TechCabal brought its Road to Moonshot series to Nairobi on July 2, gathering more than 120 founders, investors, operators, and executives for an evening that felt less like a conference warm-up and more like a temperature check on the direction of the East African technology industry.
Hosted at venture studio Delta40 and supported by Safaricom, PawaPay, Watu, and HoneyCoin as the media partner, the event is part of the buildup to Moonshot 2026, TechCabal’s flagship conference scheduled for October 28-29 in Lagos.
A heavy evening downpour threatened to disrupt the gathering, but organisers moved the networking session indoors, which extended well past 9 p.m. TechCabal’s decision to bring Road to Moonshot to Nairobi reflected Kenya’s growing influence in African technology conversations and its status as a regional hub. Kenyan startups raised nearly $1 billion in 2025, more than any other African market, accounting for almost a third of the continent’s total startup funding.
“The idea behind Moonshot is that we’re not where we’re going. We’re just starting. There are big companies still to be built and big problems still to solve,” Tomiwa Aladekomo, chief executive of Big Cabal Media, TechCabal’s parent company, said during his opening speech.
