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Lipa Later Group CEO Eric Muli (C), Country Manager, Kenya, Claudine Gakundi (R) and SkyGarden Chief Finance Officer, Wacera Maina (L), confer during a media briefing to announce the acquisition of SkyGarden by Lipa Later Limited/COURTESY

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Lipa later acquires E-commerce platform Sky.Garden

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 5 – Buy now, pay later company Lipa Later Group has acquired Sky.Garden just over two-weeks after getting a new buyer.

Lipa will now fully manage the firm’s operations in Kenya, allowing customers to buy goods and services from a wide-range of sellers electronically.

The Group’s CEO Erick Muli said thousands of merchants have signed up on the platform.

“SkyGarden platform has worked with over 10 thousand merchants and hundreds of thousands of customers across the country and has been a very big enabler of E-commerce in the country,” Muli said.

In October, Sky.Garden management filed an insolvency in the Danish Holding Company Sky.Garden ApS on financial challenges.

In an interview with TechCrunch, an American online news platform for start-up in September, Majlund said they were facing financial challenges but were looking for new investors as well as buyers.

Lately, start-ups have found it tough to source funds amid an economic impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

SkyGarden, which has raised Sh736.2 million, will now be fully owned by Lipa Later Group.

With the acquisition, Lipa Later will provide Sky.Garden’s buyers buy now, pay later model that provides for a payment plan that is flexible and affordable through monthly instalments.

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