New In the Nairobi Garage

Our coworking community here at the Nairobi Garage is growing and we’re thrilled. This month we welcome Garcia Forner Consulting. A Human Resource Firm that provides strategic and transformational Human Resource and Coaching services to organisations and individuals. Garcia Forner Consulting generates new possibilities by challenging the status quo and designing solutions that can assist a company’s transformation. Welcome Garcia Forner we’re glad to have you.

The Nairobi garage also welcomes ShowMax an entertainment  company that offers a new video-on-demand service that is set to be a game changer. ShowMax recently launched in Kenya and was met with great excitement. Offering TV and movies at anyone’s fingertips, with easy sign up system and an option for a 7 day trial, the new video on demand service is set to be a massive game changer here in Kenya. Glad to have you ShowMax.

Meet BioLite, also New In our office space. BioLite is a dynamic and rapidly growing social enterprise  that develops, manufactures, and markets consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. BioLite serves both families in developing countries living in energy poverty and outdoor enthusiasts seeking fuel-independent cooking and off-grid power. The BioLite team has quadrupled over the last 4 years and have doubled their sales each year. They currently operating in Kenya and are excited to grow this key market with new partners and products.

Ugogo Africa has joined our office space along Ngong Road. Ugogo Africa is an  e-commerce site that allows crafts men and women to sell their goods online but without needing traditional banking facilities such as debit or credit cards. Ugogo Africa a site created for people without banks. A user can create an account and sell their goods and receive payment directly to their mobile phone in the form of cash using Ugogo’s technology combined with a mobile cash system such as Mpesa.

We are pleased to welcome SunFunder, a solar finance business based in San Francisco and Tanzania with a mission to unlock capital for solar energy in emerging markets, where over 2.5 billion people live without access to reliable energy. Sunfunder aggregates capital through the Solar Empowerment Fund, a private debt offering that gives Accredited Investors an opportunity to invest in a diversified, vetted and high-impact portfolio projects. With this capital, they provide short-term inventory and project finance loans to leading solar energy companies to help them scale deployments of solar energy systems and catalyze growth in the sector.

Do you have a desire to join this network of innovative and diverse startups? Go ahead, shoot us a membership request and book a tour of our facilities here.