About IPWORTH

Building infrastructure for the creative economy.

Technology changes. Ownership endures.

IPWorth exists to ensure Africa's creativity is not only celebrated — but systematically valued, financed, and commercialized.

Our Story

Africa has no shortage of creativity.

What it lacks is infrastructure.

Creators often navigate disconnected systems for registration, legal protection, valuation, financing, licensing, and commercialization. This fragmentation limits access to investment, weakens ownership records, and slows economic growth.

IPWorth was founded to solve this challenge.

IPTHAMANI, our flagship valuation platform, is now in its early validation and launch stage — and already gaining meaningful traction, with feedback from early users and partners overwhelmingly positive.

Our Vision

To become the foundational infrastructure powering intellectual property, creative financing, and commercialization across Africa's creative economy.

Our Mission

To engineer trusted systems that transform intellectual property into investable, financeable, and globally competitive assets.

Who We Are

Built by two founders, one conviction.

Wahu Kiragu

Founder & CEO

As Founder & CEO of IPWORTH and builder of IPTHAMANI, Wahu develops solutions at the intersection of intellectual property, creative technology, business development, and creative finance — helping creators, rights holders, institutions, and investors understand, value, and leverage IP as an economic asset. Her work advances the business of IP through frameworks, tools, and platforms for valuation, commercialization, and access to finance, bridging creativity and capital to build a more sustainable, investable creative economy across Africa.

Eileen Ayieko

Co-Founder & Founding Partner, Legal & IP

Eileen is Co-Founder and Founding Partner, Legal & IP at IPWORTH, where she leads the legal and intellectual property foundations underpinning the firm's valuation, commercialization, and financing infrastructure — ensuring the systems IPWORTH builds for creators and rights holders stand on sound legal ground. Her remit also spans compliance, data management and privacy, and the practical mechanics of IP registration — provenance, cataloguing, and audits — that keep a creator's body of work verifiable and investable. She represents IPWORTH in industry conversations on arts financing and investment across the creative economy.

We hold a special love and adoration for young African women who choose to build the solutions to the problems they've encountered — instead of waiting for someone else to do it.

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Where we've shown up.

June 2026

3rd Performing Arts Conference, Nairobi

Organized by the Kenya Cultural Centre, Wahu Kiragu joined the panel "Show Me the Money: Investment Models, Hybrid Finance and Practice as an Investable Asset," moderated by June Gachui, alongside George Gachara of HEVA Fund and CPA Benedict Atavachi, CEO of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund.

30 June 2026

First IPWORTH Workshop: Creative IP Valuation — What It Is and How

IPWORTH hosted its first-ever workshop demystifying creative IP valuation — what it actually means, and how it works in practice for a working creator. The room was full of questions, and by the end, full of energy: creators leaving with a clearer sense of what their work is worth, and a new language for talking about it. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and it's early proof of something we already believed — that once creators can see and name the value in what they've built, everything else, from financing to negotiation to growth, gets easier. It's a small first room, but it's exactly the kind of shift IPWORTH exists to spark, one workshop, one creator, one "aha" at a time.