Achieng Odhiambo

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Associate at Cedar Partners · Climate · climate tech, hardware

Cedar Partners
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
3+ years experience
Obafemi Awolowo University
English, Swahili
Investing
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Overview

3 years around startups; now investing in climate. Sit on 6 boards. Backed 34 founders at pre-seed and seed. Previously at FirstRand. Learning woodworking.

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  • Founders building in privacy and data protection
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on climate tech
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Skills
energyventure capitalclimate techhardware
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into seed climate in the UK

Cheque size
$50k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Privacy and data protection
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

Nairobi, Kenyaenergyhardwareclimate tech
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Cedar Partners · 1 yr · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Secured 3 payments licences.
    • Negotiated 329 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 7 countries.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Oct 2025
    FirstRand · 2 yr · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Moved 63% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Obafemi Awolowo University
    BSc, Economics
    2018 - 2022

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