“We weren’t really sure what was going to finally stick”: Day 1-1000 of Rayda

Ask Francis Osifo, co-founder and chief executive officer of Rayda, a fixed-asset and information technology (IT) device lifecycle management platform, where the company began, and he will tell you a story about a laptop. Osifo was chief technology officer and a co-founder at 54gene, the genomics startup that would later shut down in 2023 . The company had hired an employee in Kenya and needed to ship a laptop from Nigeria, he recalled.