Siscom

Digital infrastructure company

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

We talk about the digital economy, but what powers it behind the scenes?
Siscom brought our stakeholders to PAIX Data Centres for an exclusive facility tour, offering a closer look at the infrastructure behind the digital services we rely on every day and the investment opportunities within this growing asset class.
As demand for data storage, cloud computing, and digital connectivity continues to grow, understanding the infrastructure behind it is becoming increasingly important.
The opportunity starts with understanding what you're investing in.
Our investED series is on the 29th Otober. Book your slot today: https://t.co/X5rqk5VEVA
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#DigitalInfrastructure #AfricanTech #datacenters #alternateinvestmentclass #technews

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Behind every bank transaction, every delivery, and every digital service there is physical infrastructure.

But who owns it?

For too long, investing in this layer of Kenya’s digital economy has felt reserved for institutions and big capital.

At #investED, Siscom is unpacking how investors can participate.

📅 Oct 29
🔗 https://t.co/3cMGKy6sep

Be in the room.

#InvestED #AlternativeInvestments #InfrastructureInvestment #DigitalEconomy #Kenya

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Understanding Data Centres and the Investment Opportunities Behind Them

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[Siscom @siscom_tech]

At Siscom, supporting our customers goes beyond infrastructure. It's about fueling their growth.

Mid-tier ISPs, cloud providers, modular data centre players, AI neoclouds, and AI labs all face the same challenges: high colocation and data centre setup costs, expensive specialised equipment, and the soaring cost of GPUs. Through our CAPEX-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, we remove these barriers so our partners can colocate and run what they need without heavy capital outlay.

But we don't stop at enabling deployment. We focus on helping our partners scale.

One of the success stories in our portfolio is the partnership between Siscom, NETCO, and @CoopVarsityKE

Together, we've opened a new corridor for NETCO to serve the last mile, using the same data centre presence to unlock new growth. 🚀

With NETCO now live @PAIXDataCentres , new zones become simple plug-and-play extensions, unlocking more wholesale opportunities along the way.

This is what partnership looks like to us: lowering the barriers to entry, then building the pathways to grow.

If you're an ISP, cloud, or AI player looking to deploy and scale without the CAPEX burden, let's talk. 🤝

#isp #digitalinfrastructure #assetmanagement #CAPEX #datacenters

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Now, SISCOM (@siscom_tech), a Kenyan digital infrastructure company, is set to hold its first InvestED masterclass on October 29.

The session will help participants understand how data centres work, how they make money and how investors can access the sector.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

If you are looking to understand how data centres work, how they make money and how investors can access the sector.

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[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Data centres, AI chips and cloud computing are attracting billions of dollars in investment globally.

We have done a deeper look at this growing area and what it means for Kenyan investors.

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Welcome SISCOM to PAIX Data Centres.

This partnership is important to PAIX as it helps make data centre infrastructure and connectivity solutions more accessible to businesses, particularly those looking to scale without the burden of significant upfront investment.

[PAIX Data Centres @PAIXDataCentres]

It takes reliable infrastructure, the right partnerships, and access to resources to scale digital operations. SISCOM recently sat down with NetCo at PAIX Data Centres to unpack how access to the right digital infrastructure is transforming their operations. @siscom_tech

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Michael runs an ISP at Netco.
He didn't need more customers. He needed capital.
Sound familiar?
If you're an ISP, cloud company, or AI lab stuck behind a CAPEX wall we finance the infrastructure. You scale.
https://t.co/sDeUXGAR44

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Data centers are adding more and more whitespace to the colocation market nearly 5,860 racks live across Kenya today, with thousands more coming from @digitalrealty , @dc_ixafrica , and Nxtra.

If you're an ISP, a cloud provider, or a neocloud you already know the playbook. You understand the value of colocation. You understand peering. You understand uptime. You may have even engaged a data center and started the conversation.

But your biggest challenge isn't finding the space. It's CAPEX.

That's exactly what Siscom innovates for.

Get in touch for colocation services across partner data centers:
@PAIXDataCentres 🤝

#Colocation #ISP #Neocloud #DataCenters #KenyaTech #InfrastructureFinancing

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

our MD sat in a room with US, Kenyan, and regional capital markets leaders at the AmCham Kenya investor dinner. The thesis of the night: Africa's digital infrastructure boom won't be funded by FDI alone.

