Kenya ili ndi bizinesi yayikulu komanso yotukuka kwambiri ku East Africa, koma kuthekera kwamakampani kumachepa chifukwa cha zovuta zingapo, kuphatikiza kusakwanira kwa kupanga komanso zovuta zomwe zakakamiza ogulitsa ambiri kuti asankhe kugula kuchokera kunja.
MoKo Home + Living, opanga mipando komanso ogulitsa ma tchanelo ambiri ku Kenya, adawona kusiyana kumeneku ndipo adakonzekera kudzaza ndi zabwino komanso chitsimikizo pazaka zingapo. Kampaniyo tsopano ikuyang'ana chiwongolero chotsatira pambuyo pa ngongole ya $ 6.5 miliyoni ya Series B yobwereketsa motsogozedwa ndi thumba lazachuma la US Talanton ndi Investor waku Swiss AlphaMundi Gulu.
Novastar Ventures ndi Blink CV molumikizana adatsogolera gulu la Series A ndi ndalama zina. Banki yazamalonda yaku Kenya ya Victorian idapereka $ 2 miliyoni pakubweza ngongole, ndipo Talanton idaperekanso $ 1 miliyoni popereka ndalama za mezzanine, ngongole yomwe ingasinthidwe kukhala yofanana.
"Tinalowa mumsikawu chifukwa tinawona mwayi weniweni wotsimikizira ndi kupereka mipando yabwino. Tinkafunanso kupereka mwayi kwa makasitomala athu kuti athe kugula mosavuta mipando yapakhomo, yomwe ndi chuma chachikulu cha mabanja ambiri ku Kenya, "Mtsogoleri Ob Izi zinanenedwa kwa TechCrunch ndi mkulu wa MoKo Eric Kuskalis, yemwe adayambitsa mgwirizano ndi Fiorenzo Conte.
MoKo idakhazikitsidwa mchaka cha 2014 ngati Watervale Investment Limited, ikugwira ntchito yopereka zida zopangira mipando kwa opanga mipando. Komabe, mu 2017 kampaniyo inasintha njira ndikuyesa chinthu choyamba chogula (matiresi), ndipo patatha chaka chinayambitsa mtundu wa MoKo Home + Living kuti uthandize msika waukulu.
Kuyambako akuti kwakula kuwirikiza kasanu m'zaka zitatu zapitazi, ndipo zinthu zake tsopano zikugwiritsidwa ntchito m'nyumba zoposa 370,000 ku Kenya. Kampaniyo ikuyembekeza kugulitsa kwa mamiliyoni a mabanja pazaka zingapo zikubwerazi pomwe ikuyamba kukulitsa kupanga kwake ndi mzere wazogulitsa. Zogulitsa zake zamakono zikuphatikiza matiresi otchuka a MoKo.
"Tikukonzekera kupereka zopangira zida zonse zazikulu zapanyumba - mafelemu a bedi, makabati a TV, matebulo a khofi, makapu. Tikupanganso zinthu zotsika mtengo m'magulu omwe alipo - sofa ndi matiresi," akutero Kuskalis.
MoKo ikukonzekeranso kugwiritsa ntchito ndalamazi kuti iwonjezere kukula ndi kupezeka kwake ku Kenya pogwiritsa ntchito njira zake zapaintaneti, kukulitsa mgwirizano ndi ogulitsa ndi ogulitsa kuti apititse patsogolo malonda akunja. Akukonzekeranso kugula zida zowonjezera.
MoKo imagwiritsa ntchito kale ukadaulo wa digito pakupanga kwake ndipo yayika ndalama mu "zida zomwe zimatha kutenga ntchito zovuta zomangira matabwa zolembedwa ndi mainjiniya athu ndikumaliza molondola m'masekondi." Akuti zimathandiza kuti magulu azigwira ntchito moyenera komanso kuwonjezera kupanga. "Ukadaulo wodzitchinjiriza ndi mapulogalamu omwe amawerengera kugwiritsa ntchito bwino zinthu zopangira" adawathandizanso kuchepetsa zinyalala.
"Ndife ochita chidwi kwambiri ndi luso lokhazikika la MoKo lopanga zinthu m'derali. Kampaniyi ndi yotsogola kwambiri pamakampani chifukwa asintha kukhazikika kukhala phindu lalikulu lazamalonda. Chilichonse chomwe amachita m'derali sikuti chimateteza chilengedwe chokha, komanso chimapangitsa kuti zinthu zizikhala zolimba kapena kupezeka kwa zinthu zomwe MoKo imapereka kwa makasitomala," adatero Miriam Atuya wa AlphaMundi Group.
MoKo ikufuna kukula kukhala misika itatu yatsopano pofika chaka cha 2025 motsogozedwa ndi kukwera kwa chiwerengero cha anthu, kukwera kwa mizinda komanso kuchuluka kwa mphamvu zogulira pomwe kufunikira kwa mipando kukukulirakulirabe kudera lonse la Africa ndikufikira makasitomala ambiri.
"Kukhoza kukula ndizomwe timakondwera nazo. Pali malo ambiri ku Kenya kuti azitumikira bwino mabanja mamiliyoni ambiri. Ichi ndi chiyambi chabe - chitsanzo cha MoKo chikugwirizana ndi misika yambiri ya ku Africa, kumene mabanja akukumana ndi zopinga zofanana ndi kumanga nyumba zabwino, zolandirira, "adatero Kuskalis.
Nthawi yotumiza: Oct-17-2022