Kepple Africa Ventures

Kepple Africa Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm specializes in providing seed-stage and early-stage financing to startups across Africa, focusing primarily on sectors such as information technology, fintech, and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets. By supporting innovative companies in these areas, Kepple Africa Ventures aims to contribute to the growth of the African startup ecosystem.

Ryosuke Yamawaki

Founder and General Partner

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 tailored for commerce and retail businesses, offering a comprehensive toolkit to facilitate various aspects of business operations. It simplifies the payment process by providing features such as professional and customized invoicing, automated regular billing, and subscription payment management. The platform is designed to accommodate the diverse needs of businesses, from small startups to large enterprises, enabling them to efficiently process and accept payments from customers, vendors, and partners through multiple payment methods and channels.

Floatpays

Seed Round in 2022
FloatPays is a financial technology company based in Cape Town, Western Cape, founded in 2019. The company specializes in providing a platform that facilitates payroll integration and offers employees early access to their wages. FloatPays enhances employee financial well-being through various services, including payment solutions, financial education, effective reporting, and training. By promoting budgeting and financial literacy, the company aims to empower individuals to transition from debt to savings, ultimately fostering a more secure financial future for its users.

pawaPay

Seed Round in 2021
PawaPay is a payments company that specializes in mobile payment solutions for African consumers and businesses. Established in 2020, the company streamlines the mobile money infrastructure by consolidating technical integrations from various telecommunications operators, such as AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone, into a single API. This approach addresses the challenges posed by the fragmented and opaque nature of mobile money services across different countries and telecom providers. By offering a simple API, PawaPay enables merchants to access over 300 million customers across more than ten markets, facilitating seamless, transparent, and reliable payment processing. The platform allows organizations to efficiently collect payments and automate payout workflows, ensuring that businesses can make instant and secure payouts.

Wapi Pay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wapi Pay is a payment gateway that enables digital transactions between Africa and Asia using mobile money and bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with additional offices in Africa, Singapore, and Beijing, the company provides a secure financial solution that is faster and more affordable than traditional telegraphic transfers. Wapi Pay's platform allows users to transfer funds through various methods, including bank-to-bank, wallet-to-wallet, and wallet-to-bank options, facilitating payments for individuals, merchants, and businesses. It supports bulk payment processing for organizations, including salary disbursements and business purchases, while ensuring electronic compliance and due diligence. Wapi Pay's infrastructure also allows for instant liquidity and service guarantees within 24 hours, making it a valuable tool for cross-border commerce.

Wasla Browser

Seed Round in 2021
Wasla Browser is a mobile browser designed to address the challenges faced by users in emerging markets, where high data costs and inadequate infrastructure hinder access to the internet. By offering a gamified experience, Wasla rewards users with free mobile internet based on their engagement, facilitating digital and financial inclusion for millions. The platform operates as a comprehensive gateway for online activities, extending beyond browsing to include social networking, shopping, entertainment, and payments. Users can earn points through their interactions, which can be redeemed for free airtime via the Wasla Wallet. This innovative approach not only fosters user loyalty by providing tangible benefits but also creates a unique ecosystem that enhances brand-consumer interactions, allowing brands to connect with their target audiences in a cost-effective manner.

TeamApt

Series B in 2021
TeamApt is a financial technology company that develops digital banking and payment platform for financial transactions. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel digital banking service called Moneytor Digital Banking, enabling banks to offer retail, merchant, and corporate banking services through digital channels, Aptpay for automation of digital banking business operations, settlements, reconciliations, and tracks digital transformation processes with web and mobile interfaces. TeamApt was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria.

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.

Floatpays

Pre Seed Round in 2021
FloatPays is a financial technology company based in Cape Town, Western Cape, founded in 2019. The company specializes in providing a platform that facilitates payroll integration and offers employees early access to their wages. FloatPays enhances employee financial well-being through various services, including payment solutions, financial education, effective reporting, and training. By promoting budgeting and financial literacy, the company aims to empower individuals to transition from debt to savings, ultimately fostering a more secure financial future for its users.

Schoolable

Seed Round in 2021
Schoolable is a fintech company focused on providing financial management solutions specifically for educational institutions. It offers an expense management platform designed to streamline school operations by facilitating easy reconciliation, student invoicing, and multiple payment channels. The platform includes features that allow schools to track partial payments, manage discounts, and oversee employee payroll, while also ensuring that vendors are paid through an approved transaction flow. Additionally, Schoolable's invoicing software, which is linked to a separate bank account for families, helps automate payment reminders for parents, making it easier for them to manage tuition payments. The company is committed to enhancing educational reform by improving financial infrastructure within schools.
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