Lateral Frontiers VC
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Lateral Frontiers is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies in Africa and the Global South, with a focus on fintech and cleantech. They provide capital and operational support to founders building scalable solutions in challenging markets.
Lateral Frontiers VC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in fintech, cleantech, blockchain and climate tech. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We focus on Africa and the Global South, backing resourceful founders with ideas that have the potential to create exponential value.”
— Lateral Frontiers VC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Africa, Global South
- Sectors
- fintech, cleantech, blockchain, climate tech, marketplaces, data, HR tech, ecommerce
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Lateral Frontiers VC publishes it
- Steven Grin Co-founder, Partner
- Rob Elof Co-founder, Partner
- Samakab Hashi Partner
- Lorraine Maina Venture Partner
- Abdigani Diriye Venture Partner
- Hellen Mwaniki Operations Manager
- Shreyas Mishra Senior Associate
- Ebby Mwihaki Associate
- Marianna Ondeng Intern Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on lateralfrontiers.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 27 co-investors found.
- LoftyInc Capital Management 2 shared companies: mono.co, ejara.io
- TLcom Capital 2 shared companies: zonenetwork.com, autochek.africa
- Entrée Capital 1 shared company: mono.co
- Magma Partners 1 shared company: mono.co
- Target Global 1 shared company: mono.co
- Ventures Platform 1 shared company: mono.co
- Alter Global 1 shared company: zonenetwork.com
- 4DX Ventures 1 shared company: autochek.africa
- Cauris Investment Management, LLC 1 shared company: autochek.africa
- Endeavor Catalyst 1 shared company: autochek.africa
and 17 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Lateral Frontiers VC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.lateralfrontiers.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.lateralfrontiers.com/abouthq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, people
- https://www.lateralfrontiers.com/portfolioportfolio_count
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Record 885 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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