The Musika Exchange, Zimbabwe

The 2020 pandemic has shown us the value of the most basic items in our life - food - and how quickly the supply chain could be disrupted. Helia SRI has had a vision of modernizing commodity trading in Africa for over a decade and has finally achieved this outcome via the creation of an electronic platform that helps even the smallest of farmers grow and sell nutritious crops in the region.
Helia Resources has partnered with Bosonic Digital and Musika Solutions to develop technical products, solutions, and services designed to create efficiencies in commodity trading, and operations, via automation, initially in Zimbabwe, and then cross-border into Africa. The key aspect of the trading platform software is the block-chain encryption to reduce warehouse fraud and ensure the proper grade of commodity purchased/sold. The electronic exchange will formally launch in April 2021 during the harvest season in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The Musika Electronic exchange has received commitments from major food producers in the region to use the platform. Musika has been working closely with Zimbabwe-based PHI Commodities (www.phizim.com) regarding the criteria of a robust electronic exchange that would instill confidence into the farming sector. PHI is the main buyer for its parent company Innscor (FY20 Rev $66.3M and Net of $10.8M). The block-chain encrypted “end to end" commodity platform would ensure all facets of the commodity value were covered, tracked, and monitored.
To complement the launch of the platform; Helia SRI is looking to supplement funding to further assist the smallest of farmers in the region become acquainted and comfortable with the platform’s technology. The social appeal of the venture is that a basic priority designed in the platform would address the need to accommodate the small-scale farmer, - including the un-banked, and under-banked - and make them viable at the institutional level. Helia SRI’s fund raise would provide capital that would be potentially matched by USAID Zimbabwe to further assist and develop the small farmer’s use of the electronic exchange in the region.
Helia Resource announces "Art-PO" to raise funds in support of helping farmers in rural Africa. SRI is privileged to EXCLUSIVELY present extremely rare and limited Edition signed Lithographs by Felix de Weldon (creator of the magnificent bronze statue that stands in Arlington National Cemetery).Each purchase comes with a certificate of authenticity from the publisher. Each purchaser of a lithograph would participate in the success of the electronic platform via’s Helia’s SRI equity ownership in the venture. The portion of Helia SRI’s receipt of shareholder dividends and bonuses would be directed to repay each art investor for their help in the sub-seed capital raise over a 5-year period. The investor deck for the Musika Electronic Exchange launch forecasts revenues of $6.1M in year one of operation with a net profit of 3.5M under the assumption of Musika capturing an average of 5.1% of the total Zimbabwe national sales in the upcoming harvest year. Year three projections forecast a net profit of 55.8M on revenues of 58.8M