Today's guest is Mubarack Muyika, founder and President at Zagace
Muyika was orphaned at the age of 10, thrived at school and turned down a scholarship to Harvard to become an entrepreneur. When he was 16, he founded Hypecentury Technologies, a web hosting company. He sold the company two years later to Wemps Telecoms in a six-figure deal. Muyika’s new venture, Zagace, which has raised funding from local investors, is a cloud enterprise software that helps companies manage inventory such as accounting, payroll, stock management, marketing and many more all bundled in a simple and easy to use format called Zag apps.
Founded in 2013, Zagace's mission is to empower small and medium-size businesses by making enterprise software basic and accessible to all. By use of Zagace ingenuity in custom-built proprietary software, permissioned blockchain and custom business intelligence and analytics tools, Zagace aims to make its business customers sustainable, scalable, manageable and adaptable to business process changes Zagace Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate founded in June 2015 by Mubarak Muyika. It is the parent company of Zagace Limited and several other companies trading under the name Zagace and related products. The Company is based in San Jose, California. It has an app store where businesses can access custom & proprietary built software as a service that enables businesses to manage accounting, human resources, finances, marketing, and other business functions bundled in a simple and easy-to-use format called Zag Apps. The Zag Apps are relayed as a cloud solution with a focus of small and medium-sized enterprises. Its core product Zagace Web Platform has continued to grow as an application store, digital distribution platform and development platform encompassing use of Hyper-ledger permissioned blockchain and use of AI tools for business data analytics, customer metrics, data search with thousands of customers drawn from over 30 countries. The company started out operations as Zagace Limited in 2013 in Nairobi, led by its founder Mubarak Muyika when he was 19, with proceeds from sale of a previous company, Hypecentury Technologies & Investments. The web app was launched in December 2014 and has since expanded its product offering across 4 continents