Best High Tech Companies in Kenya
The 32 best High Tech companies in Kenya in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Gridless.
Our analysis of 1,127 High Tech companies
$222.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Kenya
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gridless Platform offering Bitcoin mining solutions | $2M | 47 mo ago | Seed | Philip Walton Co-Founder | 2022 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+24 | — |
| 2 | Brck Mobile WiFi device and public WiFi hotspot network provider | $1M | 148 mo ago | Seed | Erik Hersman CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 3 | TalkLift Conversational AI solutions for providing customer service | $50K | 98 mo ago | Seed | Moses Kibet Korir Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | HydroIQ Developer of a water monitoring system for residential users and utilities | $20K | 95 mo ago | Seed | Brian Bosire Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 5 | Fastagger Platform providing image annotation solutions for AI applications | — | 44 mo ago | Seed | Mutembei Kariuki Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 6 | Lima Provider of AI-based solution to monitor crops | — | 52 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — |
| 7 | Lentera Africa Provider of precision agriculture solutions | — | 85 mo ago | Deadpooled | Moses Kimani Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | Nestmetric Provider of a platform to create ML models | — | 97 mo ago | Seed | John Muchiri Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
Top 11 High Tech companies in Kenya
#1
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2022$2Mraised▾
Platform offering Bitcoin mining solutions. The platform offers sustainable ways for crypto mining.
- Dec 2022Seed$2M
- Dec 2022Angel—
#2
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2013 · 28 employees$1.2Mraised▾
BRCK provides a portable mobile WiFi device/router (SupaBRCK) for internet connectivity in areas with poor internet infrastructure. The device works with a 3G enabled SIM using which it broadcasts a WiFi signal. The device comes with a GSM antenna port and is created by creators of products like Ushahidi, Crowdmap, and iHub. It also provides a free public WiFi hotspot network (MOJA) for consumers and businesses. MOJA allows businesses to offer free internet to their customers with features like targeted advertising and real-time analytics.
#3
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017$50Kraised▾
TalkLift provides conversational AI-based solutions for providing customer service. Provides an AI-powered chatbot engine that enables businesses to manage conversations with their customers from different communication channel. Has use case for insurance, financial services, travel and telecom applications.
- Aug 2018Seed$50K
#4
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017 · 7 employees$20Kraised▾
Developer of a smart water leak detection system designed to manage and understand household water usage. The company's system is a GPS and internet-enabled device that is plugged into existing water supply systems, in homes or businesses and along water distribution networks to automatically monitor water use, water quality and water leakages using sensors and send the data to an online platform in real-time, enabling users to utilize an easy-to-understand and real-time monitoring of their water usage.
#5
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2019 · 3 employees—raised▾
Platform providing image annotation solutions for AI applications. It offers semantic segmentation, bounding box, cuboid, polygon, contour, categorization, and classification solutions.
#6
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2020 · 20 employees—raised▾
Provider of AI-based solution to monitor crops. It uses machine vision technology & smart hardware for enabling farmers to automates the data collection process for the monitoring and management of crops. It also provides analytic reports for decision-making.
- 2022Seed—
#7
Deadpooled · Kiambu, Kiambu County · founded 2016 · 11 employees—raised▾
Lentera Africa provides precision agriculture solutions. It offers data-driven precision agriculture solutions to optimize yield productions by analysing the data collected from farm sensors, satellite images, and aerial images. It provides insights on crop health, soil health, abiotic stresses, pest & disease infestations, etc. It also provides organic manures, silicon fertilizers, phosphatic fertilizers, fertilizers mixes, foliar fertilizers, etc.
- Oct 2019Conventional Debt—
#8
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017—raised▾
Provider of a platform to create ML models. The platform comprises a drag-and-drop based interface that allows the user to import raw data in multiple formats and processes the same into a form that can be used by its learning algorithms. The platform also allows the user to evaluate the performance of each model and select the best one on an ongoing basis.
- Sep 2018Seed—
#9
Funding Raised · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2008 · 30 employees—raised▾
Ushahidi is a non-profit software company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. Ushahidi (Swahili for “testimony” or “witness”) created a website (http://legacy.ushahidi.com) in the aftermath of Kenya’s disputed 2007 presidential election that collected eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google map. The organization uses the concept of crowdsourcing for social activism and public accountability, serving as an initial model for what has been coined as ‘activist mapping’ - the combination of social activism, citizen journalism and geospatial information. Ushahidi offers products that enable local observers to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet, while simultaneously creating a temporal and geospatial archive of events.
#10
Funding Raised · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2009—raised▾
Online mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
#11
Seed · Kenya—raised▾
Platform that protects and governs cyberspace against security attackers & hackers
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