Rising Star Ventures
Rising Star Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Kenya investing in Other. The firm typically writes $200K–$500K checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $200K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Nairobi, Kenya
- AUM
- Not in our records
Pre-Seed
$200K – $500K
1+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Investing in innovative WealthTech and Embedded finance startups in Africa.
How Rising Star Ventures invests
Rising Star Ventures is a vc firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Other. It does not invest in Consumer electronics.
Rising Star Ventures typically writes checks of $200K–$500K per investment.
Rising Star Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including Karatbars.
Partners & Team
Joyce Mugambi
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
Karatbars
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $200K – $500K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Joyce Mugambi, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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