How TUNL Aims To Unlock The Export Potential In South Africa
How TUNL Aims To Unlock The Export Potential In South Africa. TUNL is a South African startup that seeks to solve exports for African manufacturers, makers and merchants. There is huge export potential all across South Africa and Africa, and the company’s mission is to unlock it.
As the first step, the company launched TUNL Economy – its own courier service from South Africa to the US. At least 50% more affordable, end-to-end tracked, fully insured. The TUNL platform also offers Express courier options with leading global couriers to (almost) anywhere internationally.
TUNL is proud to be backed by Founders Factory Africa, Digital Africa Ventures and E4E. The company is passionate about bringing world-class South African products to customers worldwide and providing exceptional service to make international shipping seamless for all.
The company was co-founded by Matthew Davey, who is an engineer, Rhodes Scholar and Oxford Masters graduate. He was the managing director of a Dutch company that imported South African engineering materials into Europe. He established the company, and set up their European logistics network and stock warehousing. He resigned from this job to pursue TUNL full time.
The ccompany was also co-founded by Craig Lowman, who is an experienced import-export entrepreneur and recent MBA graduate from Columbia Business School and the Graduate School of Business, Cape Town. He has 10 years’ experience founding and managing various successful businesses, including two import and distribution companies with exclusive licenses for several global brands.
They met 5 years ago and started meeting weekly to discuss business ideas while Craig was finishing his MBA. Their combined 15+ years of importing / exporting from South Africa had shown them that parcels exports hold back business growth in South Africa, so they started building TUNL.
