Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.
Tizeti is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: ISP for Africa. The founders listed are Kendall Ananyi (Founder), Ifeanyi Okonkwo (Founder/Co & Chief Operating Officer) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 2, 2016).
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Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.
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Kendall Ananyi
Founder
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tizeti. I have a Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Canada and over 20 years’ experience in software, tech and telecommunications.
Previously worked with 2 AAA companies (ExxonMobil and Microsoft) as well as Big 4 firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Ifeanyi Okonkwo
Founder/Co & Chief Operating Officer
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for Tizeti Inc has over 17 years experience in the telecommunication industry.
Prior to Tizeti, he worked with Blackberry (Research in Motion) part of the team that started Blackberry in Nigerian and expansion to Ghana. He also worked at Eircom Ireland.
He has a B.Sc from University of Benin, Benin City,Nigeria and an M.Sc from the University of Salford UK. Currently focused on expansion to Francophone Africa
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