# Top 50 Sustainability VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Kenya in May 2026 ## E3 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors. ## Kepple Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy For the many, not just the few. For good. ## Electrification Financing Initiative - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy Impact investment in sustainable energy ## Lion’s Head Global Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy A global investment banking, asset management and advisory firm focused on delivering value to our clients in emerging and frontier markets ## Global Partnerships - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Global Partnerships is an impact-first investor dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. For 25 years GP has invested in sustainable solutions that help impoverished people increase their incomes and improve their lives, with core investments in livelihoods, education, health, energy, housing, and sanitation. Since inceptionGP has deployed $356.5 million in impact investments to 135 partners, bringing meaningful impact to over 14.7 million lives in 21 countries.What is Impact-First Investing?Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the highest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors.Impact-first investing is distinctly different from return-first investing, which seeks the highest possible financial return (often without consideration of social or environmental consequences), and from philanthropy, which seeks the highest social impact without any preservation of capital.We believe that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.What Does Impact Mean to Global Partnerships?All of our impact-first investing is aimed at empowering poor and marginalized people to earn a living, provide the basic necessities of life for their families, and improve their lives. We seek social impact on four dimensions:Broadening Opportunity – We have a holistic understanding of poverty, so we invest across all facets of poverty: livelihoods, education, energy, health, housing, sanitation, and water.Deepening Inclusion – We invest at the edge of the market, emphasizing approaches that include people marginalized by depth of poverty, gender, and/or geography, including women and the rural poor.Serving Millions – We believe that every person matters, and want to expand opportunity for as many people as possible. We therefore focus on sustainable approaches that can, over time, scale to serve millions of people living in poverty.Improving Lives – We only invest where evidence convinces us that people living in poverty value the opportunity being delivered and are empowered by it – economically or otherwise – to improve their lives. ## DOB Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Veessen, Gelderland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Farming, Health Care DOB Equity is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital and buy-and-build strategies in small and medium companies. ## Aster - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Energy, Solar 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). ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people. ## Shell Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Agriculture, Solar Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000 to create and scale new solutions to global development challenges. We apply business thinking to major social and environmental issues linked to the energy sector – and seek to leverage the skills and networks of Shell where possible to deliver greater developmentimpact.Over the years, learning from both success and failure, we have established a new enterprise-based model to deliver significant and lasting social and environmental outcomes. We now deploy a blend of financial and non-financial resources to accelerate social innovation and harness private markets to deliver public benefit at scale. ## SunFunder - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series C - Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy SunFunder is a specialist financing company dedicated to pioneering and scaling clean energy and climate investments in emerging markets. ## Gray Matters Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Health Care, E-Learning We are an impact investor in the global south. Our deep roots in microfinance and education finance have demonstrated profit with purpose. We focus on self-development and skilling technology for women to find meaningful work. ## Opes Impact Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets. ## EcoEnterprises Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Costa Rica, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy EcoEnterprises Fund offers tailored growth capital and strategic guidance to innovative impact businesses in order to scale and optimize their financial, environmental and social performance. For nearly 20 years, we have successfully proven our unique approach, managing two funds that have financed over 30 companies across 11 countries. Our 3rdfund, EcoEnterprises Partners III, LP, was launched in May 2018, building on our track record of delivering portfolio results while generating fair and sustainable livelihoods for local communities, and preserving our most important asset: Planet Earth. ## Mani Kapital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Focus: Communities, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy Mani Kapital is an investment management firm. ## ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C - Focus: Solar, Agriculture, Energy ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies initiative is the Group provides technical and financial support. ## GIIG Africa Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Environmental Engineering, Health Care, Ride Sharing GIIG invest in seed, growth and late stage companies. ## AXA Investment Managers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical They are an active, long-term, global, multi-asset investor focused on enabling more people to harness the power of investing to meet their financial goals.As the investment partner of AXA Group, the A-rated protection and wealth management provider, we draw on a longstanding heritage of creating solutions to manage real-life risks andchallenges.At the same time, our investment professionals are committed to finding the most efficient and sustainable sources of return across world markets, from equities to fixed income, real assets to other alternative asset classes. ## DILA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services DILA Capital is a Mexico City-based VC Firm that fosters the growth of Mexican entrepreneurs and Start-Up Companies. By offering equity investments, debt financing and guidance, DILA strives to add value to our invested companies and entrepreneurs. In addition to our vast entrepreneur network, knowledge of the Mexican market and experience of ourpartners. ## VilCap Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech VilCap Investments is an early-stage impact investing fund, backing companies addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges. ## Alphamundi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Debt Financing - Focus: Agriculture, Solar, Energy AlphaMundi Group Ltd is a commercial entity based in Switzerland and exclusively dedicated to Impact Investing: profitable investments that generate substantial net benefits to society. It was founded in 2007 by a group of partners with extensive experience in the financial industry as well as responsible investments, microfinance andphilanthropy.AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to scalable social ventures in strategic sustainable human development sectors such as microfinance, affordable education, fair trade agriculture and renewable energy. AlphaMundi is currently investing out of its impact debt fund, SocialAlpha Investment Fund (SAIF) - Bastion, domiciled in Luxembourg. AlphaMundi also manages co-investments for SAIF-Bastion investors and third parties.