Kepple Africa Ventures

Founded in 2019, Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan. The firm provides seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage financing to startups based in Africa. The firm seeks to invest in information technology, fintech, and B2C sectors.

Satoshi Shinada

General Partner

50 past transactions

Beacon Power Services

Seed Round in 2022
Beacon Power Services is a company based in Lagos, Nigeria, specializing in energy management solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. Founded in 2013, the company develops comprehensive power generation and management plans by utilizing real-time electricity usage data. This approach allows for optimal generator sizing, peak shaving, and the implementation of automation and appliance upgrades. Additionally, Beacon Power Services focuses on electrical redesign, process management, and the installation of renewable energy sources, particularly solar projects, to enhance energy efficiency and reduce costs. The company's software also monitors diesel generator performance, helping clients eliminate diesel pilferage and further decrease energy expenses.

Cartona

Series A in 2022
Developer of a business-to-business marketplace designed to connect retailers with suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. The company's marketplace leverages advanced technology, data, and supply chain innovation to offer easy price comparison, offers, and a seamless ordering and fulfillment experience, enabling the business ecosystem to transform traditional retail into a digitally connected network.

Stakefair

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.

Seso Global

Seed Round in 2022
A Buyer looking for a stress-free transaction, or A Property Developer looking to sell your properties to the largest market, or A Bank looking to increase your mortgage’s portfolio.

African Valuables Collective

Pre Seed Round in 2022
African Valuables Collective is a developer of a non-fungible token (NFT) platform aimed at empowering African creators in various industries, including art, music, film, sports, and real estate. The platform allows these creators to securely generate and sell NFTs, providing them the tools to list their digital assets across multiple marketplaces. Additionally, it offers features to help clients manage and grow their portfolios, thereby enhancing their engagement in the burgeoning digital economy.

Sudo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sudo is an API platform that allows developers to issue physical and virtual cards at scale with greater control and flexibility. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Barnawa, Kaduna.

MoneyHash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MoneyHash operates a payment orchestration platform that simplifies payment processes for businesses in the Middle East and Africa. Through a unified API, it offers seamless integration of pay-in and pay-out rails, allowing customers to customize their checkout experience. The platform includes advanced transaction routing capabilities designed to optimize fraud detection and reduce failure rates. Additionally, MoneyHash provides a centralized reporting hub that enables users to monitor transactions effectively. This comprehensive solution helps businesses enhance their success rates, accept various payment methods, and streamline their financial operations.

Kashier

Venture Round in 2022
Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises. Mohamed Mohsen founded it in Gîza, Al Jiza in 2017.

FloatPays

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a financial platform designed to provide employees early access to wages. The company's platform offers payroll integration, access to earn wages, payment services, financial education and reporting, enabling firms to provide monetary services for employees.

Paps

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an on-demand logistics application designed to facilitate the transportation of shipments across places. The company's logistics platform offers live tracking, an intelligent address system, and automatic dispatch to offer a fully digitalized postal logistics service, enabling clients to avail of timely movement of shipments.

Kuunda

Seed Round in 2021
Kuunda operates a B2B advisory platform that focuses on providing financial services tailored for developing economies. The company offers a range of tools, including liquidity management and data insight solutions, which help clients meet their financial requirements through a digital interface. By enabling users to access liquidity, Kuunda supports underserved agents, merchants, and consumers, facilitating their ability to maintain their standard of living, grow their businesses, and enhance economic resilience. Additionally, Kuunda's platform promotes increased network productivity and expands the distribution of products, yielding tangible and measurable results for its clients.

Carepoint Hospitals

Series A in 2021
CarePoint Hospitals is a chain of healthcare facilities that provides optimized and patient-centered services to patients. They provide services that include outpatient care, inpatient care, mother and child care, specialist care, general surgery, lab and diagnosis, obstetrics and gynecology, pharmacy, urology, ambulance services, and more.

CarePoint

Series A in 2021
CarePoint is a healthcare platform focused on transforming the healthcare landscape through innovation and digitization. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Accra, Ghana, with offices in Nigeria and New York, the company operates a network of healthcare businesses that provide various services, including hospital care, telemedicine, and clinics. By consolidating these services, CarePoint aims to create a connected and patient-centered healthcare system across Africa, enhancing the overall quality and accessibility of healthcare for local communities. The organization promotes a collaborative work environment that encourages professionals to exceed expectations and contribute to the development and success of healthcare in the region.

