Novastar Ventures
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Novastar Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies in Africa, focusing on sectors like agriculture, clean energy, education, fintech, healthcare, logistics, mobility, and retail. The firm aims to support entrepreneurs building transformative businesses that create lasting value for people and the planet.
Novastar Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in agriculture, clean energy, education and fintech. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with the bold entrepreneurs building transformative businesses in Africa that create lasting value for the many, not just the few, for people and planet – for good.”
— Novastar Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- agriculture, clean energy, education, fintech, healthcare, logistics, mobility, retail
- Founded
- 2014
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Novastar Ventures publishes it
- Abel Boreto Investment Director
- Andrew Carruthers Co-founder & Managing Partner
- Brian Waswani Odhiambo Partner
- Dayo Oduleye Investment Associate
- Dieko Ojo Investment Associate
- Dominic Michel Investment Director
- Dot Beck Director, Social & Environmental Value
- Ebube Emodi Operations
- Joss Carruthers Director, Talent Development
- Mukami Wainaina Associate Investment Director
- Nghi Tran Legal Counsel
- Rebecca Hume MLRO
Names and roles exactly as listed on novastarventures.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. 22 co-investors found.
- AfricInvest 2 shared companies: elephant.healthcare, turaco.insure
- Manta Ray 2 shared companies: elephant.healthcare, newglobe.education
- 4DX Ventures 2 shared companies: breadfast.com, mpharma.com
- Talanton Advisors, LLC 2 shared companies: moko.co.ke, poa.co.ke
- Entrée Capital 1 shared company: elephant.healthcare
- Seedcamp 1 shared company: elephant.healthcare
- Outliers Venture Capital 1 shared company: breadfast.com
- Shorooq Partners 1 shared company: breadfast.com
- VNV Global 1 shared company: breadfast.com
- LeapFrog Investments 1 shared company: moniepoint.com
and 12 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Novastar Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.novastarventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, status, confidence
- https://www.novastarventures.com/portfolio/invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, portfolio_count
- https://www.novastarventures.com/team/stage_min, stage_max, founded, people
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