Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
Location: Kenya, Nairobi Area, Nairobi
Phone: +254 768 212665
Total raised: $2.35M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Startupboo... | startupboo... |
| - | Cell VC | cell.vc |
| - | Norrsken I... | norrskenim... |
| - | Norrsken A... | accelerato... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 23.11.2021 | Pre-Seed | $2M | - |
| 19.11.2019 | - | $350K | - |
Mentions in press and media 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.09.2022 | 60 African startups receive $4 million equity-free funding from Google | Earlier today at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Google announced that 60 African startups have been selected for the second cohort of its Google for Startups Black Founders Fund. Each of the selected startups will receive support in t... |
| 31.12.2021 | A kenyan digital platform formalises payments | Asilimia Portrait Shots A Nairobi-based fintech startup providing the financial infrastructure needed to connect Africa’s 150 million micro, medium and small-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to the formal financial economy. The company’s key obje... |
| 29.11.2021 | African fintech Asilimia lands $2M | Asilimia has raised $2 million from investors including Norrsken Impact Accelerator. Based in Kenya, the company is the developer of a digital payments platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Select Additional Investors Bpifrance, G... |
| 27.11.2021 | Asilimia, a Kenyan fintech startup, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding | Kenyan fintech startup Asilimia, which aims to connect African MSMEs with the formal financial industry, has raised US$2 million to increase its workforce, develop new services, and extend its operations in East Africa. The startup just rec... |
| 26.11.2021 | Asilimia secures $2 million to build the financial infrastructure of Africa’s informal economy | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 25.11.2021 | Nigeria’s ranking on NFTs, Asilimia’s $2m funding, OnePipe’s $3.5m seed | Share this article: Hi there, Today, I’m discussing: Nigerians and NFTs Asilimia’s $2m funding OnePipe’s $3.5m seed Nigeria’s NFT ranking Money vector created by freepik – www.freepik.com A new report by Finders.com shows that 13.7% of Nige... |
| 23.11.2021 | Kenyan fintech Asilimia raises $2 million in a pre-seed round, plans to extend loans to MSMEs and expand in East Africa | Kenya’s economy is powered by informal businesses, which contribute 33.8% to the country’s GDP and provide 83.4% of the total employment outside of small-scale agriculture, data from the country’s bureau of statistics shows. The contributio... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year. While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed d... |
| 24.12.2019 | Are these the 10 biggest deals by African tech startups in 2019? | Big money. That’s what African 86 tech startups raised this year. While not every startup wanted to disclose how much they raised, those that did made a ton of it — almost $290-million going on data from 88 venture capital (VC) disclosed de... |
| 23.12.2019 | African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List] | African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by Ventureburn’s calculations. The biggest cash prize went to South African insurtech st... |
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