Nate Macabuag’s company Koalaa produces prosthetic limbs for people all over the world. Here, the young engineer reveals how the support of a business manager with a ‘let me help you’ attitude helped him achieve his goals
Nate Macabuag knows he has a huge task ahead of him. The founder of London-based Koalaa is on a mission to make prosthetics that are comfortable and affordable for everyone in the world who needs them.
“People with limb loss have been left by the wayside. Prosthetics are crazy expensive and really hard to get,” says Macabuag, whose work creating easy-to-fit modular prosthetic arms for children and adults has seen him included in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 – Europe – Social Impact list of leaders creating a more sustainable and equitable world.
