Kukua

💥We are thrilled to announce our latest round of investment to continue building an IP-centric kids’ “edutainment” universe with new Super Sema original content, licensing, merchandise and publishing offerings. Proud to be backed by the best Alchimia, Tencent, Echo VC, First minute capital and Auxxo female catalyst.

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Kenya-based educational entertainment startup Kukua nabs $6M – TechCrunch Kukua's recent investment will support its goal to continue building an IP-centric kids’ “edutainment” universe with original content, licensing and merchandise

✨What an honor it was for our super team to be on stage at Collision Conf talking about the next generation of storytelling and how through SUPER SEMA we are inspiring children around the world to believe that they can do and be anything. Congratulations to Lupita Nyong'o Lucrezia Bisignani and Vanessa for the phenomenal presentation.

Here’s to dreaming big and never giving up!!! Let’s keep technovating🚀🚀

We’re so excited for our Kukua super women team to talk about the next generation of storytelling at opening night of in Toronto today! Time to change the world!

📣Season 2 of Super Sema is coming to YouTube Kids on June 17!! Get ready 🎉🥳💫

But we have more BIG NEWS!! We're also excited to share that along with toys, we're working with Penguin Random House Bendon and Bentex for Super Sema books and apparel. Are you ready? 🙌🏾 To learn more click here: https://bit.ly/3tc2U9e and subscribe to the Super Sema channel on YouTube for the latest videos.

You can watch our official season 2 trailer voiced by the phenomenal Lupita Nyong'o here: https://youtu.be/bZQCkkBoRYU

‘Super Sema’ Signs North American Publishing and Apparel Licensees | licenseglobal.com Show’s second season premieres on YouTube June 17.

🎉🎉 We're excited to have two incredible join : Claire Meadow joins our team as our Head of Production and Phoebe Garratt as our Head of Music. Help us in welcoming them on board. Here's to inspiring kids around the world to believe that anything is possible.

✨We are excited to be the main feature story on the App Store today as we mark our one-year anniversary and celebrate International Women’s Day. Read as our SUPER female leadership team takes a journey back into how Super Sema came to be and how through SUPER SEMA we are inspiring a generation of Technovators to change the world. Thank you App Store for this incredible feature.

Read the full article here: http://apple.co/SuperSema

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that we will be working alongside UTA (United Talent Agency) to expand SUPER SEMA beyond content with toys, books, products, and experiences!

We look forward to partnering with best-in-class licensing and publishing partners to continue to build the edutainment universe that kids and families of the 21st century deserve! Read more: https://bit.ly/3L9SI8P

UTA to Represent YouTube Originals Series ‘Super Sema’ for Licensing and Publishing (EXCLUSIVE) The popular YouTube Originals series “Super Sema,” starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, has appointed UTA as its North American licensing and publishing agenc…

We are EXCITED to share that SUPER SEMA has been nominated for this year’s NAACP Image Awards for the OUTSTANDING ANIMATED SERIES category!

We are incredibly honored to stand by other groundbreaking nominees and extraordinary animated series and films and to be bringing more and more diversity in children's entertainment. See all nominees: https://lnkd.in/gUTdwESD

We’re excited to share that we have partnered with Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival to commission 4 young writers (ages 7- 11) to write a reflective piece on SUPER SEMA and how the animation series reflects on our role in the environment. This is part of their response to the UN Climate Change Conference. Tap on the link below to learn more!

https://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/2021-festival/programme/event/733/?fbclid=IwAR2rRKia7bzl5FK_A0BdoJtVjppcBso8Pw_WJfvFGTmMmRQVSCtvTdagX34

Africa in Motion Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland. Now in its fifteenth year, the main aims of the festival have been, since its inception, to introduce Scottish audiences to the brilliance of African cinema and to overcome the underrepresentation and marginalisation...

✨ Get ready to play and technovate with Super Sema toys! We’re EXCITED to announce that we have partnered with Just Play ay as our Toy Partner to release Super Sema toys in 2022.

To learn more click on this link: https://bit.ly/SuperSemaToyDeal

Remember to subscribe to the Super Sema newsletter on supersema.com to stay posted on when the toys are out!

Just Play to Create Toys for First African Kid Superhero Series 'Super Sema' • The Toy Book Just Play will launch some pretty super toys next fall. The company has entered into a licensing agreement with edutainment company Kukua to create toys, including dolls and role-play sets, for the YouTube Originals series Super Sema. The show follows young African girl Sema and her twin brother MB....

🌍💪🏾💥 “When I was young, there was almost no animated content that was relatable to me. There was nothing black, there was nothing based on where I live. African children need to see themselves represented on TV and on media.”

🌟 Watch our Head of Production, Super Clara Muthoni sharing our mission and vision as Kukua to inspire children around the world to fall in love with learning through SUPER SEMA on CNN African Voices! Thank you, CNN for this incredible feature!

You can watch the full feature here: https://edition.cnn.com/specials/africa/african-voices-changemakers

"For me, it is very moving to find things that empower children, especially through inspiring African and black stories that have characters children could see themselves reflected in."

Thank you Jamaica Gleaner for this incredible feature about Kukua’s COO Vanessa Ford. Read the full article through the link below and learn more about her life, career and how her paths aligned to work with the Kukua team to create SUPER SEMA

Link: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lifestyle/20210711/model-mother-mogul

✨ Today in Bloomberg, read as our super female leadership team talks about how through SUPER SEMA we are entertaining and inspiring kids around the world to fall in love with learning.


https://bloom.bg/3vNzQ6w

African Superhero Sema Aims to Inspire Kids Worldwide The animated series from Kenya is meant to be both educational and entertaining.

🌟 We are SUPER EXCITED to share that YouTube has greenlit more Super Sema! We’re thrilled to be able to bring more authentically African, STEAM-powered Sema stories to kids around the world later this year. Follow us on SUPER SEMA and subscribe to the Super Sema YouTube channel to know when Season 2 will premiere!



https://kidscreen.com/2021/05/21/super-sema-snags-additional-youtube-funding/

Super Sema snags additional YouTube funding EXCLUSIVE: The animated series from Kukua is the first project to grab financing for a second season from the YouTube US$100 million kids content fund.

Today in Black Girl Nerds, Kukua’s CPO Clara Muthoni, and COO Vanessa Ford, talk about representation, diversity, and how through SUPER SEMA we are portraying African Kid Power in a whole new way. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3cKCq5V

Technovate! Girls Change the World in ‘Super Sema’ 'Super Sema' is the first African animated superhero series that follows the adventures of Sema, an innovative 10-year-old girl with superpowers.

✨Happy International Women's Day!✨ Today on Super Sema’s premiere day, we celebrate all the who make up our SUPER team all over the world. The passion, dedication, and love they bring into everything makes what we produce magical, beautiful, and thoughtful.

We stand on the shoulders of all the incredible women who have come before us and continue to inspire us, and we hope to keep inspiring and empowering women and girls everywhere to believe that anything is possible.

✨ We're super excited to announce that the extraordinary Lupita Nyong'o joined us to produce SUPER SEMA! ✨

Our new YouTube Originals series Super Sema is Africa’s first kid superhero animated series premiering on March 8! 🌍

Our mission together is to empower children of the 21st century with the skills and capacity to dream beyond what they think is possible and to imagine and create a better world. This mission brought to life a young African girl who uses creativity, determination, and STEAM powers to change the world.

Lupita embodies all that Super Sema represents, so it really is a dream come true for us to have her on our team. You’ll be able to hear Lupita as a special guest character in the series and as the voice of the official trailer, out this Friday. Subscribe to the Super Sema YouTube channel so you know when to tune in! ⁣⁠