Sky.Garden is a SaaS ecommerce platform built for retailers in Africa.
Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box and customer care is handled by the Sky.Garden machine learning framework.
Sky.Garden gives back control to the individual retailer by allowing inventory control and immediate payment reconciliation in an automated platform, where local shipping and payment options come out-of-the-box and customer care is handled by the Sky.Garden machine learning framework.
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +254 718 222111
Total raised: $4M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | 2M2D | 2m2d.no |
| - | UNCOVERED ... | en.uncover... |
| - | Katapult A... | katapultac... |
| - | Kepple Afr... | kepple-afr... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.06.2021 | Series A | $4M | - |
Mentions in press and media 16
| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.09.2022 | Sky.Garden, Kenya’s Amazon-style marketplace, faces closure after funding fell through | The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, home goods and more — is in the balance after the startup failed to close a round of financing, according to a memo the startu... |
| 15.06.2021 | Sky.Garden, a Kenyan e-commerce firm, has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round | Sky.Garden raised US$1.2 million in seed funding in 2018, and it has now secured US$4 million in a Series A round led by SANAD Fund for MSME, Aavishkaar, UNCOVERED FUND, and KSK Angel Fund, the latter of which was created by former AC Milan... |
| 14.06.2021 | Kenya-based Sky.Garden closes USD 4 million in Series A | Kenyan e-commerce startup Sky.Garden has closed a US$4 million round of Series A funding to accelerate its growth. Launched in May 2017, Sky.Garden is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for mobile commerce that is built specifically fo... |
| 15.02.2021 | Japan’s Uncovered Fund launches $15M fund to back early-stage startups in Africa | Uncovered Fund, a VC firm targeting early-stage startups in Africa, announced today that it has launched its $15 million fund which is expected to close at the end of June this year. The Tokyo-based outfit founded by Takuma Terakubo in 2019... |
| 06.11.2019 | Online Shopping Platform Company Curated Raises $27.5 Million In Funding | Curated, a platform that brings together people and products by matching customers with experts for high-consideration purchases has raised $27.5 million Curated — a platform that brings together people and products by matching customers wi... |
| 28.10.2019 | Katapult Accelerator is hunting for blue-chip African startups to join their next programme starting in March 2020African startups to join their next programme | katapult accelerator is looking for early-stage startups that are using exponential technology to help solve social and environmental challenges. Their accelerator program kicks off on March 2020 in Oslo, Norway, and startups from across Af... |
| 02.10.2019 | Simon Property to invest $280M in online shopping venture | - |
| 07.02.2018 | Here’s how 2 Kenyan startups raised a combined $3.2m in funding this week | Kenyan ecommerce platform Sky.Garden and ride-hailing startup Mondo Ride raised a combined $3.2-million in funding this week. What can we learn from these two deals? Nairobi-based Mondo Ride is reported to have raised $2-million from inves... |
| 07.02.2018 | Here’s how 2 Kenyan startups raised a combined $3.2m in funding this week | Kenyan ecommerce platform Sky.Garden and ride-hailing startup Mondo Ride raised a combined $3.2-million in funding this week. What can we learn from these two deals? Nairobi-based Mondo Ride is reported to have raised $2-million from invest... |
| 08.08.2017 | Kenya’s Sky.Garden joins Norwegian Katapult Accelerator | The Kenyan startup Sky.Garden was chosen to join the Norwegian-based Katapult Accelerator. Sky.Garden is one of 12 startups that was chosen and will be joining the accelerator program. Sky.Garden is a software-as-a-service or SaaS platform ... |
Show more