Business Development Services and Support Organisations

Learnly Africa, a youth-led and women-led organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, excels in tech training and recruitment by offering specialized courses, flagship programs in Data Analytics, and efficient tech-recruitment services that match mid-senior level talent with job opportunities in under 10 working days, all aimed at empowering SMEs, professionals, and entrepreneurs.

• Training
• Education
• Business development support

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• Not for profit community and social enterprises
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Artisans/Creatives
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)
• International transport & logistics

• Sekta zote

Magnolia Technology Solutions is a leading Odoo ERP implementation partner in Kenya, serving businesses across East Africa. With a proven track record of successful projects for both large enterprises and SMEs, our team of highly skilled consultants offers a wealth of experience to optimize your operations.

• Digital services
• Business management & strategy
• Financial technology

• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• For profit social enterprises
• Artisans/Creatives

• Sekta zote

Magnolia Technology Solutions is a leading Odoo ERP implementation partner in Kenya, serving businesses across East Africa. With a proven track record of successful projects for both large enterprises and SMEs, our team of highly skilled consultants offers a wealth of experience to optimize your operations.

• Advice
• Business development support
• Business management & strategy
• Commercial consulting
• Digital services
• Financial technology
• Information
• Training

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• Not for profit community and social enterprises
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)
• International transport & logistics

• Sekta zote

WYLDE International is a highly experienced consultancy firm founded in 2004 that specialises in providing strategy and business transformation services to MSMEs across all sectors.

• Accelerator
• Business acceleration
• Business development support
• Business incubation
• Business management & strategy
• Climate impact assessment
• Commercial consulting
• Community enterprise management
• Communications & Pitching
• Financial literacy
• Financial management counselling
• Sustainability, Social Inclusion
• Resilience & business continuity
• Advice
• Digital services
• Mentoring
• Training

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• Not for profit community and social enterprises
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Artisans/Creatives
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)
• International transport & logistics

• Sekta zote

We are a Training, Research and Consultancy organisation enabling individuals, and organisations realize growth by acquiring right skills set by bridging knowledge – action gap in various sectors. LMS

• E-Commerce development
• Business acceleration
• Business management & strategy
• Quality & Standards compliance
• Supply chain vulnerability
• Training
• Manufacturing operations design
• Marketing & Branding
• Financial literacy
• Green production / projects
• Human resource development
• Mentoring
• MSME Legal services
• Packaging & Labelling
• Resilience & business continuity
• Sourcing & supply chain management

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Artisans/Creatives
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs

• Agri processing & Agri-business, Agri-food Food and beverages
• Nguo na vitambaa
• Sekta zote

CAP Youth Empowerment Institutes (www.capyei.org) was started in 2011 and committed to train NEET youth (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) in job entry level skills. CAPYEI delivers her mandate due a strong foundation based on her clear mission, vision and objectives. Mission: To build safer, healthier, and productive communities of young people capable of supporting self-directed growth and positive citizenship Vision: CAP YEI’s vision is to be an end- to-end community-based solutions provider in linking quality learning and sustainable livelihood for vulnerable communities of children and young people Objectives: 1. To ensure disadvantaged youth acquire life skills, relevant labor market skills, savings education, and small business development. 2. To facilitate disadvantaged youth access to internship and job opportunities during through institutionalized public-private partnerships. 3. To ensure youth receive vital pre and post-job placement counseling, support, and services including financial as they transition to work. Over the last 13 years, CAP YEI has reached and supported over 100,000 (Directly and indirectly) NEET youth in Kenya and achieved a successful transition 'from learning to earning' of 87% (75% for jobs and about 12% for enterprise development through Training, Mentorship, Coaching, Acceleration and Job Matching. This has been through a strong network of over 53 training centers in over 30 Kenyan counties. CAP YEI has extended its reach, including hard-to-reach areas like Tana River, Lamu, Mandera, and Turkana. In 2020 CAP YEI became an ILO Partner and fully adopted the SIYB (Start and Improve Your Business) curriculum as part of its enterprise training program and SME Loop as a coaching and mentorship tool to incubate ideas and accelerate high-potential innovations. Further to reinforce the MSMEs development component CAP YEI has one (1) licensed ILO SIYB Master Trainer and 23 Certified SIYB trainers who have actively delivered the SIYB Business development modules (GYB & SIYB) to more than 3594(1864 Males & 1810 Females) entrepreneurs across all our programs, among them, 190 entrepreneurs being Refugees from DRC Congo, Burundi and Rwanda and 78 being People Living with Disabilities (PLWD).

