Kasha is a digital retail and last-mile distribution platform founded in 2016 that focuses on women’s health products alongside fast-moving consumer goods. It serves individual consumers, small resellers, pharmacies, hospitals, and clinics via website and USSD, and also operates a wholesale supply business after obtaining a pharmaceutical license. The company offers telehealth connections when customers lack prescriptions and provides inventory credit to pharmacies, clinics and hospitals. Kasha sources products directly from manufacturers to ensure authenticity and leverages last-mile channels and content to reach mass-market customers in urban and rural areas. Since its Series A, the company reports annual recurring revenue growth of 50x and says it will use new capital to expand across Africa and invest in strategic areas of the business. CEO Joanna Bichsel has stated ambitions to scale the business globally and potentially pursue a public listing in the future. Kasha is an e-commerce platform that aims to improve women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa. It sells and distributes items such as hand sanitisers, antibacterial soaps, masks and gloves. CEO Joanna Bichsel said the service can act as a safe channel to obtain these items during the Covid-19 pandemic and that the company plans to offer Covid-19 diagnostic rapid tests eventually. The article reports that Finnish development financier Finnfund invested $1 million in Kasha. The funding was described as potentially vital under Covid-19 because Kasha provides contactless access to essential products. No other financial metrics or prior rounds were reported in the article.

Total raised

$22M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jul 2023