Streaming giant, Netflix, could soon start accepting payment from Kenyan subscribers via mobile money. The move is aimed at establishing itself as the dominant player in the Kenyan market. Netflix has already established a strong foothold in Nigeria and South Africa, two of Africa's largest economies. Netflix is reportedly working ...
Immaculate Kassait has been nominated the Data Commissioner Position by Kenya's President Kenyatta. The Speaker of the Kenya National Assembly, Justin Bedan Muturi, announced the nomination saying, “I wish to report to the house that I have received a message from the President seeking National Assembly’s approval for the appointment of ...
Kenya joins several other African countries, (such as Rwanda and Ethiopia) in creating legislation aimed at boosting the local startup ecosystem. The Startup Bill 2020 was tabled by Nairobi Senator, Johnson Sakaja. It has been backed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Most of its implementation will be ...
Ride-hailing service, Uber, will now allow riders to access its services 24 hours provided they are going to or from the airport. At the start of September 2020, Uber Kenya begun allowing riders to hail a cab to and from the following local airports; Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), Wilson ...
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 edition, Safaricom has pumped in 5 million dollars, increasing the fund from 1 to 6 million dollars. Safaricom launched Spark ...
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board is the body responsible for assessing and licensing any qualified pharmacists across the country. They offer assessments for both diploma and degree levels, as long as the individual studied at recognized institution. The PPB also offers assessment tests for foreign individuals who wish to work ...
As a creative individual, you may have a solely authored book, an application invention, a farming crop discovery, or the production of a unique recipe. Without the proper measures, one can easily steal your ideas and present them as their own. They might even end up benefitting from them financially. ...
Due to COVID 19, the need for social distancing, and the hope of improving the efficiency of courts in Nairobi, the Kenya Judiciary launched the E-filling system earlier this month. The Chief Justice David Maraga mentioned that this was the fulfilment of a long-standing dream to incorporate technology into the ...
Vodacom has partnered with search engine giant, Google to introduce the Play Store data bundle package that will allow Vodacom users to browse the store, download and update their Android applications without worrying about large data costs that often come with these actions. This partnership makes Vodacom the first mobile ...
Gumzo, Africa’s first video conferencing system has added new features to its platform that will enable users to record and broadcast their calls live through YouTube Live. This integration comes two weeks after its launch as the company deploys more servers in Kenya and South Africa to enhance high quality ...
Our beautiful country of Kenya located here on the coast of the Indian Ocean in East Africa is one of the most unique countries in the entire world. We are home to wild elephants, lions, cheetahs, wildebeest, hippopotamuses, giraffes, leopards, zebras, and more. Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya hosts ...
Kenya's MarketForce 360, a field sales and distribution automation software and a subsidiary of Mesozi Group, has raised $350,000 seed investment to unlock new revenue streams and build the team’s capacity in East Africa. MarketForce 360 enables consumer brands to optimize how they deliver essential goods and services to retailers and ...
The Afrijob Network (Afrijob) is a recruitment and human capital marketplace which provides relevant content and training to build top tier global teams for fast-growing African companies. Afrijob's seamless end-to-end solution enables its partner companies to focus on their core business - saving them on both time and cost. Over ...
Jumia, the NYSE listed e-commerce platform today launched Jumia Advertising Services, its online platform to brands and corporate organizations in Kenya to use for advertising. According to the company's CEO, Sam Chappatte, the platform will help brands to reach highly targeted segments, right at the moment of purchase. "20% of ...
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, has today announced the availability of the Nokia C1 and Nokia 2.3 in Kenya, a week after the global launch held in Cairo on 5th December. The phones will be available in stores countrywide from next week at a recommended retail price of Ksh 5,999 ...
Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), Nigeria's innovation center has acquired its Kenyan counterpart, iHub for an undisclosed amount in a pan-African expansion move. Co-Creation Hub says the deal is part of its mission to help innovations from Africa on the global map as well as help local startups expand to Nigeria or ...
Mr Green Africa, a Nairobi based recycler and recycled plastics supplier has received funding from DOB Equity, a Dutch family-backed impact investor in East Africa, and Global Innovation Fund, in partnership with Unilever. According to Keiran Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Mr Green Africa: “We believe we are in the ...
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. mSurvey's 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 ...
