Meet Kunda Children! The award-winning, Black family-owned youngsters’s publishing, ed-tech and media firm launching the brand new animated YouTube collection “Kunda & Buddies!”

The Kunda Children growth comes thanks partly to the $700,000 in pre-seed funding led by Zrosk Funding Administration the corporate secured. Based by the mother-and-father duo, Oladele and Louisa Olafuyi, the mother and father launched their youngsters’s publishing firm after struggling to seek out an academic animated present for his or her son that portrayed African tradition throughout the COVID-19 lockdown.

The fortunately married couple, who met in London whereas working as skilled entrepreneurs with high corporations, modeled their collection of kids’s content material round their mission to infuse African tradition into fashionable storylines and combine Black excellence into media and literature.

The music-led 3D animation collection is ready in an African panorama and tells the story of Kunda, a 4-year-old boy of blended African heritage who takes viewers on his adventures exploring the world round him together with his pals Sana, a woman of blended African and Indian heritage, Fela, a boy from Nigeria, in addition to Leo the lion and Ella the elephant.

By means of books, music, presents, equipment, and an app, Kunda Children is partaking youngsters of all ages in new and inclusive methods.

The “Kunda & Buddies” soundtrack takes inspiration from African tradition, with influences from genres like Afrobeats and Amapiano. With a storyline anchored on friendship and prosocial life classes, “Kunda & Buddies” is ready to offer mother and father and educators with a chance to show and play with their youngsters as they watch collectively.

Now after closing a $700,000 pre-seed funding spherical, Kunda Children has a objective to create extra alternatives for African artists, writers, producers, and enterprise leaders in an inclusive, studying setting.

“This new infusion of capital not solely exhibits that folks proceed to consider in Kunda Children and what we’re constructing, however that our mission is resonating with audiences,” Louisa Olafuyi informed BLACK ENTERPRISE.

“The funds shall be utilized to additional construct out the Kunda Children cell app and proceed working with improbable inventive expertise from throughout the African diaspora. We’re additionally thrilled to be launching our new Kunda & Buddies YouTube collection, our flagship animation collection, on Might 29, 2023. As we proceed to increase and convey on new expertise, we purpose to encourage a way of pleasure in a single’s tradition for the people who work together with our programming.”

To study extra, go to kundakids.com/ or obtain the Kunda Children app on iOS and Google Play.

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