Startup Couches

Referral as a service, Grow your business through referral marketing Don't waste money on Ads that don't convert, increase customer acquisition, retention, and brand loyalty with our easy-to-use API for startups. Dammie speaks about how they are helping businesses market their products even better. Check out ReferBox here

Speaking to Ife about allowing fintech, mobile money operators, and merchant platforms to extend microloans to their users at scale without worrying about liquidity, compliance, risk assessment, or recovery. And the gist about her TechStars journey

On the couch with Marco & Ethan talking about education and financial products for young people with Prograd 

A data intelligence company that gathers information on weather, security, and others to help improve different sectors that lack access to these data. All starting with the insurance sector

CEO Ankur discusses Opta and its assistance with Compliance, Cloud infrastructure, and its relevance for experts and new users.

 Founders Joc & tell us how a running joke led them to build a product development company.

Mark talks about Dream VC and the vision to bridge the gap for the investor ecosystem in emerging markets such as African markets. You can apply for the Launch into VC program , a VC crash course, or the Investor accelerator program to learn alongside a lifetime community of future trailblazers across the continent and catalyze your unique path into venture capital and angel investing.

Feedpay helps you save both in fiat and stablecoins, you can make day-to-day bank transfers easily using the app, and lots more. It is currently in private beta with 30 people and has already processed 2m Naira in transaction value.

I had a great chat with Ollie Howie a little while ago about Afriex multi-currency app, the fastest way to send money across continents. Helping folks send and receive money anywhere in the world. YC Journey, closing a $10m series A round recently and plans for the future. Download the app here http://afriexapp.app.link/

NileHome is a software platform that allows brokers to deliver the ultimate end-to-end client experience by simplifying and streamlining residential real estate transactions—they developed an end-to-end platform for selling & buying real estate, creating visibility and a gateway for brokers for homes between $500k-$3m and already serve 100% of California. The founder became the youngest broker...

Simpu is a platform that provides a more unified, human experience for customer engagement, across all channels. It is the most unified customer data and engagement platform, helping your customer success teams to be at their best. Started building in October 2020, being in beta for a while. We launch this month and have gotten about 90 businesses signed up.

Lendha, a financial service provider, provides loans to SMEs and tools that would help them to grow. Peter wants the product to have more presence in Nigeria, nationwide expansion.

Frelapay is a management platform that helps you document your freelance process, track progress, client reminders. Eniola went hunting for ideas on Whatsapp and a match was made. Its been amazing doing research. Writers, copywriters, video editors, techies, anyone that can get a job from Fiverr. 500k users, don’t hire too fast.

A really exciting episode with Alexander, co-founder of Powered by People. It is a tech platform and marketplace, connecting small brands all over the world to buyers in the US and hopefully in Europe. The massive network of businesses and set up offices in Mexico, Kenya, Columbia, SA, turkey, and almost around the world.

Ajo Money savings/contribution platforms, bringing back the Ajo system to life in a digital form for young people to become a part of. Co-operatives, society contributions. She joined in February 2021, the team is already in partnership with Paga and with support from Tayo. The Beta version was released in May 2021. Experiencing organic growth, Full version in October, and more partnerships. Angel...

Petra is a modern crypto-powered payment channel for African merchants. Receive payments using our fast and reliable Card, Crypto, and Direct Debits services. Petra is a payment gateway that helps people receive payment via crypto, cards, and others. The ease of payment is still a big problem in Nigeria, working on this for 9 months. Businesses and individuals integrate Petra, a Bowen University g...

Precious is on the couch as we talked about Pandascrow, a fraud-free heaven for every transaction you make in Africa. An escrow service, a middle man who makes sure no fraud is detected. Started with the b2c user communities, social commerce spaces and now has shifted to b2b businesses with users on their platforms. The b2c side needed a lot of education as escrow services are not mainstream and s...

On the couch with Moatasem, he speaks about OnMarket, an E-GROCERY marketplace allows you to buy groceries online, empowering grocers. They did the parallel method of customer acquisition, acquiring customers and retailers almost simultaneously. Started June 2020, and now they have delivered 27k orders in one city in Egypt and onboarded over 100 retailers. 4 co-founders. 30-people team. We don’t c...

Frikax is the default place to meet people, get jobs and interact with others, bridging the gap for techies with employers, opportunities to learn and teach, and a solid focused community.

Dr Phil-afel is a plant-powered brand, ingredients come from nature and we believe nature gives you the power to succeed. Started a burger patty, from house sales and. We had a restaurant and a cafe and then covid came, we decided to go non-profit but feeding schemes and we can generate 45 foods for the general public. The transition was natural, we were spending so much time with tax, CS, and a l...