The 20-year-old third-year psychology student has sprung out of Carleton’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to start a company that promises financial independence for people with cognitive challenges.
“I wanted to launch a business that was not built around one product but a whole ideology of empowerment,” says Safi, whose start up, ReAble, has graduated from the Barclays-backed Techstars accelerator in Cape Town and is getting ready to roll out an app that will help people conduct banking transactions safely and simply.