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Prior to working at Novastar, Niraj co-Founded and led Takamoto Biogas, a business that provided smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya with biogas using a unique Pay-As-You-Go model, using proprietary technology that integrated mobile payments, smart metering and remote system monitoring. Niraj has also co-Founded ki.chen a company delivering high quality meals to professionals in Nairobi, and invested in several other social enterprises. Prior to Takamoto Biogas, Niraj spent 3 years designing large agribusiness programmes for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TechnoServe. He led the design of a 4 country rice programme, a review of the soybean industry in 7 countries in Africa and helped a UK-based charity design an SME fund to invest in businesses that deliver positive impact for children in Eastern Africa. Before this, Niraj spent 4 years at McKinsey & Co. focusing on strategy and sales & marketing assignments for private and public sector organisations in Europe and Africa. Niraj
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 8 investors at Novastar Ventures are tracked.
- • 2,531 investors hold the Partner role in VCSift. Niraj Varia is one of them.
- • 67 investors are based in Kenya.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated May 2026.
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- Kenya
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