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Investa Farm: This Kenyan Startup is Using Stablecoins to Provide Credit Access to Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Kenyan agri-finance startup, Investa Farm, is using stablecoin-powered lending backed by real farm produce to provide access to affordable and reliable credit for smallholder...
African Development Bank Approves $60m Trade Finance Guarantee for Equity Bank to Boost Kenya’s SME Trade
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a $60 million Trade Finance Transaction Guarantee (TFTG) facility for Equity Bank Kenya. This is aimed at...
Why Kenya’s New $311m Power Transmission Partnership Matters for Africa’s Energy Future
Kenya has unveiled one of its most ambitious reforms yet in the way it builds and finances critical energy infrastructure, signing a $311 million...
BasiGo Expands Beyond Nairobi With New Fast-Charging Station to Reduce Downtime for Kenya’s Electric Buses
BasiGo, Kenya’s leading provider of electric bus solutions, has officially opened a new electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging site at the Shell Athi River Service...
How Kenyan Startup, Ambesa, is Digitising B2B Commerce and Reducing Costs for African SMEs
In a continent where cross-border trade is often slowed by opaque processes, unreliable logistics, and fragmented networks, Ambesa is emerging as a solution for...
Nairobi’s Phindor Unveils JuaFlow, an AI Workflow Reshaping How African Businesses Manage Daily Work
Nairobi-based automation startup, Phindor, has launched JuaFlow, a new AI workflow platform designed to help African businesses manage the high-volume daily tasks that take...
How Kenyan Startup, Zendawa, is Digitising and Bringing Africa’s Neighbourhood Pharmacies Online
Zendawa, a Kenyan startup based in Nakuru, believes the future of African healthcare runs through micro-pharmacies. Founded in 2022, the team has developed a...
How Alfred Ongere’s Ai Kenya is Helping SMEs and Corporates Understand and Adopt AI Across Africa
Ai Kenya, founded by Alfred Ongere, began in 2017 as a volunteer-led effort to demystify artificial intelligence for students and developers in Nairobi. What started...
DRIVE100 —031: How Wafugaji Trading Hub is Using Technology to Improve Livestock Pricing and Transparency for Kenyan Farmers
Northern Kenya’s pastoralist communities have long struggled with limited market access, middlemen exploitation, and logistical hurdles in livestock trading. But a new digital solution,...
Safaricom Secures Tech Upgrade as Meta Picks It for New $23 Million Oman–Kenya Submarine Link
Meta, the US-based technology giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has chosen Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecom operator, as its local landing partner for a...
Understanding Critical Factors that Determine Startup Success in Africa: A Step-by-Step Guideline
Across Africa’s fast-rising entrepreneurial landscape, startups have become the new engines of innovation, job creation, and economic transformation. From Lagos to Nairobi, Accra to Cape...
How Kenya’s Jahazii is Helping African Workers Access Their Wages Before Payday
Kenyan fintech startup, Jahazii has raised $400,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission of building a workforce operating system for Africa. According to the...
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