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The full-stack infrastructure layer for African businesses and developers: email, SMS, payments, DNS and hosting, priced in KES and billed via M-Pesa.
Built with care in Nairobi, Kenya · Est. 2026
axeneaxene.ioThe full-stack infrastructure layer for African businesses and developers: email, SMS, payments, DNS and hosting, priced in KES and billed via M-Pesa.
Built with care in Nairobi, Kenya · Est. 2026
axeneaxene.ioStripe doesn't work in Kenya. Twilio bills in USD. AWS support tickets sit unanswered for 12 hours. Every developer tool assumes a US credit card, a US timezone, and a US bank account.
USD pricing, failed card transactions, PayPal blocks, and surprise FX markups on every invoice.
Servers go down at 2 PM Nairobi time. Support tickets open in San Francisco. Nobody answers until tomorrow.
M-Pesa webhooks, Kenyan shortcodes, local DNS. Global tools don't handle these natively.
axeneaxene.ioThe numbers below are not projections. They are 2024 actuals from Safaricom, GSMA, KIPPRA and ResearchAndMarkets. The infrastructure layer underneath this economy has not caught up. That is the gap Axene fills.
axeneaxene.ioKES pricing. M-Pesa billing. Engineering support in Nairobi. Data on African servers. Designed around local payment rails, local telecoms, and local developer workflows.
No USD conversion. No failed foreign card transactions. Pay with your phone, on your terms.
M-Pesa webhooks, Kenyan aggregators, local DNS: first-class support, not workarounds.
Our engineering team is in Nairobi. When something breaks at 2 PM EAT, we're at our desks.
99.9% uptime SLA. Enterprise-grade redundancy. Your M-Pesa webhook fires on a public holiday at midnight.
axeneaxene.ioDeveloper APIs, business tools, and client services, all built and maintained by Axene.
Transactional email at scale. OTPs, receipts, confirmations. 3,000 free/month.
Bulk SMS and OTPs via Kenyan aggregators. No USD billing.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Visa, Mastercard, bank transfer. One endpoint.
Professional email on your domain. IMAP, SMTP, anti-spam. 10GB storage.
axeneaxene.ioTransactional and marketing email with full API access, SMTP relay, custom domains, click tracking, and analytics. No credit card required.
axeneaxene.ioEvery competitor bills in USD and requires a foreign credit card. For Kenyan developers, that's a monthly obstacle before writing a single line of code.
Email API at 15,000 emails/month, KES equivalent pricing.
axeneaxene.ioNo credit card. No USD. No complicated setup.
Create your account in seconds. Add your domain, verify the DNS records, and you are ready to send. No credit card. No setup fees.
One API key per product. RESTful endpoints with JSON responses. No XML. No SDK required. Standard HTTP works everywhere.
Data on African servers. Latency under 50ms from Nairobi. Support in EAT. Billing in KES. Scale without surprises.
axeneaxene.ioaxeneaxene.ioMonthly or annual plans for Email API, SMS, Payments, DNS, and Email Hosting. Tiered by usage, billed in KES via M-Pesa.
axeneaxene.ioWeb hosting, website development, SEO, management, email setup, and custom software. Transparent pricing, fast turnaround.
axeneaxene.ioLow acquisition cost: African developers actively seek local alternatives
High retention: switching costs once integrated into a production stack
Natural expansion: customers grow from one product to the full suite
Services revenue funds infrastructure build-out with zero dilution
axeneaxene.ioAxene Mailer launched in 2026 and is live in production. We currently have 40 users actively testing the product. Our client services arm runs in parallel - custom software and infrastructure setup work that funds the SaaS build-out.
axeneaxene.ioAxene is built by five technical co-founders. We are all young, all in Kenya, all building this together from the ground up.
SMTP infrastructure, DevOps, and A2P SMS systems. Builds and runs the core platform.
Product, sales, and corporate accounts. Leads customer conversations and partnerships.
Full-stack engineering. Builds e-commerce, fintech, and M-Pesa integrations.
AI and Python backend. Builds intelligence layers across the product suite.
Cybersecurity and infrastructure hardening. Keeps the platform safe and resilient.
axeneaxene.ioA US provider could announce KES billing tomorrow. Building it properly is a different problem.
M-Pesa STK Push requires a Daraja integration and a registered Kenyan business entity. Global providers have neither and no roadmap to build them.
Sub-50ms latency from Nairobi is a structural infrastructure decision. The incumbents have already placed their regions elsewhere.
Customers integrate Mailer, then add SMS, then DNS, then Workspace. Each product adds switching cost. The full suite is the moat.
We sell in Swahili and English, in person, in Nairobi. A US sales team cannot replicate this from San Francisco.
axeneaxene.ioWe are talking to strategic angels and pre-seed investors who understand African infrastructure. Capital goes to physical office space for credibility and contract-signing, marketing to reach Kenyan businesses at scale, and completing the product suite.
axeneaxene.ioaxeneaxene.ioWe are not selling charity. Capital into Axene buys equity in a company with a working product, a clear market, and a team that ships. Here is what backing us actually means.
You own a share of the company at an early price. Five of us are the only owners today, so what you buy in now is what you keep as we grow.
A short email from us every month. How much money came in, how many customers signed up, what we shipped, what went wrong. Honest, not polished.
You can WhatsApp or call any of the five of us directly. No assistants, no gatekeepers. If you have a question, you ask us, and we answer.
When we raise money again later, you get first option to put in more so your share of the company does not shrink. You decide if you want to.
Investors who bring distribution, customer introductions, or specific expertise get a seat at quarterly strategy sessions. Capital is welcome. Capital plus operating help is better.
Quarterly strategy sessions with the team
First look at new products before public launch
Credited as a founding investor on axene.io
axeneaxene.ioDeveloper infrastructure for Africa. KES pricing, M-Pesa billing, local support in Nairobi.