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Archive for the Category ‘Ventures’

Kenya’s Tech Scene 2010 (KTS 2010)

2009 has been a great year for Kenya’s technology scene, first with the worldwide buzz about the world first fully deployed mobile payment system Mpesa [Read: Article 1 | Article 2] to the success of homegrown crowd sourcing software Ushahidi which in recent days has been received a grant to further develop its Open Source [...]

Whoze got issuez?

Whoze got issuez?

GotIssuez.Com a web startup currently operating out of Nairobi, Kenya was founded by a group of Strathmore University graduates namely Anthony Mwangi, Sarah Njeri, Esbon Wahome and Mark Kaigwa and Kevin Rombe.  It is a social platform that lets users from all over Eastern Africa speak their mind on Products, Brands and Service Delivery. It [...]

Nation Media Group launches nsoko.com

Nation Media Group, East Africa’s largest Media group has launched Nsoko.com a classifieds websites that will allow users to post classified Advertisements selling motor, home rentals and business services. This move will ensure that the group continues to have leverage on Kenya’s growing internet market. The service joins other Kenyan classified services like Whive.com Classified [...]

Tulipe! An innovative online/mobile payment gateway.

Tulipe! An innovative online/mobile payment gateway.

I rarely excited about start ups in Kenya because like many of mine they dont seem to get enough support from industry players and government. However just when you think innovation is dead someone somewhere unleashes a stunning and brilliant idea. This someone is Kenneth Ngetha 22, a 4th year student at the prestigious Strathmore [...]

Project: PostKenya.com

Project: PostKenya.com

Postkenya.com is a Web 2.0 style Email Platform that allows members to register and sign up for new email accounts.
Email accounts are structured in the yourname@postkenya.com format
The Platform allocates each user with space according to their usage. The current limit is 100 MB for Database Space per User.
Our Usage currently stands at 2,800,000 Bytes and [...]

Project: SpaceKenya.com

Project: SpaceKenya.com

SpaceKenya, a most promising IT solution providing company, based at Nairobi, Kenya is a one-stop shop for all your business needs. We are an Cymap Business certified IT company which besides rendering professional and comprehensive business solutions also caters to a range of services in software and web technology. The acuminous insight of our team [...]

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