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Mar 2017
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed technology company operating in East Africa and India. We build and deploy dense networks of cloud-connected "KOKOpoints" inside local corner stores, which serve as consumer access points for goods and services delivered in partnership with major suppliers. Our first consumer solution is a liquid ethanol cooking fuel, which delivers significant cost savings and quality of life improvements in the multi-billion dollar market for urban cooking fuel. This fuels solution is delivered through a Kenyan operating partnership with Vivo Energy, the company which owns and operates Shell-branded fuels distribution infrastructure across Africa.
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Sep 2016
SelvaRey Rum
Tropical Luxury, Wherever You Are
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Angel Investor
Mar 2013
Since 2010, we have been creating elevated pleasure products for life’s most intimate moments. CRAVE is a pleasure house renowned for our iconic pleasure jewelry that inspires sensual empowerment and cultural conversations. We created the groundbreaking pleasure jewelry category with the Vesper vibrator necklace now synonymous with self-love and sexual empowerment and worn by individuals unafraid to express themselves.
As a company, we are devoted to quality and craftsmanship by obsessing over every detail of the color, material, and finish to honor our wearers’ experience. To ensure the integrity of our production quality, our women-led design team oversees every step of the manufacturing process across our global supply chain to final quality control at our San Francisco micro-factory. Our sought-after products are known for their distinct aesthetic, rigorous engineering, patented innovations, and premium materials. We have a passion for the pursuit of beauty by creating products of exceptional quality as we believe your pleasure is a worthy effort.
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2024
2017
Investor
Mar 2017
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed technology company operating in East Africa and India. We build and deploy dense networks of cloud-connected "KOKOpoints" inside local corner stores, which serve as consumer access points for goods and services delivered in partnership with major suppliers. Our first consumer solution is a liquid ethanol cooking fuel, which delivers significant cost savings and quality of life improvements in the multi-billion dollar market for urban cooking fuel. This fuels solution is delivered through a Kenyan operating partnership with Vivo Energy, the company which owns and operates Shell-branded fuels distribution infrastructure across Africa.
2016
Investor
Sep 2016
SelvaRey Rum
Tropical Luxury, Wherever You Are
Must be of legal drinking age to follow
2013
Angel Investor
Mar 2013
Since 2010, we have been creating elevated pleasure products for life’s most intimate moments. CRAVE is a pleasure house renowned for our iconic pleasure jewelry that inspires sensual empowerment and cultural conversations. We created the groundbreaking pleasure jewelry category with the Vesper vibrator necklace now synonymous with self-love and sexual empowerment and worn by individuals unafraid to express themselves.
As a company, we are devoted to quality and craftsmanship by obsessing over every detail of the color, material, and finish to honor our wearers’ experience. To ensure the integrity of our production quality, our women-led design team oversees every step of the manufacturing process across our global supply chain to final quality control at our San Francisco micro-factory. Our sought-after products are known for their distinct aesthetic, rigorous engineering, patented innovations, and premium materials. We have a passion for the pursuit of beauty by creating products of exceptional quality as we believe your pleasure is a worthy effort.
1996
Summer Intern
Aug 1996
Select Equity Group manages over $30 billion across long-only and long/short equity strategies that share a fundamental investment philosophy and centralized research effort. The Firm was founded on the premise that rigorous, independent research and disciplined, long-term investing will generate superior returns for our clients. Our investment team of over 60 professionals includes a field research division composed of former journalists and sourcing specialists.
We seek to identify the highest quality businesses that the public markets have to offer – those with strong, predictable growth, high returns on invested capital and well-established barriers to competition. We are not interested in owning most businesses at any price. We make minimal use of Wall Street research, and we do not actively share our insights with peers. Our independent process and focus on a narrow subset of businesses has delivered portfolios that we believe are meaningfully different than those of our peers.
The Firm is employee owned and has been located at 380 Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan since the early 1990s.
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