Global Cloud technology firm Zoho Corp to unveil US$15m investment to support SMEs at the inaugural Zimbabwe Digital Week 2025
Global Indian cloud software company Zoho Corp is set to invest $15 million in Zimbabwe to encourage technology adoption and digital transformation for small and medium enterprises and large enterprises.
In a press release, the company said it would invest $15 million in Zimbabwe to advance technology reach and digital transformation in the SME sector in Zimbabwe.
The investment programme is set to be launched during the inaugural Zimbabwe Digital Week 2025, running from May 5–7, 2025, at the Harare International Conference Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe Digital Week 2025, brought to you by Loita Business in collaboration with Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Zimbabwe, Smart Africa, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Digital Council Africa, and Invest Africa, brings together local, regional, and global leaders from government, business, and international organisations to collaborate in new ways to advance Zimbabwe’s digital economy and shaping, accelerating, and sustaining Zimbabwe’s ongoing digital revolution.
Zoho Corp has been present in Zimbabwe for the last five years and intends to bolster Zimbabwe’s economic sustainability and its wide-sweeping digitalization goals.
We believe Zimbabwe offers attractive opportunities for growth and expansion, said Andrew Bourne, regional manager, Zoho Africa.
Zoho’s fundamental vision is led by efforts to make innovative solutions accessible and affordable to businesses of all sizes. With this at the core, we allocate necessary resources to cater to these rapidly growing markets to empower more people and organizations.
The cloud software vendor has been in the business for 29 years and has around 15,000 employees. It has 100 million registered users using its software worldwide from over 50 countries.
The company, explained Bourne, has over 55 business applications catering to sales support, marketing, HR, payments and finance, to list a few. “We have more than half a million registered organizations paying customers using Zoho,” he said.
Zoho has also increasingly started working with local government entities and public sector institutions in Africa and across the world. “Over the next year, we aim to continue leading the way in the MEA to make Africa our No. 1 market in the region while allocating necessary resources to help achieve the Government objective of having a fully digitalised, upper-middle income economy. Our mission is to help Zimbabwe achieve its digital transformation goals by lowering the technical barriers to entry for the SMEs and enterprise business community,” added Bourne.
Zoho’s investment will power Zimbabwe’s digital transformation and address specific needs that the market has in terms of localization features, compatibility, compliance with government and financial regulations
Fore more information on Zimbabwe Digital Week 2025, refer to event website https://zim-digitalweek.co.zw/
