# Purple Elephant Ventures

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/purple-elephant-ventures

- Industry: Travel & Leisure
- Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya
- Website: www.purpleelephant.ventures
- Total disclosed funding: $5M
- Latest round: Seed (Apr 9, 2025)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Purple Elephant Ventures operates as a travel and leisure company that helps to promote and maintain travel and tourism in Africa.In April 2025, Purple Elephant Ventures raised USD 500,000 in seed funding from new investor Alphatron Capital. As of October 2022, Ben Peterson is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Purple Elephant Ventures assists startups in enabling the economic power of tourism to protect and grow Africa's natural capital, allowing the African tourism industry to grow and develop above its possibility. The company will use the April 2025 funding to support the development of Africa’s tourism sector.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Apr 9, 2025, $0.5M — Alphatron Capital
- Seed, Jan 15, 2025, $4.5M — Clear Creek Capital, Klister Credit

## Investors

- Clear Creek Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/clear-creek-capital) — Seed
- Klister Credit — Seed
- Alphatron Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/alphatron-capital) — Seed