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
