Mubarak Muyika

Mubarak Muyika (born May 31, 1994, Western Province, Kenya), is a Kenyan American business executive, computer programmer and internet entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. Orphaned at the age of 10, at age 16 Muyika founded Hype Century, a web hosting company which he sold two years later for six figures. He is the founder and CEO of Zagace, a company which runs an app store for businesses to access software for accounting, human resource management, marketing, among other uses.

Forbes listed him as one of Forbes Africas 30 under 30 both in 2015 and 2017, and he was youngest in Business Insider's list of top young entrepreneurs around the world.

Early life and education

Mubarak Muyika was born in Western Province, Kenya. but it was also referred to as 'Enhanced petrol tracker '.

Career

His adoptive parents operated a small book publishing and distribution company, Acrodile Publishers. Using online resources and technical experience gained in earlier years, Muyika built a better Website for the company.

In 2011, Muyika founded Hype Century Technologies & Investments Limited, a company focused on website creation and webhosting. The following year, for his work in HypeCentury, he received the Anzisha Prize for young entrepreneurs, from the African Leadership Academy.

Muyika sold HypeCentury to Wemps Telecoms in a six figure deal in May 2013. HypeCentury has since rebranded and is a fully owned subsidiary of Wemps Telecoms.

Later in 2013, Muyika founded Zagace in Nairobi with proceeds from the sale of HypeCentury, with additional funding from investors. Zagace has since raised a number of angel investments from various investors.

In June 2015, Zagace's parent company was restructured as a Delaware-based parent corporation of the same name, with the company now based in San Jose, California.