# Top 50 Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2026 ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy For the many, not just the few. For good. ## Musha Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Seed capital for technology startups globally. ## DOB Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies. ## Launch Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology 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. ## Future Africa - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - 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. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. ## Savannah Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 11 - 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. ## Chandaria Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## P1 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Payments, FinTech P1 Ventures works as a venture capital firm. They specialize in early-stage industrial technology firms in Africa. ## Golden Palm Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company. ## iHub - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech iHub is a globally recognized organization that is deeply steeped in the local tech innovation culture. It is fair to say that the iHub has been both the main catalyst for regional tech acceleration and a role model for tech hubs across emerging markets. We are nurturing the best innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem; one that constantlychallenges and influences technology; one that can be replicated across the continent, as we believe that African innovation will play a critical role in shaping future technology globally. ## E3 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors. ## 4DX Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services 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. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture 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. ## LoftyInc Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Carmel, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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......... ## Saviu Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups. ## MaC Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## 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. ## Zephyr Acorn - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## U.S. International Development Finance Corp - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech 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. ## Mercy Corps Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Portland, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## EchoVC Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness. ## GreenTec Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Agriculture, Computer GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success. ## Accion Venture Lab - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support. ## Cem Garih - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Financial Services, FinTech Investor ## Electrification Financing Initiative - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy Impact investment in sustainable energy ## Global Partnerships - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## UNCOVERED FUND - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 5 - 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. ## V8 Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software V8 Capital Partners makes investments in enterprise technology businesses across Africa. African Venture Capital for software automation ## Reflect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Logistics, E-Commerce Reflect Ventures makes venture capital investments in high-potential startups at the seed and series A/B+ stages. We identify extraordinary founders, companies and opportunities around the world, including in emerging and frontier markets. Our LPs comprise family offices, institutional investors and HNWIs on six continents, along withrecognized sector experts who are instrumental to our portfolio companies' future growth. ## Future\Perfect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra. ## Enza Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 4 - 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 ## Proparco - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. ## Village Global - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs. ## 1776 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Education, EdTech, Software 1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in the following sectors: education, energy, smart cities, transportation, food/agriculture, fintech, and healthcare. ## GreenHouse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments GreenHouse Capital’s Founding Partners took their own fintech company Venture Garden Group (VGG) from a 7 employee, ₦30 million revenue startup to a 200 employees, ₦2 billion power house in just 4 years and raised an attention grabbing Series A round from Convergence Partners of South Africa. The uniqueness of their position was not lost on thefounders who then cultivated Garden Institute of Business Entrepreneurs (GIBE) to identify, incubate, and invest in young and innovative tech startups solving global challenges in Emerging Markets. GIBE was created to build a world class talent management hub for young and passionate entrepreneurs while creating a pool of technology inclined businesses and innovation oriented leaders. ## Investisseurs & Partenaires - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture Investisseurs et Partenaires ## Blue Haven Initiative - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Financial Services Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change. ## TEN13 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate. ## HAVAÍC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses. ## Logos Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, FinTech, Logistics Logos Ventures is a venture capital investment firm. ## JAM Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Digital Currency Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. ## Consonance Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa. ## Finnfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Opes Impact Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets. ## Gray Matters Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Health Care, E-Learning We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Oui Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Belmont, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Transportation, Information Technology, B2B Oui Capital is an Africa-focused VC firm backing tech-enabled businesses at the pre-seed & seed stage. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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