More than 200 Kenyan start-ups have submitted enquiries and applications for the Safaricom Spark Venture Fund, with applications now going into the short-list phase.
TBL Mirror, the fund managers for the US$1 million (Sh97 million) fund launched last year, have started evaluating the start-ups in line with the fund’s objectives and recipients are set to receive between Sh7 million and Sh22 million to invest in their businesses in return for a minority stake in their companies.