Shows
#BuildOurAfrica Speaker SeriesPayroll Panic to Client Catastrophe: S.A.'s Trailblazing Entrepreneur Velani Mboweni #BuildOurAfricaSerial entrepreneur, Velani Mboweni, is Co-Founder & CEO of LULA, a mobility scaleup providing shared transportation to companies from home to work and beyond - saving money and time. He has quietly raised millions of dollars, 4x growth, served over 250 businesses, reduced over 1000 tons of CO2 and scaled across 5 cities in South Africa.
He's a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Fellow at the Harambeans and sits on the board of WESGRO and the CSIR (Smart Mobility). He's a graduate of University of Cape Town (BCom PPE), Wits Business School and Wits University (Hons, Political Science). He's passionate about serving people...
2023-08-2948 min
ArjSpeaksEpisode 11: The Real Black Panther ft. Velani MboweniYou’ve heard me say a lot of things throughout the Podcast so far, today, my role model says them without me having asked him to. He’s won the Best Start-up in Africa Award and is revolutionizing the world as we speak. The founder and CEO of Lula! Join us on this refreshing journey to success.
2021-01-0225 min
African Tech RoundupGig economy diaries with SweepSouth's Aisha Pandor and LULA's Velani MboweniThis podcast features two South African startup founders working the trenches of the emerging gig economy.
Human geneticist-turned-entrepreneur Aisha Pandor is the Co-founder and CEO of SweepSouth, an on-demand booking platform for home cleaning services. SweepSouth is quite notably the first South African start-up to be accepted into the 500 Startups Accelerator in Silicon Valley.
Velani Mboweni is the Co-founder and CEO of the ride-sharing service, LULA. This Global Fellow of the San Francisco-based Kairos Society and alumnus of the South Africa-Washington International Program is currently spearheading a mission to transform the way people commute by leveraging on the shared economy...
2018-10-1145 min
South Africans Doing Great ThingsSADGT - Phambili Mzansi Phambili Mzansi doesn't just talk about solutions they implement. Phambili Mzansi was born out of a conversation between four friends. They asked the question “why is it that African states fail?”’. Making SA better with inter-generational conversations The organisation typically targets students and young professionals between the ages of 18 to 27 says Velani Mboweni, Co-Founder of Phambili Mzansi. Velani says the organisation was created with the intention to try and effect change. Setting out to create a space that can facilitate positive and progressive inter-generational conversations where wisdom and energy can be shared. See omnyst...
2017-03-1108 min