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 Payments

MoneyHash

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MoneyHash operates a payment orchestration platform that simplifies payment processes for businesses in the Middle East and Africa. Through a unified API, it offers seamless integration of pay-in and pay-out rails, allowing customers to customize their checkout experience. The platform includes advanced transaction routing capabilities designed to optimize fraud detection and reduce failure rates. Additionally, MoneyHash provides a centralized reporting hub that enables users to monitor transactions effectively. This comprehensive solution helps businesses enhance their success rates, accept various payment methods, and streamline their financial operations.

Kashier

Venture Round in 2022
Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises. Mohamed Mohsen founded it in Gîza, Al Jiza in 2017.

pawaPay

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online payment platform intended for organizations to collect payments and terminate payouts. The company's payment application programming interface allows users to programmatically send payouts to the recipients with instant funds and automate payout workflows, enabling businesses to pay out instantly with ease and securely.

pawaPay

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online payment platform intended for organizations to collect payments and terminate payouts. The company's payment application programming interface allows users to programmatically send payouts to the recipients with instant funds and automate payout workflows, enabling businesses to pay out instantly with ease and securely.

Wapi Pay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wapi Pay is a financial technology company that provides a payments gateway facilitating digital transactions between Africa and Asia through mobile money and bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with additional offices in Africa, Singapore, and Beijing, Wapi Pay offers platform-to-platform integrations, global accounts, and virtual wallets. The company enables organizations to process bulk payments across multiple mobile platforms, catering to needs such as salary disbursement and business purchases. Wapi Pay's services are designed to be faster and more cost-effective than traditional telegraphic transfers, allowing customers to choose various payment methods, including bank-to-bank and wallet-to-wallet transfers. Its proprietary infrastructure ensures instant liquidity and compliance, with transaction completion guaranteed within 24 hours. The platform supports mass payments for corporate clients, merchant transactions for small and medium-sized enterprises, and peer-to-peer payments, positioning itself as a leading financial solution for cross-border payments.

MoneyHash

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MoneyHash operates a payment orchestration platform that simplifies payment processes for businesses in the Middle East and Africa. Through a unified API, it offers seamless integration of pay-in and pay-out rails, allowing customers to customize their checkout experience. The platform includes advanced transaction routing capabilities designed to optimize fraud detection and reduce failure rates. Additionally, MoneyHash provides a centralized reporting hub that enables users to monitor transactions effectively. This comprehensive solution helps businesses enhance their success rates, accept various payment methods, and streamline their financial operations.

Nowpay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform aimed at enhancing the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform provides personal finance management services, enabling users to manage savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Through a mobile application, employees can access detailed information about their salaries, account balances, and eligible loan amounts. NowPay collaborates with employers to offer advance salary payments, allowing employees to receive part of their salaries at any point during the month and repay over multiple months without incurring liabilities. This service not only supports employees in times of financial need but also aims to enhance overall employee satisfaction, productivity, and loyalty within organizations.

Workpay

Seed Round in 2020
WorkPay Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses in Africa. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, WorkPay's solutions include features such as time and attendance tracking, HR and payroll processing, and employee self-service management. The software also facilitates payment and loans processing, enabling businesses to manage and pay employees efficiently. By offering bulk salary payments directly to employees' bank accounts or mobile wallets, WorkPay helps clients streamline their payroll processes and enhance talent retention.
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