🇰🇪 Kenya · Nairobi · EAT (UTC+3)
Kenya Marketing
Growth marketing, AI automation, brand design and web development — one senior team, one flat fee from $1,999/mo. M-Pesa, Safaricom, Twiga Foods — Nairobi’s Silicon Savannah built the world’s defining mobile money ecosystem. We help the next generation reach global buyers and investors.
- $9B
- Safaricom market cap — Nairobi Stock Exchange’s largest company
- 51M
- M-Pesa users across East Africa — world’s defining mobile money platform
- 58%
- Kenya’s GDP processed through M-Pesa (World Bank data)
- EAT (UTC+3)
- London +3 hours — EU afternoon overlap
Why Kenya
Silicon Savannah — East Africa’s most globally-connected technology ecosystem.
M-Pesa (Safaricom/Vodacom, launched 2007) processes transactions equivalent to 58% of Kenya’s GDP annually — the world’s most cited mobile money success story and the model that the Gates Foundation, World Bank, and IMF reference when discussing financial inclusion globally.
Safaricom ($9B Nairobi Stock Exchange market cap, 40M+ Kenyan subscribers, profitable year-on-year) is Sub-Saharan Africa’s most commercially successful telecommunications company and the anchor of East Africa’s technology ecosystem.
Cellulant (Helios Investment/TPG backed, payments infrastructure across 20 African countries), Twiga Foods ($100M+ valuation, Tiger Global/IFC backed, agricultural supply chain digitisation), and Ushahidi (crisis mapping platform used by the UN, Red Cross, and governments globally) demonstrate Kenyan technology companies reaching global scale across fintech, agritech, and civic tech.
Nairobi’s iHub (founded 2010) pioneered the Silicon Savannah ecosystem — incubating over 170 companies, producing 40,000+ community members, and demonstrating that East Africa could develop a commercially self-sustaining technology cluster without Silicon Valley patterns.
Kenya is East Africa’s logistics and regional trade gateway. Mombasa Port handles $20B+ in annual trade for landlocked Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the DRC. Technology companies building logistics, supply chain, and trade finance infrastructure for the COMESA/EAC region have Kenya as the natural commercial hub.
EAT (UTC+3) provides London afternoon overlap (closing hours) and EU afternoon business hour coverage. Kenya’s English as official language, common law legal system, and IFC/ADB/USAID regional headquarters in Nairobi make it the most accessible African market for EU and US enterprise buyers and development finance institutions.
What we do
Services for Kenyan companies
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01Do you work with Kenyan fintech companies in the M-Pesa and Safaricom ecosystem?
Yes. M-Pesa (58% of Kenya’s GDP, world’s defining mobile money platform) and Safaricom ($9B NSE market cap) make Nairobi the fintech credibility benchmark for all of Africa. Marketing mobile money, digital banking, and payments APIs to international enterprise buyers and development finance institutions is a specific capability.
02Can you help Kenyan agritech companies reach IFC, Gates Foundation, and impact investors?
Yes. Twiga Foods ($100M+, Tiger Global/IFC backed), Apollo Agriculture (Anthemis/Flourish Ventures backed), and Pula ($70M+, Omidyar/Hesabu backed) demonstrate Kenyan agritech at institutional investment scale. Building SDG-aligned, blended finance, and agricultural development impact narratives for IFC, Gates Foundation, and USAID is a specific capability.
03Do you work with Kenyan companies targeting the COMESA and East African Community market?
Yes. Kenya’s position as the EAC’s largest economy and Mombasa Port as the gateway for Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Ethiopia makes Nairobi the anchor for COMESA-wide marketing programmes. Building pan-East African positioning and country-specific localisation is a specific capability.
04Can you help Kenyan companies reach DFI procurement teams (IFC, ADB, AfDB, USAID)?
Yes. Nairobi hosts the IFC Africa regional headquarters, the ADB East Africa office, AfDB country operations, and a major USAID mission. DFI procurement requires specific RFP language, results-based evidence frameworks, and development impact measurement that differs from commercial enterprise marketing. Building DFI-credible proposal content and positioning is a specific capability.
05What does it cost to work with Heptism from Kenya?
Plans start from $1,999/mo in USD. No minimum contract. Month to month. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.
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