Ashish Patel

Fractional CTO | Engineer | Mentor | Entrepreneur | Angel Investor

📍 Kenya🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
VC🌍 Kenya
10
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2
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1
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Portfolio

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Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Building a solution for all road users in East Africa.
Angel Investor & Advisor
Mar 2024
Nobuk is a payments reconciliation company enabling groups and collectives in Africa to automate payment collection and reconciliation and organize their financial records into easily shareable reports.
Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Imagine a world where African creatives, entertainment businesses, and global entertainment giants working in Africa no longer face the frustration of navigating a fragmented, unreliable, and expensive production landscape. A world where every tool, talent, and location needed to create world-class content is just a click away. This vision inspired the creation of Filmmakers Mart. We are on a mission to become Africas biggest tech-enabled creative industry platform. We aim to be a powerhouse that enables creative enterprises and independent creators to scale their work and the go-to platform for global creative businesses operating in Africa.
Angel Investor
Aug 2023
Scale enables organizations to transition their procurement from manual, paper and labour intensive activities to a streamlined and fully-digitized process. You can now easily publish and manage tenders, build robust supplier relationships and keep track of everything from Catalogue Management, RFQs, Evaluation to Delivery, all on a single platform. This is how it works: - Connect and work with verified Suppliers and trusted Buyers on the same platform - Transform all your routine procurement and bidding into digitized processes - Digitize and simplify how you store, organize and manage critical business documents and procurement activities/processes - Access real-time data on your business performance by monitoring data and transactional information from your account Register at www.scale.co.ke/join and get a Free Trial!
Angel Investor
Dec 2022
At Zeraki, we are passionate about using technology to address the obstacles students encounter in accessing quality education. Our goal is to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help them transition from one level of education to the next and ultimately from education into employment. We also use technology to cater to the needs of parents, teachers, and schools in general. Our products include: ➣Zeraki Analytics: We simplify school administration tasks so teachers can focus on what matters most - their students. ➣Zeraki Finance: We empower schools with the ability to manage and control their financial accounts by offering cash flow summaries, receipting, pledge tracking, expense tracking, and reporting. ➣Zeraki Learning: We provide fun and informative educational resources that cater to your childs learning needs. They can track their study progress, identify areas of improvement, and improve their grades. For more information, call us at 0709 953 000 or visit our company website at https://www.zeraki.app/
Angel Investor & Advisor
Dec 2022
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Angel Investor
Oct 2022
Sukhiba is a conversational chat based platform for businesses looking to leverage the popularity of WhatsApp. Our platform enables organizations to connect with their customers and grow their reach through WhatsApp all the while driving revenue growth. Businesses can engage with their customers in a more personalized and interactive way, creating a seamless customer experience. We offer a revolutionary platform that streamlines - *Sales, Marketing, Payments, Logistics and Operations*, on a single unified platform. By providing a convenient and efficient way for customers to interact with businesses on the WhatsApp platform, Sukhiba helps increase customer satisfaction and loyalty while saving costs through the power of AI automation and data-driven insights. Our platform is easy to use and can be quickly integrated into existing workflows, making it an ideal solution for businesses looking to enhance their customer engagement and drive growth. Connect with us here on LinkedIn for the latest updates, industry insights and success stories. Learn more and unlock your businesss full potential in the digital era. Together, lets revolutionize the way businesses operate and achieve unparalleled growth. Email us at connect@sukhiba.com
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Welcome to BuuPass! 🚀 Were your trusted partner in seamless travel experiences, offering hassle-free booking solutions for buses, trains, and flights across East Africa. At BuuPass, were on a mission to digitize and organize intercity Transport in Africa, so that people can live without borders. We offer a B2B2C platform, digitizing operations for transport companies and connecting them to online ticketing platforms. Customers can conveniently book intercity bus, train, and flight tickets and parcels online. For bus operators, BuuPass provides robust Transport Management Systems, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and revenue tracking. BuuPass operates in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda & South Africa. We have partnered with key telcos & SuperApps such as M-Pesa App, Transsion Super App and many more to reach a wide customer base on a daily basis. BuuPass is a venture backed startup having raised USD 1.5 million in our over-subcribscribedfrom the Founders Factory Africa, FrontEnd Ventures, Adaverse, Gullit, Five35, Renew Capital, Changecom, XA Network, Ajim Capital, Artha Ventures, Daba Finance, Google Black Founders Fund and most recently Tim Draper, a silicon Valley tycoon not forgetting several angel investors. We also won USD 1 million Global Hult Prize award supported by President Bill Clinton in the USA. Join us on this exciting journey as we redefine travel, making it more convenient, reliable, and accessible for everyone. Welcome aboard BuuPass!
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
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Angel Investor
Sep 2021
We are a group of founders, entrepreneurs, professionals, and tech-enthusiasts that support and invest in technology-enabled startups. Our goal is to be entrepreneur-first investors, doing everything we can to be supportive, responsive and respectful. Weve been in your shoes and we get it.
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (10)
Founder (2)
2024
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Building a solution for all road users in East Africa.
Angel Investor & Advisor
Mar 2024
Nobuk is a payments reconciliation company enabling groups and collectives in Africa to automate payment collection and reconciliation and organize their financial records into easily shareable reports.
2023
Angel Investor
Oct 2023
Imagine a world where African creatives, entertainment businesses, and global entertainment giants working in Africa no longer face the frustration of navigating a fragmented, unreliable, and expensive production landscape. A world where every tool, talent, and location needed to create world-class content is just a click away. This vision inspired the creation of Filmmakers Mart. We are on a mission to become Africas biggest tech-enabled creative industry platform. We aim to be a powerhouse that enables creative enterprises and independent creators to scale their work and the go-to platform for global creative businesses operating in Africa.
Angel Investor
Aug 2023
Scale enables organizations to transition their procurement from manual, paper and labour intensive activities to a streamlined and fully-digitized process. You can now easily publish and manage tenders, build robust supplier relationships and keep track of everything from Catalogue Management, RFQs, Evaluation to Delivery, all on a single platform. This is how it works: - Connect and work with verified Suppliers and trusted Buyers on the same platform - Transform all your routine procurement and bidding into digitized processes - Digitize and simplify how you store, organize and manage critical business documents and procurement activities/processes - Access real-time data on your business performance by monitoring data and transactional information from your account Register at www.scale.co.ke/join and get a Free Trial!
2022
Angel Investor
Dec 2022
At Zeraki, we are passionate about using technology to address the obstacles students encounter in accessing quality education. Our goal is to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help them transition from one level of education to the next and ultimately from education into employment. We also use technology to cater to the needs of parents, teachers, and schools in general. Our products include: ➣Zeraki Analytics: We simplify school administration tasks so teachers can focus on what matters most - their students. ➣Zeraki Finance: We empower schools with the ability to manage and control their financial accounts by offering cash flow summaries, receipting, pledge tracking, expense tracking, and reporting. ➣Zeraki Learning: We provide fun and informative educational resources that cater to your childs learning needs. They can track their study progress, identify areas of improvement, and improve their grades. For more information, call us at 0709 953 000 or visit our company website at https://www.zeraki.app/
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