Storyloom

Problem

Hundreds of millions of children have no picture books in the language they speak at home, because print runs that small never pay.

Çözüm

Storyloom commissions local authors and illustrators, publishes on any phone and prints on demand for schools, in 30 languages so far.

Kimin için

Parents and primary schools in multilingual countries.

Pazar

Bottom-up: about 120,000 customers like this in Ethiopia and nearby, worth roughly $80 million a year at our prices.

Rekabet ve üstünlük

Öne çıkan metrik

16,800 active users, growing 14% a month

Ekip

Selam knows the customer and has sold to them before; Dawit has built this kind of system at scale. We have worked side by side since before Storyloom had a name.

Birlikte çalışma süresi

6–12 ay

İşe alım

A senior engineer and our first customer-success hire.

Kurucu hakkında

Selam Tesfaye

Founder & CEO · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · 5 yıllık deneyim

Selam edited children's books for a publisher and translated in four languages. Started Storyloom in 2025 and works on it full-time from Addis Ababa.

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