About Sarabi Blockchain Studio

We Turn Ideas Into Companies

SARABI is Swahili for Mirage, the word also means, Imagination, Vision and Creation. Sarabi Startup Studio is purpose-built to conceive, build, and spin-out new revolutionary software driven companies from scratch.

What We’ve Been Building

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WEB2 STUDIO

Our Web2 Studio focuses on building companies leveraging legacy technologies — our focus right now is on Artificial Intelligence, NLP, applied machine learning and Internet of Things.

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WEB3 STUDIO

Our Web3 Studio focuses on building companies leveraging emerging techologies — our focus right now is on blockchain solutions for renewable energy and climate action, fintech dApps.

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PRODUCT LAB

Our Product Lab works with companies that are looking for a tech partner. We’ve built great products. Our software development teams can help you build yours.

WHO WE ARE

The team behind the studio doors.

About Us

We are purpose-built to conceive, build, and spin-out new revolutionary software driven companies from scratch. We push boundaries, challenge norms, defy conventional wisdom, and take smart risks while at it.

Our Promise.

To spin out high-impact companies that will help solve Africa’s problems

Ian Mutai

Founder & CTO

Brian Nyangena

Co-Founder – Web3 Studio

Evans Kayo

Co-Founder – Web3 Studio

" We fervently believe that human potential can be achieved through technology "

How we rapidly validate, refine, and build new businesses!

Building a great startup is hard. Really hard. It requires domain expertise, uncommon talent, great execution, great timing, and a little luck. It also requires the ever-elusive great idea. Our team has developed the playbook on how to rapidly validate, refine, and build new businesses.

Ideation

It could be our idea. It could be your idea

Either way, we put it through the ringer: determining if it can be a world-changing, venture-scale company that customers love.

Validation

Every idea we work on sounds good at first.

We put an idea through its paces, testing customer demand, technical feasibility, business model, unit economics, market dynamics, investor interest, and more to determine if it’s worth our time—and yours.

Creation

When an idea is a good one, it’s time to move. Fast.

Our team of designers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, and company builders turn a validated concept into a real product in market.

Spinout

Great companies require extraordinary people and smart capital

Our spinout process is the best method we know of to get a company off the ground, staffed up, and funded by great venture investors as fast as humanly possible.

Currently In The Web2 Studio

The 2022 cohort focuses on building companies leveraging web2 technologies — our focus right now is on Artificial Intelligence, NLP, applied machine learning and Internet of Things.

Chiza Health

Pikabox

BimaBee

DesignYangu

Popote

Currently In The Web3 Studio

The 2022 cohort has new frontiers of digital innovation promoting sustainability and equality. We’re building blockchain based solutions for the energy market and agriculture with a focus on Africa.

PesaSwap

Verst Carbon

Zao

Verst

Got a brilliant idea?
Let’s build with you!

We invest financial and human resources in tech startups as early as the idea stage to turn them into fast growing businesses. These ideas can come from within our team or from intrepid founders applying to build ambitious ventures with us.

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WEB2 STUDIO

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WEB3 STUDIO

SARABI

PRODUCT LAB

We Turn Ideas Into Companies

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WEB2 STUDIO

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WEB3 STUDIO