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Top Funded Kenya Startups of 2024

Ranked by total funding announced in 2024 (USD).

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2024 Funding
$700.1M
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Companies
25
Backer relationships
369

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25 companies in this list

1
d.light

d.light is an international Energy startup that serves people without access to reliable electricity.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Receivables Financing
Latest tracked round
July 2025
2024 Funding
$186.8M
Backers
32
2
CrossBoundary Energy

CrossBoundary Energy offers fully financed, customized clean energy solutions for business.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Venture
Latest tracked round
August 2025
2024 Funding
$140M
Backers
7
3
TerraPay

TerraPay simplifies global money movement – by providing a single connection to the most expansive cross-border payments network.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
July 2024
2024 Funding
$95M
Backers
7
4
BasiGo

BasiGo is a Kenyan early-stage e-mobility start-up creating the future of clean, electric public transit in Africa.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Expansion
Latest tracked round
November 2025
2024 Funding
$54.7M
Backers
25
5
M-KOPA

M-KOPA has connected more than 500,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to solar power, with over 500 new homes being added every day.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
May 2024
2024 Funding
$51M
Backers
28
6
Roam

Roam provides accessible, low-cost, and low-emission transport solutions for the vast population across Kenya and the greater African continent.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage Venture
Latest tracked round
June 2026
2024 Funding
$34M
Backers
11
7
BURN

BURN is a Kenyan clean energy startup working to create the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves.

HQ Location
Riuru, Kenya
Stage
Venture
Latest tracked round
July 2025
2024 Funding
$27M
Backers
15
8
Mawingu

Mawingu uses high-performance low-cost wireless technology and solar power to build fast internet networks in rural areas.

HQ Location
Nanyuki, Kenya
Stage
Expansion
Latest tracked round
October 2025
2024 Funding
$15M
Backers
9
9
Sistema.bio

Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage Venture
Latest tracked round
March 2026
2024 Funding
$15M
Backers
28
10
SunCulture

SunCulture is a Kenyan startup that empowers smallholder farmers with solar irrigation

HQ Location
Lavington, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
September 2026
2024 Funding
$12M
Backers
17
11
Apollo Agriculture

Apollo Agriculture is a technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage Venture
Latest tracked round
May 2026
2024 Funding
$10M
Backers
25
12
Mogo Auto

Mogo is a Kenyan vehicle financing company.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage Venture
Latest tracked round
February 2026
2024 Funding
$10M
Backers
2
13
Hydrobox

Hydrobox is a Kenyan Energy startup aiming at powering up Africa through a renewable energy revolution

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
November 2024
2024 Funding
$9M
Backers
3
14
Sun King

Sun King designs, distributes and finances Sun King solar home energy solutions to households and businesses who lack reliable access to the grid.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Expansion
Latest tracked round
December 2025
2024 Funding
$7M
Backers
31
15
Conduit

Conduit enables businesses to simply and cheaply move money between Latin America, Africa, China and the US at scale.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage Venture
Latest tracked round
May 2025
2024 Funding
$6M
Backers
17
16
WorkPay

WorkPay is an end to end HR and payroll system offering time tracking, payroll management, and payouts to all banks in Kenya plus M-Pesa.

HQ Location
Thika, Kenya
Stage
Non-equity Assistance
Latest tracked round
November 2024
2024 Funding
$5M
Backers
19
17
Ilara Health

Ilara Health provides Affordable technology-powered diagnostics for Africa

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
January 2025
2024 Funding
$4.2M
Backers
21
18
Octavia Carbon

Octavia Carbon is using Direct Air Carbon Capture to stop climate change and reinvent humanity's relationship with carbon.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Early Stage
Latest tracked round
October 2024
2024 Funding
$4.2M
Backers
10
19
Shamba Pride

Shamba Pride is a one-stop online-to-offline platform that connects smallholder farmers to services and information through tech-powered “DigiShops”.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Seed
Latest tracked round
January 2024
2024 Funding
$3.7M
Backers
4
20
Badili

Buying and selling pre-owned smartphones made easy for Kenyans.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Debt Financing
Latest tracked round
March 2025
2024 Funding
$2M
Backers
13
21
One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow more food and earn more money.

HQ Location
Bungoma, Kenya
Stage
Grant
Latest tracked round
September 2024
2024 Funding
$1.9M
Backers
5
22
Kubik

Kubik is a Kenyan startup that turn hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-cost, low-carbon building materials.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Seed
Latest tracked round
April 2024
2024 Funding
$1.9M
Backers
13
23
Jacaranda Health

Jacaranda Health delivers sustainable solutions in partnership with government hospitals to improve quality of care for moms & newborns.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Grant
Latest tracked round
October 2024
2024 Funding
$1.7M
Backers
5
24
Sukhiba

Sukhiba is a conversational chat based platform for businesses looking to leverage the popularity of WhatsApp.

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Seed
Latest tracked round
July 2024
2024 Funding
$1.6M
Backers
12
25
Uncover

Uncover is revolutionising self-care in Africa, starting by building the continent's most trusted skincare brand

HQ Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Stage
Secondary Market
Latest tracked round
July 2024
2024 Funding
$1.4M
Backers
10

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