ILLA

Seed Round in 2021
ILLA is a logistics company based in El Dokki, Egypt, specializing in the middle mile delivery of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). Founded in 2017, ILLA provides a range of trucking services tailored for both modern and traditional trade. The company employs an asset-light model, leveraging a network of trucks with various capacities to optimize the delivery process. By digitizing each step, ILLA enhances visibility and control over logistics activities, enabling clients to navigate market challenges effectively. Its platform is designed to streamline the fulfillment and delivery processes, ultimately driving sales growth for FMCG companies by offering customized and efficient logistics solutions.

Cartona

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a business-to-business marketplace designed to connect retailers with suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. The company's marketplace leverages advanced technology, data, and supply chain innovation to offer easy price comparison, offers, and a seamless ordering and fulfillment experience, enabling the business ecosystem to transform traditional retail into a digitally connected network.

pawaPay

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online payment platform intended for organizations to collect payments and terminate payouts. The company's payment application programming interface allows users to programmatically send payouts to the recipients with instant funds and automate payout workflows, enabling businesses to pay out instantly with ease and securely.

pawaPay

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online payment platform intended for organizations to collect payments and terminate payouts. The company's payment application programming interface allows users to programmatically send payouts to the recipients with instant funds and automate payout workflows, enabling businesses to pay out instantly with ease and securely.

Mvxchange

Seed Round in 2021
MVXchange is a digital maritime logistics platform with an integrated shipbroking solution.

Decagon

Seed Round in 2021
Decagon offers software development training services to engineers. It also provides training for mobile development and user experience design. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Wapi Pay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wapi Pay is a financial technology company that provides a payments gateway facilitating digital transactions between Africa and Asia through mobile money and bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with additional offices in Africa, Singapore, and Beijing, Wapi Pay offers platform-to-platform integrations, global accounts, and virtual wallets. The company enables organizations to process bulk payments across multiple mobile platforms, catering to needs such as salary disbursement and business purchases. Wapi Pay's services are designed to be faster and more cost-effective than traditional telegraphic transfers, allowing customers to choose various payment methods, including bank-to-bank and wallet-to-wallet transfers. Its proprietary infrastructure ensures instant liquidity and compliance, with transaction completion guaranteed within 24 hours. The platform supports mass payments for corporate clients, merchant transactions for small and medium-sized enterprises, and peer-to-peer payments, positioning itself as a leading financial solution for cross-border payments.

Omnisient

Series A in 2021
Omnisient (Pty) Ltd operates intersect.ai, an online platform that facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while safeguarding data privacy and information security. Founded in 2014 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, the company empowers users to monetize their data by creating revenue-generating data sets, evaluating them, and enabling secure trading of these sets. The platform employs advanced cryptography and artificial intelligence to address privacy concerns, allowing businesses to access consumer data ecosystems efficiently. Omnisient's innovative approach supports businesses in enhancing their profitability and fostering growth through effective data collaboration.

TeamApt

Series B in 2021
TeamApt is a financial technology company focused on, developing Digital Banking, Digital Business solutions, and running Payments Infrastructure by rethinking the needs of consumers, businesses, and the financial industry. Beginning operations in 2015, TeamApt was borne from a desire to create financial happiness, building solutions and tools for businesses and individuals to happily manage money. TeamApt is proudly Nigerian but globally focused, with an eclectic mix of backend, frontend, reliability, quality assurance, distributed data storage engineers to ensure critical solutions and products for our customers are built right, securely, scalably and reliably. Our end goal is to see our customers happy which can only happen when they succeed using our solutions to run their daily lives and businesses.

Minly

Seed Round in 2021
Minly Ltd is an online platform based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, that connects fans with celebrities through personalized experiences. Founded in 2020, Minly enables users to book custom video shoutouts from a variety of public figures, including actors, musicians, athletes, and influencers. This service allows fans to celebrate special occasions, such as birthdays and anniversaries, by surprising loved ones with heartfelt messages from their favorite stars. In addition to its core offerings, Minly is committed to social responsibility and has partnered with local non-profit organizations focused on community development and support. The platform is accessible via its website and mobile applications, serving users in the Middle East and globally.

Seso Global

Pre Seed Round in 2021
A Buyer looking for a stress-free transaction, or A Property Developer looking to sell your properties to the largest market, or A Bank looking to increase your mortgage’s portfolio.

MoneyHash

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MoneyHash operates a payment orchestration platform that simplifies payment processes for businesses in the Middle East and Africa. Through a unified API, it offers seamless integration of pay-in and pay-out rails, allowing customers to customize their checkout experience. The platform includes advanced transaction routing capabilities designed to optimize fraud detection and reduce failure rates. Additionally, MoneyHash provides a centralized reporting hub that enables users to monitor transactions effectively. This comprehensive solution helps businesses enhance their success rates, accept various payment methods, and streamline their financial operations.

