Sauti was featured as one of four Kenyan innovators in new global publication: The Atlas of Innovation for Economic Stability, which identifies innovations across the world that create stable incomes and futures. […]
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Sauti selected as one of the 15 Most Promising Startups at Nairobi Innovation Week. Sauti will be presenting it’s pitch to investors and partners on Fri, Mar 9 for a chance to win KSHS 500,000. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates! […]
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We are pleased to announce that Sauti has been selected to participate in the Make-IT in Africa Accelerator. The competition featured over 200 applicants aiming to be part of a group of 15 most promising digital startups in East Africa. […]
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We launched the Swahili version of our platform, making Sauti the first trade information platform available in both English and the official language of the EAC. We added new currencies to our real-time exchange rate information service and… […]
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Our investor, the HiiL Innovating Justice Accelerator, produced a short documentary on the justice needs of small & informal business owners in Uganda. Starring our Field Manger, David Orega […]
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East Africa has a huge informal private sector with the potential to stimulate economic and social development, which is staggered by an outdated, complex and corrupt legal and political framework. In this short documentary we zoom in on the justice needs of small (informal) business owners, because they are a driving force of economic growth, yet their needs are consistently overlooked and ignored. The growing spread of internet and mobile penetration may provide new avenues for these business owners to find information and solutions to their unanswered legal needs.
Young innovators, like Sauti Africa, in the legal space are leveraging on […]
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You may remember that we were last preparing for the soft launch of our platform. The Sauti mobile platform is now live! Read the latest on our continued efforts to build a sustainable startup, one determined step at a time.
Soft Launch of Our Mobile Platform
As a culmination of Sauti Africa’s efforts to date, we held the ‘soft’ – or test – launch of our platform mid-June on the Kenya-Uganda border town of Busia! Building on the results of months of preparation, our energetic team spent the week in Busia training 40 Kenyan and Uganda women cross-border traders.
Although we began with just 40 traders, since then […]
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As a culmination of Sauti Africa’s efforts to date, we held our ‘soft’ – or test – pilot launch of our platform this past week on the Kenya-Uganda border town of Busia!
For those unfamiliar with our work, we have developed a mobile-based trade and market information platform to help enable legal, safe and profitable trade across borders in the East African Community (EAC). Building on the results of months of preparation, our energetic team spent the week in Busia training 40 Kenyan and Uganda women cross-border traders.
Although we began with just 40 traders, since then we have seen […]
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This newsletter comes on the heels of a busy month as we prepare for the soft launch of our platform! We won’t bother you with all the internal machinations of getting a company started, but we can assure you: it always takes longer than you initially plan and there isn’t a boring moment. We’d instead like to bring you our most interesting content. Read the latest on our continued efforts to build partnerships, engage with traders at the border, and forge a path to sustainability for Sauti.
Sauti Wins Palladium LMIP Challenge Fund
We are thrilled and honored to be named a winner of the Palladium Group’s Let’s Make It […]
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A joint proposal from Sauti and the Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) has emerged best out of the 100 applications in the prestigious EAC-GIZ Incubator for Integration and Development in East Africa (IIDEA) competition to win a generous award that allows them to advance their pilot mobile program.
IIDEA is a joint initiative between GIZ and the East African Community (EAC) designed to promote people-centered and market-driven regional integration in East Africa. Established in 1999, the EAC is a regional economic community that includes Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania. Headquartered in Arusha, […]
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