Global East Africa’s thriving tech ecosystem By Maryam Mgonja, associate for East Africa at Seedstars Africa, home to more than 1.2 billion people, of whom over 60 per cent make up... Thought Leadership • 28 February, 2019 africa Kenya startup
Kenya Wamda Capital cofunds Kenyan B2B food supply platform Twiga Foods, the Kenyan business-to-business food supply platform announced today that it has successfully raised a Series A funding... Staff writer • 31 July, 2017 Twiga Wamda Capital Kenya
Global Startup Watch: Chinese fintech, localization, and capitalizing on the Asian sun The world of entrepreneurship news is a complex one, with people ever ready to give their two cents on how you should be running your... Dana Ballout • 02 March, 2017 Startup Watch Fintech china
Global Driving the Dubai-Nairobi digital highway [Opinion] I just came back from my second trip to Kenya in the past year and it is striking, for all the significant cultural, historic, geographic... Christopher Schroeder • 02 March, 2017 Kenya m-pesa Twiga
A peek inside the East African startup scene Stickers wall at iHub (Martin Pasquier) In September 2013, we – a small and dedicated team of tech maniacs – started a world tour of inn... Martin Pasquier • 05 March, 2014 Innovation tour africa Kenya
PayPal brings new mobile payment option to rapidly developing East Africa M-PESA, a mobile payment scheme launched in 2007 by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, has fundamentally changed the way Kenyans... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 11 December, 2013 mobile payments Payment systems Kenya
Kenya's Elections #TechFail: What Went Wrong and How Citizen Reporting Won the Day Last week, Kenya hit the polls to elect the country’s 4th president since its independence 50 years ago. The turnout in Africa’s so-... Jonathan Kalan • 18 March, 2013 Elections Kenya Crowdmapping