Eneza Education, Kenya’s edtech venture has merged with Pakistan’s edtech venture Knowledge Platform to form the world’s first African Asian edtech venture to serve over 1,000,000 learners in Africa and Asia using mobile, web, and SMS technologies.
The merged platform operating as Knowledge Platform, will be headquartered in Singapore will be served by a combined team of over 100 professionals in AI and learning technologies, instructional design, and education support.
Kenya’s Wambura Kimunyu, the CEO of Eneza Education will serve as the Chief Growth Officer of Knowledge Platform.
“Eneza brings deep experience in serving the rapidly growing African market through B2C solutions, and Knowledge Platform brings depth in B2B and B2B2C solutions,” said Kimunyu. “We have the passion, grit, track record and capacity to innovate across broad fronts at low price points. I believe we are uniquely poised to serve the massive youth bulge in East Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia.”
Knowledge Platform and Eneza were introduced by the telecoms association GSMA, which had provided innovation support to both ventures. The two companies are both GSMA Innovation Fund alumni start-ups and there merge will them continue to invest in education and learning solutions, and in doing so promoting digital inclusion.
The merged entities count among their partners and clients AFS Intercultural Programs, AKUEB, Aga Khan Education Services, Beaconhouse, The Citizens Foundation, GSMA, Jacobs Foundation, Jazz, LUMS, Marshall Cavendish, McDonald’s, Moonlight Publishers, Oxford University Press, Safaricom and Zong, as well as UNICEF and government agencies in Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Eneza is Africa’s ace at building a large, sustained and monetized customer base at a very low cost, and I believe we are the emerging markets leader in gamified learning. The combination is compelling. The future of learning involves both curricular and extra-curricular learning through formal and informal processes,” said Mahboob Mahmood, the founder of Knowledge Platform. “Using learning games and competitions and adaptive learning systems, we help young people master curricular subjects, such as math, sciences and English, and, even more critically, largely extra-curricular 21st-century skills in digital, climate and financial literacy, problem-solving, and data science.”
