Like many recent business school graduates, Ahmed Ali was looking for a start-up idea that catered to an unmet need. He found it in his Muslim and Somali community in Minnesota.
Ali, 23, was born in South Africa and raised in northeast Minneapolis. After graduating last year from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, he brainstormed with his friend Badraddin Abdi, 25, about what service they could offer to the community that raised them — especially the mothers.
Last September, Ali and Abdi co-founded Bundle Halal, the first grocery delivery service in the state that specifically caters to those seeking halal-certified meat and staples…