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Born May 31, 1994 (age 22) ( 1994-05-31 ) Kakamega, Kenya Occupation Entrepreneur, programmer Education Friends School Kamusinga (High School) | ||
Meet mubarak muyika 2012 anzisha prize finalist
Mubarak Muyika (born May 31, 1994, Kakamega, Kenya) is a Kenyan computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. Orphaned at the age of 10, at age 16 Muyika founded Hype Century, a webhosting company which he sold two years later for six figures. He is the founder and CEO of Zagace, a company which runs an app store for businesses to access software for accounting, human resource management, marketing, and similar.
Contents
- Meet mubarak muyika 2012 anzisha prize finalist
- Hypecentury founder mubarak muyika
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Forbes listed him as one of Forbes Africa's 30 under 30 in 2015, at the age of 20.
Hypecentury founder mubarak muyika
Early life and education
Mubarak Muyika was born and raised in Western Province, Kenya and has one brother. His father was a district commissioner of Siaya (then a senior civil service appointment) who died in 1996 when Mubarak was 2, and mother a high school teacher who died in 2004 when he was 10. Muyika was raised by his mother's sister and her husband in the suburbs of Nairobi.
At 16, while a student at Friends School Kamusinga, Muyika developed a database to manage the flow of petrol and movement of oil tankers as a Science fair project. He called the project enhanced petro tracker. Muyika went on to become the best student in the 49th edition of Kenya students Congress on Science and technology in the computer exhibit category
He graduated from Friend's School Kamusinga in 2011.
Career
His adoptive parents operated a small book publishing and distribution company, Acrodile Publishers. Using online resources, Muyika taught himself how to build a better Website for the company.
In 2011, Muyika founded Hype Century Technologies & Investments Limited, a company focused on website creation and webhosting. In 2012, for his work with Hype Century, he received Anzisha Prize, an award from the African Leadership Academy for young entrepreneurs.
Muyika sold Hypecentury to Wemps Telecom in a six figure deal. Hypecentury has since rebranded and is a fully owned subsidiary of Wemps Telecoms Kenya.
Muyika founded Zagace with proceeds from the sale of Hypecentury, with additional funding from investors. The company offers cloud computing apps for accounting, stock management, marketing, and similar.
Forbes listed him as one of Forbes Africa's 30 under 30 in 2015, the age of 20.