Local incubators and hubs

Global with offices and/or programs in Kenya

• Regus is a multinational corporation that provides serviced office accommodation in business centers. Regus is present in Kenya.
• Operating at the grass-root level in developing countries, Enablis empowers local entrepreneurs and supports them in the growth of their businesses in conjunction with government, private sector and civil society. Every year, Enablis helps thousands of members create jobs from the ground up. 
• Start Up Africa supports young adults in the building of business skills and in endeavors that foster financial independence, create jobs, and grow African economies. Start Up Africa is the initial investors. They are “seed stage” and invest both in the business and the entrepreneur. They provide training, incubation, mentoring, and connections to emerging entrepreneurs.
• The first phase NM-AIST is finished and scholarships are now available and applications are being entertained by the organization. This serves as an entry point for various potential startups in East Africa.
• MEST offers aspiring African entrepreneurs a fully sponsored twelve month, intensive full-time program. Including computer programming, software development, product management, finance, marketing, sales and leadership best practices.

Kenya based

• InvesteQ CAPITAL Limited was founded in 2002 as TradeCo CAPITAL and was predominantly engaged in the business of arranging trade and asset finance for Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Its aims is to empower African entrepreneurs by providing them with innovative and appropriate business and financial solutions that promote the stability and growth of their enterprises whilst providing an attractive value proposition for all stakeholders.
• Valuraha Group is a limited company that exists to open up finance to Kenya and Africa on a larger scale. The first target is financial knowledge and competence in trading in the NSE using our virtual trading platform.
• Kenya Small Business is a resource center for young Kenyan entrepreneurs. This resource center provides information, step-by-step guides, and essential tools needed to start and build a successful small business in Kenya.
• KeKuBI (Kenya Kountry Business Incubator) provides services, facilities, and trainings to its clients to foster and support new companies.
• Founded in March 2010 in Nairobi Kenya, iHub is an open platform for techies, tech companies, and investors alike. The iHub is a technological collaboration facility that aims to bring together novice entrepreneurs, mobile software programmers, researchers, tech designers, etc.
• AfriLabs is a pan-African network of technology innovation hubs.
• An ICT Business Incubation Laboratory based in Nairobi Kenya, NaiLab offers comprehensive incubation service and an outreach service that provides a simplified platform for innovators to be found by venture capitalists and business angels and investors for African profit and non-profit corporations.

Training  

• Start Up Africa supports young adults in the building of business skills and in endeavors that foster financial independence, create jobs, and grow African economies. Start Up Africa is the initial investor and they are the “seed stage” and invest both in the business and the entrepreneur. They provide training, incubation, mentoring, and connections to emerging entrepreneurs.
• The Kenya Institute of Management provides training programs for business-related activities.
• The Kenya Association of Women Business Owners (KAWBO) aims to empower women in business and excel and has developed various programs aimed at improving its members’ capacity in doing business and building businesses and structures for sustained growth.
• KKCO East Africa provides trainings in leadership development, customer service management, sales management, financial management, and change management.
• Junior Achievement Kenya is the country’s non-profit organization with a mission of inspiring young people to succeed in a global economy
• Safaricom Foundation seeks to make positive contributions to communities in Kenya in direct ways, both through financial and technical support and with the participation of Safaricom Limited staff.