Pregmum is a start-up based in Nairobi Kenya that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Africa using their pocket-friendly devices for women to use in monitoring their pregnancies at home. We spoke with them to learn more about how they intend to do this and this is what they said. Tell me about yourselves, who you are, your educational backgrounds. Pregmum is company founded by three Kenyan youths from diverse background namely Sato Bonface Kariuki –Engineering (UoN), Timothy Kimemia –IT(Zetec University), John Kiragu-Nursing officer(UoN) and Linus Wambugu-Public health officer(KMTC) What does your company pregmum do? Pregmum, a startup…
Author: Charity Mbaka
Sex education is a sensitive topic in many households in Kenya and world over, with most parents tiptoing around the subject. As a result, children grow into people afraid of asking certain questions. Irving Amukasa, CEO Sophie bot and team, have come up with a solution for this in form of an AI bot. We met with Irving and this is what he told us on his plans to achieve this goal. Tell us about yourself and your team.. Your educational backgrounds, roles, skillsets. Irving Amukasa,C.E.O and Co founder,I lead the team making sure we are working towards vision and…
ThingsCon is a convention set up to foster the creation of a human centered and responsible IoT. It is held annually at different countries. The convention brings together designers, practitioners, researchers and strategists to explore various themes such as responsible IoT, ethical IoT, design principles, as well as local topics such as, building connected hardware in and for emerging economies and exploring open source hardware for peace building. The event took place on the 8th of December 2017, at Gearbox, a Nairobi-based hardware and maker space. It was attended by a little south of a hundred people and featured a…
Kenya’s Nova Pioneer aims to equip students for success in the 21st Century through technology. Kenneth Mungai Gachango, a 27 year old graduate of Telecommunications and Information Engineering from J.K.U.A.T, and the Tech Educator at Nova Pioneers Boys Secondary School. Ken took us through Nova Pioneer’s plan for education in Africa and their latest tech programmes for their students. Nova Pioneer’s mission is to equip students for success in the 21st Century through technology, global exposure etc. How is this achieved? Nova Pioneer group of schools was established with the aim of nurturing Innovators and Leaders for the 21st Century. Students…
Merging fashion with Big data, augmented and virtual reality, Ghana’s Ahwenepa works closely with its vendors and designers co-creating and implementing impact strategies, that transform their operation, business and financing models. The fashion marketplace which focuses on everything African and made by Africans, from shoes, bag, jewelery, dresses interior decor and more aims to grow, communicate and scale social impacts for both businesses and communities. The company’s business model continuously evolves with the ultimate goal of sharing accumulated value with its vendors , designers and even buyers for the longest term. TechMoran met Henry Cobblah,27 Co-founder and CTO at Ahwenepa and this…
Over the past few weeks, cryptocurrencies, in particular, Bitcoin, has made headlines with its exponential growth, increasing its value by nearly $1000 overnight. This has played well for those who had jumped into the gravy train earlier on. While cryptocurrency is gaining believers every day, it is acquiring similar numbers in skeptics as well. Bitsoko is a Kenyan company that has performed particularly well in this area. In this interview Bitsoko COO, Frank Deya tels us more about his company and the cryptocurrency scene. Tell me about yourself, the Bitsoko team and about your journey as a company so far.…
The JKUAT (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) tech expo is an event held annually where students from various universities convene at JKUAT main campus to showcase their innovations to their peers and a set of ten judges. The main aim of the expo is to promote the spirit of innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship amongst students across the country, in a bid to contribute to Kenya’s Vision 2030 goal. Projects exhibited fall into five categories: software design, embedded systems, engineering, agriculture and multimedia. The competitors stand to win various cash prizes and merchandise. This year marked the eighth year…
Wilkings Fadhili is the founder and CEO of StartUpNow, formerly Fashion Torch Incubation Hub. This is an accelerator that offers startups a unique way to develop, grow and manage unbeatable brands, in a rapidly growing industry in Kenya and across Africa. In this interview he tells us more about himself and his company. Tell me about yourself, who Wilkings is and what drives him, his educational background? Wilkings is this 25 year old entrepreneur passionate about people, disruptive entrepreneurial ideas and all kinds of brands. He holds a first class bachelors degree in Public Relations and Mass communication from Daystar…
“Video games will be fully tailored to tell Kenyan stories,” says 22 year old Mekan Games founder, Evans Kiragu. Kiragu says gaming is getting so popular in Africa and Kenya is one of the key growth markets. TechMoran caught up with Evans Kiragu, the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Mekan Games, a game development company based in Nairobi, Kenya to tell us about the future of gaming in Kenya. Mekan Games is undoubtedly one of the most vocal video game development companies in Kenya and East Africa at large, being able to cause ripples and set the pace in a largely unexplored field…