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Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in Kenya (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Kenya Mobile startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Kenya Mobile startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
5 Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care $30k–$15M
Social Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, SaaS $1M–$35M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $235k–$50M
Justin Mateen
Angel
2 United States, Mexico, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $400k–$14M
HAVAÍC
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Financial Services, Software $54k–$4M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology $25k–$8M
Cem Garih
Angel
2 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Financial Services, FinTech $460k–$17M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $50k–$10M
4DX Ventures
VC Fund
2 Egypt, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services $40k–$20M
Kapor Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Education, Software, Health Care $1M–$50M
TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Mobile, Information Technology $3.5M–$27M
Generation Investment Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, France Series D, Series E Software, SaaS, Energy $10M–$200M
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Seed, Grant Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software $400k–$550M
AAIC Investment
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce $450k–$4.4M
SANAD Fund
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Kenya, Jordan Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Computer, Internet
Jigsaw VC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, India, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence $5M–$82M
Health54
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya Seed Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail $3M–$3M
Khosla Impact
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Kenya Series A, Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $1.9M–$9.2M
Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, India Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$35M
VilCap Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Seed, Series A Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $50k–$6M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$4.5M
Jesper Drescher
Angel
1 Kenya, Denmark Seed, Angel SaaS, Gaming, Content $800k–$1.2M
CDC Group
VC Fund
1 India, Nigeria, Kenya Debt Financing, Series B Financial Services, Banking, Finance $2M–$93M
Aster
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Solar $1.1M–$23M
E3 Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, Ghana Series A, Seed, Convertible Note Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $200k–$7.5M
Peter Sandberg
Angel
1 Denmark, Kenya, Estonia Angel, Pre-Seed, Secondary Market Internet, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Lynett Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Nigeria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Wireless, Mobile $120k–$10M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software $200k–$30M
Breyer Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Kenya Series A, Series B, Seed Health Care, Software, Financial Services $2.4M–$75M
Enviu
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed B2B, Mobile, Internet
Safaricom
VC Fund
1 Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Apps
GMC coLABS
VC Fund
1
Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Brazil Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$7.5M
MPGI
VC Fund
1 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $125k–$120M
Acasia Ventures
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $750k–$2.5M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $1.7M–$125M
Vertex Ventures US
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.2M–$52M
Aavishkaar Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 India, Indonesia, United States Series A, Series B Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance $2M–$10M
Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund
1 Morocco, Egypt, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Information Services $1.5M–$6.2M
GE32 Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, Mexico Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$26M
KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A E-Commerce, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$100M
TRK Group
VC Fund
1 Norway, Kenya Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Internet $400k–$510k
Jon Oringer
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $80k–$32M
Jean Case
Angel
1 United States, Kenya Series B, Seed TV, Energy, Mobile
Impact Engine
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Kenya Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Education, Software $25k–$21M
LGT Venture Philanthropy
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya Series A, Series D Energy, Solar, Mobile
Alpha Angels
VC Fund
1 Kenya Series A SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
PayPal
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland, Sweden Seed, Grant Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace $15k–$1.6M
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
Christian Jantzen
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Information Technology $250k–$3.5M
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund · Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana · 5 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 364
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $8M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
  • Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 27 in the past 12 months

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $235k–$4M; Series A $3.5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
  • Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Justin Mateen
Angel · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile 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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HAVAÍC
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $54k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
  • FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.
  • Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
  • OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
  • Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund · Brooklyn, New York, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
  • Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
  • Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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Kapor Capital
VC Fund · Oakland, California, United States · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
  • Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
  • Driver Technologies — Turn your phone into a dash cam.
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$13M; Series B $10M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
  • Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
  • Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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Generation Investment Management
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

