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Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Kenya (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Kenya Consumer startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Consumer startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Future Africa
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $40k–$20M
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
3 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $30k–$15M
JAM Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics $460k–$27M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
3 Egypt, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $40k–$20M
Justin Mateen
Angel
3 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $400k–$14M
Cem Garih
Angel
3 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Financial Services, FinTech $460k–$17M
Village Global
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $246k–$18M
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund
3 India, United States, Kenya Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Finance, FinTech $8.8M–$765M
DOB Equity
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania Private Equity, Seed Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care $1M–$4M
Susa Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.9M–$65M
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile $120k–$10M
Novastar Ventures
VC Fund
2 Kenya, Nigeria, United States Series A, Series B Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy $660k–$50M
Golden Ventures
VC Fund
2 Canada, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$40M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $50k–$10M
Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
2 Morocco, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services $1.5M–$6.2M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$8M
TBD Angels
VC Fund
2 United States, Kenya, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$6M
Invested Development
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, United States Seed, Convertible Note Software, Analytics, SaaS $520k–$1.2M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Construction, SaaS $300k–$3.5M
Lundin Foundation
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mauritius Series A, Series D Mobile, Apps, Energy
Lightrock
VC Fund
1 India, Brazil, United States Series C, Series B, Series E Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $6.3M–$400M
HoaQ
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2M
Altos Ventures
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, Indonesia Series A, Series B, Series C Software, E-Commerce, Internet $2M–$50M
Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$7.5M
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $100k–$29M
Samata Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Gary Scheft
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Synergy Growth
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Solar, Energy, Hardware
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $780k–$3M
FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Next Billion Ventures
VC Fund
1 Brazil, Mexico, Philippines Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $1.7M–$17M
Third Sphere
VC Fund
1 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Real Estate, Transportation $100k–$3.9M
Ventures Platform
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $50k–$4.4M
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Omvestments
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Cheryl Heller
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Hardware, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software
Jedar Capital
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery $340k–$6M
Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.5M–$14M
igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, Beauty, Consumer Electronics $224k–$8.1M
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Ghana Series A, Series B, Seed Solar, Energy, Financial Services $2M–$22M
Victoria Commercial Bank
VC Fund
1 Kenya Debt Financing Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Chui Ventures
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States Pre-Seed Fashion, Software, E-Commerce
Satgana
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, The Netherlands Pre-Seed Energy, Software, CleanTech $600k–$1.4M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$3M
Blink
VC Fund
1 Kenya Series A, Series B Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
Acumen
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture $300k–$13M
Wes Schwalje
Angel
1 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
  • Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
  • Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
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JAM Fund
VC Fund · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 6 in the past 12 months

JAM Fund operates as a venture capital firm investing in visionary founders disrupting large spaces. It is Tinder Founder Justin Mateen's venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Mexico, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $460k–$3.7M; Series A $8M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.
  • Vesto — Fintech
  • Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Cem Garih
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 30 in the past 12 months

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $246k–$3.5M; Series A $5.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
  • OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
  • Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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U.S. International Development Finance Corp
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: India, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 55
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $34M–$765M; Debt Financing $8.8M–$200M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
  • TechMet — TechMet Ltd backs world-class teams and makes direct investments into companies and assets across the value chain.
  • Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings LLC — Kentegra Biotechnology Holdings is a leading U.S-Kenyan company that supports a Kenyan-based biopesticide processing business that aggregates, extracts, and refines pale refine extract (PRE) from the pyrethrum flower, and sells the PRE to formulators across the world. Kentegra is committed to improving farmer’s livelihoods by investing in thecommunities where we are working to help farmers and their families have a more stable income and better quality of life.Grants: Norad 2021, AgriFi 2020, USAID 2020, USAID 2019, DEG 2020, DEG 2019
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DOB Equity
VC Fund · Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Susa Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 22 in the past 12 months

