Okii Eli, Author at TechMoran

Startups

SunFunder Closes $2m Multi-Currency Debt Facility In Mozambique With MFX Solutions For SolarWorks!

January 17, 2019
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Visa launches She’s next Global Campaign to Support Women-Owned Startups
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African startups invited to pitch at Airbus BizLab open day

January 15, 2019
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Publiseer Accepted to Singularity University’s Global Startup Program
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Branch Raises Ksh500M for Local Expansion|Issues 10 Millionth Loan in Kenya

January 14, 2019
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MEST Africa Challenge offering up to $50k for startups based in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, SA and Cote d’Ivoire
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Lendable closes second round of financing from institutional investors to expand access to credit across sub-Saharan Africa

January 12, 2019
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Kampala-based off-grid solar firm SolarNow raises $9m in debt financing from SunFunder, Oikocredit and responsAbility
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Maisha Meds & Turaco Secure $80,000 in Funding from Villgro Kenya to Advance Primary Care

January 4, 2019
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Senegal Start-Up Accelerator to invest $10,000 into top five startups

Okii Eli is the CEO and Co-Founder at Ecorest. Follow him on Twitter @nextstevejobs or read his posts here. He lives in Nairobi and loves entreprenuership and blogs about start-ups in Africa.

Nigeria’s Kobo360 raises $6 million from IFC to Transform Supply Chain for African Mass-Market Goods

Nigeria’s Kobo360 raises $6 million from IFC to Transform Supply Chain for African Mass-Market Goods

On December 10, 2018 by Okii Eli

Kobo360 Inc, an ‘Uber’ for trucks in Nigeria has raised a $6 million equity investment led by the IFC with participation from others including Silicon Valley investors WTI, YCombinator , and African institutional investors Cardinal Stone Partners, Chandaria Capital, and TLcom. The…

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Where Do Study Tech & Innovation In Kenya

On April 10, 2013 by Okii Eli

In every country there are greater institutions of learning that produce the next entrepreneurs that change the world and just like Stanford University in California and Kenya is no exception. Kenya being in the front end of technology in Africa has grown…

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India’s 16 Year Old CEO | World’s Youngest CEO In Tech?

On April 10, 2013 by Okii Eli

Impressed with her ability to make a 3-minute animation film within just 10 hours during a competition, Seppan.com, a software company, offered then 13-year-old Sindhuja Rajaraman a job of chief executive officer (CEO) of the firm, making her the youngest CEO in…

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CEO Weekends:Okii Eli Of Echorest On Where Startup Founders In Africa Can Work From & Be Accelerated

On April 5, 2013 by Okii Eli

Startups failure in Africa is mostly linked to lack of funding, space, mentorship and team’s ability to execute but a number of hubs and accelerators want to end that across the continent by providing working space, mentorship and even the required cash…

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Skype Hits 2 Billion Minutes Per Day | Says Thank You For Calling

On April 5, 2013 by Okii Eli

VOIP service Skype hit another milestone of 280 Million users speaking for over 2 billion minutes a daily. Skype announced the good news on Wednesday. The 2 billion minutes can be compared to the time enough to travel to the moon and…

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Top Media Moguls In Kenya

On April 5, 2013 by Okii Eli

The Aga Khan ‘His Highness’ the Aga Khan founded Nation Media Group (NMG) in 1960 to provide independent news in the years building up to Kenya’s independence through the Taifa and Nation newspapers. Now majority-owned by public shareholders, though the Aga Khan…

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Top 5 Women In Tech In Kenya

On April 1, 2013 by Okii Eli

Orry Okolloh Currently Google Policy Manager for Africa, Okollo holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a graduate degree in Law from Harvard Law School in 2005. In 2006, she co-founded Mzalendo.com, a civic education portal…

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Top 5 Tech Tweeps Worth Following In Kenya

On March 27, 2013 by Okii Eli

Call them Bigwigs as #KOT calls them, here are the top 5 tweeps worth following for informative, educative tech stuff in Kenya. @WhiteAfrican, Erik Hersman He’s the Co-founder of famous crowd sourcing platform, Ushahidi and Kenya’s iHub business incubation center and…

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YCombinator Class Of 2012 Startups Pitch To Investors On Last Night’s Hot Demo Day

On March 27, 2013 by Okii Eli

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($14-20k + an $80k note) in a large number of startups twice a year, since 2005 and have seen startups launch into companies such as the famous Reddit, Dropbox, Airbnb, Disqus, Songkick among others….