For over a decade, Generation Investment Management has played a pioneering role in the development of sustainable investing. Click to discover more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Energy
  • Stage:Series D, Series E
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Series D $135M–$200M; Series E $10M–$77M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
  • OneTrust — OneTrust is a provider of privacy management and marketing compliance technology that helps organizations comply with global regulations. It automates privacy impact assessments and data inventory mapping, enforces risk remediation actions, and triggers recurring audits for continuous compliance monitoring across customer, employee, and vendor datatransfers. Its web-based software can be accessed on any device and provides a single place for a private office to collaborate with business groups, vendors, and trusted advisors managing privacy risks. The result is the ability to demonstrate privacy by design and ongoing compliance with policies, data privacy laws (GDPR, BCR, Privacy Shield), and other privacy frameworks (HITECH, ISO, GAPP, APEC).The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • o9 Solutions — Analytics, AI & knowledge-powered platform for planning & decision-making enabling true Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for global companies.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

JPMorgan Chase & Co. provides innovative financial solutions for consumers, small businesses, corporations, governments, and institutions. The firm is serving customers, helping small businesses, or putting its skills to work with partners, they strive to identify issues and propose solutions that will propel the future and strengthen both itsclients and communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Grant $400k–$500k; Debt Financing $25M–$550M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quinn Residences — Quinn Residences offers newly-built houses for rent located in the best neighborhoods with professional management, modern amenities and fantastic community perks for a maintenance-free lifestyle.
  • Ribbon Communications — Ribbon offers innovative IP and optical networking solutions and cloud-to-edge communications solutions.
  • Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation — The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago runs two programs that invests in UChicago-affiliated teams: the Edward L. Kaplan, '71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) program and the Polsky Center Accelerator Program. For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: http://chicagonvc.comor http://polskycenter.com/accelerator/
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AAIC Investment
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

We will continue to invest and support the growth of innovative companies towards sustainable economic growth and solving social issues.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
  • Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
  • Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.
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SANAD Fund
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

The SANAD* Fund for MSME views the micro, small and medium enterprise sector as an engine of economic development, job creation and prosperity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This also makes it a vast and as yet untapped investment opportunity.To realize this potential, SANAD provides debt and equity financing to local partnerinstitutions for on-lending to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and fueling their growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Computer, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Egypt, Kenya, Jordan

