Lushomo

What Lushomo does

Lushomo is a private design consultancy founded in 2014 by Tom Scalway in Cape Town, South Africa, with a secondary office in Leatherhead, United Kingdom. The firm provides information design, data visualization, dashboards, publication design, communication strategy, website design and development, online learning, social media, and video/animation services. Its client base is concentrated in intergovernmental organizations (WHO and affiliated programmes such as HRP and TDR, OECD), national governments (Ghana, Papua New Guinea), and academic institutions operating in global health, education, climate, gender, and economic development.

The company operates a distributed, borderless delivery model with approximately 20 core team members across South Africa, the UK, Europe (Portugal), and Brazil, supported by a global network of specialists. Project execution follows a six-step design thinking process (Discover, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Deliver). A specialized sub-product called Design Turbine offers rapid-turnaround, multilingual layout services and has completed over 175 projects in two years across six or more languages.

Lushomo generates revenue through project-based professional services engagements, with no public pricing, no disclosed recurring or productized revenue streams, and no external funding rounds. The firm is founder-owned and operated, with Daneil Feldman serving as General Manager and an active hiring signal (Operations Manager, February 2026) indicating a transition toward more structured operational scaling. There are no disclosed partnerships, acquisitions, or technology platform components.

Name

Lushomo

Legal name

Lushomo

Website

https://lushomo.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lushomo is a South Africa-founded design consultancy providing information design, data visualization, dashboards, and communication services to intergovernmental organizations, governments, and academic institutions working in global health, education, and development.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bath

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Design and communication consulting services: Project-based professional services revenue generated through custom design, data visualisation, communication strategy, and digital development engagements with governments, UN agencies, and development organisations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Lushomo is a creative design agency that provides data visualization, UX design, website and web application design, video production, animation, and communication design services. Its primary clients are UN departments, national governments, and intergovernmental organisations. The agency applies a proprietary "Design Turbine" system and a "Six-step Design Thinking Process" to deliver these services through a borderless distributed design team.

Product overview

Lushomo is a borderless design agency offering a comprehensive portfolio of communication design services. Their core offerings include Information Graphics, Dashboards & Data-visualisation, Publication Design, Strategy, Website Design & Development, Online Learning, Social Media, PowerPoints and Events Assets, and Video services. They operate as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture, with projects typically combining multiple service types. The company also offers a specialized rapid-response service called 'Design Turbine' for faster-turnaround design needs including multilingual layouts and report design.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Data Visualisation Design service that translates complex datasets into clear visual formats such as charts, infographics, and interactive graphics, targeted at UN departments, governments, and intergovernmental organisations needing to communicate policy or development data.
• UX Design User experience design service covering research, interaction design, and usability for digital products, delivered to UN, government, and intergovernmental clients.
• Website Design Design and build of public-facing and programme websites for UN departments, governments, and intergovernmental organisations.
• Web Application Design Design of interactive web applications for institutional programmes, delivered to UN, government, and intergovernmental clients.
• Video Production End-to-end video production services for communications campaigns and programme storytelling, targeted at UN, government, and intergovernmental clients.
• Animation Animated content production for explainer, educational, and communications use cases, delivered to UN, government, and intergovernmental clients.
• Communication Design Broader communication design service covering visual identity, reports, and campaign collateral for UN, government, and intergovernmental organisations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 175+ rapid-response projects completed in 2 years through Design Turbine

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Pentagram: Pentagram is a large independent design consultancy spanning graphic design, branding, publications, and digital. It overlaps with Lushomo's information-design and publication-design capabilities but serves a much broader commercial client base.
• frog (Capgemini Invent): frog is a global design and innovation consultancy (now part of Capgemini Invent) that delivers strategy, design, and digital product work for large enterprises and public-interest clients. It competes with Lushomo on design-thinking-led, multidisciplinary engagements but at far larger scale and broader scope.
• IDEO: IDEO is a long-established design and innovation consultancy offering design research, strategy, and product design across sectors including health and development. It is comparable as a multidisciplinary design partner for mission-driven clients but operates at much broader scale and scope.
• Wolff Olins: Wolff Olins is a global brand and design consultancy offering strategy, identity and experience design. It is comparable to Lushomo in strategy-led, multidisciplinary creative services, though its client base is broader and more corporate.

Others

• Dalberg: Dalberg is a global development-sector advisory and consulting firm serving governments, multilaterals, NGOs and foundations. It is an adjacent, enabling peer to Lushomo, operating in the same UN/development ecosystem but delivering strategy consulting rather than creative communication design.

Emerging players

• Tellart: Tellart is an experience and product design studio working at the intersection of design, technology and impact for both consumer and mission-driven clients. It is comparable to Lushomo's design-and-technology integration but on emerging-format (IoT, interactive) engagements.

Direct peers

• Purpose: Purpose is a social-impact creative agency that builds campaigns, brands and digital products for NGOs, foundations and progressive institutions. It is the closest direct peer to Lushomo, sharing a mission-driven creative-services model aimed at the same UN/NGO buyer base.
• Blue State: Blue State is a digital creative agency that designs campaigns, content and platforms for mission-driven organisations, philanthropies and political/non-profit clients. It overlaps with Lushomo in combining strategy, content and digital product delivery for impact-focused clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Lushomo_Net
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lushomo

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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