Young Entrepreneurs In Africa 2017
1.
Name: Fahad AwadhAge : 29 years old
Nationality:Tanzanian
Company ownership:YYTZ Agro-Processing.
Company activities: cashew processing company that is adding value locally.
Achievements: The company productivity increases to capacity of 2,500 Tons per annum. $500,000 investment from the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund to establish another processing facility in Mtwara, southeastern Tanzania apart from creating jobs to more than 200 people.
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Age : 27 years old
Nationality:Ghanaian
Company ownership: Farmerline.
Company activities: Farmerline builds technologies to connect rural customers to information, financial services, and supply chains, with an emphasis on smallholder farmers.
Achievements: Farmerline has already been profitable for two years, having generated just over $375,000 (USD) in revenues in 2016, up from $284,000 in 2015. To date, Farmerline has reached over 200,000 users across West Africa. The recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 SEED Award and the Financial Times/IFC World Bank Group Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Information and Communication Technology,
Age : 31 years old
Nationality:Kenyan
Company ownership: Recours Four Kenya Consultants Limited
Company activities: Specialized in HR services in consultancy, recruitment, training, psychometric testing and staff outsourcing. The company’s clients include the World Bank group, Kenya National Examination Council, USAID, GlaxoSmithKline and Sportpesa.
Achievements: The company revenues into a $400,000 (annual revenues) business with 19 employees.
3. Name: Brigitha Faustin
Age : 29 years old
Nationality:Tanzanian
Company ownership: OBRI Company
Company activities:Agro-Industrial company whose main businesses include edible oils manufacturing and fractionations under the OBRI brand. OBRI Company is modeled as a co-operative social enterprise.
Achievements: Under this model, OBRI has empowered more than 230 local Tanzanian farmers who are organized under farmers associations in Tanzania by providing sustainable market channels for their produce. OBRI’s cooking oils are sold in retail outlets across the country.
4.
Name: Teta Isibo
Age : 32 years old
Nationality:Tanzanian
Company ownership: Inzuki Designs
Company activities: specializing in Jewellery, accessories and Interior decor hand-made primarily from Local materials. Inzuki’s products typically fuse traditional craftsmanship and contemporary style to present a transcontinental finish.
Achievements: Last year, she won the REAL Entrepreneur contest in Rwanda, an annual entrepreneurship competition that pitted 10 young entrepreneurs drawn from diverse sectors. The award came with Rwf 2 million cash prize and in the process raised her profile on the African continent and abroad. Current she expect to generate more than $300,000 (annual revenues) .
5.
Name: Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala Age : 34 years old
Nationality:Ugandan
Company ownership: Bakulu Power.
Company activities:Ugandan renewable energy company.
Achievements: Bakulu Power is currently developing 3 solar mini-grids on islands off Lake Victoria and a clean cooking fuel (biomass) production plant on a refugee camp in Western Uganda.
6.
Name: Rajiv Mehta
Age : 31 years old
Nationality:Kenyan
Company ownership: Tangarine Investments
Company activities: Specialize on
an outdoor advertising firm that uses public transit vehicles, litterbins and street poles to market leading consumer goods in Kenya.
Achievements:A company has clients such as Kenya Airways, Pizza Inn, Subway and Coca Cola HP among others. The company has annual revenues exceeding $1 million.
7.
Name: Aigbe Omoregie
Age :34 years-old
Nationality:Nigerian
Company ownership: Intercontinental Paints
Company activities: Diversification company that specialized on painting manucfacturing and painting in various place of Nigeria.
Achievements: Intercontinental Paints has a wide client base which include; Gran Imperio Group, Legrand Engineering Services Limited, Dwellins Consult, Access Bank Plc, SolidAgo Investments Limited, EcoBank Plc
8.
Names:Benson Mengi (29), and Esther Lugoe Mengi (26)
Couples
Nationality:Tanzanians
Company ownership: Serensic Africa
Company activities:Tanzania’s leading indigenous cyber security and software development companies. The company offers high-end business process management, system integration and SaaS-architecture solutions as well as Bulk SMS management, custom application development, CMS development and customization services. Achievements: clients include Tanzanian blue chips such as IPP Group, Coca Cola, Molocaho by Amorette and the United Nations.
9.
Name:Jean Bosco Nzeyimana
Age :23
Nationality:Rwandan
Company ownership: Habona Ltd,
Company activities:Company that produces affordable and environmentally friendly fuels in form of biomass briquettes and biogas from waste apart from fertilizers and farm consultancy.
Achievements 2013 African Innovation Prize’s Business Plan Competition award, solving deforestation problem in Rwanda apart from making Good agriculture practices(GAP) in Rwanda society.
10.
Age:28 years old
Nationality:Egyptian
Company ownership:PushBots
Company activities:Mobile publishers better engage their users via mobile messaging.
Achievements: Today their infrastructure serves more than 55M users on behalf of over 20k publishers who signed up to the platform from over 167 countries.
Age:28 years old
Nationality:South African
Company ownership:Nine80 Digital,
Company activities: Pan African digital media publishing company that targets the youth demographic in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria.
Achievements: Nine80’s properties have attracted advertising from clients such as Disney, Coca Cola and Mr. Price Group.
12.
Age:30 years old
Nationality:Tanzania
Company ownership:Malkia Investments Company Limited
Company activities:Achievements: A company that produces and distributes personal hygiene products.
$150,000 prize at the BMCE African Entrepreneurship Award last year.
13.
Age:26 years old
Nationality:Rwandan
Company ownership:Sonia Mugabo (SM)
Company activities: focused her brand on sourcing locally including materials, employees and models from her home country of Rwanda
Achievements: She recent opened her second store inside of the Kigali Marriott and is a star clearly on the rise.
14.
Name:Heritiaina Randriamananatahina,Age:22 years old
Nationality:Madagascar
Company ownership:Fiombonana, an agro-processing enterprise
Company activities:Manufactures dairy products and confectioneries
Achievements:The company uses only Malagasy raw materials in their products and increases local jobs by hiring low-income local farmers.2016 recipient of the Anzisha prize for young African entrepreneurs.
15.
Age: 25 years
Nationality: South African
Company ownership:Geco Cam
Company activities:The Geco Team recognizes the importance of adapting to a constantly changing market, especially in the tech industry today and is continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation be it security or drones. They have many prospects for the future, including a long list of up- and-coming devices that are currently in the development stage.
Achievements: FNB ROCCI Business Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2015,apart from the world’s first glasses mounted action cam, and was launched at the International CES in Las Vegas in 2015, where it was the only hardware start-up from South Africa to exhibit.
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