Founder & CEO · Nuvana HQ
Wahome Maina.
I’m building Nuvana HQ, Kenya’s first dedicated business technology company.
My work brings business operations, visibility, and money movement into the same conversation as technology.
The company I’m building
01 / Perspective
The relationship between an organisation and its technology.
An organisation can own powerful software and still struggle to understand its own operations. My interest is the relationship between the two: how work moves, how money moves, and what leadership can actually see.
That perspective has grown through software engineering, running operations across borders, building startups, and working alongside SME owners.
The experience behind the perspective
02 / The institution
Building Nuvana HQ.
Nuvana began as a conviction before it became a company: small and mid-sized businesses in Kenya struggle with fragmented tools, manual reconciliation, and a missing single source of truth.
The ambition is to make advanced technology practical for organisations, starting with the realities of how they operate. Nuvana Business and the company’s systems work are expressions of that ambition today.
Purpose, work & direction03 / Evidence in practice
Decisions. Systems. Outcomes.
01 / Case studyProduct & retail operations
Nuvana Business
Nuvana Business has onboarded 30+ retail businesses across electronics, pharmacies, cosmetics, hardware, agrovets, and other SME retail categories.
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02 / Case studyERP & business operations
Crown Paints · Mozambique
Before Nuvana HQ, I managed ICT and ERP operations at Crown Paints Kenya and spent roughly one and a half years supporting Tintas Berger in Mozambique.
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03 / Case studyOdoo implementation
Furniture business · Kenya
This anonymized case study covers a completed Odoo implementation scope for a furniture-making and craft design business in Kenya.
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The experiences that shaped the work.
From software engineering to running operations for Crown Paints’ Mozambique subsidiary, and from three startups that didn’t work to building Nuvana HQ, each experience has shaped how I think about organisations and technology.
About Wahome05 / Writing
Ideas developed through the work.
Perspectives and observations on organisations, technology, operations, and building Nuvana HQ.
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