KOKO Netoworks has begun the installation of automatic cooking gas vending machines. The venture-backed firm has partnered with Vivo Energy Kenya to roll out the fuel ATMs. Vivo Energy is a licensed Shell vendor that supplies clean bioethanol fuel using its liquid fuel infrastructure, and delivers to about 650 “KOKO ...
Nairobi-based Payment Service Provider (PSP), DPO (Direct Pay Online) Group, is set for acquisition by Network International for US$ 288 million. Network International, which has its headquarters in Dubai, is a group of companies that describes itself as a "leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa ...
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 ...
MEST, a pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator has launched two new Incubators in Lagos, Nigeria, and Cape Town, South Africa, as the program continues to expand its presence across the continent. The spaces will join the flagship incubator headquartered in Accra, Ghana, as part of a growing ...
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 ...
Nairobi’s Gro Intelligence has managed to secure funding from TPG Growth, an alternative asset firm middle market and growth platform. The agri-tech company also announced Series A-2 financing led by TPG Growth, as well as Data Collective and unspecified strategic family offices. Agri-tech is an agricultural analytics company that is helping ...
BRCK in March announced Moja, a free public WiFi project for smartphone users in Kenya. The service is finally live in a number of areas in Nairobi, Kenya's capital and has signed up partners Facebook and Vanu for similar trials in rural Rwanda. Moja was announced sometime back in Kenya and is ...
Safaricom home fibre currently has 95,000 homes connected to its fibre infrastructure but in a move to increase its reach and market share before its competition, the firm is targeting satellite towns and suburbs as its new catchment areas. The firm has announced that its first phase of the expansion ...
Founded by Nairobi-based Nigerian marketer Collins Lukman Oyebode, Makanga is a mobile app that aims to be a marketplace and ticket booking platform for long distance buses in East Africa. "Inter-city travel using public means sometimes involves visiting a booking office to book a ticket in advance. This comes as ...
Booking.com, the global online accommodation reservation engine run by the Priceline Group is growing steadily in Africa with over 23,700 unique stays despite travel advisories and the continent's reliance on seasonal wildlife tourism. According to Joost Vermeulen, Regional Manager Middle East & Africa, Booking.com, "We’re pleased with the growth that ...
Airbnb has today moved beyond accommodation with the launch of Trips bringing together where you stay, what you do and the people you meet all in one place. According to the firm, Trips is a people-powered platform designed to make travel both easy and magical by bringing Experiences, Places and Homes together. ...
500 Startup's Dave McClure & Investor Tim Draper are set to keynote at Angel Fair Africa set to be held in Nairobi from the 10th to 11th November 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel as earlier reported. 500 Startups is not new to Kenya's startup ecosystem. In November 2014 it invested ...
Insurance leaders and experts will next week converge in Nairobi at a major conference that seeks to stimulate growth in the industry and among the major topics will be insurance emerging cyber risks and application of analytics in making investment decisions among others. The African insurance and re-insurance conference, which ...
Set to facilitate business opportunities and partnerships between North European and East African companies, at least ten entrepreneurs graduating from GrowthAfrica's startup accelerator managed to present their business and showcased innovative products at the Green Pioneer Venture Forum yesterday. Participating companies were selected to join the Green Pioneer Business Accelerator Programme from 150 applicants from Kenya, with 50 ...
Need pure drinking water? The long rainy season in Kenya is the best time for rainwater harvesting. A TDS meter now reads that rain water in Nairobi has the lowest levels of impurities in comparison to other water sources such as tap, bottle, well and borehole. Using an iSpring TDS meter ...
Uber Nairobi today in a statement announced a partnership with SafetiPin, a map-based mobile safety app that tags safety scores to locations on a map in a city, based on safety audits done across the city. The Uber and SafetiPin collaboration was born in New Delhi, India and the pilot ...
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- ...
The competitive Kenyan smart smartphone market is set to get two other devices, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 just a few weeks after the launch of the Obi mobiles. To be launched in Nairobi on 16th April 2015, the new phone will among other features come with a mobile ...
Founded by Angela Wachera and Elvis Juma, Mombasa-based Shambafresh.co.ke aims to change the way people buy their groceries in Kenya's coastal town by steadily taking them off the markets to their computers and mobile phones. Now in operation for a couple of months as a pilot as the developers put the ...
The Kenya government, businesses, conservation groups and utilities have launched Africa’s first Water Fund designed to provide a sustained water supply to a system that delivers water to over 9.3 million people and to generateUS$21.5 million in long term benefits to Kenyan citizens including farmers and businesses. This landmark initiative ...
Getting somewhere to work from is not as easy as folks think. Offices in CBD are expensive and not as convenient as you will have to look for your own Internet, furniture and the worst-parking! Now, a team of friends led by Lilian Nduati, CEO and founder Redcape Consult have ...
Safaricom customers living in Nairobi estates of Westlands, Karen, Lang'ata, CBD and Kinoo areas were this morning unable to access Safaricom services such as voice, SMS and data services. Capital FM reports that the outage affected the areas since 4.25 and mainly affected customers on It mainly affected customers on ...
With a few hours left into its official launch in Nairobi, Uber Kenya, which will launch its Uber X service at the Nairobi Restaurant Week tomorrow Januray 22 through Saturday 24 with a promo that will see UberX users claim up to 2 free rides worth a maximum of Ksh ...
iHub and 1776 have partnered to bring the $650,000 Challenge Cup 2015, a global startup competition in Kenya on January 22 2015 in a move that underscores the country's as a leader in the global startup community and as well highlight innovators contributions to tackling problems in the society. In ...
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, ...
Pomp and culture meet this season in this one of a kind creative showcase. Starting Friday the 18th of October at 7.00 pm, The Ngong Race Course hosts Sondeka Creative Festival 2014. Sondeka, translating to ‘create’, is a three day long event in appreciation of artsy, quirky, entrepreneurial Nairobi. Sondeka ...
Nairobi will soon be home to Africa’s largest solar carport which Solarcentury plans to construct on the uppermost storey of a car park at Garden City Mall part of the new 32-acre integrated residential, retail park, hotel and office development on Nairobi’s Thika Superhighway. The clean solar electricity generated by the 858kWp ...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that the 2014 SEED Awards Africa Symposium will be hosted at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi. This is one of the largest gatherings of start-up social and environmental enterprises ever, as 41 green entrepreneurs are celebrated at this event. The Award ...
47 MCAs from Nyeri County and some members of staff have undergone a five-day ICT training exercise at Kenyatta University Conference Centre in Nairobi. The main aim of the exercise was to show them how to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools to monitor activities within their various ...
Africa's biggest premium mobile advertising network Twinpine will host an event in Nairobi on September 9, 2014 to demonstrate the outlook and expansion of enterprises in Kenya, and East Africa as a whole. The event dubbed “#KuunganaKe,” whose theme is 'Discovering the Mobile Web in Africa', will host brand owners, ...
