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From Research to Revenue: Why Kenyan Universities Struggle to Commercialize IP
Every semester, labs at the University of Nairobi, JKUAT, Strathmore, MUST, and dozens of other inst...
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Why Satellite Towns Stopped Being Nairobi's Affordable Escape
For most of the last decade, moving to a satellite town was the default answer for Nairobi buyers pr...
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The Great Nairobi Divide: Why Houses Are Booming While Apartments Correct
Nairobi's property market is no longer one market. In the same quarter, standalone houses in suburbs...
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Uber Is Buying Glovo's Parent Company. In Kenya, That Means One Firm Could Soon Own Two of the Three Biggest Delivery Apps
Uber has agreed to acquire German food-delivery group Delivery Hero for $14.8 billion, a deal that w...
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How Savo Store Is Rewiring the Way Kenyans Shop on Amazon
Savo Store, a Kenya-focused freight forwarding and procurement service, has built a business around ...
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Jumia's Long Road to Profit: Inside 13 Years of Losses and the Promise of a 2026 Breakeven
Jumia was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, two former McKinsey consultants, al...
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Can You Copyright AI-Generated Work in Kenya? A New Tribunal Ruling Says No, Unless You Do This
The ruling came out of a dispute between Aryeh Movement Limited and Cynthia Beldina Akoth Okello, an...
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Why Data Compliance Is Becoming Kenya's New Startup Currency
On June 4, 2026, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) issued a public notice urging...
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Kenya's Ride-Hailing Shake-Up: What a KES 500 Minimum Fare Could Really Mean for Drivers and Passengers
The Ministry of Roads and Transport, through the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), is ...
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One Agency to Rule Them All: What the Kenya Intellectual Property Authority Bill Means for Tech Founders
If you have ever tried to protect a piece of software in Kenya, you already know the drill. You regi...
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Kenya's New Courier-Hailing Licence: Who Really Pays When Uber, Bolt, and Glovo Get a Bigger Bill?
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revised the country's Postal and Courier Market Struc...
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Kenya Raised Almost $1 Billion in Startup Funding. So Why Are Most Founders Still Broke?
Kenya closed 2025 as Africa's top startup funding destination, pulling in $984 million and overtakin...
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Launch Africa Just Sold Its Peach Payments Stake to 27four. Here Is Why That Matters More Than the Headline Suggests
Launch Africa first backed Peach Payments in its 2021 seed round, when the company was a small regio...
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Four Kenyan Startups Just Beat Out 2,600 Competitors to Join Google's Most Competitive Accelerator Yet
Coamana, Duck, ReportsAI, and VunaPay graduated from the program on June 18, 2026, during Google's C...
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Family Bank's NSE Debut: What Actually Happened and What It Means for Investors Now
Family Bank made a strong entrance onto the NSE on June 23, with its shares closing 44.4% above the ...
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Africa and China's Debt: Separating Myth from Strategic Reality
China has become Africa's biggest bilateral lender, with its public lenders holding almost 9% of Afr...
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Family Bank Is Listing on the NSE on June 23. Here Is What You Need to Know
Family Bank has officially received the green light from the Capital Markets Authority to list its s...
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Everyone Is Betting Trillions on AI. So Why Has Nobody Found the Business Case?
The AI industry is burning money at a scale that makes the dot-com era look like a small campfire. V...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Lending: How Mobile Loan Apps Are Making and Breaking Kenya's Small Businesses
The scale of Kenya's digital lending ecosystem is staggering. As of April 2026, the Central Bank of ...
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Kenya Has the Most Expensive Diesel in East Africa. Here Is Why, and Who Is Responsible.
Following EPRA's latest review, which took effect on May 15, 2026, super petrol in Nairobi now retai...
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