Top 10 Travel Startup Investors in Kenya (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Gullit
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation | |
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FrontEnd Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation | |
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daba
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya | Pre-Seed | Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation | |
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Norfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Debt Financing | Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy | $4.5M–$227M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital | $200k–$1.7M |
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XA Network
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $1.3M–$7M |
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Five35 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness | $1M–$1.6M |
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Renew Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Baby, Reservations | $60k–$500k |
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Darshan Chandaria
Angel
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1 | Kenya, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, B2B, Marketplace | $49k–$285k |
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Gullit advises and finances scalable early-stage tech firms in Africa. Additionally, Gullit provides funding for startups during the seed, pre-seed, debt acquisition, and restructuring phases.
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- Industry: Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
FrontEnd Ventures is a venture capital fund committed to supporting local and diverse founder teams that are ridiculously passionate about innovating and changing their value chains.
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- Industry: Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Provider of a fintech platform intended to access investment analysis and build wealth by investing in the African private and public capital markets. The company's platform offers an application for investing and trading the best African startups, stocks, and digital assets at once, enabling users to get all the latest news and curatedupdates in one place to maximize their investments.
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- Industry: Travel, Reservations, Public Transportation
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
Norfund is the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with 24.9 bill. NOK in total commitments (2019).
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- Industry: Energy, Financial Services, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing
- Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Debt Financing $4.5M–$96M; Private Equity $6.6M–$227M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009
Portfolio highlights
- Miniplast — Miniplast Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of Industrial and Household products in Ghana with over 25 years of experience in the sector.
- Hela Clothing — Hela Clothing is a clothing manufacturer. From design to delivery, the firm collaborates closely with brands in the intimate, sleepwear, and children's product lines. With design centers in major markets, they can watch and predict customer preferences. This enables us to provide their customers with unique design options that fit theirrequirements.
- OH Ecosystems — OH Ecosystems is a confectionary company that produces and operates cocoa processing and confectioneries.
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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- 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.
Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.
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- Industry: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
- Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future
XA Network provides smart capital to startups in Southeast Asia. We believe startups in Southeast Asia deserve a better breed of angels - genuinely wanting to go beyond capital.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $1.8M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GORO — Easy property investing from IDR10,000 and earn up to 10% return per year paid monthly at GORO.
- Proglix — Proglix is a goods procurement platform for raw materials and finished industrial goods.
- Beep Technologies — Beep is creating a universal, modular platform bridging the physical and digital divide, powering smart, contextual & interoperable connectivity across physical touchpoints whilst ensuring true customer privacy by leveraging on decentralised technology.
Five35 Ventures is committed to unlocking capital and growth opportunities for female-focused early-stage African technology startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Health Care, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kasha — Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
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RENEW and the Impact Angel Network are one of the most active private equity investors in Ethiopia and recently expanded to Uganda. RENEW and the IAN seek to become the most successful SME investment firm in Sub-Saharan Africa, investing in hundreds of companies across twenty countries. Their mission is to find, invest and help grow great companiesled by visionary leaders.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Baby, Reservations
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $60k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inputi — Inputi is an online marketplace, aggregator, and distributor for farm supplies based in Kampala, Uganda.
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- AkelloBanker — AkelloBanker is a data-driven digital finance technology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Makerere, Kampala, Uganda.
Darshan Chandaria is the Group CEO and Director of Chandaria Industries. He previously worked at Pentland Brands Plc as a Graduate Trainee. Darshan Chandaria attended Harvard Business School.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $49k–$285k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
- Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.
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