Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You can track mobile websites just fine with your standard web analytics tool.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Maha : In 2014, we visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya as part of a Gates Foundation/United Nations led initiative to build schools & clinics for the community. TSM: From where you started, have you had to adjust your strategy over the years? Describe the company’s pivot point, and its impact on the company?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

” One way they’ve improved the lives of members a community was to help solve the problem of fuel efficiency for cooking in a small town in Kenya. As Beresford notes, “There is no success in this world with out involving some one else.”

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan).

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In Kenya, M-Pesa processed more transactions domestically than Western Union did globally, and “ provided mobile banking facilities to more than 70 per cent of the country’s adult population” , most of whom never had banking services before.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Joyce Wafukho, Kenya. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan. Of nearly 200,000 clients, over 98% of whom are female, 77% have significantly raised their income level away from poverty, and 38% no longer fall below the poverty line.

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deal architect

JULY 31, 2012

Have you been to Kenya or Tanzania during the annual wildebeest (and zebra and others) migration? It is an amazing sight to see the thundering herds seek out greener pastures. The New Florence blog feels as dynamic. Through July, there.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2011

The first project they’re engaged in is installing fuel-efficient cookstoves in Kenya. This way, it gets around the needs of traditional philanthropic models which require donors to continuously contribute financial resources to a cause.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. Fix the distribution bottleneck in rural Kenya. “My The inspiration for Bidhaa Sasa?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

His every move and misstep dissected and castigated by the same media and investors who sang his praises when things were going well, one can only guess at the anguish, shame and embarrassment that led the young entrepreneur into – what appeared to me as an uninformed observer – self imposed exile, in Kenya.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. We were surprised at how many female entrepreneurs pitched in the competition, particularly in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Many female entrepreneurs.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. Africa presents another example of adoption of a digital currency, or at least a digital form of payments.

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

In the first segment, Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa are featured: African entrepreneurship has really been moving forward for some time now. A while back I invested in a company called Mobius Motors , which is based in Kenya. Here’s a second segment about Kenya’s mobile money revolution. It’s great stuff.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

One only needs to look at the example of M-Pesa in Kenya to see how digital currency can impact the underserved. Traditional banks are hampering global GDP growth by not providing financial services such as loans to people who can expand their livelihoods through those services.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 14, 2018

China, Kenya and the United Kingdom. […]. By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News For the first time, Food+City held its annual Challenge Prize competition at South by Southwest. And judges awarded three $10,000 cash prizes to the winner of each of three sessions on Tuesday.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. A network of accessible agents throughout the country allows people to redeem money transferred to them.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 10, 2017

Some of the countries with faster internet include Kenya, Lithuania, Slovenia, Moldova and many developing economies. I mean, sure we are connected to it, but we aren’t even in the top 50 countries for internet speeds. That’s a total travesty for our economic future. This is the modern.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

30 minutes later I'm crossing a floor-mat welcoming me with "there's no place like 127.0.0.1."

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Transformify

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Steve has just graduated from Daystar University in Kenya. " Each year thousands of students in Kenya and Nigeria are graduating from the Universities. As most ambitious young people, Steve hopes that his degree will help him build his career in marketing and eventually start a marketing agency of his own. "It's

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. Over the years, we’ve been personally involved in a number of projects, such as protecting the Anchor River in Anchor Point, Alaska (the town Amy grew up in until she was eight.)

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I figured it was Valentine’s Day somewhere in the world yesterday at 6pm Colorado time like, well, in Kenya, where Amy was. She arrived home to a bunch of early Valentine’s Day stuff like a hot bath. It’s great to have Amy back home. For some reason, Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

First one for Swedish Trade Council in Nairobi, Kenya was to learn and start from the very bottom. Is this an approach you would recommend to others as a means of breaking through in a difficult job market? Why or why not, and would you do it again?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Companies will have to make drone delivery baskets that can fly around Mount Kenya, delivering and collecting a number of 20 kilo payloads as they do so. Why build expensive roads infrastructure when drones can deliver a payload of parcels cheaper than cars or motorbikes?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The Olympic champion and world record holder from Kenya clocked 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds Saturday at the INEOS 1:59 Challenge, an event set up for the attempt. Eliud Kipchoge has become the first athlete to run a marathon in less than two hours, although it will not count as a world record.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

For example, the Bridgespan Group has invested in an education initiative in Kenya that is helping to improve the reading skills of primary school students. Investing in education: Impact investors have invested in education initiatives that are helping to improve the quality of education for children in developing countries.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2016

A good example from the developing world is the Mpesa mobile money transfer that has revolutionized the way people in Kenya do their daily business. Many companies have come up online money transfer and payment solutions that are deepening financial inclusion and enabling you to transact conveniently from whichever place you are in.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 23, 2012

Google seems to have committed overt fraud in Kenya. Google falsely claimed it couldn’t effectively index and rank Twitter. Google illegally accepted ads for Canadian pharmacies with the purpose of delivering them to American users. I can’t see them regaining the trust they had before.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Notably relating to business, African countries Burundi, Malawai, Bostwana and Kenya, it should be mentioned, all made the index’s “economic participation and opportunity” top ten. Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are close runners up, leaving the rest of the world trailing sadly behind.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Operating as an accelerator, starting in September it will recruit two classes of five startups per year. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When I was in high school, my friends and I set up a giving tree outside the school library, as a fundraiser for the Harambee Centre, an organization which provides, among other things, ambulatory services; and which builds schools for children in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Mining cellphone billing records – GigaOM describes a number of use cases for this data including helping with malaria education in Kenya. Unsurprisingly this is where most of today’s hot big data companies are playing. I see cellphone billing records as one more dataset that can be minded to good effect.

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