KawiSafi Ventures
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KawiSafi Ventures is an investment firm focused on clean and affordable energy in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly East Africa. It invests in companies developing decentralized renewable energy solutions to address energy poverty and climate change.
KawiSafi Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in renewable energy, off-grid energy, clean energy and energy access. 11 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in fast-growing companies leading the new energy revolution.”
— KawiSafi Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Growth
- Invests in
- Africa, East Africa
- Sectors
- renewable energy, off-grid energy, clean energy, energy access, climate
- Portfolio
- 11 companies
Team, as KawiSafi Ventures publishes it
- Amar Inamdar Managing Director
- Marcus Watson Investment Director
- Baafour Otu-Boateng Investment Director
- Angela Muraguri Associate Director
- Collins Mwangi Senior Associate
- Chukwuebuka Amaji Investment Associate
- Sheila Micheni Investment Analyst
- Jackline Mwangi Executive Assistant to the MD and Office Manager
- Jacqueline Novogratz Founder and CEO - Acumen
- C. Hunter Boll Chief Operating Officer - Source Audio LLC
Names and roles exactly as listed on kawisafi.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 16 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Novastar Ventures 1 shared company: sistema.bio
- Aster Capital 1 shared company: dlight.com
- Endeavor Catalyst 1 shared company: dlight.com
- Blue Forest Asset Management 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- Catalyst Fund 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- Cauris Investment Management, LLC 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- Circulate Capital 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- DBL Partners 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- HCAP Partners 1 shared company: impactassets.org
- Media Development Investment Fund, INC. 1 shared company: impactassets.org
and 6 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page KawiSafi Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://kawisafi.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://kawisafi.com/portfolio/stage_min, stage_max, portfolio_count
- https://kawisafi.com/team/people
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Record 6438 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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