About Skoo
Built in Nairobi,
for the way Kenya gathers.
We started Skoo because buying a ticket in Kenya meant a paybill number, a screenshot and a prayer — and finding out about the event at all was pure luck. We thought the whole thing could be one product.
The short version
Three problems,
one platform.
Organisers were stitching together Google Forms, paybill numbers and paper door lists. Attendees were finding out about events from a forward of a forward. And nobody — not organisers, not venues, not fans — could see the community forming around it all.
Skoo puts the three jobs under one roof: Marketing to promote the event, Community to fill it with the right people, and Ticketing to get them paid and through the door. It's in our logo because it's the whole idea.
Today Skoo powers festivals at Uhuru Gardens, founder breakfasts at KICC, chama summits in Nakuru and harambees that run on contribute-any-amount M-Pesa giving. Different crowds, same rails.
What we believe
Principles we ship by.
M-Pesa first
If it doesn't work beautifully on a phone with Safaricom data, it doesn't ship. Cards are the fallback, not the default.
Community over listings
An events directory is a phone book. Skoo is the room where your people already are — that's what sells tickets.
Fast beats fancy
Kenyan connectivity is real-world. Pages load light, QR codes work offline, and checkout is three taps on a matatu.
Every shilling accountable
Organisers see settlements live. Fundraiser donors see the bar move. Trust is the feature everything else sits on.
From the community
People who use the thing.
We sold out KICC in nine days. The discovery feed did the heavy lifting — half our buyers found us through Skoo, not our own marketing.
Organiser, TechCircle Nairobi
The contribute-any-amount flow is exactly how a harambee works. People gave from Mombasa, Eldoret, even the diaspora — and watched the bar move live.
Coordinator, Hope Foundation KE
I bought a ticket in a matatu, in traffic, with M-Pesa. Saw three friends were going before I even paid. That's the whole review.
Attendee, Nairobi