SMSGH, the young Ghanaian IT company, named among the 2012 edition of Forbes Africa Magazine’s Top 20 Technology Start Up Companies in Africa, has grown to become one of the leading mobile and internet value added service (VAS) providers in Africa.
Led by fresh KNUST Chemistry Graduate, Alex Adjei Bram, SMSGH made the Forbes list because it was barely seven years old and completely owned by young Ghanaians; had an active online presence, and provided on-the-job training for several fresh IT Engineering and Programming graduates, while it provided 23 of them full-time jobs.
Now in its ninth year, the fast growing indigenous start-up has run on the back of its three major platforms/apps; MYtxtBOX, Jumpfon, and MPower Payments which have grown its customer base to over 25million across four African countries including Nigeria and Cameroun in West Africa and Kenya in East Africa, and has a registered representative office in the United States of America for the authentication of electronic payments.
Over 14 million of these customers are in Ghana alone, with almost 40,000 corporate clients currently, which include banks, insurance companies, SMEs as well as large enterprises, handset manufacturers, government, and utility service providers among others.
With the scheduled move into its US$1.25 million newly-built state-of-the-art offices by end of October 2014, Bram revealed SMSGH is preparing to outdoor even more applications. And he’s not measuring success by their obviously bulging bottom-line; “the team here at SMSGH is a very entrepreneurial one, so we measure our success by the result we give our customers. I would not say business has not been good but the financial reward is not our yardstick at SMSGH – to the extent that our customers are getting results or value, and our products are helping businesses to grow we can say we are successful.”