Trees, knowledge and the money that should follow them.
Muranga connects the medicinal trees being monitored across Southern Africa, the healers whose knowledge gives those trees their value, and the corporates and manufacturers buying from them. One system, one record, payments that arrive on time.
Three groups of people use this. The same data serves all of them.
Corporates need numbers they can show a regulator. Manufacturers need proof their ingredients are clean. Healers need to be paid for what they share. We built one system that handles all three honestly.
For corporates
Carbon, biodiversity and TNFD numbers backed by sensors on real trees, not by a spreadsheet that nobody can defend in a board meeting. Every figure links back to the tree it came from and the data that produced it.
For pharmaceutical manufacturers
Track every gram of plant material from the healer who harvested it through the lab that tested it to the pack on the shelf. BABS permits, lab results, batch records and serialisation in one place, ready for SAHPRA whenever they ask.
For traditional healers
Share knowledge by WhatsApp voice note in your own language. When a corporate query draws on what you contributed, you earn a royalty paid straight to your MoMo wallet. Every payment comes with a statement you can read.
The people on each side of the chain
Corporates and financial services
For sustainability and compliance teams who need numbers that hold up to audit, regulator review and investor questions.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
For natural-product makers and ingredient suppliers who must prove their sourcing is permitted, sustainable and GMP-grade from start to finish.
Traditional healers and rural communities
For knowledge keepers who want their contributions recognised, recorded and paid for. No promises, just statements you can check.
Decisions we made on purpose
Six choices that come up repeatedly when teams ask why we built it this way and not the way most software handles it.
Hosted in Johannesburg, not somewhere else
Every database, every server, every model runs in South Africa. Nothing is sent to overseas providers. POPIA was the starting point, not a checklist we got to later.
Speaks the right languages
isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho and Ndebele are first-class. Voice notes are transcribed and replies arrive in the same language the contributor used.
Certificates anyone can check
Each harvest lot gets a cryptographic certificate. Buyers, auditors and regulators can verify it from the QR on the pack — no account, no app, no faith in our database required.
Money moves with the data
Royalties pay out automatically, parametric insurance triggers from sensor thresholds, carbon credits sync to the registries that issue them. Less waiting, less paperwork.
Works where the signal is patchy
The field app keeps running on a slow connection or no connection. Agents log harvests, photos and GPS in the bush; everything syncs the next time the device sees a network.
One system, end to end
Healer knowledge, sensor readings, lab results, pack serial numbers and patient-safety reports live in the same audit trail. You stop stitching tools together.
The healers who made this work get paid for it
Whenever a corporate query draws on knowledge a healer contributed, a royalty is recorded and paid out to their MoMo wallet. They get a WhatsApp statement showing what was used, by whom, and what they were paid for it.