Good news for all the startups in Kenya as Seedstars World is coming to Nairobi! 10 of the best startups in the city will be invited to pitch during the event, that will be held on 10th November 2017 at the Nailab. The ten will pitch in front of an ...
The Graca Machel Trust has joined UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and Nailab to see more women join the second round of the IAM Accelerator 2.0. and invest in them. According to Nomsa Daniels, CEO of the Graca Machel Trust; “The Graca Machel Trust is delighted to team-up with ...
Kenya's SophieBot, a startup that has developed a chatbot that answers questions about sexual health using artificial intelligence has been accepted into Merck's fourth intake in Nairobi, Kenya. SophieBot will be working with other teams focusing on cooling systems, artificial intelligence for information provision about sexual health, and digital diabetes ...
Office, co-working and event space provider Nairobi Garage has moved to a 33,000sqft premise as demand for shared offices skyrockets in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy. Now taking up three floors of an entire office development, the new Nairobi Garage is located on Ngong Road's Pinetree Plaza, just a ...
ionacloud was never going to ship from day one, and everyone knew it but no one dared ask the team any real infrastructure questions as cloud was the latest buzzword in the country's tech scene in mid 2011 just months shy of the undersea fibre optic cables craze. To give ...
Launched this week in Kenya, Bubewa.com is a ratings and review platform for consumers in Kenya to rate and share their experiences about products and services and even evaluate their elected leaders. According to Sam Gichuru, Nailab co-founder & CEO, "Reviews on Bubewa.Com are geared towards ensuring that consumers and ...
Nailab Seed Limited, an angel fund founded by Nailab and Fair & Sustainable Participations is calling for applications for startups to apply and stand a chance to raise Ksh 2.5m. According to the firm, the investment will be a convertible note of up to KES 2.5M, with a maturity of ...
Founded by Joseph Muchene, a Certified Public Accountant – Kenya, and Charles Muchene, an Electrical and Electronics Engineer, Cladlight wanted to develop a smart jacket for Kenya's growing motorcycle transport industry informally called boda bodas. The brothers conceptualized and designed a smart wearable and interactive jacket to help bicycle riders ...
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, in collaboration with Nailab, a technology driven business incubator, announced 4 winning innovations, Fluid, Sophie Bot, Imara TV and Deaf Elimu that will be kicking off the iaccelerator program. The 4 winning social-entrepeneurs will go through a 4 month acceleration program that will pair ...
One of the best kept secret the last 3 months was Kuhustle, an on-demand tech talent platform to help individuals and firms with tech-related tasks to hire a developer on demand was accepted and joined Y Combinator Fellowship, Silicon Valley's most popular startup incubation program. Y Combinator is a startup ...
Nailab's Kuhustle-which means get your hustle on is tightening its ropes on its freelancer developer jobs marketplace to a closed up on-demand tech talent platform to help individuals and firms with tech-related tasks to hire a developer on demand, moving away from the open networking platform it used to be. ...
Tech hubs have been there in Nairobi even before iHub, Nailab, GrowthHub and Nairobi Garage, only this one's listed were good at doing their PR and getting international coverage and love and pity in equal measure. Squad Digital, Sub-Saharan Africa’s leading digital advertising firm, has today launched an innovation lab ...
Kenya's service market is booming or it could just be getting crowded as every day we hear of a new player launching with different value propositions for clients. TaskGuru has launched in Nairobi to help you do the tasks you don't have the time for. The online marketplace for local ...
A new Android chat app dubbed 'Plain has launched on Google Play Store to let just anyone make anonymous posts about anything. The users are called Plainers and the posts are called Plains. Other users can like the posts, favourite and reply to them. 'Plain aims to be the place ...
Launched in 2010, little was known about Nailab, a tech incubation hub founded by Sam Gichuru, a former Sales Technician at the heart of Nairobi’s suburbs. But today, it boasts of not only mentoring entrepreneurs that attract investor funds worth over $300,000USD but of creating more than 100 tech- ...
Index Ventures at the Nailab Index Ventures, a $4b worth investment fund with over 383 Investments in 244 companies, Index Ventures team today had its tour of Nairobi's iHub and Nailab, met a number of startups from the city and as well did listen to a ...
With over 35 startups under its portfolio and founded in 2011, Nailab, a Nairobi based tech and business incubator has announced its 2015 cohort, comprising of a bitcoin processor, an NFC payments firm, a square for Africa and a home security social network as well as toll service line for ...
Kenya's Cardplanet Solutions has raised $100k from 500 Startups to up its products, hire engineers and focus on customer acquisition in a move that will turn around the firm's fortunes and growth story forever. Speaking to TechMoran, Rodgers Muhadi, Cardplanet Solutions co-founder and CEO said, "We are improving our product, ...
I watched Alexia Tsotsis interview Zendesk’s CEO Mikkel Svane TechCrunch Disrupt London and was pretty impressed by what he said. Svane said “Being lucky is just so much work,” I cannot agree more. This must be the most helpful statement I have heard this week. While starting off in business” if ...
Finding pure clean water in Somaliland is not an easy task but Doburo Somaliland, a water company that sells clean and affordable water packaged in jerrycan aims to solve this task on its own rather than wait for the government or NGO'S. Targeting Somali's poor and middle class, the firm ...
Kenya's Nailab (Nairobi Incubation Lab), a tech business incubator launched in 2011 today held a demo day for its season four startups in a move to build entrepreneurship and create jobs for youth in the country. According to Sam Gichuru, CEO and Co-Founder, Nailab, “It is important that we who ...
Raising capital is not as easy at it looks especially for startup entrepreneurs in Africa, where investors put their money into fast moving consumer goods, oil and real estate among others apart from upcoming entrepreneurs. To help solve this, Nailab, a tech business incubator in partnership with 1%Club, a Netherlands ...
Tiko, means ticket in Nairobi slang. The new platform is set to enable event organizers create and manage events using mobile money and SMS. Tiko allows event organizers to send out SMS invitations to attendees and they can then book a place using mobile money and get SMS tickets straight ...
Mombasa is known for its lazy and laid back mood, great beaches, nice sand and warm sun and a preferred holiday town for Kenya's working class and tourists. However, things are set to change as this coming weekend September 20-21, Nailab in partnership with JKUAT Mombasa and the ICT Authority ...
Sam Gichuru busy working Nailab (Nairobi Incubation Lab), a startup accelerator that offers a 3 to 12 months entrepreneurship program focusing on growing innovative technology driven ideas has opened up the application process for the physical incubation program. For startups to qualify for the program, they ...
Scrobber.com is a Kenyan-based platform for renting out or hiring movable property in East Africa such as vehicles, cars, boats, bicycles and aircraft. The platform, founded by Anyanzwa Brian and Antony Gitonga has a team of six that helps customers works search property for hire according to their location and ...
