DIAL and Freshbox join Nairobi Garage

DIAL and Freshbox join Nairobi Garage

At Nairobi Garage, diversity is key strength we value and encourage. Our member network is made up of companies from across different sectors, ranging from manufacturing, to IT, agriculture to hospitality.

Here are some of the companies who have joined us recently, and have seen the value of becoming part of such a diverse and dynamic business network.

Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL)

DIAL’s vision is to realize a more inclusive digital economy for the underserved in emerging markets so that all women, men and children can benefit from life-enabling, mobile-based digital services. DIAL aspires to achieve this vision by accelerating the collective efforts of government, industry and development organizations. We will contribute to the sector in four ways:

• Convene the community, offering mechanisms to encourage knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-investment.
• Learn and demonstrate how to overcome key barriers, promoting scale up and replication of successful models, creating public goods where necessary.
• Generate insights and data to strengthen others’ investments and service design and delivery efforts.
• Advocate good practice recommendations to governments, industry, funders and implementers.

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data company work entails a world where good data is used to achieve just and sustainable societies. The company does this by

• Strengthening inclusive data ecosystems by working with governments to develop National Partnerships for Sustainable Development Data, driving data collaborations to achieve national priorities for change.
• Forging collective action by driving global collaboration to improve the production and use of data in critical areas.
• Communicating the value of investing in data and of multi-stakeholder collaborations on data.
• Mobilizing stakeholders to develop global data principles and protocols for sharing and leveraging privately held data.
• Bringing together multiple data communities at global and national level to spur innovation and collaboration.
• Harmonizing data specifications and architectures and helping ensure the interoperability of technology platforms for assembling, accessing, and using data.

Freshbox

FreshBox is a company that envisions a world where merchants can accelerate their earning potential by providing a safe and sustainable solution for refrigerating fruits and vegetables.

FreshBox’s flagship product is a large commercial cooling unit that can hold over two tons of fruits and vegetables and fits conveniently in a vendor space at fruit and vegetable markets across Kenya. Through a unique pay-as-you-go model Freshbox allows customers prevent the spoilage of fruits and vegetables by increasing the longevity of a fruit or vegetable’s selling period by up to 950% (depending on the fruit or vegetable).

Fresh Box cold storage system can also provide more consistent revenues to the retailers in produce markets and provide more consistent availability of nutritious produce. The company uses revolutionary solar-powered refrigeration technology which is off the grid hence reaching the last mile of poverty eradication in Africa.

DST East Africa

DST East Africa is a subsidiary to the Swedish company Seibu Giken DST. The company offers a complete line of desiccant dehumidifiers that are some of the best on the market today.

With experience and know how in almost every humidity control application, DST allows the supply of exceptionally well-engineered, environmentally responsible products of superior quality across all industries and consumers.

If you would like to join these companies and many more, working from Nairobi’s most vibrant work space for innovative growing companies, simply book your tour.