Pool Ventures · Nairobi, Kenya
Two pools, one public ledger. Startup money sits in milestone escrow until targets are verified. County money funds projects you can watch get built — every payment, contractor and photograph published. Check any shilling yourself.
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Vetted startups
KSh 27.2M
Total pool balance
62,791
County contributors
10 / 47
Active counties
Sample data. These figures come from a demonstration dataset, not real contributions. Verify on the public ledger →
Two ways to put Kenyan money to work — one platform, one ledger, the same rule: you can check every shilling.
Browse vetted raises
Every startup passes KYC, CRO registration, audited financials, governance review and founder background checks before it is listed.
Commit via M-Pesa
Invest straight from your phone. Your money goes into milestone escrow — it is not handed to the founder on day one.
Funds release as milestones are met
Each tranche is released only when a vetted milestone is verified. Track every release, and list your stake on the secondary market later.
Contribute from KSh 11
An M-Pesa prompt on any phone. No KYC, no app, no minimum income — KSh 10 funds your county pool and KSh 1 covers PoolVen's costs.
Your shilling joins the county pool
Every contribution is written to a public ledger. The pool's books are re-checked live on every page view: money in − money out = balance.
The county builds, and shows its work
See each payment to each contractor with its transaction hash, and photos of the finished work — then trace exactly where your own shillings went.
National development pools, built shilling by shilling — KSh 11 via M-Pesa, every shilling on a public, auditable ledger.
Sector 2 · KSh 11
No app. No smartphone. Just your M-Pesa line. KSh 10 goes straight to your chosen county pool. KSh 1 keeps PoolVen running. All on the Polygon blockchain, verifiable by anyone.
Choose your countyWhy the county pools exist
A county pool funded eleven shillings at a time can fix a water point this year. Kept going, the same pool becomes something bigger: serviced land, power, water, clinics, schools and workshops planned together instead of built piecemeal — small towns that raise the standard of living where people already are, and create the jobs that stop them having to leave.
Our aim is to prove the model in up to five towns in Kenya, then take it across East Africa, then wider. Every stage is funded the same way and audited the same way: money in, money out, and photographs of what got built.
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Prove it locally
County pools fund visible projects — water, safety, access — with published receipts and evidence.
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Build the first towns
Pooled counties co-fund serviced settlements: land, utilities, health, schooling, workspace.
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Take it beyond Kenya
The same pooling and audit model, county by county, across East Africa and further.
This is our long-term plan, not a commitment or a timeline. Contributions today fund the county projects listed on this site — nothing else.
Start with your county →Anyone can audit PoolVen without an account. These aren't promises about transparency — they're the tools to verify it.
Every contribution and every payout, with its blockchain transaction hash. Searchable by anyone, account or no account.
Open the explorer →Each county pool publishes money in − money out = balance, recomputed live on every page view. If it ever fails to balance, we show that too.
See a county's books →Contributors can trace their exact proportional share from their pocket, into the pool, to the specific projects it helped fund.
Trace your shillings →Photos of the finished work published against each project, alongside the payments that funded it.
See completed work →Kilifi · Coast
Pool balance
KSh 1.6M
Contributors
3,201
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