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • El Zatona — ElZatona offers warehouse and sales management program.
  • POSRocket — Traditional cash registers are a thing of the past. POSRocket modernizes this near-obsolete system by providing business owners with an intuitive, user-friendly, cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) platform.
  • 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.
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Jigsaw VC
VC Fund · St. Helier, NA - Jersey, Jersey · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$8.8M; Series B $82M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
  • Swallow — A modern pricing platform that separates pricing from the rest of your code. Swallow increases the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability.
  • 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.
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Health54
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Health54 is the Corporate Venture Capital of CFAO Group in Healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tibu Health — Tibu Health uses the most sophisticated health and logistics technology to provide patients with a convenient and coordinated end-to-end healthcare experience, resulting in improved health outcomes, healthier lifestyles, and more time to concentrate on the things that are important to our patients.
  • Lifestores Pharmacy — Lifestores is a retail pharmacy start-up bringing disruptive innovation to the pharmaceutical sector in Nigeria by democratizing quality medicines and pharmaceutical services.
  • Lifestores Healthcare — Lifestores Healthcare is using technology to democratize access to quality and affordable primary healthcare.
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Khosla Impact
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Khosla Impact's mission is to assist great entrepreneurs developing products and services for the three billion people at the bottom of the world’s economic pyramid.Khosla Impact assists high-impact entrepreneurs who open up markets, increase productivity, and improve standards of living for the bottom half of the world economy.Weinvest in world-class entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving challenging, often intractable socio-economic problems through careful application of science, technology, and design or through creative business models. We believe in experimentation and encourage this approach among our entrepreneurs. We evaluate a wide range of opportunities but are primarily focused on for-profit enterprises serving people at the bottom half of the world’s economic pyramid: low-income laborers, farmers and families, as well as small businesses in emerging markets. Given our experience, South Asia is our initial, but not exclusive, geography of focus. We welcome entrepreneurs and business plans from all countries and regions.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $1.9M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • iMerit — iMerit's end-to-end data labeling solutions combined with Ango Hub data annotation tool is a best-in-class platform to scale your AI and machine learning data pipelines.
  • Neogrowth — Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories,handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.
  • Smile ID — Smile ID provides the best onboarding, identity verification, and user authentication service for fast growing businesses and startups in Africa.
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Javelin Venture Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Javelin Venture Partners invests in early-stage tech companies with incredible potential, managed by teams of energetic, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Javelin looks for advanced bleeding-edge innovations, where the addressable market size is substantial, and strong competitive advantages exist. A typical investment is between $1 to $6million, with reserves for follow-on investments. In addition, Javelin also considers smaller seed investments for unique companies just getting started. Located in downtown San Francisco, while invests throughout the world. Javelin is a very active investor with a long-term outlook and the objective of creating substantial value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M; Series B $5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Sequel.io — Stellar empowers brands to build unique live experiences to connect with their community in their own digital homes.
  • Resemble AI — AI voice generator with voice cloning for text to speech.
  • Arrive Recommerce — Arrive offers a premium service powering circular commerce for major brands and retailers. The technology and reverse logistics capabilities of The Arrive Platform enables brands and retailers in any industry to integrate circular commerce - including rental and resale - directly into an existing ecommerce experience. With this unique offering,Arrive makes it possible for any company to seamlessly launch a circular channel - ultimately reaching more consumers, driving more revenue, and promoting a sustainable solution. Arrive, first launched as Arrive Outdoors, is an award-winning company and has been named the 4th Most Innovative Travel Company by Fast Company in 2020 and awarded the 2019 Outdoor Retailer of the Year by the Outdoor Retailer Association.
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VilCap Investments
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
  • SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
  • Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
  • Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
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Jesper Drescher
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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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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CDC Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
  • Geography: India, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Series B $2M–$93M; Debt Financing $4M–$90M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