Bongalow

Seed Round in 2021
Bongalow is a mobile-powered home financing marketplace that enables Africans at home and abroad shops for the best home loan to purchase their desired property.

TIBU Health

Seed Round in 2021
TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

Numida

Seed Round in 2021
Numida Technologies is a fintech company based in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 2015. It focuses on providing application software tailored for micro, small, and medium enterprises in Africa. The company's primary product, a mobile app known as TrackApp, aids small businesses in maintaining accurate digital financial records, enabling them to assess their performance effectively. By building financial track records, businesses can make informed decisions and demonstrate their creditworthiness to potential lenders. Numida aims to unlock financing for the 22 million African small businesses in need, facilitating access to unsecured digital loans and improving lending terms through reduced risk and costs for lending institutions. Ultimately, Numida seeks to foster a thriving small business sector that enhances employment opportunities, increases local tax revenues, and elevates living standards for entrepreneurs and their communities.

ANKA

Seed Round in 2021
Afrikrea operates an e-commerce platform that connects buyers with African designers and artisans, offering a wide range of products including clothing, jewelry, art, and accessories. Founded in 2015 and based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, the platform caters to a global audience, providing options for women, men, children, and homes. Afrikrea's mission is to celebrate and promote African creativity, enabling creators to earn a livelihood while allowing enthusiasts to discover and purchase unique items. The platform facilitates direct transactions between buyers and sellers, ensuring a user-friendly and secure shopping experience.

Curacel

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Curacel is a leading developer of a healthcare data platform in Africa, focused on transforming operations within the healthcare sector. The company provides productivity tools and IT infrastructure that empower healthcare stakeholders to digitize their business processes, facilitating connections across various entities and enabling data-driven decision-making. Curacel's platform utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to automate claim processing and detect fraud, thereby enhancing operational efficiency for insurance companies. By aiming to create a connected healthcare ecosystem in low-income economies, Curacel seeks to optimize resource allocation, improve patient outcomes, and support research and public health initiatives in Africa through comprehensive data access.

Nowpay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform aimed at enhancing the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform provides personal finance management services, enabling users to manage savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Through a mobile application, employees can access detailed information about their salaries, account balances, and eligible loan amounts. NowPay collaborates with employers to offer advance salary payments, allowing employees to receive part of their salaries at any point during the month and repay over multiple months without incurring liabilities. This service not only supports employees in times of financial need but also aims to enhance overall employee satisfaction, productivity, and loyalty within organizations.

Tagaddod

Seed Round in 2021
Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, which can directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.

Termii

Venture Round in 2021
Termii Webtech Limited, founded in 2014 and based in Lagos, Nigeria, operates an online communication platform that enables businesses to engage effectively with their customers. The platform facilitates personalized messaging through various channels, including SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging. Termii aims to help African businesses build lasting customer relationships by providing a suite of applications that address digital branding, sales, and marketing needs. These applications include tools for customer relationship management, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, and project management, thereby enhancing both business functionality and social networking capabilities.

Paps

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an on-demand logistics application designed to facilitate the transportation of shipments across places. The company's logistics platform offers live tracking, an intelligent address system, and automatic dispatch to offer a fully digitalized postal logistics service, enabling clients to avail of timely movement of shipments.

Sanergy

Funding Round in 2020
Sanergy is a waste recycling company based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2010. The company aims to improve sanitation in urban slums by establishing a network of low-cost sanitation centers that provide essential facilities like toilets and showers. Sanergy franchises these centers to local entrepreneurs, supported by financing from microfinance institutions. The company collects organic waste, including food and sanitary waste, and processes it at a central facility. This waste is transformed into valuable byproducts, such as organic fertilizers and insect-based animal feed, while also generating biogas through anaerobic digestion. The biogas is used to produce renewable energy, which is sold to the national grid. By promoting affordable and hygienic sanitation solutions, Sanergy seeks to address the sanitation crisis in Nairobi while fostering a sustainable waste management cycle.

Autochek

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Autochek is an automotive technology company founded in 2020 and based in South Africa. It operates online platforms that connect buyers and sellers in the automotive sector, enhancing commerce through digital solutions. The company focuses on creating a marketplace that improves access to auto loans, quality maintenance, aftersales services, and warranty solutions. By offering a comprehensive digital infrastructure, Autochek aims to streamline the coordination and maintenance of vehicle records, facilitating smoother transactions and interactions within the car market.

Onboard

Seed Round in 2020
Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.

