Startup Couches

Abdel talks about this e-commerce platform that helps vendors set up their stores without any coding experience, the service is extensive enough that you can use your own Domain name to showcase your store.

Nuri talks about this compliance service for oversight agencies, and how Txtsmarter helps companies especially the ones in the financial services sector to stay compliant to regulatory stipulations by using the product to collect and pass on data from texts required by law to ensure safety and full compliance

Dr. Hephzi talks to us about developing and building capacity in STEM in various communities in the UK and in Ghana and using engagement and long-term advocacy for institutions of learning to encourage involvement and growth of young people in STEM and building out a massive Community to support it

Felix the CEO of Tendo takes us through the state of social commerce in Africa today and how Tendo is helping anyone to start an e-commerce business with zero capital. The product empowers you to start a business online and convert your contacts to customers at no extra cost.

Chiemeziem COO of Kia Kia talks about the big credit gap in the African market and how the traditional banks are not meeting the gap and so millions of people and small businesses in Africa need services like this. Kia Kia solves for both borrowers and even lenders, so people who also want to set-asides money to lend out. Kia Kia also pioneered same-day loans to customers in Nigeria

Zeke founder of Zeus talks about revolutionalizing the video content space, imagine a curated version of YouTube without any form of ads, where people who are vetted post content to encourage learning in the best possible experience there is.

Joleen takes us on a journey of how business owners and even professionals in their field of work and expertise need extra hands and how Runnovate is solving for and providing affordable virtual assistance service on demand in Kenya.

Oras talks about how hard it is for founders to automate processes in their day-to-day activities and even so for hiring managers, recruitment officers, and talent pipeline businesses and how Job Description AI helps to make sure that time and money are saved in these processes.

Weru talks about Kueq a digital microfinance bank whose services are at a very personalized price and every single digital finance feature is either already live there or being developed, he also talks about mobile financial services landscape in Kenya

Icaro talks about Signa and how it is championing accessibility, leveraging the Facebook platform to reach thousands of people with hearing disabilities in Brazil, and providing talent placement opportunities for them. This is one of the most innovative products I have seen, and I have seen a lot.

Sam speaks to the essence of financial freedom, people are complicated and sometimes they do not know exactly what they want. So he explains how NovaMoney uses open banking and harnesses data analytics and tells people not just how much they spend but how they should spend based on their activities and goals. Think about it like a financial assistance product that provides guidance towards meeting...

Sasha talks about this amazing app that plans trips for you, instead of going through tens of platforms to build a travel itinerary Itini helps you break things down to easier steps overall.

Wamboga tells us about his journey in the energy space building cool projects and bringing everything together with Meta Specifications in Kenya

Inonge CEO of Mangwee payments talks about helping schools in Zambia manage data and most especially payments, this is a big space as payments are still a big problem across Africa, and now working with over 10 schools with over 5,000 users. Enjoy!

Martin talks about Valuu tackling the problem most investors have when they want to invest in the stock market which is the "what to buy" problem. So Valuu provides more than company information but company analysis, doing the heavy work of doing this analysis and presenting it to these retail investors.

Tariro tells us about MobMart, a payment application in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and how mobile money can be connected to your bank and letting people do more with their money. So imagine one platform that lets you pay for goods and services especially online with either bank or mobile money (Eco-cash)

Nitish talks about Building In Public (BIP), a place where you can build better and faster through fostering professional collaboration with a social layer, imagine a public-scale collaboration on public documents. Notion and Google Docs focus on internal collaboration and BIP focuses on the external version of this.

Edoka talks about this innovative product that offers full banking services in an interactive application, offering you a debit card, savings, and even flexible loans, the card service has been out for a few years now and they have gathered a lot of user feedback and the app is now out for testing so make sure to check it out in Nigeria

Samir talks about his 6 years plus journey building what is now an end-to-end cloud-based edtech solution providing a school management system and a smart education learning process for 100s of schools and thousands of students. He also highlights the lessons he has learnt over time

Shweta CEO of Ginny's planet talks about the social enterprise teaching empathy and diversity workshops from a personal perspective and to people living with disabilities and how they are a very important part of our society, creatively starting with children

Henry on the couch today tells us about his twitter-based dating app where your Likes and Retweets say more about you than you answering or doing a bio, what his plans are for the future, and how differently he is approaching dating.

Did you know that40% of fish caught in East Africa is wasted? I had both Omar and Osama on the couch in this episode they talk about Seafood Souq which tries to solve the value chain problem through a great marketplace for every stakeholder in the seafood industry with revenue growing exponentially year-on-year

Omar tells us he is not in the e-commerce apparel business but in the business of changing lifestyle and revolutionalizing the technology behind wearables and sports and fitness clothing to impact the world of fitness, and very soon medical and even military. They use hydrophobic and heat-lock technology to ensure fitness starts from the clothes.

Ardy talks about the journey that led him to build BrowseAI, the multiple use cases the product solves for, and his plans to help people do data analytics, monitor their competitors, make sense of data and run a lot of automated tests without writing any line of code.

Elhakeem talks about chatbot building platform making it easy for small businesses to manage customer relationships in very scalable and creative ways and how they have been recognized by Facebook during this year's F8 and the launch of Botme Shops