VOX

Interview with Shez Tejani on his company, M-Life, creating a world where marketing solves consumer problems specifically and directly  

FACTSHEET 

Name of the startup: M-Life 

Website: www.facebook.com/mlifekenya

Year of incorporation: 2018 

Headquarters: Kenya 

Industry: Consumer Data Driven Marketing 

Team size: 15  

Current Revenues: $250,000 in 2019, $500,000 projected in 2020  

Name of the speaker: Shez Tejani 

Role of the speaker: CEO & Founder 

Funding raised to date: US$ 250,000 

Currently fundraising: Yes 

Targeted amount: US$ 1,000,000

Interview with Audrey Cheng on her company, Moringa School, one of the few established coding schools in Africa, and how she is tackling covid by changing its long term business strategy  

FACTSHEET 

Name of the startup: Moringa School 

Website: https://moringaschool.com/

Year of incorporation: 2014 

Headquarters: Kenya 

Industry: Education 

Team size: 105 

Current Revenues: Undisclosed 

Name of the speaker: Audrey Cheng 

Role of the speaker: CEO and Founder 

Funding raised to date: Undisclosed 

Currently fundraising: Undisclosed 

Targeted amount: Undisclosed

Interview with Diana Paredes as she shares valuable startup life sessions and tells us about her startup, Suade, a bootstrapped reg-tech and RaaS (Regulation as a Service) in the fintech space with headquarters in the UK.  

FACTS SHEET 

Name of the startup: Suade 

Website: https://suade.org/

Year of incorporation: 2014 

Headquarters:  London 

Industry: Fintech 

Team size: 40 

Current Revenues: Not disclosed 

Name of the speaker: Diana Paredes 

Role of the speaker: CEO & Co-Founder 

Who are the founders: Diana Paredes & Murat Abur 

Funding raised to date: Not disclosed 

Currently fundraising: No 

Targeted amount: n.a.

In the 13th episode of VOX Podcast, Diane and Stefano interview Tekwane, connected from Paris where he's strategizing the expansion of Asilimia (which means Percentage in Swahili language). Asilimia started as facilitator of free M-Pesa transactions (mobile money) and it is evolving in a larger ecosystem of services.  

Name of the startup: Asilimia 

Website: https://asilimia.co.ke/  

Year of incorporation: 2018 

Headquarters: Nairobi 

Industry: Fintech 

Team size: 8 

Current Revenues: US$ 10k/month 

Name of the speaker: Tekwane Mwendwa 

Role of the speaker: CEO & Founder 

Funding raised to date: USD $400K 

Currently fundraising: No Targeted amount: n.a.

When we think of technology we tend to imagine technology as a person sitting behind a computer and writing lines of code. Most likely we would not imagine a young woman getting her hands dirty with bugs, but this is what agri-tech can be about. Meet Talash Huijbers, the Founder and CEO of Insecti Pro, one of the world's most innovative agri-tech startups, based in Kenya.  

Name of the startup: InsectiPro 

Website: https://insectipro.com/

Year of incorporation: 2018 

Headquarters: Limuru, Kenya 

Industry: Agriculture 

Team size: 55 

Current Revenues: Not disclosed 

Name of the speaker: Talash Huijbers 

Role of the speaker: Founder/CEO 

Funding raised to date: US$ 500k  

Currently fundraising: Not disclosing 

Targeted amount: Not disclosing

Interviewing Jason Eisen which proposes a drastically new approach to the online trust system, starting from Nairobi, Kenya and aiming to global expansion.  

Name of the startup: UTU 

Website: https://utu.io/ 

Year of incorporation: 2017 

Headquarters: Nairobi 

Industry: Trust Infrastructure as a Service 

Team size: 35 Current 

Revenues: Not disclosed  

Name of the speaker: Jason Eisen 

Role of the speaker: CEO and Founder 

Who are the founders: Jason Eisen, Dr. Bastian Blankenburg, Ronald Mahondo 

Funding raised to date: US$1.7M 

Currently fundraising: Yes, Equities 

Targeted amount: US$1M

Interview with the brilliant founder of Sokowatch, Daniel Yu. Daniel lived in Kenya where he established a successful startup that has raised 20 million dollars to date.  

Name of the startup: Sokowatch 

Website: https://sokowatch.com/  

Year of incorporation: 2014  

Locations: East Africa 

Industry: E-Commerce 

Team size: 150 

Current Revenues: Not Disclosed 

Name of the speaker: Daniel Yu 

Role of the speaker: Global CEO & Founder 

Funding raised to date: $20M 

Currently fundraising: No 

Targeted amount: n.a.

Multitalented CEO and Founder John Kamara shares the background of his move into health-tech. From Nigeria to Kenya, through Ireland, John has set up a pilot project on medical data ownership.  

Find out about the evolution of the business model of Bwala Logistics from the founder Kennedy Nyabwala. Bwala started in the automotive sector and moved into FMCG logistics in Kenya and Uganda.  

Interview with Greg Lipper, Founder and CEO of Happi and People Data Company. Connecting form California, Greg shares with Diane and Stefano the inspiring business model and the original investment strategy of his startups.  

An insight in the healthcare pitfalls of sub-saharan Africa, where entrepreneur Emilian Popa founded Ilara Health to solve one of the most visible problems in the system.

Name of the startup: Ilara Health

Website: https://www.ilarahealth.com/ 

Year of incorporation: 2019

Locations: Kenya

Industry: Healthcare 

Team size: 30

Name of the speaker: Emilian Popa

Role of the speaker: CEO & Founder

Who are the founders: Emilian Popa

Funding raised to date: USD 1M

Currently fundraising: Yes

Targeted amount: USD 500k

In the 5th Episode of VOX Podcast, Diane Ha and Stefano Virgilli interview Adam Grunewald, the founder of the gig-economy ecosystem Lynk, thought to be the Linked-in for the Linked-out in emerging markets, starting from Kenya.  

Stefano Virgilli and Diane Ha interview Federico Cristina, one of the leading founders of the DEXTF, which is aiming to use blockchain technology to democratize asset management and unlock the power of efficient capital allocation.  

Interview with Humphrey Wrey, the Founder and CEO of QuickBus, a mobility startup that is solving a real problem in East Africa and beyond.  

In the second episode of VOX Podcast, host Stefano Virgilli and co-host Diane Ha interview Dennis Kayser from Copenhagen, Denmark, the founder behind the startup Forecast.app  

In the first episode of VOX Podcast, host Stefano Virgilli and co-host Diane Ha interview Nina Alag Suri, the female entrepreneur behind the HR-tech startup x0paAI.