Building Trust and Transparency

Since inception, Sproxil’s goal has been about building trust and transparency through the provision of innovative technology solutions to empower consumers, manufacturers and other business stakeholders against fraudulent trade activities. We launched in Nigeria in 2009 and since then we have expanded our operations into other countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

With these expansions come a new vision and even more responsibilities which we are adequately prepared to handle, and in line with this, we have updated our vision and mission statements to capture our wider vision for the global business community.

Read our updated statements here.

Mobile Authentication Technology Offers New Hope for Consumers’ Health & Well-being

Counterfeiting is a global problem affecting consumers, brands and the governments. Brands lose billions of dollars in revenue yearly to counterfeiting activities, the same goes for the government who lose tax revenue to this activity and thousands of consumers die yearly from consumption of counterfeit products. Almost everything gets counterfeited, from drugs to food, baby formula, automobile parts, luxury items, etc. making it a growing concern for the global community.

Mobile Authentication Solution (MAS) is a disruptive technology that is changing the game. Key players in product authentication like Sproxil have provided this technology for consumers, brands and other stakeholders to help mitigate counterfeiting. Sproxil, the pioneer of the anti-counterfeiting technology in Nigeria, has made this technology easily accessible to consumers and brands across the globe. Consumers can access this technology on their mobile phones as codes for verification can be sent via SMS, mobile apps, the web, etc. Mobile authentication technology provides immediate responses to consumer verification requests.

This has brought about a new hope to the global community. Consumers can now get good quality products without fear of being tricked into purchasing products of inferior quality that may lead to disastrous outcomes. They can check to verify if the product is authentic at the point of sale, while brands can deploy this technology to check counterfeiting activities related to their products. With over 75 million consumer verifications recorded on Sproxil’s platform, the impact of this technology has been prominent in continents like Africa and Asia.
Sproxil has partnered with multiple brands to protect consumers and to ensure that the affected companies recover their lost market share from counterfeiters and regain consumers’ trust.

We are firmly committed to providing innovative brand protection solutions for brands and consumers across the globe.

Genuine Product Assurance

Top Quality Guaranteed

From an award-winning anti-counterfeiting technology available for consumers, brands owners and law enforcement agencies, to a consumer loyalty solution designed to engage and incentivize consumers for genuine purchases made, and a cutting-edge track and trace technology designed to secure company’s supply chain, we stay true to our mission to provide innovative technology solutions that improve the quality of life of individuals and societies.

We are most grateful to all our partners for trusting in our competencies. As a business service provider, we seek to develop lasting partnerships with our clients and with lots of clients spanning various sectors and millions of consumers; we remain the most experienced mobile authentication service provider across the globe. We are strongly committed to excellence through professionalism, innovative technologies, and outstanding service delivery.

Sproxil CEO & Founder Dr. Ashifi Gogo Wins Inaugural Global Humanitarian Engineering Award

Sproxil CEO & Founder Dr. Ashifi Gogo Wins Inaugural Global Humanitarian Engineering Award

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Boston, MA (October 22, 2013) – Sproxil^®, a leading provider of world-class brand protection for emerging markets, announces founder Dr. Ashifi Gogo was presented with the inaugural Global Humanitarian Engineer of the Year Award on October 22^nd at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, San Jose Airport Garden Hotel, Silicon Valley, California USA. He was honored for his long-standing dedication to humanitarian engineering and ability to act on issues of social injustice.

Under Dr. Gogo’s leadership, Sproxil has developed the Mobile Product Authentication^TM (MPA^TM) solution that allows consumers to verify products are genuine by using a mobile phone and a free (SMS) text message. While the solution can be used for any tangible product, the MPA solution’s first application is addressing the need to combat counterfeit medication.

Upon purchasing medication, consumers scratch a label revealing a one-time use code, then text the code to a secure number provided on the package. As part of the MPA technology, the text message is processed to determine the drug’s genuineness. Within seconds, the end user is notified, via text, of the result. Alternatively, consumers can call a consumer support desk to get results in their local language. The solution is deployed in developing regions of Africa and Asia; it is offered in Nigeria, India, Kenya (serving East Africa), and Ghana (serving West Africa).

The MPA solution is based on Dr. Gogo’s research at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, where he earned the first Ph.D. Innovation Fellowship. Among the recognition Dr. Gogo has received is the IEEE Gold Humanitarian Fellowship in 2009 and in 2013 he was honored by the White House Champions of Change.

His motivation to create a simple, inexpensive way to identify counterfeit products was driven by the 700,000 deaths each year due to fake malaria and tuberculosis drugs. The MPA solution has been used for over 5 million product verifications in less than 5 years.

The Global Humanitarian Engineering awards have been developed to fill a global gap in celebrating the valuable contribution that engineers make towards improving the lives of those less fortunate. In addition, they serve to recognize outstanding achievement, provide role models, and demonstrate less popularly known roles of engineering in society.

This year’s awards were judged by prominent leaders in the field of humanitarian engineering including: Simon Trace – CEO of Practical Action, Petter Matthews – Executive Director at Engineers Against Poverty, and Cathy Leslie – Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders USA. Other award recipients include Qualcomm, Tesla, Google, ReAllocate, Western Digital and the Computer History Museum.

About Sproxil

Sproxil is a venture-backed enterprise that provides world-class brand protection services in emerging markets. The Company’s Mobile Product Authentication solution helps ensure purchased goods are not stolen or counterfeit by allowing consumers to verify product genuineness within seconds through a text message. Compatible with any tangible item, Sproxil’s solution is widely used by leading pharmaceutical companies to curb the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug industry. The Company has also penetrated non-pharmaceutical industries including personal care, automotive aftermarket and food supplements. Sproxil has won the IBM SmartCamp Boston Award and the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative Outstanding Commitment Award, as well as received regulatory endorsements in Nigeria and Kenya. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Sproxil continues to expand across Asia and Africa.