Mbwana Alliy is the founder and managing partner of Savannah Fund. See sector focus and contact routes.
Mbwana Alliy is the founder and managing partner of Savannah Fund, an Africa-focused early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, with a background as an experienced product manager in consumer web and SaaS who holds an MBA from Stanford. His investment thesis targets seed-stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on sectors including e-commerce, gaming, education technology, social networking, fintech, logistics, SaaS, healthcare, and agtech. Savannah Fund typically makes check sizes ranging from $25,000 to $1,000,000, with earlier reporting citing a range of $25,000 to $500,000 for early-stage high-growth technology startups. Notable portfolio companies include MPrep, an education technology firm enabling teachers to administer quizzes via text message, and Ubongo Kids, an African edutainment company where Alliy serves as Board Chair. Alliy emphasizes the necessity of having local partners who are genuine investment team members rather than token representatives, arguing that a Kenyan in Kenya or Tanzanian in Tanzania must understand the ecosystem to succeed. He has publicly described Kenya’s tech ecosy
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