With the vision of being a key enabler of socio-economic development through innovation, KeNIA was set up to develop and manage the national innovation system.

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is a State Corporation established under the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Act, No. 28 of 2013 under the Ministry of Education. The core mandate of the Agency is to develop and manage the National Innovation System. The Agency is therefore responsible for co-ordination, promotion and regulation of the National Innovation Ecosystem.

Working with partners, KeNIA strengthens

eLEAF is a high-tech remote sensing company that provides satellite-based data and services for the agricultural, water management and crop index insurance domains. Our product offering is targeted at the entire agri-business value chain ranging from farmers to food processors as well as non-profit organizations, public institutions and governments.

Integrated Aerial Systems is a fully licensed drone service provider in South Africa. We provide an end-to-end drone service from flight planning, data collection, processing analytics and crop spraying. We are a company with extensive experience in executing and delivering drone-generated data with thousands of flying hours. Our team brings together expertise from the aviation, agriculture, survey and data sectors. All pilots hold a remote pilot's license from the CAA and are specially trained in advanced aerial data collection and crop spraying.

 

Modisar Net - A livestock management & tracking solution

Modisar employs “Precision Livestock Management” through a farm management app (available in IOS, Android & Web apps) an IoT livestock tracking solution

 

Hoeda Agritech is a 100% black, 52 % young female start-up agrotechnology company that intends to offer a complete digital solution for the whole farming process with a particular focus on emerging smallholder farmers. We believe that the opportunity exists for any agri-business to become digitalized, market savvy, and successful. Hoeda Agritech will create simple and effective digital solutions that could level the playing field for small holder farmers, giving them equal access to technologies and providing them capabilities to take advantage of the new digital economy.

MURIMI is a Subsidiary of Nature Growers Agricultural services Pty Ltd.  Moreover, MURIMI is an AgriTech company, created by young innovators in order to bring expert agricultural information to up and coming farmers in South Africa, using mobile technology that allows access for all socio-economic groups. Created for the starting farmers in need of information to grow better yield and  to decreasee costs. Murimi was created to be a farmer's best friend in their pocket seamlessly helping them save on expert opinion costs down to access to competitive prices for other inputs all with the simple

MST Devs (Ltd). is an ICT company, which provides a broad array of services across the information technology value chain. Our primary objective is to partner with Small and Medium Businesses, across all stages of digital migration/ integration.

We endeavour to introduce the benefits of digital migration closer to entrepreneurs, in ways which are realistic and easily digestible.

Our core offerings include:

  • Software Development and Business Process Automation (BPA)
  • Website and E-Commerce Site Development
  • App Development (iOS and Android)
  • Maintenance of Digital Platforms 
  • Software to

Reel Gardening is on a mission to make gardening as quick, simple and fun as possible. Focused on getting people to get back to the basics with a higher rate of success which results in continued planting and long-term systemic change all while saving 80% in water consumption. We do this through our patented seed tape which you just place in the ground so that you can see the coloured portion above the soil and then all you have to do is add water. You know exactly what you planted and where so you can identify if a little shoot is a food or a weed.

We then pre-pack seed tape according to

Sentian Aerospace (Pty) Ltd is an award-winning, fully fledged drone manufacturing company.The company`s BBBEE status is level 2 with 51% Black ownership.

In 2014 the team embarked on a project to design and build a fixed wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Vertical Take-Off and Landing capabilities. The idea behind the project was to design and manufacture a locally produced UAV that was versatile in function, affordable and yet globally competitive.

The drone is called the Sentian UAV. What makes our system unique is that it was designed to have multi role mission capabilities. The UAV

Farmru is a solution for smart farming aimed at assisting small-scale farmers by helping them save water and make informed decisions. Farmru is meant for existing and aspiring smallholder farmers from mainly rural areas. farmers include both women, men, youth, and disabled.

Farmru assists by helping farmers get a real-time soil fertility insight before planting anything this will include nutrient levels in the soil. farmers will be able to know which plants are suitable for that soil they have. Smallholder rural farmers will also be able to save water and avoid overwatering as the Farmru