Cofounder, CTO @AquarechLtd | Founder @LakeHub | Building next gen of techies via @Zone01Kisumu | @Acumen & @WashFellowship Fellow
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined July 2009
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Milestone! We have closed our seed round @AquarechLtd
I want to thank our investors @AquaSparkImpact @Acumen @katapultimpact & MercycorpsVentures for believing in and supporting our vision of creating sustainable food systems in Africa
Proud of our team lead by @DaveOkechOkech
Kenyan fish farming platform Aquarech has raised $1.7 million in funding to build infrastructure to enable further vertical integration of its technology and hire more staff.
techpoint.africa/2023/11/22/…
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Kibaki brought in Armenian mercenaries, gave the diplomatic passports through NSIS now NIS bypassing Interpol background checks, made them commissioners of police and they were involved in a 6.4B cocaine seizure. These Artur brothers would later pull out guns at JKIA threatening to kill custom officials but hey the man is the best we ever had. Otek manade.
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BREAKING: Phillip Mullin has become the first child in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease 🎉
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Ruoth Jaduong' Oginga Odinga came back with the declaration of independence from london after he went to negotiate for it, he then came back and had Kenyatta released and made him the prime minister and later president. THEREFORE OGINGA ODINGA IS THE GREATEST SHUJAA OF KENYA.
Nairobi has a world standard National Park existing in harmony with the buzzing city. That’s a standard New York will never reach. So no comparison Sir
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To our highly qualified engineers at @KeNHAKenya, while you were busy resurfacing the Chiromo section, did it never once cross your minds to address the pathetic and dangerous road design? Or was that simply not part of the assignment?
#ReclaimNairobi
It’s courageous of Sam to tell his story as it is. The Kenyan/African ecosystem needs to stand behind him and hold such institutions accountable.
"I am on 7 months without a salary, on the verge of financial ruin, at the mercy of landlords and creditors. No Board has removed me as the CEO yet the World Bank are just sitting there, driving me to the verge of a mental breakdown. All so that they can take control of the Board and acquire the company at a depressed price. Employees are praying and fasting daily wondering when the siege will end."
— Sam Gikandi, Co-Founder & CEO, Africa's Talking
Read the full story of the Corporate Chicannery at Africa's Talking here
boardlot.co.ke/p/top-of-the-…
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2017: Sam Gikandi founded Africa's Talking, with Eston Kimani. Annual Revenue $20m
2018: received $8m funding from IFC [World Bank]. The World bank valued the company at US$ 100m [kes 13 billion]
Little did he know that the funding was a plan to completely decapitate him, and take the company he built. Away from him. Forcefully.
Today he lives from one court to another fighting after he was removed and decapitated from the company he built. What a sad story🙄
Read the story here 👇
linkedin.com/posts/boardlot-…
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The Technopolis Development Authority and Zone Zero One Kisumu Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance digital skills, Artificial Intelligence , innovation and opportunities for young people across Kenya.
The partnership will leverage the Jitume Digital Hubs to expand access to AI and digital skills training, mentorship, capacity building, innovation challenges and startup support.
The collaboration will also support the development of AI and digital skills curricula, Training of Trainers (ToT) programmes and practical, hands-on learning opportunities, helping equip young people with skills that respond to the evolving digital economy.
Through partnerships such as this, the Authority continues to strengthen the Jitume Digital Enablement Programme as a platform for connecting young Kenyans to skills, innovation, entrepreneurship and pathways to digital opportunities.
#Jitume #SiliconSavannah
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This...this isn't Ksh. 2.75b.
Man, it's $2.75b.
Ksh. 250b +.
And y'all acting like it's normal? Doesn't matter that it happened 12 yrs ago.
Let's break down what this could have done.
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1. 100k km of high speed fiber for hospitals, schools, etc costed at 50b.
Cage fish farming in Kenya is still nascent, done by small-scale fish farmers. The government has no business formulating such punitive policies that will curtail the sector. Help me sign the petition to scrap the 5% fish levy by Government
c.org/XhGgvJW7WM
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We had the honour of welcoming @USAmbKenya to our Fish Deli in Kisumu.
Over a shared meal of our signature Air-Fried Tilapia, we had meaningful conversations around strengthening food systems from the lake to the table.
