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The Underdogs: A MarketForce Story
Startup founders are the type of people who find motivation when there is no predictable path to follow, the odds of success are low, and they have to take personal responsibility for failure. On...
Reimagining the Future of Retail Trade in Africa through Public-Private-Partnerships
Traditional retail trade across Africa is notoriously fragmented and expensive to service, with hundreds of thousands of independent retailers being serviced by an equally fragmented network of distributors, wholesalers, and sales agents. Each step...
2022: The Year in Review
Every year we like to do a recap of what each month looked like for us, and considering 2022 seemed so much better than anyone expected, it’s only befitting to keep this tradition going....
Kenya’s Tesh Mbaabu wins People’s Choice Award and $250,000 grant in Africa Business Heroes Prize
Over the weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa, our Co-founder and CEO bagged the People’s Choice Award and 1st runner-up at the just concluded Africa’s business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition. Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize...
MarketForce Customer Service Month
At MarketForce, our most important focus is our merchants. While we train and remind staff throughout the year that exceptional customer service is the MarketForce way, we also took time to enjoy special activities...
A JOURNEY OF RELENTLESS AMBITION: Top 40 Under 40 Men 2022
Africa is a beautiful continent that has amazing possibilities for the future! While that’s the case, it lacks many opportunities and chances for young people to express their genius. That is where Tesh and...
MarketForce Wins 2022 Inclusive Fintech 50 (IF50)
MarketForce Wins 2022 Inclusive Fintech 50 (IF50) Having come a long way from raising $2m pre-series to $40m series A, MarketForce is excited to announce that we are winners in this year’s Inclusive Fintech...
MarketForce raises $40M Series A to scale up the super app for Africa’s informal merchants
Nairobi, Kenya – Today, MarketForce, the Nairobi-headquartered B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services in Africa, announces the closing of a $40 million Series A round, the largest Series...
MarketForce targets 1 million merchants in Cellulant Partnership for digital financial services expansion into 5 new markets in Africa
Nairobi, Kenya – MarketForce, the B2B retail and financial services distribution platform today announced a strategic partnership with Cellulant, a Pan-African payments company, to extend the availability of RejaReja retailer ‘super app’ to over...