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Enterprise & Software
Sourced · 9 min read · Sep 1
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.
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Finance
Sourced · 8 min read · Aug 29
Three Americans walked into Safaricom's offices in Nairobi. Only three businesses were on Lipa Na M-Pesa. They left having changed that forever.
Nick Kioko
Finance
Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 24
He arrived in Nairobi with four PowerPoint slides and no product. M-KOPA has since disbursed $2 billion.
Nick Kioko
Agriculture
Sourced · 5 min read · Aug 24
How a $1 Billion AgTech Exit Inspired Apollo Agriculture to Back Hundreds of Thousands of Kenyan Farmers
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Commerce & Retail
Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 16
It raised $123M to bring e-commerce to rural Kenya. Twelve years later, it was gone.
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Finance
Sourced · 9 min read · Aug 13
The Story of Nala
Admin
Sourced · 5 min read · Aug 12
From a notebook of frustrations to a focused product
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Agriculture
Sourced · 6 min read · Aug 5
He watched countries plant more seed than the US and still harvest less. That gap became Apollo Agriculture.
Nick Kioko
Finance
Sourced · 5 min read · Jul 28
Turaco's founder says he threw the insurance textbook away on day one. Now it covers 4 million people.
Nick Kioko
Education
Sourced · 4 min read · Jul 27
They built A Robot Arm That Can Translate Sign Languag
Nick Kioko
Climate & Energy
Sourced · 2 min read · Jul 26
A stranger saw him building solar lanterns from PVC tubes at 2am and asked if he needed help. Sun King now reaches 1 in 5 Kenyan households.
Nick Kioko
Logistics & Mobility
Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 25
For three days, Nairobi's buses stopped. Mount Kenya appeared 200km away. He never forgot it.
Nick Kioko
Healthcare
Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 23
Before the interpreter never showed up
Nick Kioko
Finance
Sourced · 7 min read · Jul 23
"Uncle Kimathi can grow his produce, knowing Seattle needs it." The founder who wants farmers in the driving seat.
Nick Kioko
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Sep 12026
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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.
Aug 292026
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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.
Aug 242026
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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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How a $1 Billion AgTech Exit Inspired Apollo Agriculture to Back Hundreds of Thousands of Kenyan Farmers
Aug 162026
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It raised $123M to bring e-commerce to rural Kenya. Twelve years later, it was gone.