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). Cause technology changes very fast. We need current role models.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

With more than one-third of the world’s population unbanked and more and more people using mobile phones, there is an outstanding opportunity for mobile payment technology to bring the financially omitted into the economic majority. Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Two is to reach up to 20,000 new households, including expanding into one, maybe two new markets outside Kenya. You are based in Nairobi, Kenya. The founders?—?Alex

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Tags: Business Technology. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed.

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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. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? 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?&#.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We’ve come together because we believe in the potential of this technology to have a significant, positive social impact. I founded FuturePerfect Ventures earlier this year because I believe that technology’s potential for positive social impact is still in formative stages.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. kenya’s winner Sematime makes it easy for people to send bills and invoices to large groups of contacts via SMS. Governments supportive of technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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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 Our clients are honoring their debt and are quite technology savvy.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 6, 2013

The US is a relatively stable and strong economy, with good rule of law, good financial technology, low inflation and financial institutions that most people have faith in (although many Bitcoin enthusiasts would beg to differ). M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP.

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David Cohen

MAY 16, 2014

Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. A production of BloombergTVAfrica , this will be an ongoing series about technology and entrepreneurship across Africa. A while back I invested in a company called Mobius Motors , which is based in Kenya.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Cleanvest spotlighted companies from all over the clean energy spectrum, while the rest of the 3 day event exhibited water related technology companies. Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel. There is a massive global shortage of fresh water.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Dr. Olusanya practised medicine in Nigeria for eight years, but considered that technology offered the chance of a lifetime to become a power-player in the country. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology. Here come the drones.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Or, like me, at least shake off the remains of your skewed perceptions of a region whose global leadership in many aspects of mobile technology will eventually become undeniable to the world at large. 30 minutes later I'm crossing a floor-mat welcoming me with "there's no place like 127.0.0.1." Nairobi photo by Brian Snelson. Discuss.

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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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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Amy went to Tanzania and Kenya in 2009 with TNC to increase capacity of TNC non-profit partners. She described the conversation around technology and innovation she’d had with Brian, and suggested that I should talk to him about Techstars.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 12, 2012

Everyone is rushing to use big data technologies like Hadoop and Cassandra and VCs have been pumping money into companies associated with the big data trend for at least the last couple of years. GigaOM chose to highlight a datacentre management assistant technology called Autopilot from a German company called Arago.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. 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. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 20, 2014

Take Erastus Kimani, a 73 year old schoolteacher turned entrepreneur, who lives in a remote part of Kenya without indoor plumbing, much less indoor banking. As technology continues to virtualize money, brick ‘n mortar banks have become as superfluous as traditional bookstores. The Surprising Sophistication of Crowdfunding Platforms.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2015

An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. When I first met with founder Bill Barhydt and he described the vision, I immediately thought of M-Pesa, the mobile money network in Kenya. Today Abra launched to the world.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2015

An application on top of the infrastructure that renders the complex technology behind it invisible — and only shows a seamless, magical customer experience. When I first met with founder Bill Barhydt and he described the vision, I immediately thought of M-Pesa, the mobile money network in Kenya. Today Abra launched to the world.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2012

New commitments announced at the two-day meeting include an expansion of Code the Change, a project of Stanford University student Sam King that hosts Code Jams in which computer science students provide up to twenty-four hours of pro bono volunteer services for nonprofit projects; the development, by Duke University student Patrick Oathout, of Uhuru, (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

You have investors from the impact space, but also some straight from the technology industry. In our case, we didn't provide lunches at this school, so coming to school with a healthy lunch. So I wonder if you have encountered resistance or confusion. Has that been an issue at any time in the company's history?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I was lucky – I was born to persevere and grew up with parents who told me I could do whatever I wanted to do (well, almost anything, I spent many nights crying as a 10 year old, upset that I was born in Kenya and could not run for President of the United States).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A demonstration of Hemafuse at the launch event with Amref Health Africa in Kenya. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Technology impacts all facets of human life, and sometimes it can save it. That’s the mission driving products like Hemafuse , one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The most documented example of this is M-Pesa’s mobile money platform in Kenya, which I have written about a few times on this blog, including in my thesis piece When Third is First. These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. 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 have to solve for all of them.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

While in recent years, the rise of microloans and microcredit programs have certainly done some good, there are new ideas cropping up about ways to create sustainable change using education, business planning skills, and technology. As Beresford notes, “There is no success in this world with out involving some one else.”

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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc. 35) Fairer, More Equal World.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. Chris Chaten. Any thoughts on Isis?

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance I am 95% certain I can make your start-up’s systems and technology scale for less money, be more effective and more reliable: and if you are the 5% already doing the right things I’ll tell you that and walk away. Kenya Dream Epitomizes The Art Of “Fun-raising” Philanthropy. |. Negotiating (13). Networking (20).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

With modern technology and a plethora of resources at my disposable, the possibilities in front of me are endless and I am able to share my gifts and message with millions of people. We are generating employment for countries such as the United States, Philippines, Canada, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ghana and Nepal.

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