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Flowt, a Nairobi based fintech that uses artificial intelligence to turn scattered business records into lender-ready financial data, has raised a $550,000 pre-seed round from Delta40 Fund I, Impacc and the Argidius Foundation. The startup is using the capital to expand working capital lending to climate-smart small businesses across Kenya, targeting a $1 million loan…
Good farming decisions have always depended on understanding the soil. For generations, farmers relied on touch, smell, and years of experience. This knowledge is valuable, but it has real limits. Soil conditions can change quickly, especially as weather patterns shift. Guessing when to water or fertilize can waste resources and money. Soil sensors paired with…
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Electricity grids have always faced one core challenge. Supply and demand must match perfectly at every single moment. For most of history, this balance relied heavily on fossil fuel power plants. These plants could ramp up or down whenever demand required it. As renewable energy grows, this balancing act has become far more complicated. Solar…
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Cooling systems constitute one of the most critical and energy-intensive components of modern data centres. Servers, storage devices, and networking equipment generate substantial heat during operation, and effective thermal management is essential to maintain hardware reliability, prevent thermal throttling, and achieve optimal performance. Traditional air-based cooling remains prevalent, while liquid cooling technologies are gaining adoption…
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Kenya’s cold chain warehousing sector continues to evolve rapidly in 2026, driven by increasing demand for temperature-controlled storage and logistics in agriculture, fisheries, pharmaceuticals, and food retail. Innovations focus on solar-powered facilities, scalable platforms, integrated technology, and sustainable solutions to reduce post-harvest losses, ensure product integrity, and support export growth. Leading companies combine infrastructure development…
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Kenya’s cold chain sector has transitioned from traditional asset-heavy models to innovative, service-oriented approaches that prioritise accessibility, affordability, and sustainability. As of 2026, business models such as pay-per-use (often termed Cooling-as-a-Service or CaaS) and Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) address critical challenges including high upfront capital costs, post-harvest losses, and fragmented supply chains in agriculture, fisheries, and pharmaceuticals….
In a selection pool of 165 applicants from 33 countries with acceptance odds thinner than 6%, Octavia Carbon rose as the sole African company admitted into the prestigious Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative Year 5 cohort, announced on November 18, 2025. For the Nairobi-based direct air capture (DAC) startup, it wasn’t a lucky break. It…
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Roam has launched Roam Point, the country’s first universal fast-charging station for light electric vehicles (LEVs). Located along the busy Waiyaki Way corridor, the station delivers 10–20 km of range in under five minutes, supports any Type 6-compatible EV, and operates 24/7 without attendants. For riders struggling with long queues, slow charging speeds, and proprietary…
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In a major milestone for Octavia Carbon, the Kenyan direct air capture (DAC) startup has been named the continent’s sole finalist in Tencent’s CarbonX Program 2.0. Selected from more than 660 applicants across 54 countries and 12 regions, the announcement was made at the CarbonX Summit in Shenzhen on 29 October 2025. As one of…
MyBitSecure was born from a simple but urgent question: how do we protect Africa’s farmers in the digital era? With smart farming technologies transforming rural livelihoods, cybersecurity has become the missing link between progress and peril as agriculture goes digital and new risks emerge. Data breaches, ransomware, and hacked irrigation systems threaten to turn innovation…
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