Technology venture studio · Nairobi
You bring the idea. We bring the technology. We get paid when you get paid.
Pesara co-builds companies with founders. We design and engineer the product, run its payments, and take our share from what it earns. No invoice for the build.
Wazo ni lako. Teknolojia ni yetu. Tunafaidika pamoja.
KES 2,000
From a customer, into the venture's account on Pesara Rails
Split at settlement
- To the venture
- KES 1,820 · 91%
- Pesara revenue share
- KES 160 · 8%
- Platform fee
- KES 20 · 1%
Built by operators
Pesara is led by Sidney Essendi, who has spent more than fifteen years implementing core banking and payment systems for over 50 institutions across East Africa, including as Head of ICT at Faulu Microfinance Bank.
Our promises to founders
What you get here that you won't get anywhere else.
01
Know the deal before you apply
Our terms are published, with a calculator. Most studios only tell you what they take after you've signed.
02
A written answer in 10 working days
Every idea gets a written first answer. If it's a no, you get the reason and the next thing worth testing.
03
Your idea stays yours
Only the review team reads it, and you get a fingerprint of exactly what you submitted and when. We never build a submitted idea without you.
04
No invoice for a co-build
We carry the cost of the build and are paid from what the business earns. If it doesn't earn, neither do we.
See what you'd keep
Put in your numbers. No sign-up.
How the partnership works →Each month, while the build is being repaid
91%
You keep KES 910,000 of KES 1,000,000
- Revenue share (8%)
- KES 80,000
- Platform fee (1%)
- KES 10,000
- Build repaid after
- 94 months (~7.8 yrs)
- Then you keep
- 97% · KES 970,000
Illustrative terms: 8% revenue share until Pesara recovers 2.5× the build, then 2%; 1% platform fee; 25% equity (range 15–35%). Your real terms are agreed in writing for your venture.
What we back
Ideas where money moves.
We co-build products that people pay through. That is what lets us share in the upside instead of billing for hours.
Money doesn't pass through your product, or you'd rather own it outright? We build it for a fee through Pesara Digital.
- Savings groups, chamas and SACCOs
- School, service and membership fees
- Merchant, agent and supplier payments
- Bookings, deposits and instalments
- Insurance premiums and claims
- Credit, leasing and repayments
Your idea doesn't need to stay an idea.
Tell us the problem, who has it and how they'd pay. You'll have a written answer within ten working days.
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