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Our Story
We are Tupuca and this is a story and a journey shared by
four aspiring African entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in society.
Tupuca means to indulge, a word derived from a local Angolan
dialect. This word was the setting for what we envisioned multiple people
doing, indulging in food, family, friendships and moments. This spurred us to
think of how to efficiently bring this vision to the masses, while using
existing infrastructure and human capital. Thus, Tupuca was born, a food
delivery application that acts as a platform to connect the daily customer to
their restaurant of choice, a simple yet effective idea. Furthermore, we seek
to tackle an even bigger issue, which revolves around child hunger, this app
will seek to take comprehensive steps to reducing the current staggering
statistics that we are facing, this application will have a built in option
that will allow the user to donate a chosen amount to a charity of choice.
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Tupuca will create jobs in the logistic and administrative
fields as well as offering expansion for our partnered restaurants and
ultimately boosting the economy.
Our contributors would not only help bring convenience to an
untapped Angolan market, but would also help provide an avenue for people to
give back when they order using our application and create job opportunities as
well.
What We Need & What You Get
Our app has come to live thanks to bootstrapping and many
hours of work, all showed in our demo video we uploaded. As we are approaching
the finish line we are unfortunately running out of fuel. A $20 000 injection
would see us get across the line and successfully launch our app.
We have come up with exciting perks for our potential
investors: these perks aim to make the donor/investor feel part of our journey.
Tupuca will guarantee that your donation will find its way to the intended
hands that need it the most.
The Impact
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Through our interactive application, we create a
comprehensive platform that aims to connect the users with multiple
restaurants, ensuring them timely delivery of quality foods or pick up. Tupuca
will look to solve daily inconvenient situations where staff has high food
demands with very little time between breaks and traffic constricts movement,
Tupuca will deliver nutritious meals to people in the workplace that might
otherwise pass up lunch due to constraints and ultimately be less productive.
Job opportunities for young biker boys will be created
through the demand for an adequate logistic network, getting them off the
streets performing informal taxi work into being paid staff and professionals.
Addressing the bigger issue has never been easier, Tupuca’s
built function for optional donation, we can make sure that you and I start
taking steps towards solving pressing matters when it comes to child
starvation.
Risks & Challenges
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With any innovation comes great risk especially in a
developing country. Tupuca is taking into account the internal risk such as low
technology adoption by the employees, miss-communication, and miss handling of
funds. Our goal is to mitigate these risks by training our employees using the
best practices from well-established industries.Convenience,
innovation, efficiency, transparency, and honesty is embedded to our core believe and
mission.
Externally,
the major risks that we have to take into account are malfunction and high data usage of the
application and website, failure of method of payment, low market acceptance,
non-compliance by the restaurants, copyrights violations, and lawsuits. Malfunction
and high data usage risks will be tackled from the design and creation stage
during the prototype-testing phase. By providing different payment options such
as cash, credit cards, mobile banking, and rechargeable membership cards will
be able to serve a greater target market. Restaurants compliance will be
improved by providing them a ready to use software in a tablet where they see
and respond to the orders and reservation with minimum effort. Lawsuits and
copyright infringement will be mitigated by hiring a lawyer which will help to
create detailed copyrights, terms and agreements conditions that will protect
our business.
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Other Ways You Can Help
We appreciate your support towards making our dream come
true and to brighten the day of so many other people that make part of the
Tupuca circle.
Please spread the word and have it at the back of your mind
that through your effort, someone will have a chance to donate to the less fortunate
when they use TUPUCA. You are a big difference maker.
Thank you
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