Kenya in particular, based on the Forbes‘ 2016 Ranking, is considered the15th best country in Africa for Business. The list was compiled by rating 139 nations on 11 different factors: property rights, innovation, taxes, technology, corruption, freedom (personal, trade and monetary), red tape, investor protection and stock market performance. Kenya is central hub for the East African Market, seeing them placed 105th out of 139 countries overall. Although poor infrastructure and corruption continues to obstruct Kenya’s potential for economic growth, the country ranks highly in Innovation, 36th, and Investor Protection, 80th, which places them 15th the list....

The committee, set up by the agency’s Board of Directors, will advise and support the CEO and by extension the KeNIA board on a regular basis and help establish necessary linkages to assist the agency to deliver on its mandate. The team comprises of; the KeNIA CEO, Dr. Tonny Omwansa, Dr. Shikoh Gitau, Dr. George Kosimbei, Tania Ngima, Ali Hussein, Florence Kimata, Jonas Tesfu, Harry Hare, Bernard Chiira, and Stephen Gugu....

Briefly tell us about yourselves, your educational background, team and how you came together to form BiasharaBot was founded by Felix Cheruiyot and Moses Korir. Moses is a graduate of JKUAT with a BSc in Actuarial Science while Felix is graduate of Kenyatta University with Computer Engineering. We met in high school, and we have know each other for over 17 years. How would you describe your company; how does it work and make money?...

Hisa aims to democratize the Africa retail investment space, which suffers from limited investment options, lack of information and very low financial literacy levels, through micro-investments. “Today, we are very excited to launch Hisa which will allow Kenyans to invest and build wealth with minimal investments. Through Hisa anyone in Kenya can invest in their favorite companies such as Safaricom, KCB, Equity, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and many more. ” said Erick Asuma, Co-Founder and CEO....

‘Kisafi’ meaning it’s clean in Swahili, aims to be a convenient tech platform for instant booking of high quality, reliable laundry and home cleaning with 100% money-back satisfaction guarantee from its highly trained and background checked cleaners and state of the art cleaning and laundry equipment and highly trained staff. Janet Otieno, who leads the Nairobi operations promises that Kisafi will offer fast delivery whenever requested, give users a peace of mind with its fully insured service for loss or damage and help save customers up to 8-12 hours or 21 days of their lives every year....

FirstCheck Africa, Samata Capital, Future Africa, IgniteXL participated in the round, in addition angel investors ex-SokoWatch COO, Kwenhui Tawah, and ex-L’Oreal executive and current WPP Scangroup CEO, Patricia Ithau. The new funding brings the total amount raised by Uncover, since launch in 2020, to $1.225 million. “We are using the funding to launch more products, go into additional markets, and also double down on our tech and data to effectively produce, reach and market to our audience,” Uncover co-founder and CEO, Sneha Mehta told TechCrunch....

The five 5 startup will benefit from the DEMO Africa LIONS programme, a partnership between DEMO Africa and the [email protected] initiative that curates a 2-week Innovation Tour of Silicon Valley. The Innovation Tour exposes the startups to the technology and investment ecosystem in the Silicon Valley with the aim of creating bridges and attracting investments from investors from the Valley. In case you need to know Kenya’s Strauss Energy sells electricity to homeowners and organizations at 75% cheaper than the national grid....

The affected fintechs include Flutterwave Payment Technology Limited, Boxtrip Travel and Tours Limited, Bagtrip Travel Limited, Elivalat Fintech Limited, Adguru Technology Limited, Hupesi Solutions, Cruz Ride Auto Limited and one Simon Ngige “Investigations established that the bank accounts operations had suspicious activities where funds could be received from specific foreign entities which raised suspicion. The funds were then transferred to related accounts as opposed to settlement to merchants,” it said....

Asante has developed a digital lending platform that approves loans to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa using alternative data and a proprietary AI loan decisioning management system. The company works directly with ecosystem channel partners, such as telcos, mobile-based marketplaces, airlines, retailers, payment processors, insurance companies, smartphone phone OEMs, and large FMCGs, to collect conventional and non-conventional MSME data, with the clients’ prior consent, to reduce the cost of customer acquisition and due diligence while providing sufficient alternative data for credit underwriting....

