🇰🇪Financial Technology in Kenya
7 financial technology providers in Kenya, publishing 17 APIs.
Financial Technology in Kenya — 7 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 17 indexed APIs.
2 of the 7 publish 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, 1 developing, and 1 emerging.
Leading by rating: M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja), Cellulant, Avenews, Apollo Agriculture, Tugende, Jumba, and 1 more.
Country membership reads a tag, a stated headquarters or a stated nationality. A provider lands in Kenya when one of its own top-level tags names the country, when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities, or when it describes itself by nationality (“a French company”; roadmap#542, #719). Region words (“Latin American”), language uses (“French-speaking”) and a city named outside a headquarters statement are not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.
Providers (7)
| 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... | 11 | strong |
| Cellulant | Cellulant is a pan-African payments platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operating across 35 African countries. Its flagship product Tingg is a single API that lets busines... | 6 | developing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (17)
Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 17 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 17 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
Cellulant Acknowledgement API
Cellulant Authentication API
Cellulant Custom Checkout API
Cellulant Engagement API
Cellulant Express Checkout API
Cellulant Payments 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, stated HQ,
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.