VIDEO: How Kenyan firm secured German investors a year after launch

Bismart becomes the first company in Kenya to use Blockchain technology, which is an incorruptible distributed digital ledger/FILE

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 25 – She left a high paying job in one of Kenya’s biggest insurance companies to start Bismart Insurance.

Armed only with her experience in the industry, Eunice Maina pursued her dream of increasing insurance uptake in Kenya after seeing the mismatch between buying and selling of insurance policies.

One year after starting Bismart Insurance, Maina closed an investment from German-based Greentech Capital.

She sat down with the Capital Business team to shed more light on her entrepreneurship journey and how she got the financing in such a short time.

KENNEDY KANGETHE

Kennedy is a Bachelor of Arts in Communication graduate from St. Paul's University and has been writing for the Capital FM Business Desk since 2013, Besides business news, he enjoys traveling, public speaking and singing