The Operating System
for In-Person Events in Africa.
Kite Holdings Limited builds the technology infrastructure that runs in-person events — cashless payments, intelligent check-in, exhibitor analytics, and AI attendee intelligence. One platform. Every layer of the event. Kenya-first and built for scale across Africa.
Kite Holdings Limited (KHL) is a Kenya-incorporated technology company specialising in In-Person Digital Transaction (IPDT) infrastructure. We build solutions for environments where large numbers of people transact, move, and engage — events, conferences, festivals, exhibitions, and venues.
Founded in 2016 by practitioners with over 14 years of experience in Kenya's financial services sector — across banking strategy, loyalty programme design, payment infrastructure, and performance management — KHL was built on a direct observation: East Africa's events industry, despite its scale and sophistication, was running on cash, paper, and zero data. We closed that gap.
Our leadership holds postgraduate business qualifications from Strathmore Business School, with a career grounded in commercial banking — specialising in strategy, innovation, and performance management across Kenya's financial services sector.
We operate on a B2B2C model: our clients are event organisers, venues, and institutions. Their attendees, delegates, and guests experience the platform directly. We take responsibility for the technology layer so our clients can focus on running a great event.
Four Products. One Event Stack.
Every JasTap product works standalone or together. Organiser deploys one or all — on the same NFC wristband, on the same dashboard.
JasTap Cashless
NFC wristband payments — tap to pay at any vendor stall. Eliminates cash handling, reduces queues, and captures every transaction. Deployed at conferences, festivals, and multi-day events from 500 to 25,000 attendees.
JasTap Access
Intelligent check-in, accreditation, session tracking, and access control. Scan on entry, track sessions attended, manage tiered access zones, and generate delegate certificates — all from one system.
JasTap Play
Gamification engine for events — leaderboards, NFC-triggered challenges, real-time rewards, and exhibitor engagement mechanics. Drives attendee movement and sponsor ROI simultaneously.
AI Event Platform
Three AI-powered apps: an attendee concierge (answers questions, surfaces the agenda, connects people), a staff operations kiosk, and an event builder for organisers. Pre-event, during, and post-event phases — all AI-assisted.
Conferences. Festivals. Exhibitions. Venues.
JasTap is sector-agnostic. Our platform has run professional medical conferences, civic assemblies, pharma exhibitions, cultural festivals, and corporate retreats. The infrastructure is the same — the configuration adapts to the event.
50+ Events. 400,000+ Transactions. Zero Failures.
JasTap has been the operational infrastructure behind professional medical conferences, civic assemblies, pharma exhibitions, cultural festivals, and multi-day resort events — processing over 400,000 transactions at 98% uptime across every deployment.
Kenya Diabetes Study Group
Annual multi-day professional conference. Full Access and Cashless deployment — delegates, exhibitors, and session management on one platform.
Africa STEMI Summit
Large-scale cardiology conference for medical professionals across East Africa. Accreditation, cashless payments, and session tracking delivered in full.
Rotary District Conference Africa
Annual conference of Rotary International — the global professional service organisation — bringing together community leaders, professionals, and business owners across East Africa. JasTap has been the platform's technology backbone for two consecutive years.
Beneath the Baobabs Festival
Multi-day cultural festival at the Kenyan coast. Full cashless wristband deployment across all vendor stalls and food & beverage points.
Kenya-First. Built for East Africa.
Kite Holdings is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya is our primary deployment market. We are in active expansion discussions for Ghana, Tanzania, and Rwanda, with a build-deep-not-wide philosophy — we establish real operational presence before claiming market entry.
Get In Touch
To discuss an upcoming event, a venue partnership, or a commercial arrangement — reach us directly.