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Peach CarsCommerce & Retail · Growth · Nairobi, Kenya
Saturday, Sep 12, 2026
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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.
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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
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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.
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