Portfolio highlights

  • Paymob — Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa. Start using Paymob’s solutions and API’s to accept and send payments for your online business now.
  • Ecom Express — Get express delivery courier services from Ecom Express, the best courier companies in India, and deliver your packages safely and on time to your customers.
  • Jingsil Intelligent — Jingsil Intelligent is dedicated to digital power distribution switches and intelligent power distribution management software systems.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Solar
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • FINALCAD — Finalcad is a construction software management specialist. We help on buildings, infrastructure and energy projects. We cover the whole construction lifecycle.
  • DCbrain — DCbrain helps Datacenters teams to run and optimize their buildings. They provide a systemic view of their systems displaying a dynamic map of all datacenter flows (energy, chilled water ...) and dynamic expert dashboards.
  • Warehousing1 — Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency.
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E3 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$1.4M; Series A $1.1M–$7.5M; Convertible Note $200k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
  • SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
  • Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
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Peter Sandberg
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile 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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Lynett Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
  • Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
  • ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series A $4.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
  • Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.
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Breyer Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Breyer Capital is an independent global venture capital and private equity investor. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, we make long-term, idea-driven investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$20M; Series A $9.6M–$34M; Series B $20M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinjo — Kinjo changes the way we approach education and screen time, harnessing the power of kid-favorite platforms (like Roblox!) to help them learn and grow.
  • Pryon — Pryon is the leading AI-as-a-Service platform for content and knowledge management. Pryon closes knowledge gaps, improving employee productivity, and enhancing customer experiences. Companies such as Georgia Pacific use Pryon to improve health and safety outcomes, eliminate compliance incidents, improve employee onboarding, and upgrade all aspectsof customer service and support.
  • Elemental Cognition — Elemental Cognition (EC) provides a revolutionary hybrid AI platform with superior natural language understanding that powers expert problem-solving intelligence in conversational and discovery applications. EC was founded in 2015 by Dr. David Ferrucci, the renowned AI researcher and inventor of IBM’s breakthrough Watson technology. EC AItransparently engages with people to understand, reason, and explain complex problems. EC customers are in several verticals, including but not limited to healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, financial services, and travel.The mission of Elemental Cognition (EC) is to transcend conventional AI, aiming to aid individuals in comprehending intricate content, engaging in logical thinking about it, and locating as well as elucidating solutions.Elemental Cognition remains devoted to creating ethical and lucid AI, designed to contribute to resolving issues and providing proficiency in a manner that is both comprehensible and reliable.Recognizing AI's potential to function as a cogitative partner akin to a human, EC envisions a landscape of transparency, where the rationale behind outcomes is on par in significance with the outcomes themselves.What sets EC apart is its distinctive methodology, intertwining varied AI strategies within an innovative framework. This framework assimilates and ratiocinates upon knowledge that is understandable to humans, fostering collaborative and dynamic problem-solving. The outcome manifests as an expert problem-solving acumen that is more lucid and resource-efficient, seamlessly integrated into conversational and exploratory applications.
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Enviu
VC Fund · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Enviu is a venture-building studio. We build companies founded on a circular economy that is inclusive of people and the planet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
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Safaricom
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity solutions, information management solutions, voice solutions, and communication solutions. It serves small businesses, medium businesses, and large corporates.The company’s services and offerings include international calls and roaming; data storage, recovery, and backup;online information storage and archiving; mobile banking services; wide area networks, managed Wi-Fi solutions, point-to-point connectivity, 4G connection, and Fiber to Buildings; IT consultancy; virtual collaboration, voice conferencing, and video conferencing; messaging services and voice services; music services; and more.Safaricom was founded in 1997 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
  • iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
  • Lynk Jobs — Lynk solves the problems faced by informal workers and the households and businesses seeking their services. Lynk’s digital platform connects informal workers with customers who require services such as housekeeping, plumbing, electrical work and carpentry. Lynk’s systems enable the effective recruitment of workers, smart matching of the workers tojobs and a customer rating system that helps workers to build the skills profile.
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GMC coLABS
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Taimba Limited — Taimba is a B2B mobile-based platform connecting farmers to urban traders with aim of reducing food wastage and to stabilize market prices.
  • WomenChoice Industries — WomenChoice Industries is a manufacturer and distributor of low-cost, affordable, reusable sanitary towels.
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $3.2M–$6M; Series A $4.3M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Smart, simple, digital
  • Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
  • 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.
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Acasia Ventures
VC Fund · Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Acasia Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies throughout the Middle East and Africa. With a focus on being a first believer in innovation and entrepreneurship, the firm strives to support the growth of the next generation of market leaders through their unique and scalable solutions. Its Tech Fund I iscurrently targeting investments in tech-driven and tech-enabled startups at the pre-Seed to pre-Series A stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
  • Menthum — Saving Made Simple
  • Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7M; Series A $10M–$75M; Series B $8M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
  • Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
  • Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.
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Vertex Ventures US
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Vertex US is an early stage VC that backs fearless founders building a smarter digital economy through B2B software.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.7M; Series A $3M–$15M; Series B $18M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $150M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Experify — Experify connects you with people in your neighborhood who already own products you consider buying. This way you can get an honest opinion and test a product in real-life.
  • Unity SCM — Data across your entire supply chain easily collected and organized in one place
  • KSOC Labs — KSOC is a Kubernetes Security Operations Center that helps security teams secure their cloud architecture in any environment. With real-time event-based detections and automatic remediation, KSOC offers full cluster and security visibility, software supply chain management, and least-privileged access. Trusted by companies like ActBlue, World Market, Invoca, and Phylum, KSOC is built for security practitioners, by security practitioners. Don't drown in alerts from point-in-time scanning - secure your clusters in real-time with KSOC.
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Aavishkaar Venture Capital
VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

