Start Pill
This article showcases our top picks for the best Nairobi Area based FinTech companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the FinTech industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Nairobi Area FinTech Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Lendable
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Lendable provides debt financing to fintechs in emerging and frontier markets.
Kopo Kopo
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Kopo Kopo is a US-based company that offers solutions to help businesses grow and prosper through payments.
Turaco
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Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs.
PesaKit
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PesaKit is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered virtual assistant for mobile money agents.
Kotani Pay
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Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dApps, and blockchain FinTech companies.
Digiduka
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Digiduka provides digital financial services and social commerce solutions to informal retailers in Africa
WayaWaya
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WayaWaya is a one Account combining your bank, mobile wallet, savings & payments services through Apps, Social platforms and APIs.
Alternative Circle
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It has the stamina to succeed in this competitive market, and we look forward to winning new markets with them
Fingo Africa
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Fingo Africa provides a digital banking platform.
The Kueq Limited
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Africa’s; Virtual Bank, Neo Bank, Digital Bank, Mobile Bank, Challenger Bank.
ImaliPay
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ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers.
Pezesha
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Pezesha is Africa-focused digital financial marketplace.
BlockchainCybertech Limited
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Develops smart blockchain solutions for Supply chain and Financial services
Kiba
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Kiba is the fastest way for Fintechs to connect to banks across Africa and quickly build smart, personalized financial services.
Cherehani Africa
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Cherehani leverages technology to provide credit bundled with market information and financial education to women micro-entrepreneurs.
Saada
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Saada helps businesses automate sales and process payments via messaging platforms and USSD.
Mobile Decisioning
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Mobile Decisioning is a technology company providing mobile value added services to mobile network operators in emerging nations.
Tulix
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Tulix is a mobile app that provides a simple and convenient way to allocate funds or make payments for all needs.
Orion Fintech Africa – Orion ImageCapital Communication Ltd
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Orion ImageCapital Communication (Orion Fintech Africa)provides diverse financial solutions powered through technology across Africa.
Afrigroups
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A single platform for Founders, Co-founders, Investors, Entrepreneurs, Tech Developers coming together to develop businesses
SUPERFLUID LABS
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Superfluid Labs delivers Africa’s Consumer Credit Risk Analytics platform using AI technologies and alternative data sets
Zenka
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Zenka is a fintech company that offers a non-banking mobile loan platform that provides financial services to its users.
OCharge
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Airtime recharge & mobile payments app with benefits.
Zanifu
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Zanifu operates as a lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises.
FarmDrive
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FarmDrive applies data science to build software and credit models that increases access to meaningful financial services.
Chamasoft
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Microsavings and microinvestments record management system
Paytree
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Paytree is a full stack payments platform that enables businesses to accept mobile, bank and card payments in-app or on their websites.
Umati Capital
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Umati Capital is a non-bank financial institution focused on the provision of credit and related payment technologies.
ChamaPesa
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ChamaPesa help chamas to get a better return on their investments by providing information and access to investment options.
Eastpesa
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Eastpesa is an online company that offers Instant Cross border payments in Africa.
Finplus Group
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A new credit & commerce infrastructure to turn supply chains into demand chains and unlock financing for 10 Million+ SMEs.
Naivera Holdings Lts
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Fintech Company Offering Digital Lending Solutions to Mfis, Saccos and Individual Lendees, to unlock capital and create wealth.
Vikali
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A freemium digital ledger built for the small businesses of Africa to manage their daily transactions.
Gladys
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Virtual wallet infrastructure for financial services in Africa
Jamii Bora Bank
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Jamii Bora Bank is dedicated to entrepreneurship and savings, with a focus on innovation and relationship banking.
Jumuisha
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Jumuisha is a fintech startup that helps churches and non-profit organisations receive donations.
Professional Digital Systems Limited
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Our core business is to provide solutions in I.C.T. & Fintech (hardware and software), installations, maintenance and services.
myNGOVO
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myNGOVO is a fintech platform in Kenya that allows employers to give salary advances as a benefit to their employees.
Sokohela
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Short term working capital, fresh food produce and financial literacy provider for MSEs in the urban agricultural value chain.
Savekubwa
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Savekubwa is a web aggregator that gets users insurance policy options and comparisons for effective pricing.
Valuraha
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The Valuraha Trader is a virtual trading platform that simulates the Nairobi Securities Exchange & the larger financial ecosystem.
Chase Iman
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Chase Iman is a combination of traditional Islamic values with a technology and innovation to provide Islamic finance and banking products.
Zoa Tech Limited
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Fintech company in the business of developing technology based solutions that impact how customers interact with money.
Afya Plan
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Afya Plan is a health wallet for members in savings groups to save affordably , pool resources and be able to afford healthcare.
Lipa Card
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Enabling Financial services to teenagers and high school students.
Loniwa Sacco
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Loniwa Sacco is a digital savings & credit company. We offer both short & long term loans to individuals and SMEs in Kenya
PesaBot
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We help companies enhance their customer support through instant messaging powered by AI and make it easy for them to collect payments.
Zege Technologies
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A software development firm that focuses on building financial solutions for daily living with mobile, web and money interaction.
Quoxient Ltd
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Quoxient is a fintech company in Kenya. It delivers technology solutions to support SMEs in Financial Services.
Regalia International (k) Ltd
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Mr Banks, an online platform developed for Kenya, enables users to upload their banking needs and get related offers directly from banks.
Moripesh
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Integrated Mobile Technologies, Centralized Digital Currencies Fair Trade, Asset Management, Internet Distribution. Africa Centered
FeePlan
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An innovative fintech solution to bridge school fees instalments and make private school more attainable for parents in East African markets
Kanjwa
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Kanjwa is an online platform that talks about finance and money in Kenya.
Spin Mobile
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PaaS for next generation financial services targeted at mobile money dominant markets
ImpalaPay
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ImpalaPay is a fintech company that offers mass payouts, merchant payments and mobile top-up services.
Mobile Financial Solutions
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Mobile Financial Solutions is a fintech company that engages in payment solution and financial services.
Sevisure Africa
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Sevisure Africa is an insurtech company that offers on-demand digital and mobile-based health insurance.
Joly Ventures
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Private investment group, early to mid stage high tech startup companies.
Riverbank Solution
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Riverbank Solution develops and offers different mobile payments solutions as well as various financial tools.
Jackfruit Finance
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Jackfruit Finance is FinTech for education, increasing access to low-cost African private schools.
Finite Intelligence
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A tech startup looking to invest in the intelligence and IOT market
Airpesa
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Airpesa is a service that provides Kenyans, Tanzanians & Ugandans living abroad (Diaspora) and locally a way to send airtime instantly.
