# Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2026 ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy For the many, not just the few. For good. ## LoftyInc Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carmel, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors......... ## Golden Palm Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company. ## MaC Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors. ## Social Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people. ## GAN Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Denver, Colorado, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care GAN Ventures is the investment arm of the Global Accelerator Network ## Mercy Corps Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech Our impact investing arm, Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV), invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises that increase the resilience of people and communities in frontier markets. ## TLcom Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Information Technology TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs. ## Tekton Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs. ## Artha Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, E-Commerce Artha India Ventures' league of member Angel Investors mentor and invest in nascent ventures with business ideas that create value by participating in the entrepreneurial process. AIV have invested in more than 47 start-ups and has diversified portfolio ranging from last minute hotel bookings (HotelsAroundYou.com), to classes aggregators(FindUrClass.com), cosmetic ecommerce (Purplle.com) and at home salon services (The Home Salon). From microfinance credit rating platforms (Inventure) to online interview platforms (Talview), electronic repair & insurance companies (PickMeIndia.com), Cloud Telephone (Exotel.com) and Cab Aggregators (BookMyCab.com) the portfolio has it all. ## Savannah Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Enza Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Logistics, E-Commerce, B2B Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa ## Future Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Musha Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Seed capital for technology startups globally. ## JAM Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics 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. ## UNCOVERED FUND - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Banking, Financial Services UNCOVERED FUND is a venture capital firm that leads the creation of industries in Africa and other emerging countries. ## 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. ## Grenfell Holdings - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Logistics, Consulting Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong. ## Zephyr Acorn - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Zephyr Acorn provides equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa. Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond. ## Kapor Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Education, Software, Health Care Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. We redefine what venture capital is capable of by prioritizing a new outcome: a more fair, just, and equitable society for low income communities and underrepresented communities of color. ## KepalaBergetar TV - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Malay website serving the people of Malaysia and all other nations with a need for live filem and Malay dramas that people love and react to with emotion, ready to push all boundaries. ## HoaQ - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce Startup Investment Club ## 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. ## Global Partnerships - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives. ## PUSH Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential. ## Sopra Steria - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services Sopra Steria, a European Tech leader recognised for its consulting, digital services and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation to obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. ## Peter Sandberg - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Toyota Tsusho - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series A - Focus: Automotive, Manufacturing, Software Toyota Tsusho is the trading arm of the Toyota Group. It enriches society by creating value by the company as Metals; Global Production Parts; Logistics; Automotive; Machinery; Energy; Project; Chemicals; Electronics; Food and Agribusiness; Consumer Products and Services;. ## Inflection Point Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Health Care Inflection Point Ventures, with over 3300 CXOs and professionals, HNIs and Family Offices, is India’s leading angel network investing in early-to-mid stage startups. IPV supports new-age entrepreneurs with not just capital but also uses its wide network of investors to provide startups with access to new markets, customers, guidance and mentorship.Inflection Point Ventures is democratizing angel investing with low membership fee, lowest investment ticket size (per investor), transparent investment process and extensive upfront due-diligence led by industry experts. IPV is industry agnostic, with a focus on committed and competent founders. ## 468 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. ## Africa's Talking - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 Africa's Talking is a Kenya-based mobile solutions firm integrating reliable two-way SMS, voice, and USSD functionality across mobile providers in Africa. The firm offers bulk SMS, short codes, and premium SMS, USSD, MMS, and customized mobile messaging solutions for individuals, businesses, and developers. With the API developers, it canconnect a short code, use an alphanumeric sender id, and send SMS messages across Kenya. Africa's Talking’s users need to register to access documentation.Africa's Talking was established in 2010 by Eston Kimani and Samuel Gikandi, two MIT graduates to explore applications that enhance the growth and use of information technology in and for Africa. It is based in Nairobi. ## Orbit Startups - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cork, Cork, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Orbit Startups helps companies scaling breakthrough technologies across emerging and frontier markets to the regions with the most aggressive growth. ## Ventures Platform - Type: VC Fund - Location: Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet 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. ## Next Billion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce A venture capital partnership for emerging markets. ## Invested Development - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS 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). ## GMC coLABS - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 ## ASI Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Internet, Health Care, Marketplace ASI Ventures is an angel investor firm. ## Operator Stack - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Banking, Logistics FinTech Fund ## AR/VR Africa - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Publishing AR/VR Africa is a community of content creators, enthusiasts, creatives, developers, and technologists who are keen on making a difference with Augmented and Virtual Reality. We are changing the narrative here in Africa, as creators and not just consumers of technology. ## Winshall Walt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, B2B, Cyber Security Winshall Walt ## Jesper Drescher - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Content Jesper Drescher ## Niche Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce Venture Capital firm ## Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Farming Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity. ## Finnfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Renewable Energy Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits. ## TRK Group - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Internet An Oslo-based Advisory and Active Ownership Firm. ## MPGI - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents. ## Chandaria Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co