Startup Couches

This is an interesting chat with Navjith, he is building India’s first headphone experience platform, pattern building acoustic technology for people to experience music, not just hear music but feel it.

Charles comes on the couch and talks about Exodus, the platform that helps investors invest in great startups, by helping you create a syndicate and you do not have to do any heavy lifting.

Emmanuel and Marvel came on the couch today to talk about how really difficult it is to receive money from Nigeria to different markets abroad, Link is the fastest and cheapest way of receiving money from Africa at close to market rates in record time. It has a multi-currency credit card and payments from Nigeria to markets abroad

Joe talks about this HR management product focused on the interview process, making it easy for new team members to be integrated into your company. The focus is important as we know interviewing candidates as a process is not going away anytime soon. They focus on fast-growing companies with over 500 employees

Charles is on the couch talking about his barbershop experience and what has led him to build the appointment booking software for Africa, about pivoting from a barbershop priority service experience to helping service businesses to sell faster and make it easy to receive appointments and payments and all the lessons along the way. Enjoy!

Today we learn about knugget, Johannes talks about this tool that helps you to keep the important things in mind, imagine never forgetting new information we get regularly as humans and apply the knowledge learnt. We forget over 50% of new information we acquire in a week and that is what Knugget is changing

Ebrima speaks to us about the Africa marketplace AfricaSokoni, the mission is to empower the informal sector in Africa by addressing problems like giving a platform to African manufacturers to reach people outside and within their countries, also building technologies for logistics for the informal sector even Merchant-financing too.

Ifeoma, head of growth and marketing at Scrader talks about this social commerce application that is built with a different experience, just like social media but with an interactive marketplace. She hints at them starting with fashion and then expanding later into more categories and verticals. She also talks about the lessons she has learnt over time building Scrader and how culture has a lot to...

Jon is helping companies engage with their customers offline and then online using personalized and customized messaging using QR technologies with Ringpin. He also tells us about lessons he has picked up along the way how ideas mean nothing, execution, and distribution is everything

Carla talks about Hiro, a private podcasting platform for info-prenenurs, how they can easily monetize their content or coaching programs. She also drops ideas for new startup founders about partnership and getting in bed with good investors and doing Due diligence on your investors.

Gabriel talks about Naologic, a no-code platform for SMBs in the b2b commerce space, and how small businesses owners selling wholesale to other businesses. They are focused on the US wholesaler medical wholesale space and looking to capture that niche market.

Bien talks about how Let's Re-invent pushes for digital technology adoption and runs programs to promote environmental actions and cross-cultural collaborations. Getting into culture and thought leadership in young people across the world

Abdul talks about Cupmena, an agritech startup based in Egypt that builds a collection system to collect the spent coffee ground and reuse it as a primary soil to grow different types of mushroom and provide new agricultural solutions and open up more possibilities

Tk talks about the student accommodation space and how Polygon Student a saas platform for colleges and universities to manage accommodation on and off-campus resources like room-mate matching and management and how they have been growing the business month on month started.

Mark is on the couch today talking about how Amitruck is connecting transporters with businesses to get goods to their customers, acting a life-long growth partner for businesses by fulfilling all their logistics need.

Nelson talks about the credit space in Nigeria and how Evolve credit provides a loan-matching marketplace where people looking to get loans to get matched to the best loan product suited for them, enabling lending and powering it with their massive infrastructure

Trojan talks about new frontiers in the fintech space where fintech apps can send and resources amongst themselves and the whole new world and new use cases it makes possible. He tells us about the journey of how the Peer was born, enjoy!

Kelvin shares with us how difficult it is to be a small business owner in Africa and how Bumpa is on the mission to simplify processes and help SMBs focus on the core process of selling and let Bumpa handle the rest

Pablo talks about this interesting product that helps you and your friends find movies you would all watch, creating a perfect use case for a movie party and take off the stress of recurring searches for what to watch every single time

Marwan cloud platform-as-a-solution that enables companies to reach out to their customers through a secured SMS gateway. He also spoke about the magnitude of the African market and some inspiring words about the future

Joel built and has now shipped a multimedia Africa-focused streaming platform for African content creators where they can get paid and get full value of their art easily like other platforms in other markets.

Moe tells us about what he calls the Uber for remote talent-hiring worldwide and how to easily customize a remote team from anywhere in the world, find everyone that fits your needs, and is aligned to the vision of your team.

Moustafa talks about the Shezlong, an online mental health platform, with a team of certified therapists in Arabic and is the cheapest in the world. You should totally check it out if you speak Arabic

Laolu talks about the everyday struggle of people moving from place to place in Africa and especially in Nigeria as a first market. The ride-hailing model has a lot of limitations which is not suited for the average Nigerian and so Hytch bridges that gap and reaches into a total concierge service. Enjoy and make sure to sign up for early access!

Leo talks about his creator platform helping them to leverage future income and maximize use for it and find avenues for revenue-sharing.