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17 Year Old Joins Millionaire’s Club

On March 25, 2013 by Okii Eli

After acquisition of Summly by Yahoo today, Nick D’Aloisio at just 17 years joins the millionaire’s club and becomes the youngest Yahoo employee ever. What an exit admired by so many young founders, a whopping $30 Million for a 2-year-old startup. Summly,…

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Top Five African Startups To Watch

On March 21, 2013 by Okii Eli

Africa’s startup ecosystem is growing and booming day by day leading to massive competition to for users, seed or VC money and clients for the benefit of the local users. We have identified a number of the fastest growing and probably the…

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Twitter Turns Seven Today | Says Thank You For Creativity

On March 21, 2013 by Okii Eli

Since the launch of Twitter 7 years ago, today the company has grown to over 200 million active users with 400 million tweets being posted on daily basis. The company commemorated the day with an awesome video showcasing the growth from the…

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YouTube Hits 1 Billion Monthly Users

On March 21, 2013 by Okii Eli

Founded in February 2005 and after 8 years in operation today YouTube announced it has hit a billion unique active users monthly since its launch. YouTube has been recording over 4 billion hours of video are watched each month and 72 hours…

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Facebook Wants You To Log In | Firm Testing New Reminder To Update Profiles

On March 21, 2013 by Okii Eli

Facebook is reportedly running a small test of a new notification that reminds users to post something to their profiles if they haven’t been active in a while, fast company reported earlier on. The report comes after venture capitalist Bijan tweeted out…

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Top 5 Tech Millionaires To Watch In Africa

On March 20, 2013 by Okii Eli

Most startup founders dream to scale their ventures into millions and probably have a good exit. In Africa a few founders are on the brink of making it huge but the journey is worth it when there are success stories around. Below…

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88mph’s Cape Town Demo Day Here | Startups Pitching Live To Investors April 25

On March 19, 2013 by Okii Eli

After 3 intensive months of work, nine startups which were accepted into 88mph accelerator will pitch live Thursday April 25to potential investors at the accelerators Cape Town base, formerly the Umbono. The Demo Day will provide a platform for the startups to…

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My Take: Is Nairobi Becoming The Hottest City In Africa To Launch A Startup?

On March 18, 2013 by Okii Eli

Launching a startup is directly affected by the start-up ecosystem and there has been a vacuum on whom to learn from in Africa. There’s no record of success or failures as even those who tried were doing it on their own. There…

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Yum.co.ke Delivers Your Food In Just 45 Minutes

On March 15, 2013 by Okii Eli

Are you hungry? Need food delivered to your doorstep? Yum.co.ke, a local Kenyan startup founded by Jake Goldberg and Mike Hudson from personal experience.They were disappointed with the few delivery options when ordering food from their favorite restaurants and saw an opportunity…

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Here Is The Fourth Generation GALAXY S | GALAXY S4

On March 15, 2013 by Okii Eli

The most and widely talked Samsung Galaxy S4 launched yesterday. Samsung, a key rival of Apple is taking things to another level with the release of this new amazing phone. Here is what Samsung said it contains: The Galaxy S4 is slimmer…

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Kenya’s Dash2do Wants To Get Your Tasks Done Conveniently

On March 14, 2013 by Okii Eli

Dash2do, Kenya’s Taskrabbit wants to do errands you don’t have time for as you run your office, crib or party. The team told TechMoran they want to make sure busy people here in Nairobi and the Diaspora get almost anything done for…

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Umuntu Media’s Mimiboard Celebrates One Year Anniversarry | Hits 27 Million Page Views Per Month

On March 12, 2013 by Okii Eli

Mimiboard, a virtual notice boards built by SA’s UmuntuMedia, a firm founded by Johan Nel have today announced a 27 million page views milestone. Speaking to TechMoran, Nel said,” This expansion has been enabled by partnerships with other major brands like Capital FM in…

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The Startupangel.com Launching April In Kenya To Accelerate African Startups Online

On March 12, 2013 by Okii Eli

TheStartupAngel accelerator programme is set to launch its first online accelerator programme in a move to help startups in Africa that have not yet received funding or not in incubators but with a potential to grow huge. TheStartupAngel.com, run by B Success Network, LLC. works with…

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mYwindow.me Shines At SXSWi & Gets Down To Business At India’s Top Accelerator

On March 12, 2013 by Okii Eli

A few weeks ago we covered one of the hottest startup in India, mYwindow.me which was only a few weeks old in the market. Now the startup is set to join the famous and Biggest India startup accelerator Kyron after winning hearts…

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My Take:Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Failed IEBC System

On March 12, 2013 by Okii Eli

It’s now a week after Kenyans went into historic elections to choose their leaders in an elections characterized long queues, manual voting and in some areas voting into the night even when voters were out and ready by 3 am in the…

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