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Aisa Mijeno is the CEO of SALt (Sustainable Alternative Lighting), which she co-founded in with her brother, Raphael Mijeno.!
Core77
During a recent trip to the Philippines, I had the great pleasure to encounter some amazing people working within the fields of social innovation and development.
One of these people, Aisa Mijeno, is a female entrepreneur and engineer whose first hand experience living with an indigenous tribe in the Philippines led her to identify a serious social problem and then create a business to solve it.
Like in so many other areas of the world, there is a lack of efficient light sources in regions without electricity in the Philippines.
Aisa Mijeno, co-founder and chief executive of startup SALt, with her invention, the SALt Lamp, a lamp powered by salt water, in Manila on March.
Aisa teamed up with her brother Raphael, and together they developed SALt (Sustainable Alternative Lighting). Below, Aisa shares the story behind founding SALt, the challenges of finding the right investors, and learnings from developing a product from idea to launch.
Core77: Tell us a bit about your background.
What lead you to the path you are on right now?
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