Pharmacy presented the best option. Blending my fascination with science and desire to make a difference. At the lab, blending formulas, discovering cures and bringing comfort to those in need made me jump out of bed every morning. Eight years later, armed with a degree in Bachelor of Pharmacy from the prestigious Nairobi University, industry experience from Hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers, I put on the white coat and hit the road, ready to make a difference.

Duhqa, a B2B tech platform that connects manufactures to retailers , today announced the appointment of Dr. Sidney Mwangi as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective November 1st 2025. Dr. Mwangi succeeds founder and outgoing CEO Victor Maina, who will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

From the very beginning, it has been clear that improving the lives of women would be one of Duhqa’s core themes. At the beginning of 2022, we set ourselves the ambitious goal of reaching a 50/50 gender balance in the company

It’s the weekend. You have a party or you have friends over, maybe family.

Kenyan startup Duhqa, a B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods in FMCG, Cold Chain and Pharmaceuticals, has closed a US$2 million Seed round to scale its service offering within Kenya and East Africa. 

Our African continent has enormous potential with some of the fastest growing economies on the planet. Duhqa operates out of Africa and we are very keen to address the challenges of the supply chain sector we are in. The increase we see in adoption of tech solutions is really thrilling and has been a long time coming. In our recent blog, we explore these key challenges and the solutions we are creating.

Earlier today, Duhqa was announced as the best startup in the FTxSDG Challenge. We could not be more proud! We emerged top in the reduced inequalities challenge! The competition was organised by Seedstars and financial times.

I remember the 80s; Kenya was roughly 20 years old, depending on what the last digit after the eight was. Many in my generation were still clueless about what the future would be, and that’s because it was bright, and we had options. We got excited by things like the sound of a plane, the neighbours’ car and were very jealous of the guy who had the only bike in our area. When we had our first television set, a black and white Nec; we felt untouchable, and bedtime was the worst time. 

Soooo we got into Techstars ! No big deal right? We hope we won’t encourage any startups to apply, who wants global recognition anyway?...