Top Funded Kenya Startups of 2025
Ranked by total funding announced in 2025 (USD).
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25 companies in this list
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
- 2025 Funding
- $300M
- Backers
- 32
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
- 2025 Funding
- $276M
- Backers
- 31
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
- 2025 Funding
- $90M
- Backers
- 15
CrossBoundary Energy offers fully financed, customized clean energy solutions for business.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Venture
- Latest tracked round
- August 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $80M
- Backers
- 7
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
- 2025 Funding
- $40M
- Backers
- 9
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
- 2025 Funding
- $36M
- Backers
- 17
SunCulture is a Kenyan startup that empowers smallholder farmers with solar irrigation
- HQ Location
- Lavington, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- September 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $20M
- Backers
- 16
ARC Ride is providing the electric solution to mass-transportation in rapidly-growing African cities.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Early Stage Venture
- Latest tracked round
- February 2026
- 2025 Funding
- $15M
- Backers
- 3
Hakki Africa is a Kenya-based FinTech startup that provides microfinance services for small and medium-sized enterprises.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- September 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $12.7M
- Backers
- 23
Peach Cars is a Kenyan e-commerce solution revolutionizing car ownership in sub-Saharan Africa.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- July 2026
- 2025 Funding
- $11M
- Backers
- 9
Hewatele is a registered social enterprise setup with a key mandate to ensure oxygen is available, affordably to all needy patients.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- August 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $10.5M
- Backers
- 6
Lendable is the leading provider of debt to fintechs in emerging and frontier markets.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- August 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $10M
- Backers
- 7
StockApp is an AI-powered retail tech platform built to digitize and empower Africa’s small businesses.
- HQ Location
- Mombasa, Kenya
- Stage
- Seed
- Latest tracked round
- October 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $10M
- Backers
- 1
Leta builds supply chain & logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods in Africa.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Seed
- Latest tracked round
- October 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $5M
- Backers
- 13
Financing and operational support platform helping low‑cost private schools grow and improve education quality.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Early Stage
- Latest tracked round
- November 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $5M
- Backers
- 7
HoneyCoin is building tools to help people move & spend money anywhere, affordably and at the speed of the internet.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Seed
- Latest tracked round
- August 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $4.9M
- Backers
- 16
Poa Internet is a Kenyan startup that provides affordable internet to individuals and small businesses.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- August 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $4M
- Backers
- 7
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
- 2025 Funding
- $3.5M
- Backers
- 28
Enzi Mobility provides electric motorcycles, battery-swapping, and clean energy solutions for Africa.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Early Stage
- Latest tracked round
- October 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $3.5M
- Backers
- 1
Lori has built a logistics platform that is revolutionising the cargo-transport value chain in Africa – from the ground up.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Venture
- Latest tracked round
- April 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $2M
- Backers
- 20
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
- 2025 Funding
- $1.7M
- Backers
- 11
Enhancing nutrition accessibility and affordability, while fighting climate change.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Seed
- Latest tracked round
- November 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $1.5M
- Backers
- 9
Ilara Health provides Affordable technology-powered diagnostics for Africa
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Debt Financing
- Latest tracked round
- January 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $1M
- Backers
- 21
Jahazii provides Africa’s 260 million formal workers with access to their earned wages before payday.
- HQ Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Stage
- Early Stage
- Latest tracked round
- October 2025
- 2025 Funding
- $800K
- Backers
- 4
Sanivation is a Kenyan startup that provides solution for sanitation problems.
- HQ Location
- Naivasha, Kenya
- Stage
- Early Stage Venture
- Latest tracked round
- January 2026
- 2025 Funding
- $540K
- Backers
- 5
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