Starting Kanekta

I met Pri and Sheen in a university club. Not the kind of club with fledgling DJs or crowds of drunken students, but a club that planned events and conferences. The three of us shared similar career goals - to start a social enterprise. That is, so long as we could afford to feed ourselves, at least eventually.

After undergrad, I decided to take a trip to Madrid and Paris, and by happy coincidence Sheen and Pri were there on a university global exchange program. I naturally said yes to free lodging.

It was a great trip (save for Paris attacks) and we grew close in a way where the university club experience just fell short.

The following summer, Sheen asked us to join her in this competition by the University of Montreal. And during that competition, Kanekta was materialized from logo sketches on Pri’s notebooks to a business plan, pro forma financial statements, and the same familiar team.