🇰🇪Financial Technology in Kenya
6 financial technology providers in Kenya, publishing 1 API.
Financial Technology in Kenya — 6 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 1 indexed API.
1 of the 6 publishes at least one machine-readable API; 5 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.
By Kin Score band: 4 minimal, 1 strong, and 1 emerging.
Leading by rating: M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja), Avenews, Jumba, Apollo Agriculture, Tugende, and Onit.
Country membership is exact-tag only. A provider lands in Kenya when one of its own top-level tags names the country — there is no headquarters signal on the country axis, unlike the region axis which reads tag, provider-name pattern, and stated HQ. So this cell is a floor, not a census, and it understates by construction — a financial technology company headquartered in Kenya that never tags itself is counted nowhere on this axis. The region cuts read the wider signal set and will generally hold more.
Providers (6)
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) | M-Pesa is Safaricom's mobile-money platform for Kenya, exposed to developers through the Daraja API. The Daraja REST APIs let businesses collect payments (M-Pesa Express / STK P... | 1 | strong |
| Avenews | Avenews (Avenews-GT) is a Nairobi-based agri-fintech and Digital Credit Provider licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya that delivers transaction-backed, recurring working-capita... | 0 | emerging |
| Jumba | Jumba is a Nairobi-based construction technology company founded in 2022 that digitizes the sourcing and financing of construction materials across Africa. Its B2B marketplace c... | 0 | minimal |
| Apollo Agriculture | Apollo Agriculture is an agricultural technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that helps small-scale farmers across Africa maximize their profits... | 0 | minimal |
| Tugende | Tugende is a for-profit social enterprise founded in 2012 in Uganda that uses asset finance, technology, and a customer-centric model to help informal-sector entrepreneurs (MSME... | 0 | minimal |
| Onit | Onit is a Kenyan digital bank operated by Onit Microfinance Bank Inc. and regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), with deposits protected by the Kenya Deposit Insurance Co... | 0 | minimal |
Indexed API documents (11)
Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 1 API as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 11 documents.
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Account Balance API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Authorization API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) B2C API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) C2B API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Dynamic QR API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) M-Pesa Express API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Reversal API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Standing Order API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Tax Remittance API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) Transaction Status API
M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) B2 B API
Other industries in Kenya
Financial Technology elsewhere
This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts:
Kenya and
Financial Technology. A provider appears here only when it is
already a member of both. Kenya membership is matched on tag,
so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.
Work with this as data
Every country here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Countries is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.