Kapu’s CEO and Founder Named Among 45 Most Influential Men in Digital Transformation in by dx5
Sam Chappate founder of Kapu has been named among 45 Most Influential Men in Digital Transformation in 2022-2023 by dx5 (formerly CIO Africa).
Sam was named alongside other trailblazers in the tech industry including; Benji Fernandes, CEO and Founder of Nala Money, Tesh Mbabu, Co-founder of Market Force, Prof. Bitange Ndemo, Strive Masiwiya Founder and Executive Chairman of Econet Group and Cassava Technologies, the mother company of Liquid Intelligent Technologies among others.
Sam, who was formerly the Country Director of Jumia Kenya, founded Kapu in 2022, a new digital marketplace that seeks to build the most relevant model of e-commerce for the majority of urban consumers in Africa.
Kapu will achieve this by working with existing community groups and local entrepreneurs. To make commercial sense, Kapu capitalizes on economies of scale by aggregating several deliveries to each agent drop.
They also enter into discount arrangements with suppliers based on the volume of stock bought.
Describing itself as a business-to-consumer (B2C) operator, Kapu who are our members based at Nairobi Garage Spring Valley it sources its trade goods directly from farm producers and manufacturers, saying this minimizes logistics costs and wastage hence the possibility of sustainably passing on the savings to their customers.
In their operational model, orders placed before 9 pm are delivered for free the next day to a local agent and payment is made on delivery while orders placed later than the stipulated time are delivered on the third day.
In an article by Business Daily, Kapu revealed that their agents earn a monthly commission of between Sh2,000 and Sh6,000.
The platform joins the growing list of startups that are digitizing the informal retail sector in Kenya, to enable both individual and group buying of food supplies through agents and online apps.
According to dx5 the list comprised of men who are leading the charge in shaping the digital landscape across the African continent.
From CEOs to CTOs, these leaders are driving innovation and transformation in their organizations and industries.
Also, these leaders were assessed as leaders who:
- Have continuously driven innovation the kind that inspires the wider tech community
- Have directly contributed to the growth and strategic direction of their company
- Act as a role model who inspires the next generation
- Have contributed to the general development of the ICT Sector
- Whose doors have opened over the past years owing to his overall contribution to the tech community and industry between February 2022 and November 2023
The impact these men have had on digital transformation is not to be trifled with. They have shaped institutions with some of them creating the said institutions. Their careers and choices have had a ripple effect across the continent in ways that cannot be overlooked.
Congratulations to Sam and #TeamKapu for the excellent job and recognition.DX5 (formerly CIO Africa) serves the enterprise community of CIOs and senior technology decision-makers with peer insight and expertise on Business Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership.
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