The Ethnic Brand, a Kenyan startup that wants to be an Uber for manufacturing, has raised $500,000 from Malaysia's Magic Accelerator to bring manufacturing as a service to global artisans and fashion gurus. Ethnic Brand, an offshoot of Alex Mativo's E-lab which was recycling obsolete electronic devices by turning them ...
Tozzaplus has rebranded to WorkPay Africa in a move that will see it enable businesses not only manage their employees but be able to pay them on time via its new SME overdraft facility. According to its CEO, Paul Kimani, speaking about the firm's system upgrade and expansion plans, “We ...
In a move to its users the freedom to send money whenever they want and how they want, this remittance firm, which has been operating in Nigeria for the last five years, and launched remittance to Kenya in 2014, has raised $20m Series C to simplify sending money to Ghana, ...
Gravity provides on the fly identity management services for low income populations in developing countries. People just need access to a mobile phone - any phone - to create a robust ID sealed on a block chain. For more than half a billion people in Africa, mobile operators are struggling ...
Innovate Kenya is an idea competition organized by Global Minimum Inc(GMIn), a charitable international organization that encourages young innovators and leaders in Africa to engage with critical thinking skills and hands-on learning programs to tackle challenges affecting their communities. It provides them with enabling tools, safe spaces, workshops, mentorship, ...
Beacon Inclusive is a social enterprise that seeks to reboot equality by catalyzing internet of things technology to foster inclusion of vulnerable groups (Women and Children in low resourced areas, Refugees, and Persons with Disabilities) in society; founded upon the values embracing Inclusion and Diversity. Those who are on the ...
Sky.Garden is a SaaS mobile commerce platform built for retailers in Africa that allows retailers to sell inventory with ease on mobile. Sky.Garden aims to give back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options ...
Pay Television Company StarTimes Media has today introduced a flexible subscription payment service that will allow subscribers the freedom to pay subscriptions daily, weekly or on a monthly basis. A first in the Pay Television industry, the service is tailored to enable subscriber’s continuity in watching premium television content based on ...
Biasharabot, a Kenyan-based company that develops bots for small and medium sized enterprises to use to streamline their social media marketing and maximize the income. The bots enable them to respond to queries on time. TechMoran spoke to Biasharabot founders, who were incredibly excited to share with us their vision ...
Following its launch in Nigeria last October, AfroMillionsLotto has linked up with leading Nigerian payments provider Paga to offer payments for lotto games in Naira, making it even easier to play for Africa’s biggest jackpots. James Leppard, Ofertas365 CEO, stated: “We are delighted to partner with Paga to offer ...
eCommerce company Sky.Garden has made groundbreaking implementations to its payments module to ensure real-time payments to their sellers after signing a deal with digital payments firm Interswitch. The deal will improve speed and accuracy of mobile money payments and allow seamless cash flow management and comes months after the firm ...
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 next stop after its launch in Nigeria in February this year. The Series A round of USD$3.5m, was led by ...
African tech startups raised $560 million in VC funding in 2017, a 53% YoY Growth according to a report by Partech Ventures with a total of 128 rounds in 124 African tech start-ups, compared to 77 rounds 74 start-ups in 2016. The report adds that South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria were the top three ...
Micrive Infinite is a Nairobi based startup, that is spearheading the medical 3D printing technology sector in Kenya. The company works closely with surgeons, to provide 3D Printing services. They have a variety of products range from patient specific anatomically accurate models to surgical guides. The potential of their business ...
OMG Digital, the parent firm of OMG Voice saw annual revenue growth of $32,000 to $210,000 from 2016 to 2017 and is projecting annual revenues of $120,000 in 2018 according to a tweet by Jesse Ghansah, one of the three co-founders of the firm. Annual revenue growth for @OMGdigitalhq : ...
DaktariPap, Swahili for emergency doctor is a Nairobi-based startup that has developed a unique Mobile, Web and SMS technology platform to connect rural farmers and agro dealers to credible and affordable vet, agronomy and insurance service providers bundled with innovative finance. Through its DaktariPap Finance, the app aims to help local ...
