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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub.

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs.

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Startups – Beware The Changing Palo Alto Investment Model

YoungUpstarts

For example, Silicon Savannah – the name given to Nairobi’s (Kenya) growing tech scene – and Chilecon Valley, found in Chile’s capital, Santiago, demonstrate the global appetite for tech entrepreneurship. Germán is also Founding Partner of Rokk3r Fuel, Rokk3r Labs’ first global venture capital fund.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

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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How Lean Startup Helped Serve Communities in Kenya

Startup Lessons Learned

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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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

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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Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa

ReadWriteStart

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. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. It has fast-developing infrastructure.

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