KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses. They create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever.

KickStart’s Impacts To Date

Over:

• 50,000 new businesses started
• 800 new businesses per month
• $52 million a year in new profits and wages generated by the new businesses
• New revenues equivalent to more than 0.6% of Kenya’s GDP and 0.25% of Tanzania’s GDP