{"id":241054,"date":"2026-08-14T06:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cloud9-buys-kenyas-chpter-adds-4500-merchants-in-banking-push\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:37:27","slug":"kenya-cloud9-buys-kenyas-chpter-adds-4500-merchants-in-banking-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cloud9-buys-kenyas-chpter-adds-4500-merchants-in-banking-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Cloud9 Buys Kenya&#8217;s Chpter, Adds 4,500 Merchants in Banking Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cloud9 acquired Kenyan social-commerce startup Chpter in an all-stock deal, adding about 4,500 businesses to its banking platform and completing its second acquisition in 3 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Nairobi-based company did not disclose the value of the transaction. It bought ticketing platform M-Tickets in May for about KES100 million, or $773,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The deal brings Chpter back under founders Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibuti, who left the company in September 2025 and launched Cloud9 weeks later. Chpter&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608130621.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud9 acquired Kenyan social-commerce startup Chpter in an all-stock deal, adding about 4,500 businesses to its banking platform and completing its second acquisition in 3 months. The Nairobi-based company did not disclose the value of the transaction. It bought ticketing platform M-Tickets in May for about KES100 million, or $773,000. The deal brings Chpter back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[9649,258,256,10023,5109,55153,55152,4688,430,6097,44032,257,6354,254],"class_list":["post-241054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-adds","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banking","tag-buys","tag-chpter","tag-cloud9","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-merchants","tag-news","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}