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New Kenyan Schooling Platform Takes World By Storm Kidato Founder Sam Gichuru. File Kenyan serial entrepreneur, Sam Gichuru, has secured a Ksh 151 million funding for his revolutionary schooling platform (dubbed Kidato). Unknown to many, as recently as June 2020, the budding businessman only had Ksh 1,500 to his name, and one game-changing idea revolving around a new & different type of school.  Driven by a need to solve the various challenges facing the current education model in Kenya, and armed with a Ksh 1,100 subscription for an online coding class on Udemy, Gichuru (and his three you...

Why should you care? Nigerian P2P payment platform, Abegwill be the headline sponsor, while crypto-exchange platform, Patricia is the associate sponsor. Advertisement An obvious trend? Apart from continuing on the path of auditioning via pre-recorded video online submissions which started in 2020, it appears more tech startups are showing interest in the TV sensation. In the 2020 edition of the show, tech brands like Patricia, Travelbeta, BuyPower.ng, Kuda Bank, Flutterwave, and Tizeti all gave cheques to support the show. Meanwhile, there was none in 2019. Besides, in previous seasons, BBNa...

Kidato, an online class for K-12 students in Africa, has announced that it has closed its Ksh. 151,004,000 ($1.4 million) seed investment.

YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa In public schools across Africa, classrooms are often overcrowded and this affects how teachers and students interact. The large classroom creates too much work for teachers leaving students’ individual problems unattended. Private schools are modeled to fix these issues, but they can be expensive for the average African middle-class professional with kids. Kidato, an online school for K-12 students in Africa, presents another alternative and is announcing today that it has closed its $1.4 million seed...

1) Healthtech startup TIBU closes new round TIBU, a Kenya-based digital platform that decentralises primary outpatient care to bring it directly to patients, has announced closing a seed funding round. Founded in 2016, the new raiser is expected to help it scale its operations, and was led by Blue Haven Initiative and Kepple Africa Ventures. Although, the startup idea has been around for over 5 years, the team did not launch until 2020. One year after launch, TIBU is an on-demand platform that connects people to healthcare workers in real-time, who deploy to a location and time of the patient...