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Top 30 Marketplace Angel Investors in Kenya (May 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Kenya Marketplace startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Marketplace startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
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
Christian Jantzen
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$3.5M
Rus Newton
Angel
1 Kenya, Canada Seed IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
Samson Larsson
Angel
1 Kenya Pre-Seed Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
Jesper Drescher
Angel
1 Kenya, Denmark Seed, Angel SaaS, Gaming, Content $800k–$1.2M
Biz Stone
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Messaging, Mobile $375k–$14M
Miki Kuusi
Angel
1 Finland, Kenya, Lithuania Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
Tom Blomfield
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $307k–$30M
Olugbenga Agboola
Angel
1 Nigeria, Kenya, United States Pre-Seed, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Internet $780k–$3M
Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel
1 Norway, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Construction, SaaS $300k–$3.5M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
1 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Matt Kalish
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Seed, Series A Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods
Shintaro Yamada
Angel
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Finance, Information Technology
Justin Caldbeck
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Mobile, Transportation $1.3M–$5.5M
Ilkka Paananen
Angel
1 Finland, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.2M–$4.4M
Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Jeremy Cai
Angel
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology $600k–$1.1M
Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Patricia Ithau
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Josh Sandler
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Luciano Freitas
Angel
1 Kenya Seed E-Commerce
Vidit Aatrey
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Education, Internet, E-Commerce $1.5M–$7.1M
Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel
1 India, Kenya, Vietnam Seed, Series A Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce $1.5M–$6.2M
Peter anker
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Pierre Martensson
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Darshan Chandaria
Angel
1 Kenya, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, B2B, Marketplace $49k–$285k
Kwehnui Tawah
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
Peter Kenevan
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Automotive, Marketplace
Andrea Iannelli
Angel
1 Kenya Seed Beauty, Retail, Consumer
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Justin Mateen
Angel · 3 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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 Marketplace 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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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Danish angel investor, based in London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
  • Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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Rus Newton
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: IaaS, Mining, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Canada

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mintgreen — MintGreen specializes in heat recovery from Bitcoin mining. Our proprietary Digital Boilers heat communities sustainably.
  • UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
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Samson Larsson
Angel · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Samson Larsson is the founder of Ayazona, a high-impact organisation in Kenya, enabling low-income households to access food and household essentials. Larsson is also the founder of Gretol, a startup connecting SMEs in EMEA to the blockchain infrastructure based on Hyperledger technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Delivery, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ayazona — Are you on a budget? Ayazona delivers affordable breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and more from the best local farmers, brands and stores right to your door.
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Jesper Drescher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Gaming, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Kenya, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sky.Garden — Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform that allows African retailers to sell inventory with ease. Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box.
  • GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
  • ReFlow - engineering a circular economy
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Biz Stone
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Messaging, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $375k–$2M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
  • Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
  • Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury
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Miki Kuusi
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Miki Kuusi is the Co-Founder and CEO at Wolt. He previously worked as the Founder, Creative Director and Board Member of the Helsinki-based tech conference, Slush. In 2011-2014, he led the event’s growth as its CEO from a local, 150-person event to become one of the leading startup events in the world, reaching 14,000 attendees from 80 countries in2014. Kuusi has been a driving force in the Nordic startup ecosystem. Prior to Slush, he served as the Founder & CEO of Startup Sauna, which was awarded as the leading young accelerator program in the world by UBI Index in spring 2013. Aside from Slush, Kuusi currently focuses on his new company Wolt, which raised half a million in seed funding in fall 2014.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, Kenya, Lithuania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • Droppe — Order work equipment directly from manufacturers. Support small businesses and source more responsibly from local and European manufacturers. Order from several suppliers at the same time with one shopping cart. Test samples for free and order products for your workplaces without extra hassle. Find nitrile gloves, protective clothing, work gloves, work accessories, disposable gloves, disinfectants, sanitizers and other supplies in one place.
  • Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
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Tom Blomfield
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $750k–$1.2M; Series A $11M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
  • 1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
  • StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!
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Olugbenga Agboola
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Trond Riiber Knudsen
Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market
  • Geography: Denmark, Kenya, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Simporter — Make better products with more confidence, in just a fraction of the time.
  • Cavea — Adlab connects brands with streamers to empower collaboration in the new creator economy. We bring creative, engaging ad campaigns to streams across the globe through automated sponsorship campaigns, which allows brands to reach specific audiences, and streamers to effortlessly monetize their content.
  • Hive.id — Proactively prevent fraud, build secure experiences for your customers and drive your revenue growth.
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Matt Kalish
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Consumer Goods
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nifty League — A game studio at the cutting edge of Web3 with a mission to inspire other indie game developers to build a decentralized future with us.
  • Playtertainment — Playtertainment provides combination of classic arcade games and mobile technology and offers real live-streaming games with real prizes, enabling gamers to play live games directly from their phone.
  • 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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Shintaro Yamada
Angel · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

