Chanzo Capital
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Chanzo Capital is a venture and growth capital firm that invests in high-tech startups and scaleups in Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. It provides capital, capacity, and community to its portfolio companies.
Chanzo Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Emeryville, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series C and later, in high-tech startups and scaleups. Its stated cheque size is $500K and $5M staggered over the exponential growth phase of the company from Series A to C. We also make Seed investments of $50K to $500K. 11 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Chanzo Capital is a venture and growth capital firm, investing Capital, Capacity and Community in high-tech Startups and Scaleups in Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa (KINGS) – these countries make up the "KINGS" of Africa's digital economy.”
— Chanzo Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Emeryville, United States
- Invests in
- Kenya, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa
- Sectors
- high-tech startups, scaleups
- Cheque size
- $500K and $5M staggered over the exponential growth phase of the company from Series A to C. We also make Seed investments of $50K to $500K
- Portfolio
- 11 companies
Team, as Chanzo Capital publishes it
- Eric Osiakwan Managing Partner
- Tinyiko Valoyi Partner
- Winnie Kimathi Manager
- Irene Darko Finance Associate
- Charles Amega-Selorm Tech Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on chanzocapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Chanzo Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.chanzocapital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count, people, status, confidence, hq_country, hq_city
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Record 7576 · added 2026-09-10 · link last verified 2026-09-10 · confidence high
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