Wayra's German portion has invested €350,000 successful Munich-based startup enna, arsenic portion of a seven-figure effect circular that's led by household bureau zwei.7, and backed by tech steadfast TQ Group.
enna aims to assistance older radical who deficiency tech skills get online truthful they tin payment from video calls, podcasts and societal media content. The property merchandise says the woody is "accompanied" by concern instrumentality steadfast ARQIS, apt meaning it was liable for arranging the transaction.
The enna integer accessibility connection consists of a bundle app for Android and Apple-make tablets, which tin past beryllium placed successful enna's dock system. These docks tin past automatically unfastened video calling, multimedia and different apps utilizing carnal cards fixed to the idiosyncratic that tin beryllium swiped done the docking station.
enna was formed much than 2 years agone by co-founders Jakob Bergmeier, Tim Haug and Moritz Kutschera, who were looking to tackle property discrepancies successful integer nine participation.
Bergmeier said: "We are precise arrogant and blessed that we were capable to successfully adjacent our effect circular and person specified beardown caller partners connected committee for the future.
"The deficiency of integer information successful our nine is simply a precise applicable occupation that we privation to lick with enna."
Wayra is an unfastened innovation-led subsidiary of planetary telecoms radical O2 Telefonica. Getting much older radical progressive with net apps is simply a cardinal portion of the O2 Telefonica connectivity strategy.
Through its "Digital mobil im Alter" initiative, the German limb of O2 Telefonica has been providing tablet rentals to older radical with "free level rates", arsenic good arsenic offering integer walks, online crippled rounds and tech acquisition tuition.