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Friday 28th of February 2014 will see six startups incubated at Nailab showcase their solutions in a session dubbed ‘Demo Day’ to policy agencies in government, route-to-market partners, target consumers and customers, investors and possible growth partners. The event will feature presentations, pitches and demonstration of how their solutions work.

Over the past 3 years, the Nailab, a tech based business incubator that provides business acceleration to early stage startups, has incubated 30 startups with success stories such as Eneza education, Sematime, and Ghafla.

Here is a brief of the solutions and inventions/ innovations that will be showcasing:

Clad Light

Clad Light is a startup that presents a solution to increase visibility for motor bikes users day or night. This is achieved through wearable electronics on the ordinary reflective jacket require to be worn by every motorcycle rider. The initiative was founded by two brothers; Charles and Joseph Muchene. The idea came up due to the steep rise in deaths as a result of road accidents involving bodaboda operators.

KejaHunt

Keja Hunt is an online property-listing platform using geo-location technology that focuses on helping home seekers get a house to settle in and get the landlords a tenant to fill their vacant houses.

GoKibali

Go Kibali is a system to enable users to apply for licenses and permits on-line from the comfort of their home, office or nearest computer. Users register and apply for their permit, which is received by the sub county. The users receive notifications via sms and email and are always informed of the progress of their application

SokoText

SokoText is a social enterprise that operates in the slums of Nairobi. SokoText works with Mama Mbogas (small vegetable sellers) who supply majority of the fresh food consumed by the residents of the slums. Mama Mbogas spend a lot of time and money daily to get their stocks. They aim to solve this problem and make the system more efficient. SokoText does this using pre-order, aggregation and distribution based SMS based system.

Swap Kitabu

Swap Kitabu is a web and mobile-based service that is aimed at helping ease the acquisition of reading material to the lower income earner. It’s also a solution that is connecting those who want to sell their books with those that are looking for the books.

GigWapi

Gigwapi Events was founded as an event listing platform connecting event organizers to event goers while matching users to relevant events. They have developed exciting solutions that will make events planning a more than pay-to-go-to affair for the organizers and the patrons based on technology.