Our mission is to help local businesses thrive to become the bedrock of African economies. We are building the end to end social commerce stack to help small businesses get discovered, connect with new customers, and grow by building lasting relationships with their customers.
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $1.68M
Founded date: 2022
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Resilience... | resilience... |
| - | Acasia Ven... | acasia.ven... |
| - | Norrsken A... | accelerato... |
| 26.10.2023 | DCG Expedi... | expedition... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 21.12.2023 | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | - |
| 01.02.2023 | Pre-Seed | $180K | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.03.2024 | Tappi’s Collaboration with MTN Spurs Expansion in Cote d’Ivoire | Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Op... |
| 01.03.2024 | Digital commerce startup tappi raised $1.5 M Pre-seed funding from VC firm Acasia Ventures | Acasia Ventures, an Egyptian venture capital firm, participated in a pre-seed funding round of $1.5 million for tappi, a Kenyan digital commerce startup. Leading the round were Mercy Corps Ventures and Chui Ventures, with advisors from Goog... |
| 21.12.2023 | Tappi, a Kenyan startup, raises $1.5 million in pre-seed funding | Tappi, a Kenyan startup that provides a chat tool that generates a webpage automatically, received US$1.5 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round of funding. With participation from Digital Currency Group, SOSV, Resilience17, growX vent... |
| 08.12.2023 | tappi Raises $1.5M to digitize and build online trust for African SMEs | Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Op... |
| 06.12.2023 | Kenyan startup tappi raises a $1.5 million pre-seed six months after receiving $180K from SOSV’s Orbit Startups | The News: Kenyan startup tappi has raised $1.5 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round six months after securing $180,000 in funding from Orbit Startups in an accelerator programme. Mercy Corps Ventures and Chui Ventures led the round, ... |
| 06.12.2023 | Exclusive: tappi raises $1.5 million pre-seed to digitize African SMEs | This startup allows small business owners to place ads using airtime; it has raised $1.5 million pre-seed to pursue its next growth phase in Nigeria and Kenya. tappi, an end-to-end digital commerce SaaS solution tailored for small and mediu... |
| 06.06.2023 | SOSV backs 9 startups in latest accelerator cohort | InvestmentsNewsStartups Deepti Sri · 13 Jun 2023 · 2 min readSOSV backs 9 startups in latest accelerator cohort Venture capital firm SOSV has revealed the nine startups in the latest cohort of its Orbit Startups program, which targets emerg... |
| - | Tappi | “Convert one-time customers into loyal ones by getting discovered, growing leads and building your business reputation.” |