Twiga Foods, once one of Kenya's most funded startups, is in administration. Two of its companies now sit under the same administrator, Mohamed A. Mohamed of Maawiy Financial Advisory Services.
GT Flow Limited, registered until recently as Twiga Foods One Limited, entered administration on 17 August, according to a Kenya Gazette notice published on 11 September. The main company, Twiga Foods Limited, now registered as Templar Field Limited, followed in September, according to a release issued in Nairobi on 15 September and reported by Tech-ish.
Who pulled the trigger
Early coverage described creditors moving in. Tech-ish read the administrator's release and found that both appointments were made by the companies' own boards under the directors' route in Kenya's Insolvency Act, with no creditor application or court order.
Administration is not liquidation. The administrator takes over a company that cannot pay its debts and tries to keep it trading, or to get creditors more than a winding-up would. Enforcement against both companies is frozen while that happens. Creditors had 30 days from each notice to file claims.
How it got here
Twiga started in Nairobi in 2014. It bought produce from farmers, moved it through its own warehouses and lorries and sold it to small shops and market stalls that ordered through an app. More than 600 jobs went between 2023 and 2025, and the company gave up its Tatu City distribution hub in June 2025, Tech-ish reports.
In 2025 it tried to become asset-light, buying three consumer goods distributors and planning to power them with its software. Of 435 employees, roughly 319 were laid off in that reset, according to The Condia.
