Top 9 Youngest And Promising Entrepreneurs In East Africa

Posted by: lukwago J in Entrepreneurship June 8, 2016

7 – Trushar Khetia, 29, Kenya

Khetia grew up among entrepreneurs. ^[⁴^] In 2012, Khetia founded Tria Transit Media, a company that advertises via buses, rail and planes. In less than a year, he secured prestigious clients such as Unilever, Google, Coca-Cola, and Lenovo. Trushar also has partnerships in Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa with over 100 buses.^[¹^] In 2014, Tria Transit Media launched operations in Tanzania with bus and airline media through partnerships with Precision Air, RwandAir and UDA Rapid Transit buses in Dar es Salaam.

In November 2014, he started the first retail store via an acquisition. Within a year he opened three more stores which then tripled the retail turnovers. ^[¹²^]He now has five supermarkets. Society Stores turned over $14 million in 2015, Tria Kenya turned over $700,000 and Tria Tanzania turned over $200,000.^[³^]

8 – Kelvin Macharia Kuria, 25, Kenya

Founder: Sunrise Tracking

Kuria’s entrepreneurship journey began when he was 15. ^[⁹^] He failed dismally in school. It was just as well his entrepreneurship aspirations grew.

“I felt like life had come to the end but I decided I’ve got only one option in my life – to start a business – because education was proving futile. During the same time, ^[⁸^]my uncle got hijacked and never managed to recover his vehicle.

I saw a challenge in the security of vehicles and buildings and an opportunity for me to find authentic user-friendly innovations to assist people secure their assets and generate revenue for myself.”^[⁶^]

With only $300, he founded Sunrise Tracking, a company that offers tracking, fleet and fuel management system, CCTV surveillance and biometrics. ^[⁴^]Sunrise Tracking was nominated for the CIO100 East Africa Awards from 2013 to 2015 and reaped $80,000 in revenues in 2015, therefore, he is one of the successful entrepreneurs in East Africa.

9 -Hellen Dausen, 29, Tanzania

Founder: Nuya’s Essence

Not many former beauty queens can say they left the money of the runways for entrepreneurship;^[¹⁰^] lost money before they started and picked up the pieces to build a business in Zanzibar an island within East Africafrom the ground up.

When she first started,^[⁹^] after making an investment in a soap making plant in her parents’ backyard, the regulating authorities deemed it not up to standard and instructed her to destroy it.^[¹⁵^] Dausen, a 2010 Miss Universe Tanzania, showed resilience like no other and carried on. She built her handmade natural bath and body care brand, Nuya’s Essence, against the odds. A few weeks later, ^[⁵^]she called the authorities back for another inspection. This time she made sure they could find no fault.

“We handcraft natural bath and body care products from botanical oils, butters,^[²^] herbs and spices. Our line of products includes natural handmade soaps, body oil, body butter, shea butter and virgin coconut oil.”^[⁸^]

Source: Forbes

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