About us

Born from a desire to help African communities decide better.

Kani Media Company combines artificial intelligence, weather intelligence, live data, and modern software to solve real-world problems — beginning with the farmers whose season depends on getting tomorrow right.

Our story

The company began with a frustration rather than a business plan. Across East Africa, the decisions that determine a harvest — when to plant, when to irrigate, when to protect a crop from frost or a storm — were being made with information written for someone else's climate, someone else's farm, someone else's connectivity.

The technology to close that gap already existed: satellite imagery, machine learning, cheap connected cameras, hyper-local forecasting. What did not exist was a product that put those pieces together for people on the ground here, and made the answer plain enough to act on before the day was over.

So we built one. Wingu9 gives farmers weather intelligence, live field cameras, Farm AI, and early warning alerts — and it taught us how to build for intermittent connectivity, modest devices, and users whose income depends on being right.

Kani Media Company LLC is the company those lessons built: a California LLC and the parent of Wingu9, structured so the products that follow — in environmental monitoring, public safety and smart infrastructure — can launch under the same roof. Wingu9 keeps its own focus and its own home at wingu9.com; Kani Media stands behind it, and behind what comes next.

Company timeline

How we got here

  1. 2026

    Kani Media Company LLC founded

    Registered as a California LLC to serve as the parent company of Wingu9 and future products.

  2. 2026

    An AI & agriculture company

    Applied AI, weather science and live sensing become the core engineering practice of the company.

  3. 2026

    Serving Kenya first

    Wingu9 launches with farmers in Kenya — live cameras, hyper-local forecasting and Farm AI in the field.

  4. Next

    A vision for Africa

    Expansion across African markets and into environmental monitoring, public safety and smart infrastructure.

Founded
2026
Structure
California LLC
Focus
AI & agriculture
First market
Kenya
Leadership

The people behind the company

Eric Mithamo, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kani Media Company

Eric Mithamo

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Eric founded Kani Media Company to put advanced technology in the hands of people whose livelihoods depend on getting decisions right. He leads product and engineering strategy across the company and remains closely involved in the design of Wingu9.

Engineering background. An engineer by training and practice, Eric has spent his career building software systems — data pipelines, connected devices and applied AI — and translating them into products that work under real constraints: intermittent connectivity, modest hardware and users who need an answer, not a dashboard.

A vision for African technology. His conviction is simple: Africa should not import its technology futures. The continent's best software will be built by people who understand its ground truth, and Kani Media exists to prove that at product scale.

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Useful before impressive

We measure a product by the decision it changes, not the features it lists.

Close to the ground

We build with the people who use our software — farmers, operators, communities.

Ship, learn, repeat

Small teams, fast cycles, and honest feedback loops from the field.

Built to last

A durable company structure designed to carry many products over many years.