Safaricom Spark Venture Fund Invests in mSurvey
Set up in 2014,the $1m Safaricom Spark Venture Fund has today invested into mSurvey, a mobile survey startup using mobile technology to power surveys and conversations for clients. mSurvey helps ...
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Safaricom announces the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund
Kenyan telco giant, Safaricom, has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which was established to support late-seed and early growth stage companies in Kenya. In this second ...
Safaricom-backed mSurvey raises funding from Proparco to expand in Africa
Kenyan SaaS customer experience firm mSurvey, has raised follow-on investment from private sector financing institution Proparco to enable mSurvey ramp up its infrastructure, partnerships as well as scale and expand into ...
Safaricom-backed mSurvey Appoints NPS Co-Creator, Richard Owen, to Board of Directors
mSurvey, the mobile-first consumer feedback platform for businesses and consumers in Africa has appointed Richard Owen, CEO of OWEN CX Group (former CEO of Satmetrix) and Co-Creator of Net Promoter ...
Safaricom-backed mSurvey to Launch in Nigeria
Kenya’s mSurvey, a SaaS customer loyalty platform is expanding into Lagos Nigeria in a move to consolidate its position as Africa’s leading technology-powered customer loyalty platform. According to Dr. Kenfield Griffith PhD, ...
Safaricom Spark Fund invests in agricultural inputs supply chain platform iProcure
Agri-tech startup iProcure has joined Sendy, mSurvey, Lynk, Eneza Education and FarmDrive as the sixth and final investment from the $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund set up in 2014 ...
FarmDrive raises undisclosed funding from Safaricom Spark Fund
Safaricom Spark Venture Fund has today announced its investment in FarmDrive, a data analytics startup that connects small-scale farmers to financial services. FarmDrive has developed an alternative credit-scoring model based ...
Safaricom’s Sendy Ditches Online Taxi Hailing Service
Safaricom-backed courier firm Sendy has terminated its online taxi hailing service, According to Business Daily this was done in a bid to concentrate on its core logistics business at a time ...
Safaricom’s Spark Fund invests in M-learning Startup
Safaricom has today announced an investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. Eneza Education provides mobile-based education tools for primary students. The company was co-founded ...
Kenya’s Sendy Raises undisclosed funding from Safaricom Spark Fund to ramp up its sales
Nairobi-based package delivery startup Sendy has become the first start-up to benefit from $1 million Spark Fund, Safricom’s venture fund, Kernel Fund, Savannah Fund, Hello Media, Tom Macakiage and other ...
Safaricom’s Spark Fund Receives Over 200 Applicants | Now Set for the Short-list Phase
Safaricom's US$1 million Spark Venture Fund has recieved over 200 enquiries and applications from Kenyan start-ups and is now set for the short-list phase. Working with TBL Mirror as the ...
Safaricom launches Zindua Cafe portal to connect innovators countrywide
Innovators who wanted to pitch their ideas to Safaricom had a had time reach the firm, especially those who didn't who run what Kenya's leading telco. There public email to ...
Safaricom Launches $1M Spark Fund for Startups in Kenya
Safaricom has launched a $1 million Spark Fund for local tech startups in a move set to change Kenya's startup scene for good. The Safaricom Spark Venture Fund is aimed ...
East Africa Has Not Yet Fully Explored Its Investment Bankers
Investment bankers in East Africa are yet to fully utilize the potential of the region. Currently the major reason that will deter any enterprising African is capital to start ...
‘Silicon Savannah’ needs more early-stage investors
Though the last 5 years have seen hubs and labs set up shop to support early-stage startups especially those bootstrapping with infrastructure such as Internet, web hosting, space, mentorship among ...
OPay, Opera’s payments platform launches OBus in Nigeria & it’s not done yet
Opera's OPay, a payment and financial inclusion startup has launched OBus, a shuttle booking service in Nigeria to take on Swvl, Careem Bus, Little Bus among others according to people ...
Andela Secures $100M Series D to Build Distributed Engineering Teams and Power the Future of Work
Andela, the company building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers, today announced the completion of a $100M Series D funding. The round was led by Generation Investment Management ...
Sendy slashes its prices by 33 percent to bolster demand for its services
On-demand courier service Sendy has slashed its prices in a move expected to bolster demand for its services across the country as competition in the space hits up. Sendy, which ...
Kenya’s mSurvey raises $3.5M from TLCom Capital to launch in South Africa
mSurvey, a startup that helps firms to gather customer feedback via the mobile phone has raised $3.5 million from TLCom Capital to expand across Africa with South Africa as its ...
On-demand delivery firm Sendy expands to Kisumu
On-demand delivery startup Sendy has expanded to Kisumu, nearing its countrywide expansion move and as well launching Intercity courier services between Nairobi and Kisumu. In an email to its users ...
Top 100 locally-run & most visited websites in Kenya-Part 1
Image:Safaricom's Endless Internet Bundles We took to Alexa to list the most visited websites in Kenya. We elimanted international corporations such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn ...
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