Your gateway to business growth and predictable financing
Mlango wako wa ukuaji wa biashara na ufadhili unaotabirika
Sayari ya biashara
Want to grow your business and export to other parts of the world?
Our expert coaches help you get market ready, access financing, and build a clear, predictable path to sustainable global growth
A place where everyone gains
Mahali ambapo kila mtu anafaidika
- Results worth repeating
- SME bank financing application success rates >60%, Up from <3%
- Effective de-risking: Zero defaults due to direct coaching, strong communication & coordination
- Commercially viable innovative process tested in 5 countries over 4 years
- >US$ 11Mn and >1,000 satisfied SMEs with >10 banks & financing providers
- >50% Women-led SMEs. 65% borrowed for, and reported, ESG / SDG upgrades.
- Lending time & costs slashed. Better quality SME pipeline, 10x bank productivity, new profitable client insights
- Analysis-based advocacy in international fora
- Several financing recipients went on to attract investment funding
- SME bank financing application success rates >60%, Up from <3%
Our approach
We specialise in market-responsive business development support integrated with financing readiness and systems-change programming. Our work is grounded through our network of local partners, financial institutions, ecosystems, and international market actors, ensuring that solutions are contextualised to real market needs and implemented through local delivery teams. We combine practical diagnostics within a hands-on advisory coaching framework that SME managers engage with.
100% Practical
There is nothing superficial about the expertise we provide: We stand for 100% relevant help, co-created plans that you can implement directly with our "extra brain" ready to support "course corrections" whenever required.
100% Impartial & trustable
Our advisers and coaches work hard to earn your trust and keep up to date with the latest options in financing & investment, market entry and industry and buyers' requirements
100% International standards
Enterprises that are passionate about expanding into international markets need advisers and coaches that know what international standards are, and how they need to be implemented.
Banks & funders
Get a 10x expansion in well prepared, de-risked SME pipeline raising RAROC & Client Lifetime Value from deep business insights. Slash time & costs to unlock low-risk, resilient and profitable, SME lending, ESG & SDG goals. Our inputs leave Relationship Managers more time to sell value-added services.
SMEs in agri, manufacturing or services export supply chains
10x your financing application success rates to grow a sustainable & inclusive business. Get expert coaching to assemble & take control of your business records, who can see them and when - halving grant or loan application preparation times.
Donors, DFIs, Foundations and Donor Advised Funds
Get your funds working quicker, traceably & accountably to accelerate sustainable & inclusive development. Receive clear insights & communications with measurable outcomes and impact c/o our experienced business coaches and underpinning technology.
NGOs, Development & Government agencies
Help your beneficiaries get the financing they need to seamlessly realise all the good things they learned in your development projects without delay and put them on the pathway to become "investable" businesses.
Engage in the solution & find your planet
Join us to match needs with access to commercially viable, secure, traceable, "full stack" grant, loan and investment financing options that are good for the planet, reduce food losses, accelerate women's economic empowerment, young entrepreneurs. Successfully fund climate action, greening of supply chains, expansion of trade and growth in good jobs. SME Planet Kenya enables predictable, low-risk, cost effective, and resilient SME lending that advances ESG and SDG objectives, creates jobs and expands trade.
We set and employ high operating standards
SME Planet Kenya is part of an international collaborative network of SME business development services affiliated to, and coordinated through the non-profit SME Planet federation. Members of the network share common standards of ethics, integrity and impartiality. We exchange sources of useful information, materials,, know-how and new technologies for the benefit of sustainable SME development.
+254 726 496956
info@smeplanetkenya.org
Mbandu Complex, off Langata Road, Nairobi, Kenya
