photo credits: blogsoshace Much as we would like to talk about the roses and daisies of the startup world, the funding rounds and bright futures, we still have to face the ugly skeletons in the industry's closet. It’s hardly surprising that startups fail. 90% of startups ...
UPDATED: Rocket Internet's online marketplace Jumia Market has called it a day and is no longer accepting new inventory in both Nigeria, Kenya and various other markets across Africa after trying its best to pivot and survive without much result. The report, was first made public by TechLoy's Loy Okezie ...
Founded and operated by Wamani Trust, Kenya's ipaidabribe.or.ke was a bribery monitoring and reporting platform allowing people in Kenya from all walks of life to report bribery and corruption instances for free and anonymously. The site was launched at a time when Kenya was the world's third most corrupt country ...
Launched by ex-Carmudi Nigeria employees, Linda.com.ng, was a dating site which expected to make it easy for singles in Nigeria to find and date other singles easily conveniently and lead to long-term relationships and celebrated marriages. During the launch Jimi Akinleye, the founder of Linda.com.ng said, “Every single person in ...
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 ...
Jooist, was a social gaming platform for feature phones that enabled users to discover games and play games on their own or with their friends, earn points and compare scores and achievements with whoever was in their gamer network. Early in the day, Waliaula Makokha, Jooist's founder & CEO, a ...
Closet49 was one time Kenya’s only online marketplace for trendy, fashionable, unique and eclectic items but seems to have succumbed to cheap new imports after a long-fought battle, sustained for nearly five years. Launched in 2012 by Serah Kanyua and Irene Abagi with seed funding from 88mph, the fashion marketplace ...
Despite having Dr. Bitange Ndemo, former PS; Ministry of Information & Communications as an advisor and mentor, Shakili.com, a peer-to-peer learning platform that aimed to connect educators to students and experts to professionals around their talents, careers, and interests never took off. Founded by Nest Africa magician Muthuri Kinyamu, and ...
Long in the days of GPRS (2G and 3G) feature phones, ambitious Mbugua Njihia launched Sembuse.com, a Java-based messaging and content platform long before Twitter became mainstream app and before Facebook lost its cool and became overpopulated. Mr. Njihia wanted something to do different after realizing he wasn't a fit ...
BookNow, a bus booking platform was founded in September of 2013 and headquartered in Nairobi - Kenya, and was the first and only bus travel market place for East Africa. BookNow aimed to aggregate multiple bus companies in East Africa in a move to help users to easily search for ...
Launched in Kenya in May 2012, SleepOut.com was an accommodation booking site focused on Africa before Airbnb became known and commonplace on the continent. The Kenyan-founded started was quickly spreading to other emerging markets and this made it to move its HQ to Mauritius in March 2014. It had boasted ...
