Key notes: Africa's Talking, a mobile solutions firm integrating reliable two-way SMS, voice, and USSD functionality across mobile providers in Africa.
Office address: 7th Floor, Galana Plaza, Galana Road, Kilimani, Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Description: Africa's Talking is a Kenya-based mobile solutions firm integrating reliable two-way SMS, voice, and USSD functionality across mobile providers in Africa. The firm offers bulk SMS, short codes, and premium SMS, USSD, MMS, and customized mobile messaging solutions for individuals, businesses, and developers. With the API developers, it can connect a short code, use an alphanumeric sender id, and send SMS messages across Kenya. Africa's Talking’s users need to register to access documentation. Africa's Talking was established in 2010 by Eston Kimani and Samuel Gikandi, two MIT graduates to explore applications that enhance the growth and use of information technology in and for Africa. It is based in Nairobi.
http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/africas-talking
$ 14,638,067 over 3 funding rounds.
| Date | Name | $ Invested | Crunchbase link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-01 | None | $ 20,000 | Detailed data |
| 2018-04-25 | A | $ 8,600,000 | Detailed data |
| 2017-09-08 | None | $ 619,000,000 | Detailed data |
| Round Date | Round Name | Investor | Crunchbase Link |
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Created: 19-Aug-2012, 01:00
Last Crunchbase update: 02-Dec-2020, 05:11
Last modified: 03-Mar-2021, 05:12
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