Sanmi Falobi
“Sometimes conviction asks you to leave certainty and comfort behind.”
Sanmi Falobi founded Winock to tackle one of the continent's most persistent and paralyzing constraints: decentralized, reliable power for micro and small businesses. In commercial hubs across Nigeria, small merchants lose up to 40% of their daily operating margin to noisy, polluting petrol and diesel generators.
Recognizing that micro-enterprises are the true backbone of African commerce, Sanmi pioneered a technology-driven, pay-as-you-go solar financing model that delivers clean, reliable energy directly to market stalls, artisans, and small traders without prohibitive upfront capital expenditure.
By pairing proprietary IoT energy monitoring hardware with flexible mobile payment schedules, Winock transformed energy from a precarious daily expense into an empowering productive asset.
Sanmi's vision extends across West Africa, proving that climate-smart infrastructure and bottom-of-the-pyramid profitability are not mutually exclusive, but rather the dual engines of Africa's green transition.