5x founder

Tesh Mbaabu

CEO & Founder at Cloud9 | Reimagining Banking for Africa’s 400M Youth

Founder

MarketForce· Summer 2020🇰🇪 Nairobi County, Kenya

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @teshmbaabu

2025Founder· Cloud9 Money

Founder · since 2011

Company

Cloud9 Money

Role

CEO & Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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MarketForce

The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa.

Summer 2020

Experience

Career

Cloud9 Money
Founder
CEO & Founder · 2025 – Present
2025
Musoni Microfinance Ltd.
Board Member · 2024 – Present
2024
TM Futures
Angel Investor · 2020 – Present
2020
Chpter AI
Co-founder
Co-Founder & President · 2023 – 2025
2023
MarketForce (YC S20)
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CEO · 2018 – 2023
2018
HotelOnline
Advisor To The Board · 2019 – 2022
2019
Cloud9xp
Co-founder
Co-Founder and CEO · 2016 – 2018
2016
Mesozi
Managing Director · Nairobi County, Kenya · 2013 – 2018
2013
Tesh Technologies Ltd
Founder
Founder & Creative Director · 2011 – 2013
2011

Bio

Tesh is a creative and strategic thinker from both a product and commercial perspective; experienced in business process automation and building startups in the African scene, where I focus on business development, growth and partnerships.