Kali Ilunga: Digital Speaker

Tech and startup strategist focused on building scalable products and ecosystems that unlock market opportunities across emerging markets.

Kali Ilunga

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
Formats: Keynote, Startup Clinic, Product Workshop, Virtual Panel

Audience: Startup teams and product groups (15–120); Conferences (100–1,000)

Outcomes:
  1. Validate product market fit with rapid experiments.
  2. Build scalable go to market playbooks.
  3. Strengthen founder and product team execution skills.
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  • Travels from: Johannesburg

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Talent Short Bio

Over the past 3 years, Kali Ilunga has worked with 150 start-ups. As co-founder of Silicon Valley in Your Pocket, he has bridged entrepreneurs with a network of 300+ angel investors once they were investor-ready.

As co-founder of Viable, he has assembled 50 world-class coaches from companies such as Netflix, Google, and Square, as well as veteran entrepreneurs – so that entrepreneurs can build Viable businesses from anywhere.

As an entrepreneur – Kali has raised funding from New York, Silicon Valley, and Johannesburg. He has partnered with Microsoft to educate 55 000 people – via mobile and has worked with clients such as Walt Disney, Coca-Cola, and Goldfields.

Kali has created apps that have now been downloaded over 1.5M times across the world, focusing on user experiences that make a real-world difference to end-users on a learning path. As a founder of 3 funded startups – there have been an estimated 1.5 million downloads of products he has built.

Kali Ilunga has been a keynote speaker (“Innovation and Disruption”) at over 30 conferences across 5 countries. Has spoken at Harvard, World Bank, TBWA and more.

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A: Absolutely — clinics are built for early stage and scaling teams.

A: Short pitch deck and top metrics help focus the session.

A: Zoom with breakout rooms and screen-share works well.

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