With Impact Investing at its core, Aavishkaar Capital caters venture capital requirements to scale businesses in the new markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, Finance
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Indonesia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$5.4M; Series B $2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $130M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AgroStar — AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity andincome.We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
  • Altum Credo — Avail best home loans with simple and quick approval process, we make your dream home buying easier and hassle free.
  • Financepeer — Financepeer is a unique peer to peer lending platform designed to address financial needs of self-employed, entrepreneurs & salaried individuals through a highly secure, digital medium.
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Outlierz Ventures
VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

We provide smart capital to grow investable startups in Africa

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
  • Suplyd — Suplyd is a comprehensive digital solution that bridges the gap between restaurant operators and their suppliers in order to disrupt an untouched market with extreme fragmentation and resolve the problem end-to-end.
  • Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
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GE32 Capital
VC Fund · São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

GE32 Capital invests in high-growth companies across the globe with a long-term investment philosophy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$10M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $3.2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
  • Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
  • Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
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KSK Angel Fund
VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

KSK Angel Fund is a venture capital firm that offers data about the technology for services sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$41M; Series A $2.2M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • warashibe — warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
  • Tippsy — Largest selection of sake delivered to you. Tippsy makes finding good sake easy and fun! Free shipping 6+ bottles. Sake club subscription offers special perks such as member-exclusive discounts, virtual sake tasting as well as a beginner's guide.
  • Terra Motors — Terra Motors is an electric car manufacturing company that utilizes IoT and digitally connecting EV mobility. They develop the global enterprise for global warming. SEED48 is the first electronic motorcycles that have brilliant functionality such as the highest speed(40km/h)and practicality(40km/1charge) Their products are provided at thefamous electronic retail stores, do-it-yourself stores, bicycle stores, car stores, and gas stations. They achieve a dominant share of the electronic motorcycles market.In 2011, They would mainly focus on the south east Asian market.
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TRK Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

