The serial entrepreneur has launched several tech solutions. He is one of the business leaders who are developing the Zimbabwean tech sector.

Tendai Elvis Mugovi (photo) is a Zimbabwean serial entrepreneur. As the founder and CEO of Mugonat Systems, he develops innovative software for Africans.

Mugonat Systems, founded in 2015,  is a software company based in Harare, Zimbabwe. It develops Android and iOS apps as well as SMS, chatbots, and USSD systems for the health, management, and finance sectors, among others.

Some of the software developed by the company include Finmaze HMS (Health management system) which is a health management system for small to large healthcare facilities, and Cashlinq which is a digital banking wallet designed for African financial institutions.

Elvis is also the chief technology officer of fintech company Panamax which helps SMEs access working capital, through crowdfunding.

In December 2022, while explaining the reason he created Panamax, he said: “there is an extremely high cost of borrowing for SMEs due to their perceived risk and lack of a credit record and a high lag time between the time of need and time of capital provisioning. This affects SMEs’ agility in responding to immediate market needs."

The serial entrepreneur is also the director of healthtech platform DocOnline Africa,  edtech startup Smart360°, and agritech eMudhumeni. Besides his entrepreneurial career, he has years of professional experience in both the startup ecosystem and the tech industry.

In 2015, he joined the Zimbabwean company Expert Decision Systems (XDS) as a software developer. From March 2016 to June 2017, he worked for the innovation hub and accelerator rubiem Group as the manager. The following year, he was hired by C2 Media Pty Ltd as a Full Stack software engineer. Then, in 2019, he became the CEO of rubiem Innovations, where he worked till May 2021.

Melchior Koba