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Karanja Macharia

Occupation: Businessman;

Position: CEO;

Company: Mobile Planet Limited;

Industry: Information Technology & Services;

Residence: Kenya;

Nationality: Kenyan;

Karanja Macharia, is the  Founder, CEO of Mobile Planet Limited, since 2001. Mobile Planet, East Africa's largest Wireless Application Service Provider at the time of its founding. 

Mobile Planet provided third party value-added services to both the main mobile providers and other corporate clients.

Google was a minority investor in Mobile Messaging Solutions, the parent company of Mobile Planet. It was Google's first investment in an African company.

Unable to find recent infomation on Mr. Macharia or Mobile Planet Limited. 2022/01/24.

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