'Shark Tank' offers a massive deal to founder who used her maternity leave stipend to start a business

'Shark Tank' offers a massive deal to founder who used her maternity leave stipend to start a business

The entrepreneur did deliver on her promise, and the firm surpassed $35 million in revenue in three years.

'Shark Tank' for Youth-Led Solutions

Christelle Kwizera was still a teenager and hadn’t even graduated from her engineering studies when she decided to tackle an urgent problem in her home country: safe water sources for local villages in Eastern Rwanda. “Crocodiles had migrated into the local lakes, and their only source of food was people and animals,” Kwizera learned. She had a serious crush on MacGyver, the 1980s TV hero and genius problem solver who outsmarts his enemies with …