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

Founder and General Partner

Takahiro Kamisaki

General Partner and Founder

Past deals in Nigeria

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.

Stakefair

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

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.

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.

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.

Mvxchange

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

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.

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.

Shyft Power Solutions

Seed Round in 2021
SHYFT Power Solutions, Inc. specializes in developing an integrated hardware and software platform that allows users to monitor and manage distributed energy resources (DERs). The company's primary product, Shyft, is a hybrid smart meter and transfer switch that facilitates energy management through Internet of Things (IoT) technology, streamlining the transition between the grid and backup power sources. SHYFT's software application enhances this capability by enabling real-time monitoring and control from mobile devices. The company targets markets facing challenges with energy resiliency, such as Nigeria, by promoting decentralized power systems that bypass traditional infrastructure. Founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, California, SHYFT Power Solutions aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs for various stakeholders, including real estate developers and solar providers.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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