| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.05.2024 | After failing to secure funding, the parent company of Copia Kenya enters administration | Copia Global, the parent company of Copia Kenya and a B2C e-commerce company, has gone into administration due to a lack of funding to sustain operations.
Copia, which was founded in 2013, offers a wide range of products and dependable, eff... |
| 08.08.2023 | Kenyan logistics startup Sendy shuts down, embarks on asset sale | Sendy, a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned.
Meshack Alloys, Sendy ... |
| 03.08.2022 | How insurtech startup Lami raised $3.7 million to make insurance accessible to Africans | Lami, an insuretech startup, hopes to become the premier company powering insurance adoption across Africa by 2030, according to Jihan Abass, Lami’s founder and CEO. The UK-based Kenyan national was visiting her home country when she had th... |
| 02.08.2022 | Kenyan logistics startup Sendy lays off 10% of its staff | Sendy, a Kenyan logistics company, laid off 10% of its workforce last month, according to a statement the company shared with TechCabal. The company’s spokesperson told TechCabal that 10% of the company’s 300 staff members were relieved of ... |
| 02.08.2022 | Kenyan logistics startup Sendy cuts 10% of its workforce | Kenyan logistics startup Sendy has laid off 10% of its 300-strong workforce, or 30 employees, according to pan-African news publication TechCabal. This is the latest public layoff news from Africa over the past couple of months after Swvl, ... |
| 26.01.2022 | Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa | Euler Bropleh was born in war-torn Liberia and has long had a vision for reinvesting in Africa’s vulnerable communities. With his Chicago-based impact investment firm VestedWorld, Bropleh has raised two early-stage investment funds and supp... |
| 23.09.2021 | Lami Technologies and Sendy announce new partnership in Kenya | Share this:
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| 09.04.2021 | Africa’s Largest Inter-University Hackathon Brings Students Together On Zindi For Data Science | © Zindi
UmojaHack Africa 2021 was an unprecedented success, bringing more than 1000 students from 126 universities across Africa to compete on Zindi in a virtual machine learning hackathon on the weekend of 27-28 March. More than $10 000 US... |
| 08.04.2021 | Winners of Africa’s largest inter-university hackathon | Hosted by Zindi, UmojaHack Africa 2021, a data science hackathon for students has announced this year’s winners who won over $10 000 in prizes.
The selected winners secured $ 10 000 in prizes
Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi comments on the impor... |
| 08.04.2021 | Winners of Africa’s largest inter-university hackathon | Hosted by Zindi, UmojaHack Africa 2021, a data science hackathon for students has announced this year’s winners who won over $10 000 in prizes.
The selected winners secured $ 10 000 in prizes
Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi comments on the importa... |
| 26.03.2021 | Africa’s largest data science hackathon for students to take place | Hosted by Zindi, UmojaHack Africa 2021, a data science hackathon for students will take place from 27-28 March 2021, and participating students from across Africa stand the chance to win over $10 000 in prizes.
UmojaHack Africa 2021 will ta... |
| 26.03.2021 | Africa’s largest data science hackathon for students to take place | Hosted by Zindi, UmojaHack Africa 2021, a data science hackathon for students will take place from 27-28 March 2021, and participating students from across Africa stand the chance to win over $10 000 in prizes.
UmojaHack Africa 2021 will t... |
| 01.02.2021 | Top African startups to watch out for in 2021 | With creative and revolutionary ideas across Africa, these startups are changing the technology space. Keeping an eye on them is absolutely worth it.
The selection of the following startups is based on the achievements, impressive-positive ... |
| 04.05.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [04/05/2020] | SA startup Trixta has launched a free web app that enables hospitals to get a leading indicator of how many Covid-19 cases they will have in the near future.
This, while logistics startup Sendy has launched a home delivery solution dubbed “... |
| 04.05.2020 | Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [04/05/2020] | SA startup Trixta has launched a free web app that enables hospitals to get a leading indicator of how many Covid-19 cases they will have in the near future.