Indicina

Seed Round in 2020
Indicina Technologies Limited is a Lagos-based company that offers a digitized credit analysis platform designed to enhance consumer finance strategies. The platform serves banks, insurers, consumer finance firms, and retail merchants by enabling them to develop credit rules and models, conduct credit assessments and scoring, manage loan portfolios comprehensively, and streamline loan collections. By leveraging analytics-driven insights, Indicina facilitates informed credit decisions for lenders, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the lending process.

Workpay

Seed Round in 2020
WorkPay Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses in Africa. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, WorkPay's solutions include features such as time and attendance tracking, HR and payroll processing, and employee self-service management. The software also facilitates payment and loans processing, enabling businesses to manage and pay employees efficiently. By offering bulk salary payments directly to employees' bank accounts or mobile wallets, WorkPay helps clients streamline their payroll processes and enhance talent retention.

Pngme

Seed Round in 2020
Pngme is a mobile finance platform that offers comprehensive financial solutions aimed at Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and unbanked or underbanked consumers. The platform provides mobile payments, savings options, and a credit scoring system based on digital footprints, facilitating access to financial services for underserved populations. Additionally, Pngme develops a financial data platform that streamlines data processing for financial institutions, particularly in emerging markets. This technology aids in digitizing the credit scoring and capital procurement processes, enabling lenders to expand their operations while minimizing risk and enhancing their capital access. Through its services, Pngme contributes to improving financial inclusion and supporting the growth of businesses in underserved communities.

nextProtein

Series A in 2020
nextProtein S.A.S. is a French company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing insect-based protein for animal feed and fertilizers. With its origins in a garage, the company was established by Syrine Chaalala and Mohamed Gastli, who aimed to address land and resource scarcity through sustainable agricultural practices. nextProtein utilizes a bioconversion process to raise black soldier fly larvae, which convert organic waste into protein powder and lipid oil, suitable for use in aquaculture and animal feed. Additionally, the company produces biological fertilizers, contributing to environmentally friendly farming solutions. By leveraging natural organic cycles along with technological advancements, nextProtein offers an alternative to traditional agricultural systems, promoting sustainability and reducing carbon footprints.

Standage

Venture Round in 2020
Developer of a trade settlement platform designed to process international remittances and small financial transactions without going through banks. The company's platform offers business-to-business services with full transparency using blockchain management, enabling users to trade more safely and securely in an advanced form of trading.

Fuzu

Series A in 2020
Fuzu is a mobile-first career development platform for users in emerging economies, from Africa and Middle East to Asia and Latin America. Fuzu takes a fresh approach to job-seeking, recruitment and learning - with focus on testing and developing one’s skills and competencies. Fuzu keeps the users engaged by continuously offering high quality content and news and by maximizing the power of social networks in career management.

Lifestores Pharmacy

Venture Round in 2020
Lifestores Pharmacy is a retail pharmacy chain based in Lagos, Nigeria, established in 2017. The company focuses on enhancing the pharmaceutical sector by introducing innovative health solutions. Lifestores Pharmacy operates a network of pharmacies and offers health programs, including VIVA, a chronic disease management initiative delivered through a mobile application. This approach aims to improve healthcare accessibility and management for patients in Nigeria.

Mobius Motors

Venture Round in 2020
Mobius Motors Ltd. is a Kenyan company established in 2011, focused on designing, manufacturing, and selling vehicles tailored for the African mass market. The company specializes in producing affordable vehicles that cater to the unique needs of developing world consumers, particularly for transporting heavy cargo and facilitating public transport across rough and degraded terrains. By providing practical transportation solutions, Mobius Motors aims to enhance mobility in rural Africa, contributing to improved connectivity and prosperity in the region. The company is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

TIBU Health

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

UTU

Seed Round in 2019
UTU Technologies Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializes in providing personalized recommendations for trusted service providers on sharing platforms. The company focuses on developing trust infrastructure that enhances user interactions by making them safer and more reliable. Its platform tokenizes data, allowing users to securely store and manage access to their information while creating monetary incentives for endorsing service providers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, UTU enables its clients to access curated trust signals, facilitating confident connections in Web3 and DeFi applications for activities such as sending, swapping, staking, and borrowing.

PayGo Energy

Venture Round in 2018
PayGo Energy is a company based in Kenya that specializes in developing metering systems for pre-paid cooking gas. Founded in 2014, the company aims to provide clean cooking fuel through a pay-as-you-go model, which allows customers to purchase gas gradually using mobile money. Its patented device connects a gas cylinder to a cloud service, enabling real-time monitoring of gas consumption and predicting when refills are needed. This innovative approach addresses the challenges associated with traditional cooking fuels, which often have detrimental environmental and health impacts, particularly in underserved communities. By offering an accessible and efficient energy solution, PayGo Energy seeks to improve the quality of life for millions who rely on inefficient biomass fuels.
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