Matawis · About

WE BUILD THE RAILS THE HARVEST RUNS ON.

Nairobi-founded. Nine live agents. Settlement on Base and Celo — USDC, USDT, EURC, KESm, and African Mento.

Matawis is East Africa’s food-trade operating system: we make the trade, we move the trade, we settle the trade.

See the $6M rails Request data room

Public company story. Not an offer of securities. Not a promised return.

Matawis mark: a white serif M with red foliage on the left and green growth on the right

Stock photograph of a Kenyan highland road at dawn with a distant produce truck

Stock photograph · not Matawis customers or GMV.

S2 · Founder

Derrick Macharia

Founder

The company has a face. Derrick Macharia built Matawis from Kenya — and carried it into KEMRI’s scientific room.

KEMRI Annual Scientific and Health (KASH) Conference

Kenya Medical Research Institute · In Search of Better Health

S3 · Cohort

Chosen into the room where AI meets capital.

SERIES AI Accelerator · Member of Cohort

Microsoft for Startups × Seedrs (now Republic Europe). 2024. Demo day at Microsoft Reactor, Paddington, London.

Four-week AI and funding accelerator for Seed to Series A founders. Demo day 17 June 2024. A cohort — not an endorsement, not a priced round, not an offer of securities.

SERIES AI — Republic Europe

Member of SERIES AI Accelerator cohort badge — Microsoft for Startups and Seedrs

S4 · Swarm

Nine specialists. Live.

Kenya already grows the food. Trust, power, and the last mile are still a handshake. Matawis exists to close that gap — in code, on-chain, in the field.