Investment & Export Readiness
Investor Readiness
Growth-stage SMEs across all sectors in Kenya raising commercial, impact or equity capital.
- Reach
- Kenya-wide · Hybrid
- Duration
- 8 weeks
Enrolling Now · Upcoming
Training, bootcamps and advisory designed for entrepreneurs ready for their next stage.
Active Now
Programmes currently enrolling or being delivered with our partners.
Investment & Export Readiness
Growth-stage SMEs across all sectors in Kenya raising commercial, impact or equity capital.
Investment & Export Readiness
Growth-stage women-led SMEs and female founders with stable domestic traction, scaling into regional or international markets.
Digital & Learning
Growth-stage SMEs, mainly women entrepreneurs, institutionalising their internal operating structures.
Digital & Learning
Women micro-entrepreneurs.
Digital & Learning
Rural women micro-entrepreneurs and women in trade in Isiolo and Marsabit counties.
Livestock & Agribusiness
Unemployed pastoralist youth and young women aged 18–35, including refugees and persons with disabilities, across 15 Kenyan ASAL counties.
Livestock & Agribusiness
Pastoralist communities, Farmer Producer Organisations and livestock cooperatives in Garissa, Isiolo, Samburu, Lamu and Tana River.
Returning Soon
Proven programmes preparing for their next cohort.
Women's Enterprise
Established women-led MSMEs in Kenya, operating 3+ years, scaling their geographic or digital footprint.
Women's Enterprise
Growth-stage women founders of registered SMEs facing structural or financial barriers to growth.
Our Track Record
Programmes SRC has delivered with its partners.
BOMA Project (Green REAP model)
Vulnerable women, youth and refugees in extreme poverty in forest-adjacent areas and refugee settlements in Northern Kenya.
Marsabit, Samburu & Turkana (Kakuma/Kalobeyei) · August 2022 – December 2025
Delivered across Kenya's ASAL counties
UK Government (FCDO)
Ultra-poor and vulnerable pastoralist households, women, youth and refugees.
8 ASAL counties · Phase I: 12 months · Phase II: 6-month bridging
BOMA Project
Unemployed pastoralist youth and young women aged 18–34 in Marsabit and Isiolo, with a strict 50/50 gender balance.
Marsabit & Isiolo · 12-month accelerated lifecycle
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
Small and growing businesses and green SMEs in waste management, recycling and the circular economy.
Kenya · Virtual · 12–18 months in successive cohorts
Graça Machel Trust
Growth-oriented African women running established SMEs who want to scale.
Africa · Virtual · 10 months (5 months of training + 5 months of mentorship aftercare)
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Growth-oriented Kenyan women entrepreneurs and SME owners moving from day-to-day operations into strategic business leadership.
Kenya-wide · Virtual · 3–4-week cohort
USAID
High-growth agribusinesses (processors, aggregators, input suppliers) in livestock, dairy, horticulture and clean energy, with an emphasis on women- and youth-led enterprises; also local banks…
Kenya-wide · Multi-year; each business goes through a 6–12-month capital matching and transaction cycle.
GIZ
75 micro, small and medium enterprises and young enterprises in Kajiado and Machakos, focused on youth-led businesses.
Kajiado & Machakos · Multi-month cohort cycle using the GIZ SME Loop methodology.
GIZ
Established manufacturing SMEs in Kenya and Uganda in food/agri-processing and cosmetics/beauty, ready to automate or expand regionally.
Kenya & Uganda (Nairobi, Thika, Kampala, Jinja) · 6–9-month incubation and acceleration track with multi-day technical sprints.
Village Capital
A cohort of 10 rural-impacting enterprises (aggregators, off-grid solar, last-mile distributors) and the enterprise support organisations that serve them.
Rural counties across Kenya · 3–6-month tracking and diagnostic lifecycle with multi-week milestone checkpoints.
USAID
56 selected SMEs and livestock markets: veterinary suppliers, fodder producers, aggregators and Livestock Market Associations.
Marsabit & Isiolo · Multi-year; each enterprise cohort goes through a 6–12-month acceleration track.
Netherlands Trust Fund (NTF III)
28 Kenyan and 25 Ugandan tech entrepreneurs (software developers, BPOs, digital start-ups) plus corporate buyers, telcos and tier-1 banks.
Kenya & Uganda (Nairobi–Kampala) · Multi-year; 6–12-month export coaching track with 3–5-day B2B matchmaking events.
No programmes match these filters.