Business Development Services and Support Organisations

Sami Kamau & Associates empowers Kenyan SMEs through vital services like audit, tax advisory, and bookkeeping, supporting their growth and compliance. Our practical accounting training and mentorship programs develop job-ready accountants to build inclusive economies by creating sustainable job opportunities. With funding, we will expand our programs, adopt advanced technology, and scale to serve more SMEs across East Africa, strengthening business integrity and supporting economic empowerment. Our mission to deliver impactful, ethical growth for sustainable social change.

• Business management & strategy
• Financial & Fiscal accounts preparation
• Financial literacy
• Financial management counselling
• Training

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Women-led enterprises
• Financial technologies
• For profit social enterprises
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs

• All sectors

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

• All sectors

• Labour standards & Social inclusion
• Legal support

• Farmers / Farming communities
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Farmers' cooperatives
• Farmers' cooperatives (Sectoral Investments)

• All sectors

Optima Accounting and Advisory is a licensed CPA firm in Nairobi.

We offer:

• Bookkeeping & Accounting
• Payroll Services
• Audit Services
• Tax Advisory
• Business Consulting & Advisory
• Training Services

• Accounting, Account preparation & Audit
• Business development support
• Business management & strategy
• Financial & Fiscal accounts preparation
• Financial literacy
• Financial management counselling
• Fiscal and Tax advice
• 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

• All sectors

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
• Apparel and accessories
• All sectors

We provide financial, management and business training to all entities. With extensive experience in consultancy, we empower you with skills enabling you to make informed strategic decisions.

• Business development support
• Business management & strategy
• Financial literacy
• Training

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• 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)

• Accessories
• Agri processing & Agri-business, Agri-food Food and beverages
• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Agriculture
• Consumer goods retail and distribution
• Cosmetics production Beauty salon services
• Conventional materials, Packaging equipment manufacture, Packaging converters, Sustainable materials
• Creative industries
• Culture and heritage startups
• Design, labelling, graphics and printing
• Domestic transport & logistics
• Distribution and sales
• Domestic transport services, warehousing
• Education, training, academia
• Hospitality, Travel services
• Healthcare: medical care, hospitals and care infrastructure
• Trading services
• Training, Universities, Vocational

Tuendelee consulting helps keep SME dreams alive and turn these dreams into reality. We provide professional book-keeping, accounting and financial management services tailored specifically to the needs of SMEs, thus taking away the headache from the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur, is therefore not only able to know the current performance of his/her business, but is also able to approach the financier with confidence. The best part is that the services are at SME-friendly rates!

• Accounting, Account preparation & Audit
• Financial & Fiscal accounts preparation

• Young entrepreneurs <35 years old
• Mature entrepreneurs >35 years old
• Farmers / Farming communities
• Women-led enterprises
• Enterprises manufacturing products
• Information technology & IT enabled services
• Not for profit community and social enterprises
• For profit social enterprises
• Creative industries
• Young entrepreneurs
• Women entrepreneurs

• All sectors

Optima Accounting and Advisory is a licensed CPA firm in Nairobi.

We offer:

• Bookkeeping & Accounting
• Payroll Services
• Audit Services
• Tax Advisory
• Business Consulting & Advisory
• Training Services

• Accounting, Account preparation & Audit
• Business management & strategy
• Training
• Fiscal and Tax advice
• Business development support
• Financial literacy
• Financial & Fiscal accounts preparation
• Financial management counselling
• Financial technology

• 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
• International transport & logistics

• Agri processing & Agri-business, Agri-food Food and beverages
• Agri-food and Agri-business
• Agriculture
• All sectors
• Apparel and accessories
• Aviation manufacturing, Aviation parts
• Biopharmaceuticals, Consumables, Hospitals, Infrastructure, Medical care, Medical equipment, Pharmaceuticals, Prosthetics, Protection equipment
• Civil society, Charities
• Communications services, Technologies
• Construction services, Primary materials
• Construction, raw materials & services
• Agriculture -Tea farmers
• Other services –Financial service providers
• Other services -Banking

Boundless Consulting Ltd is a company incorporated in Kenya under the Companies Act (Chapter 486 of the Laws of Kenya) on the 17th February 2016. It is a “Training, Advisory and Consultancy” firm. We are a management consultancy and training firm that is committed to designing interventions for our clients that create real competitive value in terms of increased employee knowledge and productivity.

• Marketing & Branding
• Advice
• Business acceleration
• Business management & strategy

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

• All sectors

Dotsavvy is Kenya's first digital business agency that provides integrated digital business solutions to some of Africa’s biggest businesses and most loved brands. We are driven by the challenge of reconciling our clients' user needs and business goals to achieve transformational digital business outcomes. We are more than a digital marketing agency, we are an agent for change in the next normal for progressive businesses and brands that want to disrupt the status quo by using digital at the heart of their business strategies

• Business development support
• Business management & strategy
• Commercial consulting
• Communications & Pitching
• Digital services
• Digitizing records
• E-Commerce development
• Marketing & Branding
• Training

• Creative industries

• All sectors
• Communications services, Technologies