Women's Safety Reinvented: Transforming the Safety Tech Landscape
In this episode of Management Meets, host Katie Calvert-Jones welcomes Co-Founders E-J Roodt and Maks Rahman to share the inspiring origin story behind Epowar, an app that uses wearable tech to automatically detect physical attacks and capture police-approved evidence.. Their friendship began at an optional German class at university and evolved into a powerful partnership.
E-J and Maks take us behind the scenes of their entrepreneurial journey, sharing stories of early product testing and looking at how the business has evolved.
Key topics:
- How leveraging their final-year university projects provided the foundation to launch a police-accredited app
- How unexpected university connections can turn an idea into a patented tech platform
- Startup drive, refusing to settle for the status quo, and pushing through "no's"
- Scaling an impact-driven app while keeping essential safety features free
Creators and Guests
Host
Katie Calvert-Jones
Passionate advocate of the value a strong and engaged community can bring, and the far-reaching results that can be achieved. Loves hearing, sharing, and joining-up individual stories between professionals to enable ongoing learning and success.
Producer
Becky Toogood
Becky Toogood is the Alumni Engagement Communications Officer for the University of Bath, School of Management. With a first-class degree in journalism and a marketing background, Becky has experience in digital, print and multimedia communications. Working in higher education, Becky likes to showcase those leading innovation in their respective areas to celebrate success in the community, whilst inspiring others.
Guest
E-J Roodt
E-J Roodt is the CEO & Co-Founder at Epowar. E-J studied business at the University of Bath. She founded Epowar at age 19 and ran the startup while completing her degree. Before Epowar, she worked at Deloitte as a tech consultant. E-J also has a large personal social media following as an advocate for empowering women. Epowar is the first and only AI-powered personal safety app that automatically detects when a woman is attacked and responds in real-time, using police-approved, patented technology.
Guest
Maks Rahman
Maks Rahman is the CTO & Co-Founder at Epowar. Maks studied engineering at the University of Bath and co-founded Epowar while completing his degree. Before Epowar, he worked as a medical engineer at Fraunhofer IPA, where he designed and built a stress sensor used in open brain surgery, and worked as a software engineer at Nomura. Epowar is the first and only AI-powered personal safety app that automatically detects when a woman is attacked and responds in real-time, using police-approved, patented technology.