FDI is active US Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Susan M. Burns pointed to Digital Realty's newly launched 6.4MW, 3,000-rack data center in Nairobi as proof. But top-tier FDI alone can't carry the whole ecosystem. Local institutional capital has to lead.

The demand is real: a $1.0B unmet digital infrastructure gap today, projected to hit $3.0B by 2028 as AI compute, colocation, and backhaul fiber demand grows. As NSE CEO @frank_mwiti put it: "Capital isn't scarce. Plumbing is." We lack the standardized, asset-backed instruments to convert that demand into something local funds can underwrite.

At @siscom_tech , this is exactly what we're solving for: innovating around collateralizing digital infrastructure and bringing it onchain for visibility, so institutional capital can underwrite it with confidence.

What would it take for Kenya's institutional funds to start underwriting infrastructure the way global funds underwrite GPUs?

Great conversations at the @AmChamKE Business Summit thank you to @Bullish , @WallStreetAfr, @kenyanwalstreet , @AbsaKenya , @CircleFin , @NCBABankKenya , @Yellow , @UBAGroup , @NYSE , @InMotn, @PandL, @HSAgroup, @InvestKE, and @NseKenyaanalyst @USEmbassyKenya @NairobiGossips for putting together such a high-caliber room.

[Chams Media @ChamsMedia]

And because it’s Throwback Thursday on a Thursday!

Here’s @derrickgakuu , Founder of @siscom_tech, speaking on “A New Kind of Real Estate - Data Centres, Cloud & AI” during the 2nd edition of the Daring Diaspora Returnees Forum 2025.

Ready to be part of the conversation this year?

Karibuni Sana and be part of the 3rd Daring Diaspora Returnees Forum 2026 happening on October 30th, 2026 at the Safari Park Hotel.

Come connect, learn and be part of the conversations shaping the future.

Register here: https://t.co/OkRupgnKvN or call; [phone] for more info.

@AlexChamwada @ChamsAdventures @ChamsLodwar

#DaringDiasporaReturnees2026

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Great energy ! This breakfast session was just a preview of the deeper conversations we'll be having at the Siscom Digital Infrastructure Investments Summit on 26th November Capital Club, Nairobi. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and we look forward to seeing you there for round two. https://t.co/7GuXAWHXYz

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

@PAIXDataCentres x Siscom is redefining infrastructure financing in Kenya.

Last-mile ISPs drive connectivity but scaling requires capital at the exact point of need. That's the gap we're closing.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Exactly and that's the real signal. Nvidia isn't just selling silicon anymore, it's underwriting risk on emerging cloud providers in exchange for a cut of future revenue. That's a financier's playbook, not a chipmaker's.
The 210K GPU commitment to Sharon AI (Australia) and Firmus Technologies (Indonesia) matters because neither is a US hyperscaler Nvidia is proving this model works for emerging-market operators, not just the usual names.
That's the exact model gap Siscom Capital is closing for Africa.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

A cloud operator in Asia is seeking $635M backed by GPUs + the contracts generating revenue from them. Nvidia is now financing GPU cloud providers directly, revenue-share style, deploying 210,000 GPUs to Australia and Indonesia. Even inference chips are being used as loan collateral for the first time. Banks are underwriting compute like any other infrastructure asset now real estate, aircraft, GPUs.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

That's what Siscom Capital does. We finance GPUs for African businesses structured around your contracts and revenue, so you deploy compute now instead of waiting on an equity round.
The rest of the world isn't waiting on this trend. Don't let compute be the reason your AI build stalls.
DM us. Let's finance your GPUs.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

$10B+ raised across AI infrastructure deals in the past 12 months. This is institutional money.
But here's the gap: Africa has the AI demand labs, startups, enterprises all need GPUs and almost none of the financing infrastructure exists here yet. Every month that gap stays open is a month of AI infrastructure getting built somewhere else, with somebody else's capital.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

So how do you actually support models this size?

Part 3 shifts gears to the exact thing that matters most to us at Siscom: the physical infrastructure that makes AI possible.

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Every time a new LLM drops GPT, Grok, Llama we end up reverse-engineering the scale behind it.

Take Llama 7B. That "B" = 7 billion parameters.

Thread on what it actually takes to run that

[Siscom @siscom_tech]

Having the model is half the story. Running it at scale needs serious compute power + robust Cloud IaaS behind it.

Software gets the headlines. Infrastructure does the work.