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KENYA
Tesh
MBAABU
Marketforce
Co-founder & CEO
ABH 2022 First Runner-up
Connection to other founders to make the journey less lonely through continuous learning and cheering each other on is an important“advantage of the ABH community.
Tesh
MBAABU
Marketforce
Co-founder & CEO
ABH 2022 First Runner-up
Connection to other founders to make the journey less lonely through continuous learning and cheering each other on is an important“advantage of the ABH community.
Digitizing retail distribution in Africa
In most African countries, more than 90% of retail transactions occur through traditional channels and in cash. Small businesses often close shop to procure stock and lose sales. To address this, computer science graduate Tesh Mbaabu co-founded MarketForce in 2018, intending to change this for merchants by building digital commerce tools such as RejaReja (retail in Swahili). RejaReja is a B2B commerce super app that empowers neighborhood merchants to source, order, and pay for inventory, access financing, and earn more by reselling financial services in their communities.
HQ LOCATION
Nairobi, Kenya
YEAR FOUNDED
2018
MERCHANTS REACHED
275,000 in 5 African markets
INVENTORY AVAILABLE
200+ brands
FINANCIAL INCLUSION
100,000+ merchants accessing loans