Our mission
Most of the world's grain moves through a small number of large traders with the systems, relationships and track record to match. Independent buyers in East Africa run strong businesses with the same ambition, and deserve the same infrastructure.
Hakika lets a miller in Mombasa or Nairobi join a vessel with others, build a verified record, and pay a price that reflects its own performance rather than the average risk of the market.
The tools we are building
Hakika means certain, or assured, in Swahili.
Mahan Tooti spent years trading grain at international trading houses. From a desk in Rotterdam he kept seeing the same pattern: buyers in East Africa paid more for the same cargo, with little visibility into why.
So he went to find out, spending time on the ground in East Africa with millers, suppliers, banks and terminal operators. What he found was a missing layer of infrastructure: no shared records, no way to prove reliability, no way to earn better terms over time.
That field trip became Hakika.
Founder & Managing Director
Mahan built his career at international grain traders across trading, operations, market and credit risk, and trade finance. He holds a Master's in Supply Chain Management from Erasmus University and a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering from TU Delft. He leads Hakika's work with millers, suppliers, terminals and banks, between Rotterdam and Mombasa.
We are adding to this team. See Join us.
Hakika is not a trader. We do not buy or sell grain, hold inventory, take price risk or act as principal in any transaction. We are infrastructure: a platform that lets buyers, suppliers and banks transact with better information and lower coordination costs.
Based between Rotterdam and Mombasa, with our first GroupBuy focused on East Africa.