# Top 30 Enterprise Angel Investors in Kenya in October 2023

## Cem Garih
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, FinTech

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## Justin Mateen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Ken Njoroge
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Web Development, Information Technology

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

## Darshan Chandaria
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, Marketplace

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

## Peter Sandberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
- Focus: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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

## Johnny Falla
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Network

Johnny Falla

## Richard Owen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing

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

## Wes Schwalje
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services

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

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

## Jessica Chervin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Network

Jessica Chervin

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Fredrik Jung Abbou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery

Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.

## Rajesh Sawhney
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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

## Dr Ritesh Malik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Education

Doctor turned Entrepreneur, Investor, Speaker & Philanthropist.

## Jesper Drescher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Content

Jesper Drescher

## Jim Sorenson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Hardware, Video Games

Jim Sorenson a renowned entrepreneur, business leader, and social investor and has built multiple highly successful companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Jim is the founder and former CEO of Sorenson Media and Sorenson Communications, with the latter sold in one of the mostlucrative private equity deals in Utah Unversity .

## Yago Arbeloa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Internet

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Melvyn Lubega
- Type: Angel
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Learning, Information Technology

Melvyn Lubega is the head of strategic partnership at Go1.

## Vaibhav Kapoor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Vaibhav Kapoor

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Susan Kimberlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Susan is an angel investor and startup advisor in San Francisco, where she has a front-row seat to an amazing variety of new ventures. She is passionate about making connections and helping people meet their potential. Susan believes that diversity is an essential and under-utilized asset to all businesses. She focuses on enterprise businessesand technology. Her background is in search and natural language processing technology and her operational experience spans product development roles from coding to product management at both startups and Fortune 500 companies like PayPal and Salesforce.

## 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.

## Steven Tamm
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology

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

## Justin Ziegler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Social Network

Justin Ziegler - Strategic Partnerships @ DoubleGDP

## 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.

## Christian Jantzen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Danish angel investor, based in London.

## Rus Newton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin

Co-Founder of Global Advisors & CoinShares. Previously JP Morgan, Salomon Brothers & Shell International

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