The head of two businesses, Brian Bosire designs tech solutions for agriculture, water, and sanitation. His solution HydroIQ has just been selected by the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program.

With a passion for emerging technologies and their application to solving Africa's biggest challenges, Kenyan entrepreneur Brian Bosire (pictured) gained early attention for his innovations in agriculture and water. In 2013, he founded Electrosoft, a startup focused on bringing technology to efficiency, convenience, and improved productivity in the energy, water, and sanitation sectors.

With his startup UjuziKilimo (which he founded in 2016), he has developed a tech tool that studies soils to inform smallholder farmers, who have limited access to knowledge, to better use resources like fertilizer and water. Brian Bosire's innovations have won him many awards, including the ASME Ishow African Award in 2015, and the Africa Innovation Foundation's Top 10 Young Innovators.

Brian Bosire founded another startup -Hydrologistics Africa (HydroIQ), which offers a virtual water network to provide consumers and utilities with a unique and transparent platform to manage their water consumption. This innovation earned him the one.org award in 2017, ranking him among the Five Young Africans Changing the World. For creating a connected object to manage water networks remotely, namely HydroIQ, his solution was named startup of the year in Africa and won a €10,000 prize awarded at the second edition of SOTYA in 2018.

In November 2021, he announced the launch of HydroIQ in Central America, specifically in Guatemala. “We are proud and challenged to continue providing quality services to the world. As the world's first virtual water network operator, we are proud to keep leading the entire water industry in Africa and beyond in developing innovative technology solutions to make every drop of water count,” he said. The entrepreneur was also appointed the youngest senator from Nyamira County in the Youth Senate Kenya. His contribution to youth leadership and entrepreneurship led to him being named a United Nations (UN) Youth Leader for the SDGs, and a member of the World Bank Advisory Group (S4YE).

His recent selection by the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program on March 14, 2022, will allow him to receive coaching to develop his HydroIQ technology, and expand his operations across Africa and beyond.

Aïsha Moyouzame