Africa continues to face the challenge of Digital Exclusion and with the world gradually shifting to the 4th Industrial Revolution, Africa needs to capitalise on Digital Inclusion or be left behind. Digital Inclusion proves to be too demanding for Africa with its lack of ICT Infrastructure to support it. What if you could provide the power of the Internet to everyone, regardless of their economic or social status? Brastorne aims to disrupt economic inequalities as it continues to expand its solutions across Africa.

1. Connected the Unconnected
A look into everything Brastorne

2. Brastorne Enterprises is a tech company that connects the
unconnected by scaling its resources to create a lasting impact!
An Overview

3. Brastorne is committed to connecting 760 million Africans who lack
meaningful access to today's digital world.
Mission
Vision
To connect the unconnected to the world
Values
• Impact-Our solutions and strategies are impact driven
• Boldness-We believe in Bold persistent experimentation
• Integrity-Trust, transparency, and honesty
• Innovation-We find creative and novel ways to impact people’s lives
• Grit-We remain persistent and determined despite challenges

4. Of Africa’s 1 billion people, 350 million own mobile phones – yet most lack
meaningful digital access. Increasingly, the path to economic opportunity is
through the internet. The digital gap between those with and without access to
the internet reinforces and exacerbates existing social inequities.
The Challenge

5. The Impact
Brastorne upconverts feature phones into digital portals at
<$0.03/day, leveraging data protocols over standard telco
networks. Broadly, we serve the rural poor in Africa, 80% of
who rely on farming through our solution mAgri. mAgri, a
multi-channel solution providing farmers access to advisory
services, weather/pest alerts, crop prices, and financial
services through low-cost communication on their feature
phones via USSD, IVR, or voice.
1.7 Million
Users
60% are
Women

6. What’s Next
• Geographical Expansion: In order for us to reach our goal of connecting
the unconnected, there is a need for expansion into African countries
that have low prevalence of access to information.
• The goal is to expand into 19 different countries in Africa to promote
digital inclusion and connect the unconnected, a combined user base
of 49 million.
• By end of October 2022 our solution will be live in Cameroon, and we
plan to be in Mali and Burkina Faso by the end of 2022. Essentially, 5
years from today, we aim to have impacted over 49 million lives in
Africa across 19 African countries with Telcos in the specific countries
with a low rate of connectivity.

7. Our Partners
• Orange
• Draper Richards Kaplan
• Stanford Business Seed
• Mercy Corps

8. Product Mission:Mpotsa
REDUCE THE RATE OF
INACCESSIBILITY TO INFORMATION
CREATE AN INFORMED
COMMUNITY

9. Product Mission:
mAgri
DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR
FARMERS
ENABLE E-COMMERCE FOR
FARMERS

10. Product Mission: Vuka
Create a Community for Users

11. Mpotsa Deep
Dive
• Mpotsa- Translated to English as “Ask me” is a mobile
service that aims to empower rural unconnected mobile
users with relevant, timely and localised information.
Mpotsa provides access to information through SMS.
Send SMS to
to Register
for Services
Step
1
Select to be
a Subscriber
Step
2
Receive
Daily
Information
Based on
Services
Selected.
Step
3

12. mAgri Deep
Dive
• mAgri- mAgri gives farmers access to farming
information , markets, and short-term finance. mAgri
allows farmers to market their products and services
across the country, using ANY cell phone.
Dial Short
Code to
Subscribe
Step
1
Select the
Service
Step
2
Receive
Daily
Notifications
Based on
Services
Selected.
Step
3

13. Vuka Deep Dive
• Vuka- This is a function that enables easier and
affordable communication with other users through
USSD.
Dial Short
Code to be
begin the
Subscription
Process
Step
1
Select
Registration
Step
2
Gain Access
to
Community
of Users
Step
3

14. Opportunities
To Tackle
Deep
Inequalities
• Statistics: 77% of unique mobile phone users in Africa or 279 million are feature
phones users meaning that 279 million Africans lack access to meaningful information.
• Brastorne plans to expand throughout the year of 2022-2023. There is an open
opportunity to partner with more Telcos in Africa.
Who lack access to
Internet
Information
Markets
Low-cost communication

15. Traction to Date
2016
Product launch, 100,000 users in the
first year
2018
700,000 + total subscribers
and over 250,000 monthly
active users
2020
1m+ Users , $1.8m annual revenues
2021
Selected as MIT Solver Team
Expansion into DRC
2021/2022
1.8m Users, $2.5m expected revenue
in 2022, expansion throughout
Africa, starting with DRC, Cameroon,
Mali, Ethiopia, Guniea, Senegal,
Burkina Faso (A combined market of
49m feature phone users)
Selected by Heifer International and
MIT Solve as one of two winners for
Innovation in Smallholder
Agriculture.
Selected as one Googles Black
Founders Fund recipients

16. Opportunities
To Connect
The
Unconnected
Brastorne is looking to raise
$5m from investors who are
aligned with our mission and
understand our target
customers.
Mission- Brastorne is committed to connecting
760 million Africans who lack meaningful access
to today's digital world.

17. Opportunities To Connect The Unconnected
• Use of Funds:
• To improve on our Technology to
enable us to scale (additional app
development, including access to
Fintech products.)
• Working capital to support rapid
geographic expansion throughout
Africa (19 countries)
• Capacity Building (Recruiting of
experts to achieve business Goals

18. Connecting the Unconnected
Brastorne