Biography: Meet Zimbabwe’s Serial Entrepreneur William Sachiti Who Owns UK’s First Black-Owned Driverless Car Company
Zimbabwean-born British serial entrepreneur William Sachiti is no stranger to inventing technological innovations. From creating digital advertising bins to driverless cars, the serial inventor is not stopping.
William Sachiti, real name Pasihapaori Chidziva was born on 1 May 1985 in Zimbabwe and currently resides in the United Kingdom. He is the founder and CEO of the driverless car manufacturer, Kar-go, which is known for being a UK start-up competing with multinational conglomerates like Google and Tesla, Inc.
Sachiti grew up in Zimbabwe and relocated to the United Kingdom at 16. Being the genius he is, Sachiti started his first start-up, 123-registration, at 19.
The start-up was a domain registration business which was so prominent that it was bought a year after it was established.
A few years later, he set up Clever Bins, a solar-powered digital advertising bin which was an advertising platform for cities. The company made it onto the BBC investment programme Dragons’ Den, where he was seeking £65,000.
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Sachiti was unsuccessful on the show, but his company continued to trade for three years. It successfully licensed its technology to six countries and local governments before closing in 2013.
In 2013, Sachiti founded mycityvenue, a digital concierge and holiday company which grew to approximately 1.6 million users before UK holiday company Secret Escapes bought it.
In 2015 Sachiti enrolled at Aberystwyth University in Wales, where he studied artificial intelligence and robotics. He kept fledging and flourishing at the university, as he was credited with inventing the world’s first artificially intelligent robot librarian, Hugh.
The robot would hold conversations or take verbal commands and would be able to navigate users to any one of several million books in the library.
In 2016, Aberystwyth University granted Sachiti a £10 000 cheque, and he founded the Academy of Robotics, a vehicle manufacturing company that would develop Kar-go. Kar-go is a driverless car which can deliver multiple packages by using a combination of advanced robotics and driverless vehicle technology.
The company later raised more money from venture capital at an initial £2M valuation. Kar-go has been nominated for several awards and has a production facility in Small Dole near Brighton in the UK.-iharare