Bidhaa Sasa wants to enable rural families in Kenya to buy affordable modern goods and have them delivered to their door without the hustle of Internet and logistics barriers. Founded in 2015 by David Disch and Rocío Pérez Ochoa, Bidhaa Sasa Swahili for “Products now!” delivers household goods to clients in rural Kenya and ...
Haraqisha, Swahili word for hurry up, is a new online grocery and supermarket shopping marketplace set to disrupt Kenya's ecommerce trends, saving Kenyans more the time they spend in traffic everyday. "Haraqisha wants to spare you the trips you make to get your daily groceries. Rather than fight traffic to ...
Workstyle Africa has launched to join the growing list of co-working spaces in Nairobi, Kenya in a move the firm says will enhance creativity and collaboration among businesses and individuals who want value for their money. Workstyle Africa joins iHub, Nailab, Nairobi Garage, Mint Hub, the Twig, Hive Lab, the ...
Naspers-backed OLX is trimming its headcount in Nigeria and Kenya as it moves to turn profitable this year. Speaking to TechMoran, Peter Ndiangui, OLX Kenya country manager said, "We made a difficult but important decision in Kenya and Nigeria to consolidate our operations between some of our offices internationally. "Our ...
Kenyan based eCommerce company, Sky.Garden,which is works as a ''Shopify for Africa'', has raised a $1.2 million to launch its next generation merchant platform later this year and expand across East Africa. The funding round was led by Jesper Drescher, TRK Group based in Norway, The Katapult Accelerator Follow-up Fund, and a ...
Sendy, an on-demand delivery services platform operating in Kenya has completed a Series A investment round said to be around $2m according to sources, led by DOB Equity alongside CFAO, member of the Toyota Group, and other private investors to enable it increase its platforms’ service offering and team, as well ...
UAE's cab hailing startup Mondo Ride, which launched in Kenya in 2016 to take on Uber, Maramoja Transport has raised $2 million in funding today to bring to $5 million its total funds raised as the firm struggles to beat Taxify, Little and Uber in Kenya's aggressive taxi market. Since its ...
Ejenzi.co.ke, an online platform allowing users to buy and, or sell construction materials online and have them delivered to their clients doorstep has been launched in Kenya to take the country's construction industry online. Founded by Seth Mundhe, a 31 year old entrepreneur based in Nairobi with a background ...
2017 marked the launch of Jack Ma’s AliBaba Group eFounders initiative program, in partnership with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This is an intensive two- week training course designed especially for entrepreneurs in developing countries, whose businesses lean toward e-commerce. The initiative aims to help empower 1000 ...
Kenya's Majik Water, a female-founded startup converting humidity in the air into water took the 1st prize at the EDF Pulse Africa awards held in Paris, December last year. Led by Beth Koigi, MAJIK WATER beat two others to bring home 15,000 Euros, and will also be supported to access EDF’s innovation ...
Everywhere you turn, software seems to be the answer. Most Businesses are already using software for their marketing, accounting and management. SMEs have to consider the need for human resources software for their small business, it’s much more than a luxury but a necessity. SMEs, Startups and fast-growth companies have been averse to ...
Over the past few years Kenya and Nigeria have risen through the ranks in the technology space, booting South Africa out of its previously held. Innovations like Safaricom's M-Pesa and Kenya's Ushahidi and Nigeria’s fin-tech startup Interswitch, which is a few zeros away from unicorn status, have investors tripping over ...
After announcing it in September, IROKOtv is finally launching its kiosks across Nairobi Kenya and will over the next few weeks increasingly go live across the city in its pan-African expansion drive. In a blog post, Jason Njoku, founder and CEO IROKO said, "The big strategy for IROKOtv has been the ...
Jamii Telecommunications has this evening Tuesday 5th December launched its Faiba 4G mobile network in Nairobi, a move expected to fuel a data price war with competition Safaricom, Telkom Kenya, Airtel and Equitel. Faiba 4G, which is expected to kill the firm's own home fibre internet Faiba Home will be ...
