Arifu is a Nairobi-based edtech company placing information and opportunity in everyone’s hands.
The Arifu chatbot is a multisided digital learning platform that anyone can chat with for free to learn skills over basic and smartphone messaging channels from a growing ecosystem of local education content providers. Our customers are large and small organizations who access Arifu as an online SaaS platform to create, buy, and deliver interactive content to mass market customers and the small businesses playing a role in their global value chains.
Traction:
We’ve reached 1,500,000 learners.
Major customers include Google, Mastercard, Safaricom, Equity Bank, and the UN
We’re active in 9 countries across Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa
We raised $3m at Seed.
3 awards for mobile innovation
Over time, our chatbot and content marketplace will get smarter and more personalized to the unique needs of our users. Imagine Google Assistant but built for the next 4 billion inte
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