SALUBATA
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Founded 📆 | United States (2020, as Salubata) |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Nigeria, France, United States |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Fela Buyi Akinse Yewande Akinse |
| Members | |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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SALUBATA is a shoe design and manufacturing company that collects and converts plastic waste into customized shoes.[1][2]
In 2020, SALUBATA won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and became the first IEEE Entrepreneurship Stars Virtual Competition. [3][4][5]
History
Salubata is a global brand, started in Nigeria, registered in France and currently headquartered in the United States. Founded in 2020 by Fela Buyi Akinse alongside Yewande Akinse.[6][7]
The company invented two globally patented technologies which are modular shoes made or repurposed from plastic wastes and carbon decomposition shoe technology. Five per cent of SALUBATA profits from shoe sales are used in empowering children and women in underprivileged communities.[8][9]
In 2022, they were announced as the winner of Kigali Startup Festival at the Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) in Kigali,[10][11] and currently have a partnership with Amazon (company), Techstars Accelerator Los Angeles, and has been featured on TechCrunch, Business of Fashion.[12][13][14]
In 2023, They were shortlisted from 650 entries worldwide in over 20 different countries on Make it Circular Challenge and were the winner of Circularity 20 at GreenBiz's online circular economy event.[15] [16]
Awards
The winners of the Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge 2021 by the African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adaptation.[17]
- Swiss Africa Business Innovation Initiative (SABII), award by Venturelab.[18]
- Better Incubation Contest.[19]
- Winner Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC)[20]
- Winner of Hack the Normal Sustainability Prize.[21]
References
- ↑ "How One Nigerian Enterprise is Tackling the Global Plastic Plague, One Shoe at a Time". April 21, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ↑ "From plastic to designer: Salubata creates trendy modular shoes as a fashionable way to recycle waste in Nigeria". April 13, 2022. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-13. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "CUSTOMIZABLE SHOES FROM THIS STARTUP COULD HELP STAMP OUT PLASTIC WASTE". January 28, 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ↑ "Customizable Shoes from This Startup Could Help Stamp Out Plastic Waste". December 21, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ↑ "Modular shoes knitted from recycled plastic wastes". March 16, 2021. Archived from the original on April 27, 2023. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ↑ "Meet Africa's top 5 entrepreneurs in the waste recycling business". December 16, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
- ↑ "Low-cost, high-quality design, modular shoes made out of upcycled plastic waste". March 16, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
- ↑ "How my brother 'failed' Kwara – Saraki's sister". February 23, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ↑ "Future waste". February 24, 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ "Nigerian Start ups wins at Commonwealth". June 18, 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ↑ "I'm Proud of our Youths". June 19, 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ↑ "Tech Los Angeles". July 14, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
- ↑ "African sneakers". February 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
- ↑ "Meet the woman lead Start ups". August 16, 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ↑ "Circular economy start up". September 15, 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
- ↑ "MICC norminee". July 16, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ↑ "African Youth lead". February 24, 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ "Venturelab awards". October 16, 2020. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ↑ "Better Incubation award". June 15, 2021. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
- ↑ "Black History". February 26, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
- ↑ "Sustainability award". December 24, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
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