This, while logistics startup Sendy has launched a home delivery solution dubbed ... |
| 03.02.2020 | Africa Roundup: Trump’s Nigeria ban, Paga’s acquisition and raises, Flutterwave’s $35M and Sendy’s $20M | The first month of the new year saw Africa enter the fray of U.S. politics. The Trump administration announced last week it would halt immigration from Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation with the continent’s largest economy and leading... |
| 30.01.2020 | Sendy Raises $20M in Series B Funding | Sendy, a Nairobi, Kenya-based logistics startup providing a delivery solution for business, raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Atlantica Ventures, with participation from Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Asia Africa Investment,... |
| 30.01.2020 | Logistics vertical hotting up, as Kenya’s Sendy closes $20m Series-B round | Nairobi-based on-demand delivery platform Sendy has raised $20-million in a Series-B investment round led by Atlantica Ventures.
Sendy connects businesses and individuals to third party delivery drivers of all vehicle types in Kenya, Ugand... |
| 30.01.2020 | Logistics vertical hotting up, as Kenya’s Sendy closes $20m Series-B round | Nairobi-based on-demand delivery platform Sendy has raised $20-million in a Series-B investment round led by Atlantica Ventures.
Sendy connects businesses and individuals to third party delivery drivers of all vehicle types in Kenya, Uganda... |
| 29.01.2020 | Sendy, a Kenyan logistics startup, closes $20m Series B round | Sendy, a Kenyan startup that facilitates on-demand delivery services, has closed a $20 million Series B round, TechCrunch reports.
Founded in 2015 by Meshack Alloys, Evanson Biwott, Don Okoth, and Malaika Judd, Sendy is an online platform f... |
| 29.01.2020 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, January 29, 2020: Apple, FundingCircle, GoDaddy, Concentric, Attentive, Sendy | Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Wednesday, January 29, 2020.
Apple generated $56 billion in iPhone sales in just 3 months. Apple’s iPhone strength is back. Yesterday, Apple reported iPhone revenue of $56 billi... |
| 29.01.2020 | Kenyan on-demand logistics startup Sendy raises $20M Series B round backed by Toyota, others | Investments in African startups continue to gain momentum. Sendy, a Kenyan on-demand logistics startup that allows customers to order courier services over their mobile phones, today announced it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Atl... |
| 28.01.2020 | Kenyan logistics startup Sendy raises $20M round backed by Toyota | Africa’s logistics startup space has gained another multi-million-dollar round with global backing.
Kenyan company Sendy — with an on-demand platform that connects clients to drivers and vehicles for goods delivery — has raised a $20 millio... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed d... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year.
While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed de... |
| 29.10.2019 | Sendy Raises $2M in Funding | Sendy, a Nairobi, Kenya-based on-demand delivery platform, raised USD 2m in funding.
Goodwell Investments made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach to cover all East Africa in the ... |
| 29.10.2019 | Kenyan on-demand delivery platform Sendy raises $2m | Nairobi-based on-demand delivery platform Sendy has raised $2-million in funding from Dutch impact investor Goodwell Investments.
Goodwell Investments announced the deal in a post on its website today.
Sendy connects businesses and indivi... |
| 29.10.2019 | Kenyan on-demand delivery platform Sendy raises $2m | Nairobi-based on-demand delivery platform Sendy has raised $2-million in funding from Dutch impact investor Goodwell Investments.
Goodwell Investments announced the deal in a post on its website today.
Sendy connects businesses and individu... |
| 06.11.2018 | A Guide To Understanding Consumer Logistics In Africa | Most consumers usually think about motorcycles with built-on boxes on their rear seats when they hear the word logistics. Or maybe not. Some think of trucks traversing the many kilometres of bad roads that connect [insert African country’s]... |
| 03.07.2018 | Meet the African entrepreneurs who took part in Jack Ma’s eFounders Fellowship | Just days after attending a 11-day training programme run by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Chadian tech entrepreneur Andreas Koumato says he’s learnt to look at his business in a new light.
