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Bokang Sibolla is a South African founder building AI-native travel companies. Sola, his first, is a travel app for women travelling solo.

Bokang Sibolla is a South African founder building AI-native travel companies. Sola, his first, is a travel app for women travelling solo, currently focused on Southeast Asia. Previously, ten years building digital growth and sales for global brands across Africa, Europe, and America at MTN, MTV Staying Alive, MediaCom, and as founder of Algorithm Hackers. He is also co-writer of the documentary series Reconnecting Pangaea, which aired on eTV, a South African free-to-air national broadcaster.

Bokang Sibolla is a South African founder building AI-native travel companies. Sola, his first, is a travel app for women travelling solo, currently focused on Southeast Asia. The product is built on the thesis that the major online travel platforms have not been built for the segments who pay the highest premiums to travel: women travelling alone, travellers of Muslim faith, queer travellers, older travellers, travellers with disabilities, travellers with passports read with suspicion at the wrong borders. Before Sola, Bokang spent ten years building digital growth and sales for global brands across Africa, Europe, and America. He was Digital Director at The MTV Staying Alive Foundation, setting global digital strategy across multiple countries for large-scale health campaigns; Online Channel Manager at MTN Business, where he built and ran the enterprise online sales channel; Founder of Algorithm Hackers, a digital growth firm; and Paid Media Specialist at MediaCom. He is co-writer of Reconnecting Pangaea, a two-episode documentary series on internet inequality made with Lesedi Molefi, Moipone Tlale, and Nadine Kutu. The second episode aired on eTV, a South African free-to-air national broadcaster. His writing on travel, AI products, and underserved markets is published at bokangsibolla.com.