda
Angel · Chuo, Hokkaido, Japan · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Keisuke Honda is the Founder & CEO of Now Do.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Blockchain, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$13M; Series A $11M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
  • Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
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Vidit Aatrey
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M; Series A $5.2M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Mesa School of Business — World's first business school built by the startup ecosystem, for the startup ecosystem!
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Steven Tamm
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

CTO, salesforce.com, directing technical product strategy across all clouds and divisions. Previously CTO for CRM Appilcations and Technical Architect for Force.com Checkout at salesforce. Prior to salesforce, he worked at Open Text, SAP Markets, and Calico Commerce.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • Qbox — So Long, Farewell This service permanently shut down on August 5, 2022 after 10 years in business. Thanks to all who supported us over the years! If you still need help restoring your clusters, please download the Disaster Recovery Guide. Our team is dispersing as of tonight. Please follow our
  • Perfect Price — Perfect Price makes pricing effortless. The only cloud-based AI platform built for pricing and revenue management, Perfect Price uses powerful artificial intelligence to analyze inventory, historical sales data, competitor pricing, consumer demand, and other externalities in order to adjust prices in real-time. Designed for enterprises in dynamicindustries, Perfect Price ensures a reliable data-driven approach to pricing that delivers immediate value while eliminating the guesswork, complexity, and cost associated with traditional pricing methods. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California, Perfect Price is backed by leading technology investors. Businesses around the world rely on Perfect Price to maximize revenue, profitability, and growth. For more information please visit www.perfectprice.com.
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Guillaume Glaunès
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Voyage SMS — The flexible and delightful SMS marketing and message commerce platform. 30X ROAS, 30%+ CTR, and 2-5X relative list growth. Get a demo today.
  • Homebase — Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Homebase is one of Southeast Asia’s leading Proptech companies. Homebase provides revolutionary products made accessible that empower homeowners to buy, sell, and own homes in ways that work best for themselves. Our vision is to actualize each and every individual's dream of homeownership in Southeast Asia.Homebase is backed by leading investors and partners around the world. Our investors and partners include, but are not limited to, large global financial institutions (Shinhan Bank, Emles, ACE and Company), leading venture capital and private equity funds (Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, VinaCapital, Partech, etc), and successful entrepreneurs and angel investors (founders and executives of disruptive companies like Divvy Homes, PropertyGuru, Zerodown, and Opendoor). Our management team comes from elite multi-national companies and institutions (McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Grab, Linkedin, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Caltech), and consists of diverse professionals across financial advisory, real estate, management consulting, capital markets, and technology. Homebase’s advisory board consists of founders and executives in some of the most successful and high-growth technology and proptech companies in Southeast Asia, including Alibaba, Lazada, 99.co, PropertyGuru, and Zalora.Homebase's head office is located in Ho Chi Minh City. We operate across most major cities in Vietnam in addition to smaller provincial areas in Vietnam.To learn more about Homebase, please visit our website at: https://homebase.com.vn
  • Rain — We build artificial intelligence processors, inspired by the brain. Our mission is to enable brain-scale intelligence.
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Peter Bruce-Clark
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Peter Bruce-Clark - Partner @ Social Impact Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: InsurTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
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Luciano Freitas
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Luciano Freitas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
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Helena Riese Harstad
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Helena Riese Harstad is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Optimizer Foundation. She previously worked at SBAB Bank as a Project Specialist. Helena Riese attended Stockholm University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Tourism, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
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Yago Arbeloa
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Spain, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $129k–$804k; Angel $107k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
  • Rentuos — Rentuos is a Real Estate company specializing in rental sector. Their mission is to revolutionize the rental sector, incorporating the latest technologies and an innovative approach. For this, they have 60 years of experience in the real estate and new technologies sectors, and they have the support of a group of investors with proven success andsolvency.
  • Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.
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Biz Stone
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Messaging, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $375k–$2M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
  • Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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Takuma Terakubo
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Takuma Terakubo is the CEO & General Partner at UNCOVERED FUND INC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
  • RxAll — RxAll is a drug checking technology that solves drug counterfeiting by providing a proprietary AI platform- nanoscanners and a mobile app to test drugs- prescription & recreational- in real time without destroying the sample
  • Treepz — Treepz Inc. (formerly Plentywaka) is building the largest shared mobility platform in West Africa with over 500,000 satisfied customers.
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Construction, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Norway, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $320k–$3.5M; Angel $300k–$899k; Pre-Seed $647k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
  • Pratexo — Pratexo is the intelligent edge computing and distributed cloud platform for industry 4.0 accelerating time to design, test, and provision.
  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Vaibhav Kapoor
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Vaibhav Kapoor