During his years at Waseda University, Shintaro worked at Japan’s biggest e-commerce mall, Rakuten, Inc. On August 1st 2001, Shintaro established “Unoh Inc.” after graduating university. At Unoh he was responsible for designing and developing several web services, one of which was the online magazine subscription . Services provided by Unohinclude planning, development and management of the film enthusiast community site “Movie Life” (acquired by PIA Corporation) as well as “Sugu.CC” , “NeoAd” (both acquired by GMOAP) and the photo sharing site “Photozou” (acquired by Digital Garage).In 2009 Unoh entered into social gaming, creating multiple successful social games. Among these games, “Machitsuku!” has been its biggest hit with over 5 million users. On August 3rd 2010, Unoh joined Zynga and Shintaro became General Manager of Zynga Japan. He resigned on January 2012. After traveling around the world, He established the new company “Mercari, Inc.” on February 2013 and released the resale shopping app “Mercari” on July 2013 in Japan.He is a true Internet geek, spending a lot of time on the Internet and boasts around 180,000 followers on Twitter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Finance, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
  • AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy
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Justin Caldbeck
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Justin Caldbeck is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Binary Capital since July 2014. In June 2017, Justin announced an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital.Previously, Justin was a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners from January 2011 to June 2014. Justin invested primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors with afocus on social media, e-commerce and enterprise software. Justin’s past investments include Bloomreach, GrubHub, PetFlow and TaskRabbit. Justin has also been a Board Member or Board Observer for numerous successful companies including TheFind, INRIX, Adready, Magazine Radar, Oyster.com and DNA Games. Before joining Lightspeed, Justin was a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures and was responsible for launching the firm’s West Coast office. Justin was both a Member of the Board of Directors and Board Observer for a wide variety of consumer internet, enterprise software, and business services companies, including BloomReach, TheFind, Adready, INRIX, DNA Games, Oyster.com, and Magazine Radar. Before Bain Capital Ventures, Justin was at McKinsey and Co. where he served consumer and media companies in a wide range of capacities. Justin holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Big.Jobs — BigJobs full-stack hiring suite includes Career Sites, Referral Engine, ATS, Outbound Hiring Tool, Smart Scheduling, Reporting & Analytics, and is backed by an expert Talent Acquisition Team for your end-to-end recruitment orchestration - all in a single subscription.
  • Flippy — Flippy is a social first assisted investment platform that makes makes crypto investing simple.
  • Finsire — Finsire Modern finances to embrace your financial desires
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Ilkka Paananen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
  • Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
  • Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
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Camilla Hagen Sørli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Jeremy Cai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Jeremy Cai is the Founder and CEO at Italic . Jeremy Cai attended Babson College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $600k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
  • Pluto Card — Unlimited corporate cards with spend controls, petty cash management and automated receipt collection built for businesses in MENA (UAE, Saudi Arabia & more).
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Kiprono Elvis Terigin
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Patricia Ithau
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Patricia Ithau

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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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Josh Sandler
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Josh Sandler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lori Systems. He Previously worked at AFIG FUNDS as a Consultant. Josh Sandler attended Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
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Luciano Freitas
Angel · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Luciano Freitas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
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Vidit Aatrey
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Vidit Aatrey is Founder and CEO at Meesho. He previously worked at InMobi as a Strategy. Vidit Aatrey attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M; Series A $5.2M–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Virgio — Women's & Men's Clothing and Accessories | Shop Trendy Fashion Online
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • Mesa School of Business — World's first business school built by the startup ecosystem, for the startup ecosystem!
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Sanjeev Barnwal
Angel · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Sanjeev Barnwal is Founder and CTO at Meesho.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
  • BlueLearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
  • SolarSquare Energy — Visit Solarsquare, India's only UL-certified solar installation company for hassle-free commercial & residential solar panel installation at 0 cost EMI & PPA options.
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Peter anker
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Pierre Martensson
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Pierre Martensson

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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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Darshan Chandaria
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $49k–$285k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
  • Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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Kwehnui Tawah
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Kwehnui Tawah is the Head of Platform Services + Special Projects at Sokowatch. He attended the University of Chicago.

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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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Peter Kenevan
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace startups

Peter Kenevan, VP, Head of Japan at PayPal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
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Andrea Iannelli
Angel · 1 investments in Kenya Marketplace 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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Marketplace Angel investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 3 deals from 5 investors.

5
investors
in Kenya Marketplace startups
3
deals
in Kenya Marketplace startups
$49k
median round
in Kenya Marketplace startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
67%
Seed
most common funding stage

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