VOX

Interview with Daniel Ciganovic on his startup, Solshare where energy meets finance, creating a world with more evenly distributed energy through their solar trading platform   FACTSHEET  Name of the startup: Solshare  Website: https://www.me-solshare.com/   Started in 2013  Headquarters: Dhaka, Bangladesh  Industry: Clean Energy  Team size: 63  Current Revenues: Not Disclosed  Name of the speakers: Daniel Ciganovic  Role of the speakers: CEO & Co-Founder, CFO & Co-Founder  Other founders: Sebastian Groh, Hannes Kirchhoff  Funding raised to date: USD 1.7M  Currently fundraising: Yes  Targeted amount: USD 2.75M

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.   Name of the startup: Afya Rekod  Website: https://afyarekod.com/  Year of incorporation: 2019  Locations: Nairobi, Dublin, Lagos  Industry: Health Tech  Team size: 6  Current Revenues: n.a.  Name of the speaker: John Kamara  Role of the speaker: CEO  Funding raised to date: USD 300k  Currently fundraising: Yes  Targeted amount: USD 1M

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.   Name of the startup: Bwala Logistics  Website: https://www.bwala.co.ke/  Year of incorporation: 2018  Locations: Kenya, Uganda   Industry: Logistics // supply chain // retail  Team size: 15 Current Revenues: 80K-100K USD Monthly   Name of the speaker: Kennedy Nyabwala  Role of the speaker: CEO  Who are the founders: Kennedy Nyabwala- CEO & Davis Angwenyi - CTO   Funding raised to date: 250k USD   Currently fundraising: Yes  Targeted amount: 2M USD