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Peach CarsCommerce & Retail · Growth · Nairobi, Kenya
Saturday, Sep 12, 2026
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Growth
Tennsa
Tennsa OS — an operational intelligence layer that reads across a business's existing systems and surfaces the decisions that need attention, built to cut daily overhead for SME owners.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·South Africa
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Africa's Talking
Developer APIs for SMS, USSD, voice, airtime, and payments — infrastructure powering thousands of African apps.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·Nairobi, Kenya
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iHub
Nairobi's original tech innovation hub — 450+ startups trace their roots to its ecosystem across health, fintech, agritech, and edtech.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·Nairobi, Kenya
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Ushahidi
Crisis mapping and data collection platform built after Kenya's 2007 post-election violence — now used by civil society organizations in 160+ countries.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·Nairobi, Kenya
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Zetesia
Online discovery platform for businesses offering premium or niche goods and experiences.
Enterprise & Software·Pre-seed·Nairobi
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Consile
All-in-one people ops platform for growing teams, HR, payroll, tasks, and attendance.
Enterprise & Software·Pre-seed·Nairobi
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Yamify
AI startup from DRC building software infrastructure, named in TechCabal's African AI builders report.
Enterprise & Software·Seed·Kinshasa, DR Congo
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Irembo
Government service digitization platform powering e-government in Rwanda.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·Kigali, Rwanda
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Chatgate GROUP
Multi-sector tech holding company specializing in enterprise software engineering and digital transformation.
Enterprise & Software·Growth·Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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She was living abroad when Kenya burned. She came back and built the tools her country needed — first to be seen, then to stay connected.
uliana Rotich didn't set out to build a technology company. She set out to solve two specific problems — one about truth, one about infrastructure — and ended up building some of the most consequential open-source technology ever made in Africa.
AdminSep 1
8 min read
Three Americans walked into Safaricom's offices in Nairobi. Only three businesses were on Lipa Na M-Pesa. They left having changed that forever.
How Ben Lyon, Dylan Higgins, and Tom Bostelmann built the infrastructure that put mobile payments in every barbershop, butchery, and mitumba stall in Kenya — and why their story never got told the way it deserved.
Nick KiokoAug 29
6 min read
He arrived in Nairobi with four PowerPoint slides and no product. M-KOPA has since disbursed $2 billion.
Jesse Moore co-founded M-KOPA in 2010 with almost nothing on paper — the company has since financed millions of solar systems, phones, and motorbikes.
Nick KiokoAug 24
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