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Safaricom
Mobile telecommunications, data, and financial services provider
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 1997
- Headquarters
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Safaricom employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Paul (Mwaura) NdichuSingapore
ESEasy solarEst. 2016
Alexandre TourreLiberia
Mikul ShahKenya
AAApollo AgricultureEst. 2015
Benjamin NjengaKenya
Kamal BhattacharyaUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Safaricom was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
17 deals across Safaricom's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Safaricom's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Safaricom on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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