Tinofara Mutovongi - Zimbabwean Entrepreneur (Ixar Technologies)
Channel: Story Untold ZW🇿🇼
Date: 2022-05-13

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In Episode 9 we sit down with Tinofara Mutovongi - the Founder of Ixar Technologies, a Zimbabwean tech startup with the ultimate goal of building an African smartphone brand.

Ixar entered the market with a cellphone repair service in early 2019 and later expanded to start offering training to people interested in becoming hardware technicians.

In our 45 minute interview with Tinofara, we talk about how he started the business, the lessons learnt and challenges faced since. Tinofara also touched on Ixar's expansion into foreign markets and the companies future plans going forward. 

Chapters
Intro 00:00
00:15 - Starting Ixar up and fixing phones
06:10 - Quitting the day job, starting up and inspirations
11:53 - Early experience as an entrepreneur
12:52 - The importance of relationships
15:06 - The repair-on-demand bike service experiment
17:15 - The right to repair and its impact on Ixar
20:02 - Funding challenges for local startups
28:26 - Expanding Ixar into Zambia
30:48 - "We're a tech company, not a cell phone repair company"
32:54 - On assembling smartphones locally
38:09 - Pivoting to software. Why?
40:37 - Current software development projects
42:55 - Being resilient
44:51 - Credits

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