A seed-stage VC fund investing in founders building value & defensibility through data, network effects, & economies of scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series A $6.3M–$20M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
  • Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
  • Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
  • Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
  • ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$9.9M; Series B $660k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2020

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.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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Golden Ventures
VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Canada, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Series A $3.5M–$32M; Series B $1.2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
  • Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Morocco, Egypt, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • 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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TBD Angels
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

TBD Angels is a group of like-minded angel investors who thrive on sharing advice, guidance, and capital with talented entrepreneurs. TBD Angels provide critical advice and connections to jumpstart the companies it invests in.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$6M; Angel $54k–$195k; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magnomer — Magnomer is a manufacturer of novel magnetic inks for plastic packaging for the circular economy. It introduces Design2Recycle™, a revolutionary way of thinking about production. Central to their innovation are printable magnetizable inks: a design tool which allows consumer brands and manufacturers to enable better packaging recyclability withoutchanges to manufacturing. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • High Time Foods — Discover delicious and nutritious shelf-stable plant-based meat alternatives at High Time Foods. Our cuisine-agnostic products are perfect for every chef, every cuisine, in every corner of the world. Join us in creating a better food system that's good for people and the planet.
  • Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
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Invested Development
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Invested Development (ID) is an investment management company founded in Boston, MA in 2009 and now based in Atlanta, GA. ID launched the BSP Fund in 2011 which was fully vested across 19 companies in 2020. Exits include: Simpa (India) acquired by Engie (France); OnFarm (US) acquired by SWIIM (US); iHub (Kenya) acquired by ccHub (Nigeria), and GELI(US) acquired by Hanwha Q-Cells (Korea).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, India, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $520k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Angani — Angani is a Kenyan public cloud computing provider located in Nairobi, Kenya, offering services to the entire East African region.
  • 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.
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Lundin Foundation
VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

The Lundin Foundation is a philanthropic organization founded originally by the Lundin family. The Foundation is currently supported by a number of publicly traded natural resource companies committed to the highest standards of corporate responsibility. The Lundin Foundation embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lundin family. TheFoundation provides risk capital in the form of investments into high potential small- and medium-sized businesses, with a view to generating wealth and employment needed to alleviate poverty on a sustained basis. It also provides strategic grants to early stage innovations and for technical and managerial assistance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Series D
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Esoko Networks — Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcinggoods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support.Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way.Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Umati Capital — We specialize in online gaming All games are secure, and the payouts are fast. Everyone will find an experience that fits them here. Read More Top Gaming Community Feel The Thrill Games comprise table and card games that are dominant in today's gambling lifestyle and activity. Play in the palm of your hand.A classic that
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Lightrock
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Lightrock is a global private equity platform investing in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to innovation for systemic change at scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series C, Series B, Series E
  • Geography: India, Brazil, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Series B $6.3M–$50M; Series C $7.2M–$100M; Series E $185M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
  • Lulalend — Financial provider for SME business banking accounts, business funding, and trade capital in South Africa. Do not delay. Click now to learn more and start today!
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HoaQ
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Startup Investment Club

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$780k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
  • Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
  • ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
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Altos Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Altos Ventures was founded in 1996 to invest in early stage technology companies. After starting with $30 million in committed capital, we currently manage more than $8 billion in regulatory assets under management, supporting the full lifecycle of companies from inception to global growth and profitability. We have been the first and leadinstitutional investor in 100+ companies around the world. We invest in both consumer and enterprise tech companies, with particular interest in enterprise SaaS, FinTech, e-commerce, and consumer brands and services. We look to invest in high-growth, capital-efficient, founder-led companies. Initial investments can start as small as $500,000 while our follow-on investments can exceed $100 million in a single round, purchasing both primary and secondary shares.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 218
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $3.1M–$24M; Series C $4.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $450M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • AiderX — AiderX is a technology startup that creates AI assistants for everyone. We believe that AI should be available to everyone and that it has the potential to change the way we live and work. Our goal is to make AI simple, intuitive, and simple to use.
  • MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
  • PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.5M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
  • Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
  • Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Samata Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Gary Scheft
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Synergy Growth
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Synergy Growth is a private tech investment fund, established in 2011 by Steve Brooks and Nat Billington. Their purpose is to make early stage investments in disruptive technologies that aim to change the way we live our lives for the better. They invest resources in exceptional entrepreneurs and teams to help accelerate their growth and bringto market their innovative ideas and products. Their current portfolio has a strong focus on clean energy production and storage, and transport, as climate change is the most pressing issue facing humanity today. They have also invested in start-ups that harness the latest technologies to alter the way they work, communicate, travel and learn, towards more efficiency and less waste.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bboxx — Bboxx exists to solve energy poverty. We transform lives and unlock potential through energy access.
  • 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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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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: 22
  • 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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FirstCheck Africa
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Next Billion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

