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About Us

We are a turn-key creator of new businesses for mobile.

We work closely with our customers and partners to provide innovative mobile services; for payments, micro-finance, commerce, trade, health and education:


- An incubator that creates new mobile service businesses around the world; shaping strategy, refining business models, training staff and supporting operations.
- A software house that provides integrated, hosted and fully supported proven technologies for secure mass market mobile services.

 

Iceni award winning team

Based in Cambridge in the UK, Iceni was founded in 2008 by the team that created M-PESA while working at the engineering consultancy Sagentia. For background information on our role on M-PESA please see the CGAP’s blog.

We are always on the lookout for good people who share our passion to make a difference. Whether Microsoft based software development and systems operations individuals based in Cambridge, or hands-on customer focussed people happy to travel to amazing parts of the world, if you think you have something to offer, please contact us (please, strictly no agencies).

Our investors are:

Plextek, based in Cambridge, UK, a leading engineering consultancy for communications, automotive, aerospace and medical applications and one of the largest independent electronics design consultancies in Europe. For more information visit http://www.plextek.com.

MIH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers, a leading emerging market media group operating in 129 countries. It is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), with an ADR (American Deposit Receipt) listing on the London Stock Exchange. The group’s principal operations are in internet platforms (focusing on commerce, communities, content, communication and games), pay-television and the provision of related technologies and print media (including publishing, distribution and printing of magazines, newspapers and books). The group’s most significant operations in emerging markets include South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, China, Central and Eastern Europe, India, Brazil, Russia and Thailand. For more information visit http://www.naspers.com.

We are a turn-key creator of new businesses for mobile.

The tools, the knowhow and the passion to build new businesses

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