Breaking: Kenya’s M-Kopa Solar Closes $12.45 million Fourth Funding Round (What fluff?)
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/ There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will. All the best, princelySid *Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
Our youth under 30 need to understand it is futile appealing to foreign investors before winning over local investors. M-Kopa is a case of focused foreigners who know what they came here to accomplish, not locals appealing to foreigners. On Feb 2, 2015 2:40 PM, "cdohnio via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/
There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will.
All the best, princelySid
*Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
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Are you saying that a similar business by a Kenyan would not have reached as far? Because then you would be implying that only thing holding the industry back is the fact that we're Kenyan, African, black. Not education, not skill, not capital, nothing else All the best, princelySid *Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:03 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:
Our youth under 30 need to understand it is futile appealing to foreign investors before winning over local investors.
M-Kopa is a case of focused foreigners who know what they came here to accomplish, not locals appealing to foreigners. On Feb 2, 2015 2:40 PM, "cdohnio via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/
There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will.
All the best, princelySid
*Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
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Not at all. In fact some local family business are more than 50x bigger. They value and serve the local masses and foreign investors keep on hounding them for shares. On Feb 2, 2015 3:08 PM, "cdohnio" <cdohnio@gmail.com> wrote:
Are you saying that a similar business by a Kenyan would not have reached as far? Because then you would be implying that only thing holding the industry back is the fact that we're Kenyan, African, black. Not education, not skill, not capital, nothing else
All the best, princelySid
*Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:03 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:
Our youth under 30 need to understand it is futile appealing to foreign investors before winning over local investors.
M-Kopa is a case of focused foreigners who know what they came here to accomplish, not locals appealing to foreigners. On Feb 2, 2015 2:40 PM, "cdohnio via kictanet" < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/
There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will.
All the best, princelySid
*Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
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These guys are awesome. 1. (maybe) Real profit. 2. Real revenue. 3. Reusable payment model - pay slowly for something that you need, I suspect that it can be reused for other things (If Safaricom or some other mobile network will continue giving them whatever/better commercial model they have). Now is the hard part, earning the implied trust/pressure that now comes with the over 1B they have got. All the best to them! *Kip* *A Cruce Salus* On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:39 PM, cdohnio via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/
There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will.
All the best, princelySid
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HOW M-KOPA SOLAR BECAME 2ND BUSIEST MPESA PAYBILL MOVER With 12,000 MPESA paybill transactions daily, Mkopa Solar is second only to KPLC in daily transaction volumes, founder Jesse Moore says. The company that sells solar units to off-grid customers for use in lighting their homes and charging their phones on instalments of Sh40 a day for 360 days currently has over 130,000 customers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. http://nairobitech.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-m-kopa-solar-became-2nd-busiest.... On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Kipkemoi Kiptum via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
These guys are awesome.
1. (maybe) Real profit. 2. Real revenue. 3. Reusable payment model - pay slowly for something that you need, I suspect that it can be reused for other things (If Safaricom or some other mobile network will continue giving them whatever/better commercial model they have).
Now is the hard part, earning the implied trust/pressure that now comes with the over 1B they have got.
All the best to them!
*Kip*
*A Cruce Salus*
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:39 PM, cdohnio via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
http://techmoran.com/m-kopa-solar-closes-fourth-funding-round/
There's a lot of talk of fluff in the Kenyan startup scene but I think hearing news like this puts all that nonsense to shame. This was a 1.1 billion round they just raised after a third round where they raised almost 2 billion last year. If this doesn't speak for the startup scene I don't know what will.
All the best, princelySid
*Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com
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