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Top Funded Kenya Startups of 2025

Ranked by total funding announced in 2025 (USD).

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2025 Funding
$944.6M
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Companies
25
Backer relationships
318

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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
2025 Funding
$300M
Backers
32
2
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
2025 Funding
$276M
Backers
31
3
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
2025 Funding
$90M
Backers
15
4
CrossBoundary Energy

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
5
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
2025 Funding
$40M
Backers
9
6
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
2025 Funding
$36M
Backers
17
7
SunCulture

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
8
ARC Ride

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
9
Hakki Africa

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
10
Peach Cars

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
11
Hewatele

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
12
Lendable

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
13
StockApp

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
14
Leta

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
15
Jackfruit Network

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
16
HoneyCoin

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
17
Poa Internet

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
18
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
2025 Funding
$3.5M
Backers
28
19
Enzi Mobility

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
20
Lori Systems

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
21
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
2025 Funding
$1.7M
Backers
11
22
Farm to Feed

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
23
Ilara Health

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
24
Jahazii

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
25
Sanivation

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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