BizInfo Africa · Business Intelligence
See What They See
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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Episode 4
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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Does Size Matter? Why Africa’s True Size Changes the Global Market Map
On 4 September 2026, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a resolution encouraging a more accurate representation of the relative size of Africa and other parts of the world. For businesses looking at African markets, the timing is useful. Africa’s physical scale is enormous, and the commercial effort to connect its economies through the African Continental Free Trade Area is becoming increasingly important.
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SME | Commentary | Strategy
Could Your Business Survive the Judges’ Questions?
I attended the Africa’s Business Heroes 2026 Semi-Finals in Nairobi for the first time. I came in late for the afternoon pitches, so this is not intended as a comprehensive account of the competition. What I saw, however, was enough to leave me with several observations about entrepreneurship, investment readiness and what happens when a good business story is subjected to serious scrutiny.
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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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