Kelvin Macharia, Director of Sunrise Tracking, displaying one of the car track gadgets in Nairobi on April 26, 2016. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Sunrise Tracking provides fleet management services, where a company with over 100 vehicles can track each of these vehicles using their mobile phones.
Kelvin Macharia Kuria designs the software for his innovation from scratch, then sends it to companies in India and Europe for prototyping, since Kenya does not have the capacity to produce printed circuit boards. The device is then mass produced and shipped to Kenya.
He was also voted Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2015 Africa Youth Awards, hosted in Ghana. Besides running a business, the 25-year-old is a fourth-year bachelor of commerce student at the University of Nairobi.
In 2012, Kelvin Macharia Kuria had just returned to the country from South Africa, where he had been awarded a scholarship to pursue a diploma in entrepreneurship and leadership from the prestigious African Leadership Academy.
About the same time, his uncle was carjacked, an incident that would stimulate the idea that gave birth to his company.
