Kenyan ed-tech startup Eneza Education has merged with leading Pakistani company Knowledge Platform to form the world’s first African-Asian ed-tech venture.
Launched in 2012, Eneza Education uses low-cost mobile technology to give users educational lessons and assessments using SMS, web and Android platforms, while Knowledge Platform provides digital learning content for strategic partners.
The new merged venture, headquartered in Singapore and operating as Knowledge Platform, serves over one million learners in Africa and Asia using mobile, web, and SMS technologies. The combined team of over 100 professionals has expertise in AI and learning technologies, instructional design, and education support.
“We are thrilled to combine our experience in designing and delivering learning solutions in emerging markets. Over three billion young people live in emerging markets. For a prosperous, equitable, peaceful and green future, there is no greater imperative than to invest in the education of these young people,” said Wambura Kimunyu, CEO of Eneza Education and now the chief growth officer of Knowledge Platform.
“Our merger unleashes tremendous energy. Eneza brings deep experience in serving the rapidly growing African market through B2C solutions, and Knowledge Platform brings depth in B2B and B2B2C solutions. We have the passion, grit, track record and capacity to innovate across broad fronts at low price points. I believe we are uniquely poised to serve the massive youth bulge in East Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia.”
Knowledge Platform founder Mahboob Mahmood said Eneza was “Africa’s ace at building a large, sustained and monetised customer base at a very low cost”.
“And I believe we are the emerging markets leader in gamified learning. The combination is compelling. The future of learning involves both curricular and extra-curricular learning through formal and informal processes. Using learning games and competitions and adaptive learning systems, we help young people master curricular subjects, such as math, sciences and English, and, even more critically, largely extra-curricular 21st century skills in digital, climate and financial literacy, problem solving, and data science,” he said.
