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SPECIAL FEATURE: MBEOTYA 18<br />
Malta Business Review<br />
to take on many roles has been extremely<br />
valuable. We have been fortunate to work<br />
locally with key stakeholders, from Gaming<br />
Malta, to Trade Malta, Malta Enterprise and<br />
many others. It has grounded us and led to<br />
many significant opportunities. While we<br />
have a 99.9% export focus, we all live and<br />
work in Malta and this has had a big impact<br />
on us.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: What is your favourite part about<br />
what you do?<br />
"Our mission is to create<br />
a billion philanthropists<br />
and at this rate in three<br />
years time, we stand<br />
ready to achieve that.<br />
JE: Knowing that what we do as a company<br />
has real impact on the world around us is<br />
an incredible reward in and of itself. We are<br />
bringing together really cool technology,<br />
gamification and a brand new business model<br />
and we can see it working at each step. That<br />
is so rewarding and makes the long hours we<br />
spend in the office worthwhile.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: Can you tell us how you felt when<br />
your name was announced as not once, not<br />
twice, but three times winners in Malta’s<br />
Best Entrepreneur of the Year Awards<br />
2018?<br />
JE: It was amazing not just to be nominated<br />
but also to win three prizes in very<br />
competitive categories. Best of all was to win<br />
prizes in each of our core pillars - Startup,<br />
CSR and Technology. This really translates<br />
into underlining our business approach,<br />
model and the strength of our team.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: You have been adjudged as outright<br />
winner in Best Tech/Web Developer<br />
Entrepreneur of the Year, Best Start-up<br />
Entrepreneur of the Year and Best CSR<br />
Entrepreneur of the Year – how significant<br />
are these p<strong>res</strong>tigious awards bestowed on<br />
you/Karmafy?<br />
JE: The awards have really given the whole<br />
team a significant boost and being in the<br />
middle of a round of raising funding, it has<br />
really had a positive impact on our investors.<br />
To win them in each of our core pillars really<br />
gives us a sense of being on the right track.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong>: Can you describe your experience<br />
about the organisation and also importance<br />
of these high profile awards.<br />
JE: From being told we have been nominated<br />
to the event itself, the journey from there<br />
to here has been fun and pleasurable. That<br />
my mother could watch the livestream was<br />
really a big and positive surprise.<br />
These awards help the Karmafy team feel a<br />
real sense of achievement, especially winning<br />
in three high profile categories. The <strong>res</strong>ult<br />
has been an even stronger commitment and<br />
sense of achievement, and will be valuable<br />
for a long time to come for the entire team.<br />
<strong>MBR</strong><br />
All rights <strong>res</strong>erved - Copyright 2018<br />
Jonas Eneroth with the Karmafy team at Malta's Best Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2018<br />
www.maltabusinessreview.net<br />
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