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Every successful product starts with a clear purpose. Here's how to find yours.
We help entrepreneurs and businesses turn their ideas and vision into reality.
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We are a passionate team leveraging our experience across African and international markets to unlock African innovations.
Supporting clients in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas across different industries.
We have deep knowledge in technology, finance, AI, and emerging technologies.
Led by Africans who live and understand the markets we serve.
Turning crazy, ambitious, and novel ideas into impactful innovations through three pillars:
Inspiring and empowering innovators with powerful stories and insights.
Building alongside entrepreneurs and businesses— from refining concepts to launching real products.
Providing frameworks, tools, and guidance to help clients move faster and save money.
Book a free 30-minute session to discuss or explore how we can work together.
We help entrepreneurs and businesses turn their ideas and vision into reality.
Founder & Principal
17+ years experience in finance, tech, and product development
Terence brings two decades of experience helping teams and organisations design, build, and deliver complex products to stakeholders. His unique background spanning finance, technology, and startup development gives him a comprehensive understanding of what it takes to build great products.
Having worked with several businesses across diverse industries, Terence has developed proven frameworks for strategy planning, tech development, and operational governance. His systematic approach combines strategic thinking with practical execution, helping founders avoid common pitfalls and accelerate their path to market.
Terence founded Symmba in 2021 with a mission to help entrepreneurs and businesses create and scale impactful innovations.
Turning crazy, ambitious, and novel ideas into impactful innovations through three pillars:
Inspiring and empowering entrepreneurs with powerful stories and insights.
Building alongside entrepreneurs and businesses — from refining concepts to launching real products.
Providing frameworks, tools, and guidance to help entrepreneurs move faster and build smarter.
Solving meaningful problems
We build and co-build simple, scalable products to solve big, underserved problems across different sectors and industries.
Recent projects
Ovana helps people with high blood pressure live healthier and longer through personalised coaching and remote patient monitoring.
Plazzaa helps locals and travels find the best places to dine, relax, and explore in African cities.
Scholaris provides technology that enables schools to build, operate, and scale digital services.
Gari provides technology that enables taxi bike riders in Africa transition to electric.
How we identify, build, and scale our projects
We identify large, underserved markets where technology can create meaningful impact and sustainable competitive advantages.
We build and test solutions quickly, validating assumptions with real users before committing significant resources to development.
We apply our proven launch frameworks to bring products to market with maximum impact and sustainable growth trajectories.
We provide ongoing strategic guidance and operational support to ensure our products achieve long-term success and market leadership.
We're always open to working with entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey.
Launchgard is an AI-powered software built to help African entrepreneurs launch impactful MVPs.
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Launchgard provides the frameworks, templates, and tracking systems that successful businesses use to stay organized and accountable.
After helping several teams launch products, we identified the common patterns that separate successful launches from failed ones. Launchgard codifies these insights into a systematic platform that guides you through every stage of your journey.
Comprehensive tools and frameworks covering strategy, product, and execution
Break down your vision into actionable milestones with clear timelines and success metrics. Track progress and adjust course as needed.
Make better decisions faster with proven evaluation criteria for everything from feature prioritization to hiring decisions.
Stay accountable with automated progress tracking, regular check-ins, and visual dashboards that show your launch momentum.
Keep everyone focused on the right priorities with shared goals, clear responsibilities, and transparent progress updates.
Access proven templates for business planning, user research, go-to-market strategy, and investor presentations.
Manage product iterations with user feedback tracking, A/B test results, and systematic improvement processes.
Choose the plan that fits your stage and needs
Try our MVP toolkit for free to save time, money, and stress.
Case studies, stories, frameworks and more.
Every successful product starts with a clear purpose. Here's how to find yours.
Learn how to identify high-impact problems worth solving before jumping into solutions.
Understanding the difference between Minimum Viable Product and Minimum Lovable Product, and when to choose each approach.
Every product idea relies on assumptions—here's how to test the ones that could make or break your success.
Use the MoSCoW method to prioritize features and launch faster with a focused MVP.
Learn how to visually map your competitive edge and spot opportunities to differentiate.
Explore practical ways to monetize your product and scale your business.
A beginner-friendly guide to the technical foundations every product builder should understand.
Tracking key performance factors and spotting warning signs early to maximise your success.
Let's discuss how we can work together.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your idea and explore how we can help.
Work directly with our team on strategy development, product planning, and launch execution.
Have questions about our approach, pricing, or how we can help? We'd love to hear from you.