PasswordKid
Invest in your child’s safety.
You call it innovation, they call it problem solved.
PasswordKid is South Africa's largest child safety company offering advanced leading innovative technologies. Specializing in helping ECD Centers and Primary Schools manage the chaos of afternoon child pickups, the PasswordKid app gives parents and schools a safety tool to verify and monitor non-parent pickups and carpool services. Through its verification services, the digital app guards against the most common way children are abducted in Africa: school pickup. With PasswordKid, teachers are armed with an app that allows them to scan IDs, verifying that no child goes home with someone unauthorized to pick them up.
The PasswordKid Story.
The founders of Passwordkid are Ntokozo Hlomuka and Keletso Lekwakwe. Hlomuka is the CTO of PasswordKid and has MBA and Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. He is also well-educated in IT risk and security management and has experience in data risk and security management. Lekwakwe is the CEO of the company and a graduate of Richfield’s Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. He has been an tech entrepreneur for 5 years through various tech startups
The PasswordKid founders have been winners of Uber’s Tech for Safety Summit in 2020 and 2021 in which they were awarded grant funding to develop their app and mentorship through Innovate Durban. In 2021, they were selected for EY Africa’s Innovation Pitch Competition where they competed against 93 startups from around Southern Africa and came second in the winning pitch. They have also been winners of the Township Entrepreneurs Alliance’s Kasi Business Workshop Challenge where they won R50 000 to further develop their business and app.