# Top 15 Consumer Angel Investors in Kenya in May 2026

## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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.

## Cem Garih
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, FinTech

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## Cheryl Heller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software

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.

## Matt Kalish
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods

Matt Kalish is the founder and CRO of DraftKings, a knowledge-based daily fantasy sports website.

## Gary Scheft
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software

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.

## Patricia Ithau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Patricia Ithau

## Trond Riiber Knudsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Construction, SaaS

Trond Riiber Knudsen is a Founder of TRK GROUP.

## Pierre Martensson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Pierre Martensson

## Gregory Rockson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghana, Ebonyi, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Consumer

Gregory Rockson is Co-Founder & CEO at mPharma.

## Shola Akinlade
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Education, InsurTech

Shola Akinlade is the Co-founder and CEO at Paystack.

## Andrea Iannelli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Andrea Iannelli

## Camilla Hagen Sørli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Camilla Hagen Sørli

## Kiprono Elvis Terigin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Retail, Consumer

Kiprono Elvis Terigin

## Tony Nicalo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Advertising, Asset Management

Tony Nicalo

## Olugbenga Agboola
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Internet

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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