About Pranary

Pranary is your go-to practical business school.

Pranary is a venture backed edtech company that is making business education practical 

OUR MISSION

Our mission at Pranary is to inspire and equip people to build great businesses and live fulfilled lives.

Why we built Pranary

Traditional education was built on the premise that there was lack of knowledge and so people needed to be filled with knowledge and needed to memorise lots of information. However, we live in a world where there is a lot of information that is easily accessible. The modern business learner is not starting from scratch. She has access to the Internet and libraries so she is not lacking information.

In fact, the deluge of information is confusing. She is impatient. She scans articles and watches videos at increased speeds or skips to find the specific information that she needs. And so the old way of teaching is not working for her.

The modern learner is looking for context-specific just-in-time GUIDANCE.

About The Founder


Sandras Phiri is an expert on entrepreneurship and innovation, and founded successful companies in IT, entertainment and education. He has worked with over 25 organisations, lectured at over 17 universities and has been to 23 countries. 

Sandras has been taught by teachers such as Dr John Demartini, Roger Hamilton and Tony Robbins, and has shared stages with Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Maskovitch, Youtube co-founder Steve Chen, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen. 

He is the director of entrepreneurship development at Africa Trust Group, the fund manager for Enygma Ventures, and former Director of Startup Grind Cape Town, Johannesburg and Luaska. 

Our Resident Mentors

Simon Stockley

Ex-CEO SA Homeloans, Director Catalis
Cape Town, South Africa

Abhinav Gautam

AgTech Entrepreneur
Boston, US/ Kigali Rwanda

Ariel Sumeruk

CEO Conversion Science
Cape Town, South Africa

Camilla Swart

Fintech & innovation, Investec
Cape Town, South Africa

Evan Robinson

Director & Chief Tech Officer, TaxTim, Cape Town, South Africa

Nicole Evans

Senior Product Manager
WorldRemit London UK

Our Advisors

Jacob Dusek

Co-founder & General Partner at Enygma Ventures

Lelemba Phiri

Principal at Africa Trust Group

Sarah Dusek

Co-founder & General Partner at Enygma Ventures

We’re entrepreneurs like you and so we only teach practical things needed to move forward.
We are a GPS guidance system for you with quick, real-time feedback
We know you are busy so our courses are straight to the point – no time fillers
Entrepreneurship is hard without the guidance of those who have done it before.