Part 3: 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.

Voice Messaging (Working Title)

Kenyans love to send messages on radio and they also love to talk. However for majority of them, the call rates are out of their league in terms of what it would cost to have a long call and pass the required message. This service proposes to use a USSD menu integrated to an IVR platform for people to communicate with. Person A leaves a message and person B is alerted by SMS that he has a message. B call the number and retrieves their message and can opt to reply to A.  The service is free.

iSafiri: Destination Management System

iSafari is a web based destination marketing, inventory management and reservation systems. It is a combination of technological enablers and demand drivers and will help propel the realization of East Africa’s domestic tourism goals.
iSafari’s aim is to provide to the tourism stakeholders, both on the Demand-side and the Supply-Side, access to a cheap but extremely effective distribution and marketing service.

Mobile Shopper

Mobile shopper Is the ultimate shopping tool. This is how it will work, a shopper will find out all they need in the house, enter it in the Mobile shopper application on their phones, and immediately see an estimate of their shopping as per the current prices, they will then send this info and get an sms with the payment code, and send the money via M-pesa, Zap or Yu Cash with the code, then walk to the local shop and collect their goods, delivery will also be available at no extra charge.

like.ly

By answering a few questions like.ly tries to predict what you are likely interested in.
In categories like Movies, Food, Clothes, restaurant and will try to suggest to you what you may be interested in.
examples question include:

Have you ever won movie tickets to a rock concert on radio?
a.)Yes
b.)No
c.)I hate rock

(To predict taste in music, radio-station and interest in calling in to win at radio shows)

FreeNet

Provide a safe place to disseminate the world’s information with anonymous web hosting.

Part 2: 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.

Rizikki

“We found that message on one of the secretaries’ computers. At first she thought it was a joke, but the message came through to her twice. That’s when she alerted us..”  Rizikki is a mobile novel, accessible freely via any mobile device browser – and the readers get to write the next paragraph of the story, updated every 3 to 4 hours.

SmartPay

It was developed to improve the way today’s money is managed, to increase the rate and efficiency of transactions plus to reduce the theft of money. With the rapid growth of computer use, the product offers tremendous advantages to companies that use money transactions day-to-day, as well as the company clients.

MyID

If you are tired of having to make numberless copies of your personal and business documents whenever you need to carry out official business, then MyID is for you.  MyID enables you to build and maintain a functional, secure personal/business profile online. Third parties will only need your unique MyID key and your approval to access specific parts of your profile and attached document via a simple to use API. Create your profile once, use everywhere. We will worry about making it happen.

Xtreem Ad

Imagine in a world world where Mobile Users are able to get the services they want urgently through their phones. Different companies in turn gain popularity and fame. I believe this will revolutionize the way we deliver and get access to services.

TaxiMatch Kenya

TaxiMatch brings you safe, fair-priced taxi anywhere in Nairobi in under 10 minutes.

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!