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Kenyan Firm Kidato, Joins US Silicon Valley Y Combinator

Kenyan Firm Kidato, Joins US Silicon Valley Y Combinator

Kenyan Firm Kidato, Joins US Silicon Valley Y CombinatorKenyan tech start-up, Kidato, was in January named as one of the three African companies set to join the exclusiveย Silicon Valley Y Combinatorย – a USย seed money startup accelerator that has helped launch thousands of top startups.

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Kidato, which offers online learning for K-12 students (2 to 18 years of age), joined the Y Combinator Winter cohort whereย itย gotย Ksh13 million and other investment opportunities.

The school provides high-quality and affordable education to parents who must choose between public schools and private schools. It offers a student-teacher ratio of 5:1.

Sam Gichuru the founder of Kidato, a tech company that has been accepted in the Y Combinator
Sam Gichuru the founder of Kidato, a tech company that has been accepted in the Y Combinator
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Y Combinator is a program that funds early-stage start-ups.ย They work intensively with companies toย help them get into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors.

Kidato joinedย Nigerian fintech start-up Mono and Ivory Coast-based company Djamo. Mono is a company that enables companies and developers to access financial accounts for historical and real-time transactions while Djamo is a financial super app for consumers in Ivory Coast.

The program will end on demo day at the end of March. Demo day is a time when those who participated in the Y Combinator go infront of global investors and pitch to raise even more money.

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The tech start-up was founded by Sam Gichuru who also founded the Nailab incubator in Nairobi.

Gichuru has a history with Y Combinator. In 2015 he was involved in their fellowship program through Kuhustle, a recruitment start-up in which he is a co-founder. He said that Kuhusle still operates but hasn’tย scaled due to numerous challenges like platform leakage.

โ€œWe keep it running and supporting users who benefit from it. It is really hard to manage two-sided marketplaces without the right resources,โ€ Gichuru told Disrupt.

Since 2005, Y Combinator has invested in nearly three thousand companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart and Coinbase.

Y Combinator companies are valued to have a combined worth of over Ksh32 trillion.

The vision of Kidato is to provide high-quality and affordable education to the growing middle class in Africa.

Kidato also offers after-school classes in coding,ย chess,ย art, sport and languages.

Byย FAITH MUSYOKA

Source-https://www.kenyans.co.ke/

 

Kenyan Firm Kidato, Joins US Silicon Valley Y Combinator

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