Financial Services
06 BRANDSTrading, trader evaluation, payments, banking, digital assets and property finance. The core of the group.
- CK Tradex
- CK Funded ProLive
- CK Estate
- CK Pay
- CK Bank
- CK Coin
A multi-sector holding group. We own, build and invest in companies across financial services, technology, real estate, consumer brands, agriculture and education.
CK Holdings Group Limited is the parent company. It sets capital allocation, governance and compliance standards for the whole group. Each CK brand runs its own product, team and market under that umbrella.
Alongside the brands we build ourselves, we invest in operators across trading, brokerage and financial technology. We bring them capital, technology and risk management, and we stay close to the work.
The group is headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, and registered with Companies House in England and Wales.
Twenty-two CK brands across eight sectors, all owned and governed by the parent company.
Trading, trader evaluation, payments, banking, digital assets and property finance. The core of the group.
Residential and hospitality property.
Trading platforms and software built in-house.
Consumer food and drink brands, from production to café.
Logistics, trade links, retail distribution and travel.
Farming, production and agri-parks.
Financial literacy and trader education.
Community programmes. A share of what we build goes back to the communities that build it with us.
We build where others wait, and we back the people who do the same.CK Holdings Group
Beyond our own brands, CK Holdings invests in operators across trading, brokerage and financial technology.
Organisations CK Holdings collaborates with across our sectors.
Partners are listed for information only. A listing does not mean that CK Holdings Group Limited owns, controls, invests in or endorses a partner, or is responsible for its products, services or obligations.
To give the next generation in emerging markets the tools, education, assets and capital access to compete on a global stage.
To become the leading multi-sector group built for emerging markets, known for companies that scale across borders and governance that holds up anywhere.
We build what doesn't exist yet in our markets, and we build it fast.
Every brand is held to a UK standard of governance and delivery.
Our products succeed when our customers do. That is how we measure every launch.
Compliance before marketing, and a share of what we build goes back to the community.
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For investment enquiries, partnerships and portfolio opportunities, contact the group office directly.
CK Holdings Group invests up to USD 5 million per company in ambitious businesses. You get more than a cheque: a committed partner that brings capital, operating know-how and a network that opens doors.
The application form opens here once it is connected.
We are not a fund answering to outside investors. We are entrepreneurs investing our own capital, which means faster decisions, flexible terms and a partner who stays close to the work.
We invest our own money. There is no committee of outside investors to convince, so we move fast and stay flexible.
Equity, convertible or a blend. We shape every deal around your company, not around a template.
When the fit is clear, we can often put a term sheet on the table straight after our first conversation.
More than 55 investments since 2025. We have seen the patterns that work and the pitfalls to avoid.
A short, focused process that respects your time and gets you to a decision.
Before, during and after the deal. No bureaucracy, no surprises.
Finance, technology, operations and compliance knowledge, working as one team.
You will always know where you stand with us, and why.
If things do not go to plan, we roll up our sleeves instead of walking away.
We back ambitious founders and push them to think bigger. Go big or go home.
We build companies too, so we understand the pressure you are under.
We help you prepare for and raise future funding rounds.
Your application, your numbers and your ideas are handled in confidence.
Every application gets a reply and the start of a real dialogue within 24 hours.
Sector and stage matter less to us than the fundamentals. If you have these three, we want to hear from you.
We back founders with integrity, resilience and the drive to execute, and teams that learn faster than their market changes.
We look for real problems solved in a way customers value, with early proof that they keep coming back.
Large or fast-growing markets, a scalable model and a clear path to building lasting value.
Capital is where our partnership starts. From strategy to exit, we bring the support that helps a good company become a great one.
Once we receive your application, we get back to you and start a real dialogue within 24 hours. Here is what happens next.
Tell us about your company, your team and what you need. It takes around 10 minutes.
We review every application and reply within 24 hours.
We meet the founders, ask the hard questions and share how we can help.
When the fit is right, we can often send a term sheet straight after the first meeting.
A short, efficient review of the business, the numbers and the plan.
We close, fund and get to work alongside you.
CK Holdings Group is a UK-founded multi-asset group with two primary investment branches: ventures and properties.
Our team of five works from our office in the United Kingdom, backing founders across our portfolio of operating companies and partners.
CK Holdings is 100% owned and financed by its founder, Collins Kessy. With no co-investors to seek approval from, we make decisions quickly and stand behind them.
Tell us about your company. It takes around 10 minutes, and you will hear from us within 24 hours.
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Founder & CEO, CK Holdings Group
A young man with ambition and more than seven years of experience in the industry. Collins grew up with very little in Tanzania, left college and taught himself the financial markets. Today he leads projects to success, backs founders as an angel investor and has built a group that has invested in more than 55 companies. CK Holdings Group is 100% owned and financed by him.
You’re right, I’m not perfect. But I’m unique!
There was no inheritance, no investor network and no degree. Every step was earned.
Collins grew up in Tanzania in a family that had very little. Money was always short, and opportunity felt like something that happened to other people. What he had was curiosity, and a stubborn belief that where he started would not decide where he finished.
He enrolled in college, then made the hardest call of his early life and walked away. The classroom was moving slower than he was. He chose to learn the way builders learn: by doing the work, getting it wrong and doing it again.
With no degree and no network, Collins taught himself the financial markets. He spent his early years inside the CFD and prop trading industries, studying how brokers, platforms and funded-trader programmes really work: the technology, the risk and the economics.
His first real opening was a free exhibitor booth at Fintech Festival Tanzania. He had a product, a table and nothing else. From that booth came CK Funded Pro, a trader education and evaluation platform built for African traders.
CK Funded Pro grew from zero, and Collins took it to the Bank of Tanzania through its Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. It became the first company in what would grow into a group.
Collins incorporated CK Holdings Group Limited in the United Kingdom to own, build and invest. Since then the group has made more than 55 investments across trading, technology, advisory and more.
Fourteen months after standing behind a free booth, Collins returned to Fintech Festival Tanzania as a speaker, this time with a group behind him.
“If I ever stop pushing forward, it means I’m dead.”
Collins Kessy
Unfiltered, unpolished and entirely his own.
You’re right, I’m not perfect. But I’m unique!
Sometimes, the voices in your head are right.
Highly motivated.Stress-handling.Responsible.
I left the classroom. I never left the lesson.
Poverty taught me the price of everything. Building taught me the value of it.
I wasn’t handed a seat at the table. So I built the table, and pulled up chairs for the people who came after me.
Every “no” I heard became another line in my business plan.
Ambition costs nothing to have and everything to keep.
The suit comes out for boardrooms, regulators and stages. It is not where Collins lives.
Away from work he prefers the normal life he grew up with. He keeps it simple, stays close to the people who knew him before any of this, and stays rooted in Tanzania.
Most days you will find him in a simple shirt, at home or behind a laptop, not in a three-piece suit. That is the point. He never wanted to become someone else. He wanted to build something that gives people like him a fair chance.
The way Collins invests comes straight from the way he built.
Your background is your starting line, not your limit. He backs founders who build with what they have.
Degrees are optional. Discipline is not. The best lessons come from shipping, failing and trying again.
The biggest opportunities sit with the people the system overlooked. That is where he invests.
CK Holdings Group invests up to USD 5 million per company and responds to every application within 24 hours.
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