Prior to founding Lightbulb Education, Allan Mushabe worked at Telkom South Africa as a Technical Product Developer. After this he worked at Internet Solutions as a Business Development Consultant, and at Altech Technology Solutions where he was a Technical Sales Executive. Allan holds an MSc Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town. His main passion is on creating solutions that influence the future.
Lightbulb Education is a mobile application which provides a learning management service to students, institutions of learning as well as educators. It provides students with online access to subject matter experts and their digital resources, such as digital tutorials. This enhances the learning experience of students by providing effective and efficient educational support mechanisms during their studies. Lightbulb Education also allows for institutions of learning to efficiently provide online support services to students, it has been employed by the Walter Sisulu University to assist in providing digital support to students. Furthermore, it provides content to educators and uses innovative systems which employ 21st century learning practices.
Lightbulb Education’s solutions and services allow them to reach and teach any student regardless of geographic location. The Lightbulb Education technology focuses on using software-in-hand with modern communication to optimize training solutions for day-to-day sessions and lessons.
Lightbulb Education brings the digital space into the classroom and beyond. Their offering is designed to increase productivity and efficiency by integrating technology into daily institutional operations.
Lightbulb Education is incubated at The Maxum Business Incubator which is an enabling environment where start-ups from knowledge-intensive sectors are fast-tracked to compete in the global village. The Maxum Business incubator programme focuses on ICT, Smart industries and Advanced Manufacturing.
The programme is between six to nine months in duration and the main incubation programme (Maxum Core) extends to three years. During pre-incubation, entrepreneurs are assisted to refine their business cases and finalize their prototypes. Whereas, in main incubation, the focus is commercialization, growth in revenues and sustainability. Within incubation, entrepreneurs are categorized as pre-commercial, companies that are still in the initial development stage of their business, or they are referred to as, commercial,
those being companies that have secured an investment or made a sale to a willing customer.
