Our learning designers create interactive training that firms and NGOs deliver to people using the Arifu chatbot over SMS, FB Messenger and WhatsApp. We have worked with subject experts to develop a COVID-19 Starter Pack of content including topics on health, safety and how people can adapt their livelihoods to the reality of social distancing. All content is contextualized for low-income audiences and is free for them to access because we are able to monetize our platform through a B2B model. Some of our partners include banks, mobile operators, global tech companies, and iNGOs who need low-cost, high-scale ways to engage, train, and collect feedback from low-income audiences across their value chains to support their customers and beneficiaries while strengthening the informal and micro-enterprises that play a role in their operations. We are also developing a COVID-19 Extended Pack with a wider range of topics developed by an ecosystem of content providers and are giving them the Arifu platform for distribution and monetization of their content as a sustainable approach to scaling effective COVID-19 content.

Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.

I have a market ready product/service. I have sold to customers.

We are a team of 42 incredibly talented and passionate people. Our Chief Learning Officer spent years living in villages in West Africa delivering nutrition and literacy training to women in the community after receiving her Master of Education from Harvard. Our CTO built an advanced predictive data science company after working at Groupon and now applies his skills in Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, and Machine Learning to improving Arifu's ability to deliver personalized training to our learners. Our COO spent 10 years building up a 400 person-strong Microfinance Institution in East Africa after working with Airtel. Our Chief Commercial Officer built and sold two voice-technology companies, led a $100m fintech in the Caribbean, and ran the mobile product business for Airtel in Kenya. My background (I'm the CEO) is in ICT4D where I initially worked at MIT with W3C and the World Wide Web Foundation before moving to Zimbabwe to live and work with micro-entrepreneurs for several years to understand the challenges they face as they seek to secure a livelihood. We are based in Nairobi and supported by incredible teams that are 90% local and 50% women.

We are currently live in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, and Nigeria. Our FB Messenger and WhatsApp channels can deliver content anywhere around the world.

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