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Nairobi · Serving East Africa
Lenders, corporate buyers, and investors assess your business before they ever meet you. BizInfo Africa shows you what they check: a podcast, a journal, and tools built from due diligence practice across East Africa. And when you are the one doing the assessing, we show you who you are dealing with.
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60 questions. About 12 minutes. See how ready your business looks to the lenders, buyers, and investors who assess it.
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James Opembe
Fifteen years in business intelligence across East Africa, screening businesses on behalf of the lenders, buyers, and investors who assess them, through Metropol, Standard Investment Bank, and now ASAP. The Road to Success and the Emerge Africa Journal publish what that work keeps finding.
Field Notes From The Due Diligence Desk
What screening businesses across East Africa keeps turning up: how large buyers actually decide, why solid clients drop suppliers without warning, and where the paperwork and the reality part ways.
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SME | Commentary | Insights
The Eyes Are Finally on MSMEs in Kenya | BizInfo Africa
For most of my career, support for MSMEs in Kenya was a side conversation. It happened in donor workshops, in the last agenda item of trade forums, in policy papers that circulated among the same fifty people. The businesses themselves were somewhere else entirely, doing the work, largely unwatched.
That has changed, and this week confirmed it.
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Some Kenyan Tenders Were Never Meant to Be Won
Let me describe a week you have probably lived.
A tender lands in your inbox, apparently by invitation. The scope is real, the buyer is a name you recognise, the deadline is tight. You pay the document fee. You pull two of your best people off paying work for ten days. You build the proof of concept they asked for, print everything, and courier a sealed submission before the deadline with every compliance certificate in order.
Then nothing.
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You’re Not Dealing With a Bad Client. You’re Dealing With a Different Machine.
Every few weeks, a video goes viral. A freshly minted entrepreneur, visibly frustrated, detailing how their corporate client took forever to pay, kept moving goalposts, or buried them in bureaucracy. The comments fill up with solidarity and shared war stories. I understand the frustration. But the framing bothers me. Because calling a corporate “evil” or…
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