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Seven tech startups to get up to Sh150m

Local businesses representing Kenya in the programme are Asoko Insight — a data site, human resource portal Lynk Jobs, small-medium enterprise service website Ongair, fintech news website Pesabazaar.com, delivery company Sendy, publishing business Snapplify and distribution channel Sokowatch.

Start-ups picked for World Bank e-business course

The start-ups offer digital solutions for the African market, including fin-tech, transportation, health care, education, human resources, and business to business. The Kenyan start-ups include delivery apps Sendy Ltd and Soko Watch, HR platform Lynk Jobs Limited, SME services platform Ongair and Pesabazaar.com, a fintech company.

Duo’s online insurance portal offers clients convenient solution

Calleb Karegyesa and Prashanth Srinivas run an innovative business that sells insurance covers online. It’s like Uber for the underwriting industry and just like the famous cab-hailing service was destructive in the local taxi scene, their firm is fast changing the retail insurance business.

Kenyans Now To Tompare Insurance Products Online

“We are partnering with leading insurance companies in Kenya to ensure that we offer the widest selection of insurance products in the simplest form so that customers can easily and quickly compare plans using the most significant benefits or cover metrics for each class of insurance,” said company co-founder Calleb Karegyesa.

Kenyans Now To Tompare Insurance Products Online

This follows the launch of PESABAZAAR.com, a web portal that allows consumers to compare premiums and features of similar insurance products and services at a glance. The portal will enable customers to freely and conveniently compare and purchase a wide range of insurance products at the click of a button.

Online Insurance Comparison Portal Launched In Kenya

The insurance products on the platform bouquet incinclude Comprehensive Motor Insurance, Third Party Only Motor Insurance, Individual and Medical Insurance, Travel Insurance, Golfers Insurance, Mobile, SME and Corporate Insurance.

PesaBazaar Wants To Empower Kenyan Insurance Consumers

"These intermediaries normally dictate what products consumers purchase. Consumers do not have much say in what products they purchase. We want to give the power and transparency to consumers to allow them firstly to understand insurance products, and secondly to compare accurate and insightful quotations from all the leading insurance providers before making a purchase."

Kenya’s PesaBazaar Raises $396,000 To Take Insurance Price Comparison To All

According to PesaBazaar.com co-founder Calleb Karegyesa, “We are partnering with leading insurance companies in Kenya to ensure that we offer the widest selection of insurance products in the simplest form so that customers can easily and quickly compare plans using the most significant benefits/cover metrics for each class of insurance”.