Kela, a cofounder of MailHaven, explained it 500 startup story. MaiHaven is among the startups in Nigeria that will get 500 Startups seed fund as well as mentorship from 500 Startups.

He said, "2 years ago, I interviewed with 500 Startups as a single founder. I wasn’t accepted at the time, I was running an on-demand delivery startup right when there were so many popping up. I was disappointed, but I learned a lot from my first experience and I also discovered the problem I’m now dedicating all my time to solving."

Two years later, after completing two product: MailHaven iOS app and the an hardware called the Haven. Kela thinks its time to apply for 500 Startups which he did. Then what happen next? "MailHaven had applied once before and we were not accepted. So, waiting on a decision was a bit nerve wracking, but we were ready for any result. We had the resolve to keep building regardless of what we heard back from them," he said.

"Fortunately, we had a screening call with 500 Startups and were invited to have an in-person interview in San Francisco. We had less than two weeks notice to book our travel, but as luck would have it, we had already booked tickets to San Francisco. We were headed there to ship our prototypes back to Louisville and to pitch at the second episode of The Syndicate, another program by jason of This Week in Startups."

After the screening call, Kela and his co-partner Ed Hatfield went for the interview. A week or two later...
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