NaiLab

Nailab
Motto Changing Kenya, One Startup at a Time
Formation March 1, 2010
Legal status active
Purpose Business incubator
Location
  • Nairobi, Kenya
Key people
  • Anna Chojnacka
  • Sam Gichuru
  • Bart Lacroix
Website www.nailab.co.ke

Nailab is a Kenya Startup Incubator, located in Nairobi, started in 2010.

Nailab tries to lower the entry barriers for ICT entrepreneurs who want to start and scale their businesses in Kenya. Nailab was launched in 2011 by Nailab Ltd in partnership with the crowdfunding platform 1%CLUB[1]

Initial Funding for Nailab come from Angels Sam Gichuru, Bart Lacroix and Anna Chojnakha, it was later directly funded by the 1% Club a Crowd Funding platform in the Neatherlands.

Already, a few startups have graduated from the Nailab, including Tusqee, a mobile app that allows schools to send children’s grades to their parents by SMS, and MyOrder, an app that allows every street vendor to open his or her own mobile web shop, allowing customers to order and pay by mobile phone.

Nailab Secured a $1.6 Million Tech Incubation project from the Kenyan Government,[2] the initiative of the Ministry of Information and Communications through the World Bank. It is funded by the Kenya Transparency and Infrastructure Project which was spearheaded by the Kenya ICT Board (KICTB).

References

  1. ↑ Tonee Ndungu (1 July 2011). "*Nailab Blog Post". Nailab Blog. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Nsehe, Mfonobong. "$1.6 Million Tech Incubation Program Launched In Kenya". Forbes.

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