Author: Joshua Mutua

 Affinity, a Ghanian neo-bank, with a bold vision to provide banking services to 350 million adults who remain unbanked in Africa has raised new funding from Renew Capital for expansion. The digital banking platform offers a full suite of banking services, including current, savings and investment accounts, transfers, payments and loans with a targeted focus on financially excluded populations in Africa with zero fees accounts and competitive interest rates on deposits and affordable loans. “At Affinity, we’ve developed a fully integrated platform dedicated to promoting financial inclusion by effectively addressing the challenges faced by individuals and MSMEs without access to…

SweepSouth, a South African founded on-demand home cleaning and services platform has appointed a new CEO as Aisha Pandor, the startup’s founding CEO steps aside to her new adventures in the health tech/biotech space. “It’s with much excitement and pride that I’m sharing the news of the appointment of Lourandi Kriel as SweepSouth’s new CEO,” said Pandor. “Lourandi’s appointment comes after an 18-month transition and will see our current SweepSouth MD, Luke Kannemeyer, move to the COO role. Pandor, will not be stepping away from SweepSouth completely but will be involved in a different capacity, offering her brilliance and wisdom…

Ventures Platform, MTN, Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and Lagos State Science and Research Innovation Council (LASRIC) have invested $21,000 into seven start-ups who are currently building solutions and platforms to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.  Ventures Platform and partners say the seven start-ups will each receive $3,000 equity-free grant funding to build further their innovations. According to Kola Aina, Ventures Platform founder, “I have attended a lot of Demo Days in my time, but never a virtual one; the energy from the seven teams who participated on the 2nd April 2020 was incredible; their focus…

KejaMove selected to join Alibaba’s E-founders. KejaMove,a Kenyan logitech company in the home and office moving sector, has been selected to join Alibaba’s e-founders. The eFounders Fellowship program provides first-hand exposure to ecommerce and digital innovations, access to business leaders across Alibaba and China, as well as an opportunity to connect with like-minded, leading entrepreneurs in your region. The fellowship is a community of passionate and successful “Champions for the New Economy” looking to inspire and create a more inclusive development model for all. Other Kenya startups selected to join the program include Tozzaplus, M-farm, Lipalater, cloud9xp among others. Previous…

Recently I was faced with a number of requests to sign NDA’s by businessmen willing to discuss strategies with me. While we understand the good intentions behind the reason to do NDA’s, I find them simply redundant and not worth the time. This is because of three reasons: 1. Ideas are i. Worth nothing and ii. not transferrable. 2. Your idea will never be unique. It is the application/implementation of the same that will stand out. 3. Startups don’t have the budget to mitigate against an NDA. Here’s how I really think and NDA should be written. FriendDA This agreement…

I’ve had the opportunity to work with several top blogs. While my primary positioning is as founder of my startup: kejahunt, I have worked, in both technical and writing positions for top kenyan blogs such as 140friday.com, techmoran.com, blog.gigwapi.com and femmehub.com and of course our very own blog.kejahunt.com. Am I a blogger? You ask. No. I just like to interface with technology reporting and technology itself in both capacities. Well, back to the point: I did the new-look website for TechMoran.com. (Feedback please): Anything you’d like us to change? Of course this was based on a theme that we thought…