When President Uhuru Kenyatta decided to lock down the country a number of Kenyans complained and argued that the new laws would not curb COVID. Cessation of movement was blocked for people in 5 counties such as (Nairobi, Kajiado, Kiambu, Machakos and Nakuru). A lot of people were caught off guard and though people were given two days to go back to their rightful places it still didn’t change the fact that people will always learn how to beat the system....

The Water Unite Impact Investment Vehicle, which has a planned capitalisation of US$ 100 million, invests into private sector water, sanitation and plastics pollution reduction SMEs globally. The fund uses a catalytic capital structure relying on Water Unite’s programme of micro-contributions from international retailers as its foundation while concurrently leveraging capital from the private sector. This innovative structure is a creative way of enabling each dollar of funding to support more than one organisation, generating social and environmental impact multiple times....

The battle against bloggers and social media managers has been there for quite some time and understandably the affected parties such as politicians and celebrities wouldn’t mind this proposed bill. This bill has been proposed by Malava Member of Parliament Malulu Injedi. While it’s clear who a blogger is, it may not be as clear as who a social media admin is, well as long as you manage any social media platform including WhatsApp you will not be exempted from this rule....

Some people want change in their lives so they prefer to shift their house after some time. In this way, they feel good and energetic. Change is good for life. When you shift to a new place, you would meet with new peoples, and many new things would around you. These things attract too many people and they always want to catch a person who helps them to sell their house so that they can buy a new one....

Revamped camera Despite the big advancement on the display, LG V30 camera is the company’s crown jewel. The rear dual camera comes with 16MP standard camera plus a 13MP wide angle one. The 16MP has an f/1.6 aperture size which is the biggest size ever on a smartphone; we reckon it will have great low light photos. The 13MP has a f/1.9 aperture size -which is also the biggest wide angle phone camera aperture size to date....

Here are the lists of gadgets that are eligible for this update. Google will communicate more information about this new OS during its Android developer summit scheduled to happen this month, Precisely between October 27 to 28th, Ofcourse we will make you update and also update this list in case of any changes in the industry Google Smartphones OnePlus Smartphones Oppo Smartphones Samsung Smartphones Tecno smartphones Xiaomi Smartphones

As a matter of fact some parts of agriculture such as snail farming, mushroom farming etc are not even considered agriculture in some countries. We as Anitrack felt this was not good enough. Agriculture employs directly and indirectly over 80 percent of the agricultural workforce in Africa and animal farming according to the world bank accounts for more than half of this. We realized there’s so much untapped opportunity in the livestock sector and it has the potential to get better than it is now....

A school management software is a piece of software designed to make the entire framework of an educational institution more efficient. The cloud-based system keeps all pertinent information on students, parents, and staff in one place. It reduces the amount of work you have to complete. It does activities systematically that eliminate all forms of sluggishness and delays. This program for schools is frequently referred to as an ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning because it uses technology to handle the management portion of the process....

MainOne sees its entry into the market as an opportunity to deepen infrastructure sharing and lower the cost of delivering broadband services to the region. MainOne aims to facilitate world-class infrastructure availability and accessibility to ensure its customers continue to enjoy maximum uptime performance and reduced latency as the company increases bandwidth capacity and maintain direct connections to various regional and global Internet Exchanges including the Nigerian Internet Exchange (IXPN), Ghanaian Internet Exchange (GIX), London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMSIX)....

Founded in 2017 with operations across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria and Zambia, Maisha Meds has over the past few years grown to support over 4 million patient encounters annually across its markets with its suite of software products. “Today is a big milestone for Maisha Meds as our network hits 1,000 facilities utilizing our technology across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria and Zambia,” said Jessica Vernon, Cofounder & CEO, Maisha Meds, in a statement....

What Do Poshmark Bots Require To Run? Some poshmark bots function as extensions to internet browsers. That means they can only run when the poshmark seller has their computer working, the browser is open, and no other things are done on the computer. Other poshmark bots require software installation on the computer. When you are thinking about which type to buy, check and compare prices, features, as well as the quality of customer support....