A venture capital partnership for emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$17M; Series A $6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
  • TopUp Mama — Kibanda Topup digitizes the supply for micro, small and medium-sized restaurants. Kibanda Topup allows restaurant owners to order inventory such as grains, poultry, beverages, and beef by app through a simple SMS and get the orders the next day.
  • Advance Tech Lending — Advance Tech Lending is an online salary loans provider. They help employees cover their daily financial needs with a click of a button. They don’t charge interest, just a processing fee to get funds to you immediately.
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Third Sphere
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Convertible Note $125k–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • SOS — SOS is transforming wellness on-the-go through a network of smart vending machines that deliver just-in-time necessities where and when you need them most. And yes, that includes tampons!
  • CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
  • wasted* — Wasted* is an premium, eco-friendly, and sustainable porta potty and waste management company located in Burlington, Vermont.
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 15 in the past 12 months

Ventures Platform Fund is a discovery fund that invests early in mission-driven founders that are building capital-efficient platforms that democratise prosperity, plug infrastructural gaps, connect underrepresented communities, solve for non-consumption, and improve livelihoods in Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
  • 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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Andrea Iannelli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Omvestments
VC Fund · Dallas, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Omvestments is a financial services company founded by Richard Winston. The company’s areas of interest include nanotechnology, big data, supply chain and logistics, clean technology, and more.

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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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Cheryl Heller
Angel · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Jedar Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

VC venture capital investing in early stage startups from seed to series A in fintech, insurtech, marketplaces, foodtech, SaaS, healthtech and agritech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $340k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
  • ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
  • Bumpa — The easiest way to set-up and manage your online store. Bumpa helps businesses sell on Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, and offline in-store.
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
  • SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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igniteXL Ventures
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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: 14
  • 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

  • Ome — Ome is reinventing the way we cook at home by leveraging smart technology to bring automation to the kitchen.
  • 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.
  • 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 Consumer 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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Blue Haven Initiative
VC Fund · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $12M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
  • Field — Health supply chain technology and services across Africa
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Victoria Commercial Bank
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Victoria Commercial Bank is a leading commercial bank providing quality financial services with a focus on client orientation, integrity and professionalism

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Furniture, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Chui Ventures
VC Fund · Delaware, Ohio, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups

Investing in Africa | Chui Ventures is an investment company that seeks to back exceptional African companies at the early stage of their growth.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% 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.
  • Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
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Satgana
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Satgana is a Climate Tech VC firm on a mission to invest in planet-positive startups building the Future of Earth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, CleanTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $600k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Loewi — Loewi allows you to sell your two-wheeled companion.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
  • Arda Biomaterials — Arda Biomaterials transforms waste feedstocks into smarter, circular biomaterials for fashion, home goods, automotive and more.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
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Acumen
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Wes Schwalje
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Consumer 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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Consumer Investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 5 deals from 27 investors.

27
investors
in Kenya Consumer startups
5
deals
in Kenya Consumer startups
$730k
median round
in Kenya Consumer startups
11%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage
56/44
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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