An Oslo-based Advisory and Active Ownership Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Norway, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NoMy — Norwegian startup that researches and develops sustainable material and food solutions using mycelium
  • Vilect AI — Vilect is a recruitment software for store managers. The system identifies the most relevant candidates and lets the hiring manager screen recorded video interviews integrated directly into the system - store managers can see their fit, personality, drive, and motivation and save time and money.
  • Travelin.ai — Business and Leisure travel no longer just exist in silos but are intertwined. Travelin.ai is the Next Generation Corporate Travel Management Platform which reflects the true way we live, work and travel.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$4M; Pre-Seed $80k–$2.5M; Series A $2.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
  • NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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Jean Case
Angel · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist, investor and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. A passionate believer in all things digital and the amazing potential of technology to change theworld for the better, Jean and her team focus the efforts of the Foundation around many of the same entrepreneurial approaches she and Steve cultivated throughout their business careers. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to address significant social challenges, harnessing the best impulses of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology and collaboration to drive exponential impact.Prior to co-founding the Case Foundation, Jean spent her career as a technology executive in the private sector. As a senior executive at America Online, Inc. (AOL), Jean directed the marketing and branding effort that launched the AOL service, directed the communications strategy for taking the company public, and helped establish AOL as a household utility. Before joining AOL, she held strategic marketing positions at GE’s Information Services Division and at The Source, the nation’s first online service.In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean has served in two appointed roles leading strategic public-private efforts, including the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, to which she was appointed as Chair by President George W. Bush, and as Co-chair of the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership.In addition to her role as Chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees, Jean serves on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Company, Inc. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund and the U.S. National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investing Task Force (SIITF) established by the G8.Jean and Steve joined The Giving Pledge, started by Melinda and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to fund worthy charitable causes. In recognition of their innovative work in philanthropy, Jean and Steve have received a number of accolades, including Barron’s “25 Best Givers”, the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) Citizens of the Year, and Washingtonians of the Year. Jean was also named Corporate Philanthropist of the Year by the Washington Business Journal, which also named her as a finalist for “Most Admired Nonprofit CEO” award, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Washington DC. She has also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Indiana University and from George Mason University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: TV, Energy, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • M-KOPA — M-KOPA is the global leader for “pay-as-you-go” energy services for off-grid customers. M-KOPA was established in 2011. Following 2 years of piloting and development, M-KOPA began commercial sales in Kenya in October 2012. M-KOPA expanded to Uganda in 2013 and commences operations in Tanzania in late 2014. Their team includes over 500 staff andwe sell our product through more than 1000 retail agents and shops. The founders of the company are experienced mobile technology innovators who believe in the huge potential of transformative, affordable products designed for underserved consumers. While excellent technology is a pre-requisite, technology alone does not solve for customer needs. Success comes when smart technology is combined with a commitment to on-going, on-the-ground delivery. To that end, M-KOPA is beginning to license its technology to experienced and reputable third parties in markets outside of East Africa (licensing queries should be sent to licensing@m-kopa.com). M-KOPA has developed a proprietary, patented technology platform that combines embedded GSM + mobile payments to revolutionize asset financing in emerging markets. The M-KOPAnet platform has been designed and built from the ground up by our talented team of software engineers, who continue to innovate and improve the system every day. It offers the powerful combination of accounting + customer relationship management + inventory tracking in one complete system. Aside from enabling our business operations to scale at record speed, the M-KOPAnet™ platform captures and processes huge volumes of data, enabling us to improve our proposition, customer service, and security in real-time.
  • Hello Alice — Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services.The company's partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small and medium business owners to ensure increasedrevenues.Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, Hello Alice is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.
  • SnagFilms — SnagFilms is an online film distribution company that allows viewers to stream thousands of films for free. Its platform broadcasts multi-lingual movies and TV programs to customers that enable them to stream and download shows on their platform of choice. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
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Impact Engine
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm investing in companies driving positive impact in economic empowerment, education, environmental sustainability, and health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Education, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$4.8M; Series A $4M–$12M; Series B $5.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Plum.io — Plum is revolutionizing how global enterprises hire, grow, and retain talent with the predictive power of psychometric data.
  • Cloverly — Integrate sustainability into every transaction with carbon estimates. Neutralize the impact in real-time with carbon reduction solutions from Cloverly.
  • Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.
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LGT Venture Philanthropy
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

We support local organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa and India to deliver efficient, scalable solutions for health, education and environmental issues.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Mobile
  • Stage:Series A, Series D
  • Geography: India, Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Alpha Angels is a network of investors who are leaders in the entrepreneurial community in the Caribbean.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Cloud Computing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Kenya

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • mSURVEY — Start your first business web-page in minutes. Easily power online transactions, Buy Ads with your Airtime on Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Get ratings and reviews to build your business credibility, and enlarge your customer base.
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PayPal
VC Fund · San Jose, California, United States · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Ireland, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $45k–$1.6M; Grant $15k–$107k
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
  • CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
  • Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile startups

Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a government organization that provides tourists and travellers with travel alerts, tips, and advice. It promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas supporting its citizens and businesses around the globe.Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a worldwide network of embassies and consulates thatemploys over 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices. It works with international organizations to promote British interests and global security, including the EU, NATO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office was founded on January 1, 1936 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Mauritius, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
  • AgroCenta — AgroCenta is an online platform that connects the smallholder farmer in the staple food (rice, maize, millet and soybean) value chain to a wider online market to trade
  • HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
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Christian Jantzen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Kenya Mobile 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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Mobile Investor funding in Kenya at a glance

Stats across 51 deals from 87 investors.

87
investors
in Kenya Mobile startups
51
deals
in Kenya Mobile startups
$1.1M
median round
in Kenya Mobile startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage
85/15
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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