Kenyan Tech Start-Ups To Receive More Than Kes40.8 Million

Kenyan tech start-ups are set to receive more than Kes40.8 million in support to promote innovation in Africa.

This is through a partnership between Mozilla Africa Mradi and the Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) under the Mozilla African Innovation Mradi program grounded in the unique needs of users on the African continent.

The partnership is in the background of the Mozilla Africa Mradi Innovation Challenge that will be held in June 2023 in Nairobi.

The challenge will identify and support Kenyan tech entrepreneurs/startups and tech students through an acceleration programme that will provide; technical support, access to grants and ultimately, market access for their products.

“Exploring and developing new projects, technologies, and products grounded in open innovation that produce a meaningful impact on the African internet ecosystem is at the heart of our work at Mozilla Corporation”, said Alice Munyua, Senior Director of Africa Mradi.

On his part, Nairobi County Governor Johnson Sakaja noted that the Nairobi City County Government will be working with Mozilla Africa Mradi to conduct a situation analysis of all our tech start-ups and build the capacity of tech innovators in Nairobi City County.

 “This is to ensure they have equal opportunities and platforms to showcase their innovations, are exposed to how venture capital investments work and trained on startup accelerator opportunities available to them in Africa,” he said.

Mozilla Africa Mradi Innovation Week will be held on June 26th and 27th, 2023, in Nairobi.

The initiative aims to leverage Mozilla’s role as stewards of the open web to promote innovation models grounded in the unique needs of users in the African continent.

Kenya is the regional ICT hub of East Africa, with the country being a leader in broadband connectivity, general ICT infrastructure and home to more than 300 tech start-ups.

Through the Innovation Challenge, Mozilla seeks to support this ecosystem to ensure that youth innovators across Kenya have access to the information and knowledge needed to establish and run profitable startups.