When two Ghanaian entrepreneurs founded Saya in 2011, they
did not have any inclination that the business will turn out to be a success
story, and be acquired by a leading US mobile services firm, Kirusa. Theirs was
merely a work of passion. Robert Lamptey and Badu Boahen are both graduates of
the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) program in Accra,
Ghana. Their platform provides a chat application which eliminates the cost of
chat application and also gives the users of the low end feature phones with
access to such sites as Facebook, group discussions, and various multi media.
Today, the chat is in over 35 countries, and users in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana,
India and Indonesia are Saya’s biggest market.
Kirusa, headquartered in New Jersey in the US, and with
offices in Delhi, Bangalore, and Lagos, provides mobile carriers in emerging
markets with a portfolio of mobile services in Africa, the Middle East, South
Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, and services more than 80 million mobile
subscribers every month on its platform.
Kirusa acquired Saya’s technology, intellectual property, and
workforce. “Joining forces with Kirusa is a natural and exciting next step for
our team. We remain focused on our goal of placing this technology into the
hands of and empowering millions of mobile subscribers.” Saya’s Robert Lamptey
shares.
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