TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. As the company’s director of operations, he’s pivotal in making sure the company adopts localized methods with its riders.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. Combining data from satellites, ground-based cameras, aerial observations and local weather information, OroraTech detects threats to natural habitats and alerts users in real time.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But startups are also solving local problems. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Many female entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin care products. Kenya-based Uncover Skincare is one of them and it seeks to revolutionize the sector through data-led manufacturing that is aligned with the needs of the modern African woman. Image Credits : Uncover Skincare. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The first electric bus by Swedish-Kenyan EV startup, Opibus , has hit Kenya’s roads marking the beginning of the company’s venture into the mass transit industry. The startup is now running a pilot in readiness for the commercial launch of EV buses in Kenya later this year, and across Africa by the end of 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. A handful of local acquisitions and a monumental exit. Last year, the trend of seeing local companies buy each other played out and continued into 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo founded Grey in July 2020 as an instant exchange service to help Nigerians exchange foreign currencies in their domiciliary account for local money — the naira. The YC-backed Nigerian fintech has since expanded into East Africa, starting with Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. " The organization works directly with local ngos and volunteers matching them by interest, need, and skills.

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Nonprofit AF

MAY 28, 2024

A few weeks ago, I came back from a trip to Kenya to learn about and discuss global aid, specifically.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Kenya has the largest and most thriving furniture industry in East Africa, but the sector’s potential is hindered by several challenges among them production inefficiencies and quality concerns, forcing most major retailers to settle on imports. We were impressed by MoKo’s climate friendly local production capabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur (or VC) can't afford to look at a $5 million revenue opportunity, but that is probably much more attractive to a Kenya entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. US-based fintech Umba buys majority stake in Kenya’s Daraja microfinance bank.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . The company is planning to enter other markets within the East Africa region after establishing ground in Kenya.

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Nonprofit AF

APRIL 30, 2024

Hi everyone, I am writing from Nairobi Kenya, where I am listening to local leaders and engaging in reflections about.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The startup has today announced entry of RejaReja, the B2B retail marketplace, into Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, after successful pilot programs, coming about two months after it grew beyond Kenya by launching in Nigeria. In November we hit 100,000 merchants in Kenya and Nigeria and this number is growing quite rapidly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

When Reetch first came to Kenya from France in November 2020, it wasn’t easy to get affordable ready-to-eat meals. “After three days of coming into Kenya, I asked where I can get great food at a cheap price, and everybody tell me it’s impossible,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. and the E.U., and the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Learn about Net Tuesdays and get local! These new Net Tuesday groups have bumped the total number of local NetSquared groups around the world over 30 - that’s a wide network of innovators and social changemakers! If so, connect with the local organizers to find out about the next events, how to help, and spread the word!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Finclusion’s debt financing, which makes up the larger share of the overall round, was provided by local currency funds in Eswatini and South Africa. The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Our solution is for people in the local market moving into their first market or a company in their fourth market trying to scale their enterprise.” These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The startup is now expanding its network of local agents that consumers can place orders with. Kapu joins the growing list of startups that are digitizing the informal retail sector in Kenya, including Tushop, which launched last year. Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention. Fraud data, mobile money data, government data queried against national ID systems, AML, PEP screening checks, sanction screening, both global and local KYB business verification data.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Top countries: Big Four are still hotspots for African VC investment Briter Bridges: Companies in the “Big Four” (Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa) captured 75% of all investment value and the number of deals. South Africa takes the second spot with 17%, Egypt at third at 16%, and Kenya at 15%. Kenya is a close second with $1.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The venture capital scene in Africa has consistently grown, with an influx of capital from local and international investors reaching unprecedented heights in recent years. At a close second was Kenya accounting for $304 million of the total investments in the continent. and Kenya raised $107.6 million and $77.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The founders draw on prior experience building API products for local markets in the past. Pngme says it’s operating in Nigeria and Kenya, while Stitch is only in South Africa. In 2017, Kiaan Pillay worked as the head of operations for South African insurance API platform Root. “Unlike the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

KlashaCheckout allows merchants outside Africa to collect payments from six countries on the continent — Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Kenya — and get paid in G20 currencies like dollars, pounds or euros. The platform will go live in Kenya in the next couple of months, said Anuna. KlashaCart.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But even with these additional features tailored to a Nigerian audience, Mono is going after other markets like Ghana and Kenya, first mentioned by the CEO in May. Kenya, on the other hand, is still within its radar as one out of three countries (including Egypt and South Africa) Mono plans to expand into next year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

Kenya’s Twiga raises $50M to scale food solutions across Africa. This has led to decreasing productivity of local farming, which has impacted both quality and pricing in the market,” said Njonjo who founded the company with ex-CEO Grant Brooke. TopUp Mama looking to solve sourcing challenges for restaurants.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Kenya-based MyHealth Africa , an integrated healthcare platform changing how people access medical services, by connecting patients with local and international health specialists and hospitals, is growing its reach in Africa, and plans to further expand in Middle East and South Asia next year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The news also comes off the back of the launch of Google’s first product development center on the continent, in Nairobi, Kenya, the city where Lori Systems first launched. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. Image Credits: Lori Systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR has also eaten into the market share of legacy and “on-premise” systems like SAP and Oracle, commonly used by large companies locally. Localization of software also plays a part in SeamlessHR replacing these legacy systems in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The uptake of electric vehicles in Kenya currently stands at 5% — a majority of which are private vehicles. Opportunity for EV startups in Kenya. There is a possibility that locally developed electric buses will be among the first to ply the BRT as Opibus and BasiGo — two EV startups in the country — begin tests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I’m just back from a trip to Kenya and London and as they say in the UK, “cream crackered&# (really tired). This year, TweetsGiving becomes Epic Thanks to indicate the broader impact of the event. This year, the celebration will spread to honor even more changemakers in other parts of the world.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC. The partnership with retailers, said Attiah, emerged after Farmerline realized that working directly with the farmers would amount to “competing with local businesses, and it didn’t make any sense.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The fintech plans to use the funding to double down on its operations in Kenya, and the Philippines, before exploring new markets in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Jia taps customers by integrating into the apps of its local partners, including Ilara Health, which supplies medical inventory to a network of over 2,000 small clinics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Affordability is one of the biggest impediments for insurance penetration in Kenya. The number is growing with 210,103 motorcycles being imported into the country in 2020, with the number of imports growing by 20% in 2020 and 15% last year — motorcycles remain a popular means of transport in Kenya and across Africa.

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