A networking night in Nairobi
Your 6 conversations,
chosen before you
walk in the door.
Connect is one night, 50 seats, in Nairobi. You answer 3 questions when you take a seat.
We read all 50 answers and build your evening: 6 conversations, 8 minutes each, with a name, a table number and one line saying why this person was put in front of you.
Nothing to sign up for on this page. Connect Nairobi 01 is being dated.
The room today
80 strangers, 4 business cards, no idea which one mattered.
KES 2,000–4,000
what a Nairobi mixer asks for an evening of chance
80
strangers in a loud room, not one of them assigned to you
0
reasons you were put in front of any of them
The value of the night is decided by luck, confidence and who you already knew when you arrived.
The quiet people leave with nothing. The loudest people leave with everything. The one person who could have moved your deal stood 6 metres away all evening.
Nobody sells the outcome. Everybody sells the room.
24 hours before the night
This is what arrives. 6 names, 6 reasons.
Networking stops being a social skill the moment it becomes a calendar. This is the whole product, one page long.
- 1
ReasonYou said you need a Mombasa distributor. She moves 3 FMCG brands through the coast.
18:40
table 4
Grace Wanjiru
Head of distribution, coast region
- 2
ReasonHe wrote 4 first cheques last year. You are raising for cold-chain logistics.
18:52
table 11
Daniel Kimani
Angel, first cheques in agri-tech
- 3
ReasonShe onboards fintech partners. You need a sponsor bank for your payments licence.
19:04
table 2
Wanjiku Otieno
Partnerships lead, regional bank
- 4
ReasonYou want a technical co-founder. He has interviewed 40 engineers and knows who is free.
19:16
table 9
Samuel Mwangi
Agency owner, 14 staff
- 5
ReasonYour first enterprise client looks like her employer. She signs vendors under KES 5 million.
19:28
table 6
Faith Njeri
Procurement lead, hospital group
- 6
ReasonHe runs refrigerated routes to Kisumu. You said your cold chain breaks past Nakuru.
19:40
table 13
Brian Ochieng
Logistics operator, 22 trucks
An example schedule, written to show the shape of the thing. Yours is built from the 3 answers you give when you take a seat, and from what the other 49 people in the room said they need.
How one night runs
4 steps
Seat
$25 (about KES 3,200). One seat, one price, card only. 50 seats a night.
Intake
3 questions, in your own words. What you do. What you need in the next 90 days. What you can open for someone else.
Schedule
24 hours before, your 6 pairings arrive with names, tables and reasons. On the night every phone runs the same timer.
Brief
The morning after: the 6 people you met, why each pairing was made, and a first message to send them.
Who the night is for
- The founder hunting a distributor, a first enterprise client, an angel or a technical co-founder.
- The sales, BD or partnerships lead whose quarter depends on meeting decision-makers.
- The consultant building a client base outside their employer, who finds loud rooms a waste of an evening.
The night works when every seat has something to open for someone else.
That is why there is a price and why there are only 50 seats. A pairing is worth 8 minutes only if both people can move something for each other.
Connect Nairobi 01
50 seats. 6 conversations each, chosen in advance.
The date is being set. Seats are $25 (about KES 3,200) and go on sale here, on this page, when it is.
Send this to the one person you would want across the table.