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3M; Series A $2.7M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Falca — Falca is a rural AgTech supply chain startup offering one-stop solution for all farming needs. Falca aims to enhance the farmer lifecycle through farmer centric phygital (Physical + Digital) platform by providing Input Solutions, Advisory Solutions and Market Linkages.
  • Kikibix — Relish what tastes like your childhood, loaded with an array of healthy ingredients for scrumptiously flavorful and healthy snacks. Born from the vision of a doctor to make a brilliant amalgamation of tasty and healthy. Made with love, baked to perfection, a home for healthy cookies that taste amazing!
  • 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.
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
  • Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
  • Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
  • Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
  • Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
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Matilde Giglio
Angel · Bangalore, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Matilde Giglio is the Co-Founder of Even and an angel investor in over 30 companies globally https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/even-healthcare-lands-additional-capital-to-advance-primary-care-adoption-in-india/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $125k–$125k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turno — Turno Finance makes owning EV very affordable. Turno Club is a community around commercial EVs. Turno Battery Future is our solution to keeping batteries on the road for longer.
  • Circular — We are making subscriptions the best way to experience tech. Circular aims to accelerate the circular economy and maximise the useful lives of each tech device to its fullest potential.
  • Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.
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Rajesh Sawhney
Angel · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Rajesh is the co-founder and CEO of InnerChef and Super Angels. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Delhi University, and a master's degree in management from Mumbai University. He has also done a fellowship in 'Globalisation and Leadership' from the London School of Economics and Social Sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: India, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$841k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
  • Fairdeal Market — Seamlessly Sell Your Products Direct to Offline Retailers. Get Access To The Right Retailers Now.
  • hypergro — Hypergro provides the power of user-generated content, craft impactful UGC video ads designed to attract, engage, and convert.These video advertising act as a distinctive, tailored connection between the brand and potential clients, which boosts consumer traffic, app downloads, and revenue for your company.
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.2M; Series A $11M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
  • 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
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Shane Neman
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lindy — Lindy is an AI assistant that puts your life on autopilot.
  • Cortina — Cortina is an ecommerce marketplace saas platform helping brands sell complementary products without inventory or capital risk.
  • Dorsia — Dorsia is the # 1 clinic in cosmetic surgery and medicine in Spain. We have 84 clinics throughout Spain and Andorra and we continue to grow because you ask us to. We like to fulfill your wishes for improvement and we advocate for a Responsible Beauty.
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Jeremy Cai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Jeremy Cai is the Founder and CEO at Italic . Jeremy Cai attended Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $600k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
  • Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Kwehnui Tawah
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Kenya startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Victor Asemota
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Victor Asemota

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Credit, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
  • Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Camilla Hagen Sørli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uncover — Experience nourishing and rejuvenating Uncover Skincare products in Kenya. Made just for you, using the finest ingredients to offer innovative & effective solutions.
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Mato Perić
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M; Series A $4.3M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
  • Enter — Enter's Revenue Cycle Management & Medical Billing service makes healthcare Providers' and Patients' lives better. Increase revenue and delight patients with 100% transparency.
  • 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.
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Cheryl Heller
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Cheryl is the Founding Chair of the first MFA program in Design for Social Innovation at SVA and the founder of the design lab CommonWise. She is a business strategist and communication designer who has founded two companies and taughtcreativity to leaders and organizations around the world, helped grow businesses from small regionalenterprises to multi-billion global market leaders, launched category-redefining divisions and products, reinvigorated moribund cultures, and designed strategies for hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. Cheryl received the prestigious AIGA medal for her contribution to the field of design in 2014.She is a Matrix Award winner for excellence in communication and has been profiled through articles in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, BusinessWeek and many others. Her work in included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Gary Scheft
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Gary is the co-founder of Accounting for Everything, and a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in a variety of industries including healthcare, fashion, real estate, and communications. He is also a survivor of Wall Street.Gary’s is dedicated to helping small businesses and individuals organize and see the big picture of theirfinancial health, including relationships with partners, investors and customers.He brings experience in business management, marketing, human resources, and communication to client engagements, and many have benefited from his generosity and insight. Gary epitomizes the concept of wisdom, defined as experience, knowledge and the right action.Wise beyond his years, Gary is knowledgable about human issues as well as financial ones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BRCK — BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someoneliving in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.
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Caribou Honig
Angel · Richmond, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya startups

Caribou Honig enjoys pursuing harebrained ideas and supporting the creation of new businesses. He is Chairman and co-founder of the InsureTech Connect conference, the largest event of its type bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation executives. He is also co-founder of the HR Transform conference focused on the impact oftechnology on the workplace, and insurAPI.io, a catalog of insurance-related APIs. He previously cofounded QED Investors, a boutique venture capital firm focused on data-driven companies. Caribou and his wife live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children and two occasionally annoying dogs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: InsurTech, Insurance, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Colombia, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$3.7M; Series A $9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
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Angel investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 59 deals from 91 investors.

91
investors
in Kenya startups
59
deals
in Kenya startups
$1.4M
median round
in Kenya startups
8%
lead investors
lead at least one round
49%
Seed
most common funding stage

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