​AlphaMundi partners believe that Impact Investing is a new tool for development that can enhance more classical responsible investment approaches (which often lack impact ​measurability) and complement charitable solutions (which often lack financial viability). To this extent, the firm also contributes to the emergence of Impact Investing through education events, publications and industry associations. Impact investments are now being integrated by leading US and European banks, pension funds, foundations and family offices into traditional investment portfolios, as primarily decorrelated, illiquid and profitable financial assets. ## CoCapital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Agriculture, Energy, Biomass Energy CoCapital provides dedicated Seed and Early Stage investment solutions for specialist Technology startups, prime Real Estate ventures as well as other alternative investment products. ## Better Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software Better Ventures is the amplifier of essential science and technology startups. ## Triodos Investment Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Energy Triodos is a global pioneer of sustainable banking. Their mission is to make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change. ## Aster Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: France, Idaho, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Automotive, Sensor, Virtual Reality VC fund ## AE Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 ## Partners Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Baar, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care Partners Group are a unique, global alternative asset manager with strong Swiss roots, proactively providing their international client base with innovative, customized solutions.With CHF 19.2 billion in private equity assets under management, a global team of over 130 private equity professionals in seven offices, and over 300 partnershipinvestments led by over 200 general partners, Partners Group is one of the largest private equity asset managers worldwide. ## Khosla Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance 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. ## Lendahand - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Agriculture, Biomass Energy, Renewable Energy Crowdfund entrepreneurs in emerging markets and earn up to 7% interest annually. ## Hooge Raedt Social Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Baarn, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Agriculture, Environmental Consulting, Environmental Engineering Our goal is to create opportunities and choices for underserved people in East Africa through investments in socially-minded and viable businesses. ## Chandaria Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Chandaria Capital operates as a venture capital Fund. We believe that innovative ideas will transform Africa. We invest, mentor, and work together with incredible entrepreneurs to create impactful companies that can change the continent. ## Threshold - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California. ## Nexus Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established by ex-entrepreneurs in enterprise technology and consumer internet. The firm was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. ## Garage Technology Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology A seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that will define the next era of innovation. ## Proparco - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Finance, Energy Proparco is devoted to private sector funding in the sustainable development sector. ## Animoca Brands - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models. ## Endeavor Catalyst - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. TodayThe Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 53 companies valued at $1B+. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia. ## Schneider Electric - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rueil-malmaison, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Energy, Solar As a global specialist in energy management and automation in more than 100 countries, we offer integrated energy solutions across multiple market segments. ## Lateral Frontiers - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Lakeland Dental Offers Family Dentistry, Teeth Whitening, Tooth Fillings, Dental Crowns, & Dental Implants. Call Us In Staples, Clarissa, Or Long Prairie, MN ## At One Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Sustainability At One Ventures finds, funds, and grows teams to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature. ## Seedstars Africa Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, FinTech, Software Seedstars Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-growth companies active across Sub-Saharan Africa. ## Nordic Development Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: Solar, Farming, Agriculture The Nordic Development Fund (NDF) is the joint Nordic international finance institution focusing on the nexus between climate change and development in lower-income countries and countries in fragile situations. ## Artesian VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund. ## Endeavor - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce About EndeavorEndeavor is the world’s leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. Today, Endeavor’s network spans nearly 40 countries and supports more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, whose companies generate combined revenues of over $28 billion US, have created more than 3.9 million jobs, and, in 2020, raised over $4 billion US in capital.Endeavor’s unique entrepreneur-first model and network of trust provide a platform for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
About Endeavor CatalystEndeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor, set up to invest exclusively in Endeavor Entrepreneur-led companies and to sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has ~$250M+ AUM across three funds and has made 200+ investments to date in 32+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 37 companies valued at $1B+, including 29 unicorns. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB), Rappi, and Creditas in Latin America; Yemeksepeti.com and Careem in MENA; and Bukalapak and Carro in Indonesia. ## Blue Haven Initiative - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Financial Services Blue Haven Initiative is an innovative family office dedicated to putting wealth to work for market returns and positive social and environmental change. ## Norfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Debt Financing - Focus: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019). ## Électricité de France - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series B, Seed - Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Energy EDF is an electric utility company that provides heat humps. wind turbines, photovoltaic, and geothermal energy. It serves small businesses, local authorities, and industrial and residential customers. They also generate electricity through nuclear, fossil fuel, hydro, solar, wind, biomass, biogas, tidal, geothermal, and cogeneration plants.EDFalso manages low and medium-voltage public electricity distribution networks, operates, develops, and maintains high-voltage and very-high-voltage electricity transmission networks; and services and produces equipment and fuel for nuclear reactors. The company is present in all businesses such as transport, trading, production, sale, and the distribution of energy.EDF was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. ## Ambo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: CleanTech, Automotive, Electronics Ambo Ventures is a new fund dedicated to launching sustainable ecosystems in Africa. ## Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Farming Scaling water-energy-food innovations to impact gender, food security, poverty reduction, climate mitigation and resilience, and the environment and biodiversity. ## CDC Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co