Work should feel like the ocean, not a storm.
Mawimbi means "waves" in Swahili. We started in Nairobi in 2022 with a simple belief: great teams move in rhythm, and the right tools should protect that rhythm instead of breaking it.
From one burned out team to 4,200 calm ones.
Amina and Tomas built the first version of Mawimbi as a spreadsheet for their own team, after a quarter of endless status meetings and missed launches. Friends asked for a copy. Then their friends did. Today Mawimbi helps teams in 38 countries plan, focus and reflect together.
The spreadsheet era
A shared sheet with three columns: commit, build, reflect.
First 100 teams
Focus Tides launch and calendars finally calm down.
Seed round
We raise a seed round and open studios in Nairobi and Lisbon.
Tide Reviews
The Friday digest that leadership actually reads.
What keeps us steady
Calm is a feature
We remove noise before we add anything new.
People over output
Healthy teams ship better work, for longer.
Trust by default
Privacy first, always. No surveillance dashboards.
Small waves, often
We ship tiny improvements every single week.
The crew
Thirty two people across nine time zones. Here are a few of them.
Amina Odhiambo
Cofounder and CEO
Tomas Rivera
Cofounder and CTO
Wanjiru Kamau
Head of Design
Leo Chen
Engineering Lead
Priya Nair
Customer Success
Kofi Mensah
Growth
Ride the wave with us.
Remote friendly, four day weeks every August, and a team that protects your focus time.