Tekedia Capital welcomes Poka Labs (pokalabs.com), the “world’s first scheduling platform built exclusively for chemical manufacturers”, and they have baked AI capabilities in that platform. Poka Labs is going to become the operating system of the chemical manufacturing & processing sector in this era, because the mission it is pursuing is self-evident for every person in this industry.
How do I know? Many years ago, for my first year, second year and third year undergraduate internships (industrial attachments), I worked with some of the most amazing engineers at the Nigeria Gas Company, a division of NNPC. Part of the work was to track the supply of gas to Aba Ceramics and Aba Glass via a metered instrumentation and control system. So, weekly, we would travel from Port Harcourt to read the meters for gas which has been piped from Owaza NNPC Gas flow station. (For an intern, the best part was the food.)
Occasionally, you would notice that the numbers were low. We asked why? They would say “chemical scheduling challenges…” affected production. So, when Poka Labs pitched Tekedia Capital (capital.tekedia.com), that friction came to mind, and with AI, better outcomes await.
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Good People, Poka Labs is the Calendly of the chemical industry and we are excited to be supporting its mission. Wishing it a unicorn blessing.
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