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Selected Kenyan Startups in Beta – Not Yet Ready, Incubating In Garages (part 1)

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Most are very secretive – no Twitter, no Facebook, yet, we know where to find them. These are some startups in Kenya that will hit the startupsphere in coming months.

 

Pata-cab is a mobile web and sms application that integrates cab drivers and their customers. It enables the customer to know the location of the nearest available taxi any where anytime and another functionality that allows them to contact the driver via a phone call. The cab companies will also be able know their market share, the system will be rating the cab companies and providing proving the result to its end users.

 

Xeptus is a virtual market place with integrated business intelligence. Its targeted at the primary producers of commodities. Producers of commodities more often lack market knowledge concerning their products. Xeptus aims at bridging this gap by providing a platform on which the producers can get the best price for their commodities, and widen their market reach. Using locational services, xeptus will be able to provide helpful hints and information to both the producer and the buyer.

 

Tikiti is a green ticketing solution for all event types. Tikiti will save you lots of money spent on printing tickets for events, in the process saving trees by reducing reliance on paper.

 

qwangu – Find your nest. Finding a house in Kenya be it for rental or for purchase is hectic. Kenya needs a portal where they can find, let buy or sell their property. Qwangu is that agent of change. by mashing up services like Google maps, Sms, Facebook and many more we are able to plot house listings and other services around a given property. i.e a school nearby or a Mall.

 

ContentKing -With the onset of faster and more reliable Internet connectivity Africa’s thirst and demand for locally relevant content has become insatiable. ContentKing will grant website owners instant access to thousands of articles which should save them the headache of developing content for their websites.

 

Eye Africa Group

“Expand your e Reach 361 Degrees”

1. Imagine connecting Africa’s Business forum to the likes of AOL, Amazon.com or Triple Clicks.

2. Imagine an organization in USA, Europe or Asia etc That is able to penetrate Emerging Markets for its goods/services without the need to perform rigorous & expensive Market Research.

3. Imagine a start up in Africa that is able to sell its goods/services to 1st World Markets directly without any hinderance.

This is what Eye Africa Group promises to deliver!

SportRoar Is Kenyan Twitter Clone For Sports Lovers

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It is a Twitter clone, just as stated on their Twitter account: Get live updates to sports matches, blog your views with short 140 character messages; access an entire world of information about sports

But they focus on only sports. This Kenyan startup is Twitter for sports fans. SportRoar is a live sport interaction social site with the custom development structure of a live micro blogging platform for sports. Sports fans across the world will be able to share and communicate about what is happening on the field and even have access to live updates from other sport fans.

Sport roar is new website where fans can share their views on matches in play, past matches and futures matches. Sports fan can also share their views on new happening in the sports world e.g. “Ulinzi just won the kpl”, “Ray Wilkins Chelsea ass coach has been fired”. Just like facebook and twitter you share your sport views(login or signup and see this feature). We have made login for facebook users easy by allowing them to connect/login with their facebook accounts.

Entrepreneurship Is The New Industrial Revolution – Wise Words From The Rainmaker

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Great comments from David Owino – The Rainmaker. We think you agree with him.

 

The greatest contribution to wealth in society has [witnessed] since the Industrial Revolution [ has] been entrepreneurial activity. But entrepreneurship has slipped out of the universities’ economic curriculum to be replaced by endless pages of sometimes short sighted government schemes that aim to boots GDP growth via fiscal and monetary interventions.

 

 

For that reason HumanIPO is dedicated to the empowerment of entrepreneurship by on one side helping entrepreneurs via our social media platform with the key ingredients in building their company and on the other hand giving small investors the opportunity to invest small sums of money in ideas and products that they would like to see be created and of course believe will generate a return on their investment. It is the democratization of investment growth via fiscal and monetary interventions.

 

The British industrial revolution gave us a world where the British ruled and dominated. But the new wave of entrepreneurship could be one where all the world leads. In this new dispensation,  the rules are basically open. Anyone can push that idea to the world because Internet has broken the boundaries between nations.

 

The ingredient of success today is nothing but innovation. Let the ideas fly and we can be up to another phase of industrial revolution where nearly everyone could win, provided they participate.

We Cannot Follow Africa – Nigeria Must Lead in Technology Penetration

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Splash Mobile Money was launched in Sierra Leone and became available for service in September of 2009.

 

From 16 September 2009, the Splash service will be available in Freetown, Bo, Makeni & Kenema – allowing users to send money across hundreds of miles at the touch of a button.

 

The challenge for Nigeria is not to be seen as following the leads of other African nations. Sierra Leone is about 4m people and hardly a state in Nigeria. Yet, they seem to have beaten us here on mobile payment. Kenya is too far ahead in this sector. We cannot just wait and allow these countries to be out-innovating us. Our governments must not be reactive. We have to lead and showcase why we are the ‘giant’ in this continent.

 

Time has come to demonstrate that capacity that we truly care for technology.

 

mPayer Working Hard To Simplify Mobile Payment in Africa

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In the wake of mobile money, high transaction businesses can hardly keep up with mobile money demands. mPayer by Zege Technologies aims to make Mobile Money payments with enterprises easier, more efficient and much faster than current configurations. It aims to make mobile money more.

 

The Problem

Organizations that accept Mobile payment encounter challenges in on-demand processing and execution speed of those transactions. This is also compounded by the lack of an API from most Mobile payment provider such as MPESA

 

The Solution

MPAYER manages Mobile payments where transactions are processed on demand as opposed to scheduled processing. It manages corporate collection accounts(MPESA-Pay Bill and ZAP-Nickname). This results in increased transaction speeds  and enhanced accuracy due to direct system integration with organisations financial systems.

 

About Zege Technologies:

Zege Technologies is your Information Technology partner. We design, develop and implement technological solutions. We recognize that integration is vital for institutions and enabling that integration in an efficient and easily understood framework is crucial. Our expertise is concentrated on developing and integrating financial solutions for institution that offer various financial services to their customers. We Identify industries/corporations that need financial tools anticipate clients’ needs and adapt software solutions to these needs.

 

We endeavor to provide financial integration and money transfer solutions to corporate entities. We strive to customize the software to client specifications while provide training and support.

 

At the core, we serve the market of Africa to socially, economically and intellectually empower the people of Africa through technology

 

We want to enable the people of Africa access innovative technology that tackle real life challenges hence promoting prosperity