MAVUNOMavuno began with a simple problem.
Businesses are assessed on statements, plans and whatever the owner supplies. Many of the questions that matter depend on place, and until now looking has been expensive.
Why Mavuno exists
Place decides more than the file admits.
Where is the business actually operating? What surrounds it? Where does supply come from, and how far is the customer? Those questions sit behind most financing and sourcing decisions, and documents cannot answer them.
Mavuno makes that part of a business visible using satellite, weather, location and business information, at a cost far below repeated site visits.
Principles
How we work.
- Start with the question
- Evidence exists to help someone decide something. No decision, no pack.
- Show the working
- Every finding carries its source, its date and the steps behind it, so you can argue with it.
- Say what it cannot show
- The limits of a finding are part of the deliverable, not small print.
- Never overclaim
- We do not describe things we cannot do, or publish accuracy figures we have not tested.
- Ask permission
- What a business shares is used for the agreed question, in writing, and nothing else.
- The decision stays yours
- The credit officer, the committee, the underwriter or the manager decides.
Team
Who is behind it.
- Stanley Gitau MburuProject Manager
- Product and commercial lead. Runs delivery of Evidence Packs to clients.
- Moses GichangaProposed technical lead
- Proposed lead for the satellite and mapping work, through Autonomous Systems Research Ltd.
Six Degrees
Where Mavuno comes from.
Mavuno Intelligence is being developed through Six Degrees Advisory Services, the trading name of Six Degrees Fund Management Limited. Six Degrees advises businesses on growth, investment readiness and capital decisions, which is where the questions Mavuno answers come from. The team is based in Nairobi, Kenya and works across Kenya and East Africa.
Have a business question that depends on place?
Tell us the question and the place it concerns. We will say whether Mavuno can add useful evidence to it, and what it would not settle.