Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Food & Ag

WEBSITE

https://www.vunapay.com

About the company

VunaPay is a Nairobi-based agri-fintech working with agricultural cooperative societies to digitise produce collection records and enable faster, more transparent payouts to smallholder farmers. Public materials describe three main product areas: collecting harvest data (including syncing with devices), managing farmer and inventory records, and paying out to farmers. VunaPay’s external footprint is strongest in Kenya, with public claims of scaling to tens of thousands of farmers through cooperative partnerships. VunaPay shares impact milestones and partnerships publicly, but shares very little about hiring, interview process, or early-career development.

Locations and presence

VunaPay lists an address at ABC Place in Nairobi as a contact location, and positions the work as Kenya-first with ambitions “across Africa.” Public-facing activity and partnerships appear concentrated in Kenya.

Palpable Score

35.4

/ 100

VunaPay is difficult to recommend confidently to graduates because the company does not run a visible careers funnel or publish role descriptions that show entry-level access, coaching, or pay basics. With hiring and progression evidence missing, the score is driven down by uncertainty rather than any single red-flag practice.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

7.0

/ 20

The company does not publish open roles or an early-career intake route on the main VunaPay website, so entry-level access is hard to verify.
VunaPay has a small-team footprint (LinkedIn lists 11–50 employees), which usually means few junior openings at any one time and makes “recurring early-career hiring” hard to evidence publicly.
The company has public proof of growth in users and cooperative partners, but there are no public job descriptions showing “0–3 years,” internships, or trainee roles.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

7.7

/ 20

The company does not publish an application process, interview stages, or timelines, which limits transparency for first-time jobseekers.
VunaPay offers a clear public contact channel (email and phone) on the website, but that is not the same as a consistent, trackable hiring workflow.
The company has no accessible bank of candidate interview feedback (positive or negative) that can be used to validate fairness and closure.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

7.7

/ 20

The company’s work appears cross-functional across field operations, cooperative workflows, and software, but VunaPay does not describe how junior hires would be coached in that environment.
VunaPay does not publish onboarding, buddying, 1:1 cadence, or learning budgets, and there are no role descriptions that mention mentoring or ramp plans.
The company shares product and impact narratives publicly, but none of the public materials spell out how early-career staff are supported day to day.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

6.7

/ 20

The company does not publish salary ranges or benefits on a careers page or job listings, which caps confidence on pay fairness.
VunaPay positions the product around “fair compensation” for farmers, but there is no public evidence about compensation practices for employees.
The company has too little reliable third-party compensation data to judge whether early-career pay would be stable and market-aligned.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

6.3

/ 20

The company does not publish early-career outcome proof such as internship conversion, promotion timelines, or retention over 12–24 months.
VunaPay shares operational milestones (farmers onboarded, cooperatives partnered), but does not share team growth outcomes like internal progression or manager development.
The company has a small public footprint of employee stories, so it is not possible to summarise repeatable junior-to-mid progression patterns from public sources.

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