• Accelerator
• Business development support
• Digitizing records
• Financial literacy
• Advice
• Blue economy
• Business acceleration
• Business management & strategy
• Digital services

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs

• Kilimo
• Sekta zote

• Business acceleration
• Blue economy
• Advice
• Accounting, Account preparation & Audit
• Accelerator
• Business development support
• Business incubation
• Business management & strategy
• Customs advisors
• Crowd funding advice
• Digital services
• Digitizing records
• E-Commerce development

• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Artisans/Creatives
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)
• International transport & logistics

• Other services -Banking
• Other services –Financial service providers
• Other services –Livestock, Water
• Accessories
• Kilimo
• Kilimo
• Agriculture -Tea farmers
• Sekta zote
• Ujenzi
• Ubunifu (uigizaji, kuimba n.k)
• Masomo
• Domestic transport services, warehousing
• Financing providers, Financial services, Investors
• Ukuzaji samaki
• Footwear, Leather products
• Chakula na vinywaji
• Ukuzaji wa misitu

• Farmers / Farming communities
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• International transport & logistics

• Sekta zote

The Institute for Small Business Initiatives (ISBI) at Strathmore University Business School was established in 2015 through a collaboration between ICEP(Austria) and Strathmore Educational Trust, Registered Trustees (SERT).. The goal of the institute is to increase business and financial management acumen in Kenyan small and growing businesses (Small and Medium Enterprises) to spur growth and create employment.

ISBI is a specialized unit that creates tailor-made programs for specific segments of entrepreneurs (in terms of size or industry). Our approach identifies the challenges the segment faces and develops solutions to them through teaching, training, coaching, mentoring, and consulting. As a result, entrepreneurs can detect execution gaps in their operations and explore their optimization potential.

Track Record: Over the past ten years, with our programs, seminars and workshops, we have reached 3,000 entrepreneurs. Through this time, ISBI has understood the operational challenges that small and growing businesses face. We have profiled our findings in research and continue to perform studies on the impact our interventions have on the small and growing businesses ecosystem in Kenya.

Advanced Entrepreneurship Program (AEP)

This is a hands-on, practical, and participant-centered program designed to help SMEs detect execution gaps and explore the optimization potential hidden in their businesses. It reflects the current challenges and emerging opportunities in SME markets created by disruptive innovation, socioeconomic trends, and market volatility.

This program is designed for business owners or key decision makers in companies that meet

ANY THREE of the following criteria:

2 or more years in business

5 or more full-time employees

Fully formalized operations

Undergraduate diploma or higher

Average monthly revenue 750,000 KES

We have carried out 2 impact assessment studies on participating entrepreneurs. The first comprehensive impact-study conducted by Aston Business School, Birmingham, in summer 2019 demonstrated that entrepreneurs who graduated from our Advanced Entrepreneurship Program (AEP) more than doubled profit and created on average 2.2 new jobs. Evidence shows that because of the skills they acquired they have been able to optimize their businesses through better financial and managerial decisions. To date we have trained three hundred and fifty entrepreneurs in AEP.

• Academic
• Accelerator
• Accounting, Account preparation & Audit
• Advice
• Business acceleration
• Business development support
• Business management & strategy
• Community enterprise management
• Financial & Fiscal accounts preparation
• Education
• Financial literacy
• Information
• Logistics advice
• Manufacturing operations design
• Marketing & Branding
• Mentoring
• Resilience & business continuity
• Training

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• Not for profit community and social enterprises
• For profit social enterprises
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Artisans/Creatives
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)
• International transport & logistics

• Sekta zote

CAP Youth Empowerment Institutes (www.capyei.org) was started in 2011 and committed to train NEET youth (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) in job entry level skills. CAPYEI delivers her mandate due a strong foundation based on her clear mission, vision and objectives. Mission: To build safer, healthier, and productive communities of young people capable of supporting self-directed growth and positive citizenship Vision: CAP YEI’s vision is to be an end- to-end community-based solutions provider in linking quality learning and sustainable livelihood for vulnerable communities of children and young people Objectives: 1. To ensure disadvantaged youth acquire life skills, relevant labor market skills, savings education, and small business development. 2. To facilitate disadvantaged youth access to internship and job opportunities during through institutionalized public-private partnerships. 3. To ensure youth receive vital pre and post-job placement counseling, support, and services including financial as they transition to work. Over the last 13 years, CAP YEI has reached and supported over 100,000 (Directly and indirectly) NEET youth in Kenya and achieved a successful transition 'from learning to earning' of 87% (75% for jobs and about 12% for enterprise development through Training, Mentorship, Coaching, Acceleration and Job Matching. This has been through a strong network of over 53 training centers in over 30 Kenyan counties. CAP YEI has extended its reach, including hard-to-reach areas like Tana River, Lamu, Mandera, and Turkana. In 2020 CAP YEI became an ILO Partner and fully adopted the SIYB (Start and Improve Your Business) curriculum as part of its enterprise training program and SME Loop as a coaching and mentorship tool to incubate ideas and accelerate high-potential innovations. Further to reinforce the MSMEs development component CAP YEI has one (1) licensed ILO SIYB Master Trainer and 23 Certified SIYB trainers who have actively delivered the SIYB Business development modules (GYB & SIYB) to more than 3594(1864 Males & 1810 Females) entrepreneurs across all our programs, among them, 190 entrepreneurs being Refugees from DRC Congo, Burundi and Rwanda and 78 being People Living with Disabilities (PLWD).

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Women-led enterprises
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs

• Sekta zote