Robisearch Limited, a Kenyan software company founded as a youth-led technology enterprise, has won the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Award at the 2026 Africa Champions Awards International — a Pan-African recognition platform that honours innovation, governance and leadership across the continent. The award was presented during a high-profile gala at the Argyle Grand Hotel in Nairobi, drawing business leaders, policymakers and stakeholders from across Africa to celebrate progress in enterprise and public life.
Robisearch builds software that automates business processes, manages finances and strengthens accountability, with a deliberate focus on small and medium-sized enterprises — the backbone of Kenya’s economy and the sector most often left behind by expensive, imported tech solutions. The company’s product portfolio spans Enterprise Resource Planning software, Point of Sale systems, biometric tracking solutions, property management tools and bulk SMS platforms, covering the full operational spectrum that growing African businesses actually need.
Founder and CEO Robert Manyala dedicated the award to African entrepreneurs and his team, framing the recognition not as a personal milestone but as validation of homegrown solutions built to solve real problems on African soil. His message was pointed: African businesses do not need to import their digital infrastructure when the talent and vision to build it already exist here.
A Win That Means More Than a Trophy
The 2026 Africa Champions Awards International is not a small regional ceremony — it is a continental platform that holds genuine weight in conversations about African leadership and innovation. For a youth-founded Kenyan tech firm to claim the ERP category signals something larger than corporate achievement: it tells young Kenyans working in garages and co-working spaces that the continent is watching, and that building local matters. Robisearch’s trajectory, from a youth-led ICT startup to an award-winning enterprise serving diverse business needs across the region, is the kind of story that does not get told often enough, even as it reshapes what African tech entrepreneurship looks like from the inside out.
