Kenya’s first dedicated techie space iHub opened its doors in 2010 with the aim of providing a home for the country’s tech community, as well as a space for tech entrepreneurs to connect and work on ideas. In the six years since it was opened, it has attracted more than 16,000 members, and has diversified to include the m:lab incubator, iHub Research and Gearbox.
“First and foremost we recognize the need to make sure that we are 100% self-funded, which means running a productive and more efficient set of consulting services,” iHub co-founder and Director Erik Hersman said in a post on the iHub blog. “However, we’ll likely need to reorganize in order to more efficiently work together. We want to position iHub as a preferred global provider for these services.”
“We’re excited to announce some fairly significant changes at the iHub,” Hersman went on in the post. “A group of people are investing in the iHub in order to help us grow, to tighten up our service offerings and make them more profitable, and to help us figure out how not to just find startups but to grow the ones that are getting traction.”
The people involved are former ICT Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo, Becky Wanjiku, Ken Mwenda, and Miguel Granier of Invested Development.
