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Top 15 Beauty Startup Investors in Kenya (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Kenya Beauty startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Beauty startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, Beauty, Consumer Electronics $224k–$8.1M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Construction, SaaS $300k–$3.5M
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Acumen
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture $300k–$13M
Samata Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $100k–$29M
Future Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $40k–$20M
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
DOB Equity
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care $1M–$4M
Patricia Ithau
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Kwehnui Tawah
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

WELLNESS TO THE WORLD igniteXL Ventures is a global seed fund investing in game-changing founders at the intersection of technology, beauty

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Beauty, Consumer Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Pre-Seed $224k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • buywith — buywith is an online shopping Livestream marketplace for retailers & brands, where influencers and experts can broadcast online shopping sessions with their followers & make them buy via a highly engaging experience. We help brands generate more revenues from their e-commerce activity and increase their ROI.
  • Lion Pose — Daily Skincare Products for People of Color
  • 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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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty 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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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty 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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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

FirstCheck Africa is an early believer for a generation of African women in tech. We invest early, with high conviction, in high-growth female-led startups with category-leadership potential.

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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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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
  • SokoFresh — SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a market linkage service to small holder farmers and aggregators. SokoFresh An Award winning social enterprise that is addressing post harvest loss issues through a cooling as a service proposition coupled with a
  • Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
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Samata Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

CREATING a More Inclusive Future Samata Capital accelerates equal access to capital and opportunity for talented entrepreneurs in emerging markets. We inten ...

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Beauty, Retail, Consumer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
  • 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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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

Peter anker

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

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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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups, 118 in the past 12 months

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 363
  • Round size: Seed $510k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $600k–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
  • Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
  • Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
  • Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
  • Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

Andrea Iannelli

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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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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty 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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Kwehnui Tawah
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty 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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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty 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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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Beauty startups

Pierre Martensson

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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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Beauty Investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 3 deals from 16 investors.

16
investors
in Kenya Beauty startups
3
deals
in Kenya Beauty startups
$1M
median round
in Kenya Beauty startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
33%
Private Equity
most common funding stage
50/50
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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