“Before we were focused on pleasing the investors, but... |
| 03.07.2018 | Meet the African entrepreneurs who took part in Jack Ma’s eFounders Fellowship | Just days after attending a 11-day training programme run by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Chadian tech entrepreneur Andreas Koumato says he’s learnt to look at his business in a new light.
“Before we were focused on pleasing the investors, but ... |
| 20.11.2017 | Kenya’s Sendy raises $3m funding round | Kenyan on-demand logistics startup Sendy has raised US$3 million in funding to expand its operations, the company’s co-founder told the African Angel Investor Summit in Cape Town yesterday.
Launched in 2014, Sendy offers a marketplace for l... |
| 06.11.2017 | Startups aim to secure $1.5m as World Bank’s XL Africa kicks off in Cape Town | Twenty promising African tech startups today began an 11-day residency in Cape Town at the World Bank’s XL Africa accelerator. The programme runs until 17 November and startups have a chance of securing up to $1.5-million.
The accelerator ... |
| 06.11.2017 | Startups aim to secure $1.5m as World Bank’s XL Africa kicks off in Cape Town | Twenty promising African tech startups today began an 11-day residency in Cape Town at the World Bank’s XL Africa accelerator. The programme runs until 17 November and startups have a chance of securing up to $1.5-million.
The accelerator w... |
| 31.08.2017 | Here are the 20 startups that will take part in accelerator XL Africa’s first cohort | World Bank accelerator XL Africa yesterday announced the 20 startups it has selected for the first cohort for its scale-up accelerator programme.
The 20 include startups in sector such as edtech, fintech, healthtech, transportation and huma... |
| 31.08.2017 | Here are the 20 startups that will take part in accelerator XL Africa’s first cohort | World Bank accelerator XL Africa yesterday announced the 20 startups it has selected for the first cohort for its scale-up accelerator programme.
The 20 include startups in sector such as edtech, fintech, healthtech, transportation and hum... |
| 16.11.2016 | The State of Ridesharing in Africa | Ridesharing in Africa is not a new phenomenon – Africans have moved around by sharing vehicles for decades. Traditional ridesharing was more about getting from one point to another than the technology that powered it. Today, though, real-ti... |
| 14.11.2016 | Kenyan logistics startup, Sendy, has added long distance trucks to its fleet | Logistics startup, Sendy, has added long-distance trucks to its fleet following the launch of its door-to-door delivery services in Mombasa.
The Mombasa launch is the last piece of the puzzle in Sendy’s drive to operate all across Kenya and... |
| 05.07.2016 | Crowd-sourcing is solving logistics challenges across Africa | Share this:
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| 04.11.2015 | Kenyan logistics startup, Sendy, receives funding from Safaricom’s Spark Fund | Sendy, the Kenyan on-demand logistics startup, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Safaricom’s $1 million venture fund, Spark Capital.
The funding is part of a larger round where, Kernel Fund, Savannah Fund, Hello Media and a... |
| - | Top African startups to watch out for in 2021 | With creative and revolutionary ideas across Africa, these startups are changing the technology space. Keeping an eye on them is absolutely worth it.
The selection of the following startups is based on the achievements, impressive-positive ... |
| - | Kenya’s Sendy raises $3m funding round | Kenyan on-demand logistics startup Sendy has raised US$3 million in funding to expand its operations, the company’s co-founder told the African Angel Investor Summit in Cape Town yesterday.
Launched in 2014, Sendy offers a marketplace for l... |
| - | Sendy Raises $20 million Series B Funding Round to Grow its Logistics Business | Sendy, a Kenyan logistics startup, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round. Atlantica Ventures led the round that was supported by Mobility 54, an Africa-focused fund from Toyota Tsusho Corporation. Toyota will, through its ventu... |
