Best EdTech Companies in Nairobi, Kenya
The 37 best EdTech companies in Nairobi, Kenya in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: African Management Initiative.
Our analysis of 261 EdTech companies
$20.4b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best EdTech companies in Nairobi
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | African Management Initiative Entrepreneurship development skills provider | $750K | 146 mo ago | Early Stage | Rebecca Harrison Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | ErlangElixirZoho+21 | — |
| 2 | Eneza Education Educational courses through SMS for mobile natives across Africa | $725K | 31 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | — |
| 3 | M-Shule SMS-based learning platform focused on providing academic and life skills training for hard-to-reach… | $290K | 78 mo ago | Seed | Claire Mongeau Co-Founder & Director | 2016 | Google Font APICloudflare Browser InsightsCloudflare+3 | — |
| 4 | Digiskool Web-based school management system | $50K | 107 mo ago | Seed | John Slater CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 5 | eLimu Tablet-based learning for primary education students | $40K | 93 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2010 | Node.jsReactNext.js+11 | — |
| 6 | Tusqee Systems Platform offering solutions for managing communication | $36K | 180 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — |
| 7 | mSwali Online platform providing quiz-based learning solutions | — | 58 mo ago | Seed | James Kabiru Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | Angaza Elimu Online educational resources for primary education | — | 73 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2016 | Tailwind CSSAstroApache HTTP Server+2 | — |
Top 11 EdTech companies in Nairobi
#1
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2011 · 50 employees$725Kraised▾
Eneza Education provides school-level educational courses through SMS/USSD for mobile natives across Africa. Students receive quizzes and tutorials, can search Wikipedia, view reports and ask questions to live teachers through SMS on a subscription. It also provides a web and a mobile app for accessing the course. Claims to be used by 800K+ students in Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania. App available on Android.
#2
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 6 employees$290Kraised▾
SMS-based learning platform focused on providing academic and life skills training for hard-to-reach populations. It allows to engage audience at scale using our lead platform over SMS and WhatsApp. It offers features such as curricula and information, learners build academic and life skills through interactive, self-paced, and personalized learning and training micro-courses delivered over SMS, engage and activations for stakeholders receive updates, awareness campaigns, and situational response information over SMS, evaluation assessment for progress and performance are measured using SMS assessments, quizzes, examinations, and baseline evaluations, data and surveys for getting key data and insights are collected from stakeholders via SMS surveys and qualitative data collection.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$40K
- 2018Grant (prize money)$250K
- Jul 2017Seed—
#3
Early Stage · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2013$750Kraised▾
Entrepreneurship development skills provider
#4
Acquired · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2010 · 14 employees$40Kraised▾
eLimu provides tablet-based learning for primary education students in Kenya and Sub-Saharan countries. It learning apps include Hadithi! Hadithi! a literacy app for 6 to 7-year-old kids, it includes curriculum aligned illustrated stories with voice over. Its KCPE app includes lessons covering KCPE curriculum, previous exam papers, learning analytics and comparison with peers. It also provides subject specific e-learning on topics such as mathematics, English, Science, Social studies, Kiswahili, etc.
#5
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 17 employees$50Kraised▾
Digiskool offers web-based school management system. Modules offered for clients are information management system, administration system, and finance system. Allows schools to manage finances, accounting, budget, staff, parents portal and more. Allows clients to automate administrative tasks and enhances collaboration between parents, teachers, students and other key stakeholders. Offered on a monthly subscription.
- Sep 2017Seed$50K
#6
Deadpooled · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2011$36.2Kraised▾
Platform offering solutions for managing communication
#7
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 9 employees—raised▾
Online platform providing quiz-based learning solutions. The platform enables users to play quiz-based games and earn rewards. The platform also offers a tournament-based quiz that enables multiple users to connect and play games.
- Oct 2021Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 18 employees—raised▾
Online educational resources for primary education. It is offering educational resources for primary education students in Kenya. It provides learners access to coursework materials uploaded by teachers, previous exam papers, online assessments with realtime results.
#9
Deadpooled · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2015—raised▾
Student Finance Africa is a student loan company in Sub-Saharan Africa. It offers loans to students to attend university or technical training programs. The parents of the student act as the cosigners. As per the company's website students and their cosigners can defer the majority of repayment until the student is gainfully employed. The company has partnered with TransUnion.
- Mar 2017Seed—
#10
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County—raised▾
Platform guiding students in higher learning institutions for fee payment
#11
Funding Raised · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2012 · 15 employees—raised▾
Developer of a textbook leasing application designed to offer cheap books for rural students. The company's application provides low-cost access to digitalized versions of all Kenyan textbooks for primary and secondary students where books are downloadable from any Internet-enabled device on the online library or preinstalled on a tablet, enabling students of rural families to avail curriculum textbooks through leasing, anytime anyplace.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of EdTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Nairobi researches in edtech
- University of Nairobi13
- Aga Khan University Nairobi2
- Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi1
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