A 32-year-old American who had moved to Kenya to teach, came up with the idea of teaching via mobile phone text messages.
Together with co-founder Kago Kagichiri, Ms Toni Maraviglia set up their business named Eneza Education in Nairobi in 2011, according to the BBC.
Eneza says it wants to make "50 million students in Africa smarter".
"Eneza is a virtual tutor and teachers' assistant," explains Ms Maraviglia. "It's a way for students to access courses through a low-cost cell phone.
"A lot of people [wrongly] think that our company is non-profit, because I am a woman, and because it's in education.
"We are a mission-based, for-profit company - what we do is charge an extremely low cost to our users and our business model is based on large scale."
For many young people across Africa, the education available to them is often both under-resourced and costly to students and their families.
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