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One of my favorite SA pre-seed startups is Tekuma.tech, a hardware startup that developed an intuitive six-degrees of freedom control for robots & other devices. For more information, please read my blog post from Aug 30th: https://whatsupadelaide.substack.com/p/festured-startup-tekuma-tech
Investment memo:
Tekuma is a unique solution that addresses a niche market need with positive long-term prospects (growth of robotics and IoT).
Problem and solution:
What the Tekuma orb allows you to do is to replace up to 3 joysticks with the orb, allowing you to control six-degrees of freedom, entirely with just 2-3 fingers. Tekuma’s technology reduces the time, cost, personnel, and most of all, training required, to get jobs done.
Team:
Annette and Michael are outstanding operators and domain experts and have bootstrapped the company since 2015, with now recurring revenue.
Moat:
Tekuma is a patented technology.
Value:
Tekuma can be accelerated by a professional sales and marketing team, international expansion and a more structured supply chain.