Private: 11 Kenyan start-ups selected to pitch at the develoPPP Ventures Ideas Competition

Eleven exceptional start-ups have been selected to participate in the upcoming Pitch Competition as part of the develoPPP Ventures programme implemented by DEG Impulse! These innovative companies have demonstrated their contribution in driving a positive impact on development and sustainable solutions within Kenya.

Each of these start-ups will be pitching their solution for a chance to receive EUR 100,000 in grant financing and customized technical assistance to accelerate their business.

The selected start-ups from Kenya are:

FlexPay Kenya

Flexpay is a digitized cloud-based platform that makes essential and aspirational products and services affordable to the underserved market by providing a flexible piecemeal prepayment option.

GoBEBA Everything Ltd Kenya

GoBEBA is transforming retail in Africa by leapfrogging brick-and-mortar retail. We are a digital retailer of household essentials delivered in 30 minutes through micro-distribution networks.

Malaica Science LLC Company Kenya

Malaica offers a remote pregnancy support program for African Mums that makes the journey safe and more convenient.

Octavia Carbon Kenya

Octavia Carbon is a company that designs, builds, and will deploy machines that filter carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air based on Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology in Kenya.

Radava Mercantile Kenya

Radava is a platform that helps smallholder farmers digitally and physically secure their yields and digitize their commodities in a way that they can be traded electronically.

Zydii Kenya

Zydii makes digital training accessible for the African workforce. Zydii is a localized digital training solution which is engaging and accessible, leading to transformative growth for businesses.

ADAPTA Kenya

ADAPTA is a climate and agriculture data intelligence SaaS company developing climate finance products for financial intermediaries. It aims to expand climate finance for the food and agriculture sector.

E-Prod Kenya

E-Prod provides an affordable, flexible and automated way for farmers to control their agribusiness through easy collection of reliable farmer information.

Synnefa Kenya

Synnefa offers smart and comprehensive farming tools with a variety of products to help the modern farmer take the guesswork out of farming.

Tappi Kenya

an end to end social commerce stack to help small businesses get discovered, connect with new customers, and grow by building lasting relationships with their customers.

Wingi Kenya

Wingi is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to grow by providing tech-enabled supply chain and financing digitization solutions to African businesses.

We look forward to seeing these innovators deliver great pitches of their impact-driven solutions in sectors including climate smart agriculture, e-commerce, jobtech, healthtech and fintech.

On behalf of the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), implemented by DEG Impulse, with implementation support by VC4A and ViKtoria Ventures.

About develoPPP Ventures:
DeveloPPP Ventures is aimed at young companies, whose innovative business model improves living conditions in a developing or emerging country and who are planning to scale up. Via a matching-funds model, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) provides a matching grant of up to 100,000 euros for suitable growth investments.