Mafaz Jaufer is the eldest of 4 family members who lived in Mawanella, Sri Lanka. Mafaz often calls himself a “purebred entrepreneur”. His business exposure runs back to age 10, when he started a Ramadhan roadside stall franchise with a few of his friends. Finding the raw materials; fruits and nuts from the neighborhood and adding value to those by making them into pickles, chips and snacks, then managing his friends under him to run the store showcases his leadership and business skills from a very young age. Then he expanded his horizons by eventually selling imported goods and small accessories from ebay to his neighbors throughout his high school using his razor-sharp sales-tactics.

Throughout his high school years, he was trying out multiple business ideas. He had a collection of rare and unique postcards which he would sell (With a good profit margin obviously), then he wanted to build a multi-vendor platform, like rainbow pages, but due to the lack of skills at that time it failed. Then as a young blood, he was attracted towards motorbikes. He partnered with a motorbike customization network who gave him special discounts and sales commission for bringing in clients to them. Ater graduating from high school he moved to Colombo to start his undergraduate degree in Computer science. While engaged in college he started “American college of applied studies´ with one of his friends.  It was a success, but he did exit and joined a BPO firm as a team leader as he was tired and wanted a break to think about his future career. After his graduation he went on a vacation to Dubai, UAE on a visit visa as his father was running a transportation company in Dubai. While there he applied for some jobs in networking as he always had a passion towards hardware, telecommunication, and networking. He got selected to work for Etisalat as a field level technician and due to his performance, he got promoted as a team lead within a short period. However, he was still looking for his life call. He came to know about ERP, SAP through one of his roommates and started to explore this new area.

He left his position at Etisalat and joined Emjay Penguin groups in Sri Lanka to pursue his desire as an ERP/BI consultant. He was part of the IFS and Qlikview implementation team. While working for Emjay groups he always had side hustles to keep his mind busy with business. He did cut piece business, imported baby items/dresses from China and became a reseller for factory outlet. Then he builds his 1^st company in Sri Lanka, Antz Holdings (PVT) Ltd. to start an export-import business. He partnered with Endurance and ID fresh foods. His negotiation skills allowed him to be the distributor for Yeti isotonic energy drink, Lazzat spices and ID fresh foods in Eastern and Southern Provinces.  This helped him to connect with local and international suppliers and distributors.

Next, he realized, Sri Lankan market was too slow at the time for ERP software, so he went back to Dubai to join RFR Groups as an ERP implementation consultant. He got exposure in SAGE ERP X3 and lead the implementation for one of the leading hospitals, a paint manufacturing company, for some government firms, logistic and tracking companies which gave him a thorough understanding of business process flow. He led the Business intelligence for the company as well. This job offered the flexibility of working from home, and from Dubai. Which allowed him to seamlessly focus on his business in Sri Lanka. During this time with 3 of his friends he started a goat dairy farm in Sri Lanka, Acura Lanka widely known as “Elu” brand today.

Next, to enhance his career he joined SLITPRO as a business development manager to settle down in Sri Lanka in 2016. At the end of 2017 he quit the position as a business development manager because the business was at a loss due to high operational costs and overheads.

His next chapter begins migrating to the USA in 2017 and by that time he did a successful exit from the dairy farm. However, being and extravert personality he started to network with business startup groups, and made connections. His business proposal was one of the 18 selected proposals out of 300 which allowed him to participate in a 3-day boot camp. This allowed him to partner with a local to start 360solutions. The main product at that time was a CRM which they had white labeled and sold for the USA market. He had to exit 360solutions and start VEZOLVE in 2019 to expand the business model. During pandemic, Mafaz initiated startups Yallaby in Oman and Esnaftar in Turkey which is a platform to help online ordering and delivering foods and groceries. 

COVID pandemic gave him the time to rethink and restructure his business model once again. He realized that clients needed digital marketing to brand their businesses which led him to start VEZOLVE Media. With the COVID 19 pandemic the whole world started to work in cyberspace which led them to spend more time in front of their computers. During this time work from home culture was getting attention around the world and he noticed that apart from its advantages, there were some disadvantages in spending hours and hours in front of the screen which led him to develop two products called Blinky Blinky and VDeskit.

Blinky Blinky is a web browser extension, developed to reduce and prevent the eye strain of long-term computer users. It is developed to support the 20/20/20 rule which means that for every 20 minutes spent using a screen; you should try to look away from your screen every 20 minutes which is 20 feet away from you for a total of 20 seconds . The product was chosen by the Founder’s Institute incubator program.

VDeskit is an ergonomically designed standing desk for people who work from home. This Desk was built to support the correct posture and work while standing to give some physical movements for the people. The desk was manufactured to give easy assembly, durability and portable.

He was involved in new ventures such as OneDock which is an e-Commerce platform connecting international whole sellers, suppliers, and manufacturers with Big Box marketplaces in the USA. There he noticed that vendors and sellers who sell their products in big-box retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Lowe’s must wait for a period of 45-60 days until they get their payments. The idea of a factoring company stuck in his mind which can release a portion of the money to the sellers immediately so that the sellers do not need to wait. He wanted to build a sharia compliance factoring software, and initiated VePay Inc. which is registered in Canada.

Starting from there with the grace of God he was able to initiate many start-ups in the USA, Canada and in Sri Lanka and planning to build and grow his business into a multimillion-dollar company.