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About TarionFounders

We're building the infrastructure
for African startup funding

Founded in 2024, TarionFounders was built to solve a broken system: Africa's best startups struggle to find capital, while investors waste hours filtering low-quality deals. We fix both sides.

🇰🇪 Nairobi
🇳🇬 Lagos
🇿🇦 Cape Town
🌍 Pan-African
Why We Exist

A Broken Market. Our Fix.

Africa raises less than 1% of global venture capital — not because the startups aren't there, but because the infrastructure connecting them to investors doesn't exist.

The Problem

Founders can't get in front of the right investors

  • No trusted deal-flow channel for African startups
  • Investors flooded with low-quality pitches
  • Quality founders dismissed for lack of network
  • Opaque funding process with no feedback
Our Solution

We score every startup before investors see it

  • We evaluate traction, market, team & product
  • Only Grade A/B startups go live — no noise
  • Every founder gets a detailed report + score
  • Investors get curated, ranked deal flow instantly
The Vision

The Nasdaq of African startup investing

  • Transparent, data-driven investment decisions
  • Every African founder has access to capital
  • A continent-wide investor network, unified
  • The infrastructure layer for Africa's next unicorns
Platform Impact

The Numbers Behind the Mission

Since launching in January 2024, we've moved fast — and so have our founders.

340+

Startups Funded

KES 2.4B+

Capital Raised

1,200+

Active Investors

28

African Countries

How It Works

Submit → Score → Fund

From a founder's first submission to an investor's first wire — four steps, fully on-platform.

01

Step 01

Founder Submits

A founder submits their startup through a 5-step wizard — traction metrics, pitch video, deck, and funding terms.

02

Step 02

Reviews & Scores

We evaluate traction, market, team, product, and investor readiness. Only Grade A/B startups go live.

03

Step 03

Investors Discover

Investors browse ranked startups, filter by sector and grade, watch pitch videos, and commit capital.

04

Step 04

Startup Gets Funded

Funds are held in escrow and released to the founder when the round closes. Cap table updates automatically.

Our Principles

What We Stand For

Four principles guide every product decision, every partnership, and every startup we list.

Quality Gated

We review every startup before it reaches investors. No idea-stage, no vanity metrics — only companies with real, verifiable traction.

Africa-First by Design

Our benchmarks, payment methods (M-Pesa, Paystack), and mentor networks are built for African founders — not adapted from Silicon Valley playbooks.

Traction Over Narrative

We score on MRR, user growth, and MoM velocity — not story, pedigree, or pitch polish. The numbers speak for themselves.

Community Over Platform

TarionFounders is a curated network of investors, founders, and operators committed to building Africa's innovation economy — not just a marketplace.

Our Story

From Idea to Infrastructure

Twelve months. Forty countries applied to. One continental mission.

Jan 2024

TarionFounders founded in Nairobi

Mar 2024

First 10 startups listed, KES 15M raised

Jun 2024

KES 500M raised through platform

Sep 2024

Expanded to 10 African countries

Dec 2024

1,000+ active investors onboarded

2025

Series A raise · 28 countries · KES 2.4B+

The Team

Pan-African. Operator-Led.

We've been on both sides of the table — as founders who couldn't raise and investors who couldn't find quality. We built TarionFounders to fix both.

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Njoroge Kamau

CEO & Co-Founder

Kenya

Former Product Manager at Safaricom. Built M-Pesa APIs serving 30M+ users.

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YA

Yewande Adeleke

CTO & Co-Founder

Nigeria

Ex-Flutterwave senior engineer. Led payment infrastructure for 200K+ merchants.

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Sipho Dlamini

Head of Investments

South Africa

Former VC analyst at Old Mutual Private Equity. Evaluated 300+ African startups.

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Fatima Al-Rashid

Head of AI

Egypt

Ex-Google Brain researcher. Specialist in LLM fine-tuning and financial text analysis.

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Built with support from

Partech Africa
TLcom Capital
Chandaria Capital
Catalyst Fund
Google for Startups
Y Combinator

For Founders

Ready to raise?

Submit your startup and get a score within minutes. If you make the cut, you'll be live in front of 1,200+ investors across 28 African countries.

  • Free to submit
  • Feedback even if rejected
  • Live in 48 hours if approved
Submit Your Startup

For Investors

Find your next deal.

Browse top-rated startups across Africa. Every listing includes a full report, traction metrics, pitch video, and structured investment terms.

  • Ranked deal flow
  • Full due diligence data room
  • Invest from KES 5,000
Browse Startups

Questions?

We'd love to hear from you

Partnerships, press, investor relations, or just a hello.

hello@tarionfounders.com