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Startup Couches

by lotanna Nwose

A sit down conversation with people building amazing solutions that are solving big problems across the world.

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Episodes

  1. Referral as a service, Reimagining customer acquisition with ReferBox

    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…

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  2. Powering the Credit Industry with Oystr Finance

    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

  3. Prograd: A spot for GenZ people to find fintech products that work for them

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

  4. Data Intelligence as a service with TownTalk

    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

  5. DevOps- in-a-Box Infrastructure as Code tool for early-stage startups

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

  6. Managing your product's life cycle from start to finish with Simplify Engineering

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

  7. Accelerator for investors in Africa with Dream VC

    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...

  8. Feedpay, the everything money platform

    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.

  9. Afriex

    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...

  10. NileHome

    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...

  11. Simpu

    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...

  12. Lendha

    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.

  13. Frelapay

    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....

  14. Powered by People

    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…

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  15. Ajo Money

    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...

  16. Petra

    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...

  17. Pandascrow

    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...

  18. OnMarket

    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...

  19. Frikax

    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.

  20. Dr Phil-afel

    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...

  21. Rwazi

    Rwazi provides organizations with fresh, on-ground data from markets across sub-Saharan Africa to facilitate effective decision-making. A market intelligence platform, that helps consumer goods companies access on-ground data from developing markets. Mauritius, SA, Uganda, Kenya, and 40 markets…

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  22. Emtech

    Emtech modernises central banking tools to establish regulatory frameworks for emerging finch solutions. A company in the regtech and fintech to modernize and digitize regulatory processes and help innovators to easily work with regulators and approvals. To increase the financial inclusion in the...

  23. FoodLama

    FoodLama is an easy-to-use grocery shopping platform that works with a smart personal assistant over your familiar shopping site. With FoodLama, you can easily discover the foods that suit your preferences, get recommendations and explore with freedom. If you had dietary preferences, allergies,...

  24. Stormkit

    Stormkit helps you can easily manage your frontend infrastructure. It integrates perfectly with your git flow. Simplify and automate complex processes over the entire life cycle of a Javascript application. Make building & delivering applications a delightful low-code-like experience. Deployment...

  25. BuildSpace Africa

    BuildSpace is a community of web3 builders, developers, biggest web3 developer community.

  26. Cylon Accounting

    Cylon Accounting is an easy-to-use accounting and bookkeeping software for small businesses. Create your first invoice in less than 60 seconds. Send quotations, generate reports, track customers and you can record your transactions. Automate all your accounting departments' work, and save time…

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  27. FixBot

    FixBot helps you track your car's health without you worrying about breakdowns anymore. Their device monitors the overall performance of your vehicle and sends alerts via SMS, chatbot as well as mobile app, and web applications. IoT/hardware startup that makes devices and dongles to scan their…

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  28. Falcon Robotics

    Falcon Robotics provides top-notch technology solutions to individuals and businesses. They are keen on problem-solving, which is why we stand out. Manufacturing, training, and R&D and AI products, drone manufacturing. Unify, making robots affordable. Home automation systems, that is mind-blowing.

  29. MyTherapist.ng

    MyTherapist.ng is a mental healthcare startup that connects you to vetted therapists as well as resources for your emotional needs in Nigeria. MyTherapist.ng was founded by young Nigerian entrepreneurs with the goal of providing affordable, accessible, and quality mental health care to everyone…

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  30. Voda

    Voda is a mental wellness app for the LGBT community and includes digital therapy programs for queer people. CBT-based approach and psychotherapy. Started in October last year. Came out as an adult a few years ago, and therapy worked well for him. Queer people find it hard to find therapy cos of...

  31. Eventis

    Eventis is an event tech and video conferencing platform, allowing you to connect with your audience in a more immersive way. Remote work is now the norm and were building for it. Create an ecosystem of collaborative tools, virtual event tech platform. Host webinars, conferences, hybrid events....

  32. VijeV

    VijeV helps people to build an online presence and grow their businesses through unique brand storytelling. Named after the founder, storytelling for startups and large organizations. Consultancy startup that helps startups connect with their audience, there was always a story that binds people...

  33. Yalla Fel Sekka

    Yalla Fel Sekka is a delivery company. A very Arabic Egyptian slang (I'm coming, stop bugging quickly) YFS instant delivery company in Egypt, b2b2c on-demand logistics platform: groceries, pharma, e-commerce, the dog stores. Quick commerce. Instant delivery. Closed a round last year, to expand…

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  34. Transtura

    Transtura is a one-stop shop for everyday mobility. Share mobility and on-demand bus hailing startup, solving public transport system in Nigeria. Shuttle mini-buses 5 seater buses. And the fare is shared. Designated bus stop system where you check available cars, reserve seats and they ride....

  35. QPay

    QPay allows freelancers to receive and exchange foreign funds in seconds and helps workers to receive their foreign payments from freelancer sites anywhere in Africa. Fiver, Upwork, Terawork, a foreign virtual account, and a local bank account. Currency exchange, p2p feature to do so within the...

  36. HiVend

    HiVend provides you with FREE digitalized education and knowledge in all formats including videos, audios, infographics, animated tutorials and so much more. Hivend is an e-learning platform to digitalize education in all forms and eliminate the number of people in the uneducated and low-skill...

  37. Cheeps

    Cheeps allows you to make predictions on Future Events and earn money when your predictions come true. Stake cheeps on anything, including trending topics like Big Brother, Guilder Ultimate Search, or The UEFA Champions League. A platform where you can predict events and earn crypto while doing…

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  38. Internify

    Internify as Joel says provides students with high-involvement, project-based internships in Nigeria. Helps secure the right placement for young people. An internship connecting platform, helping students to get access to various internships in Nigeria. 2 teams, a tech and research team and we…

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  39. AbstractOps

    AbstractOps is an OS for the back office, taking care of operational work, payroll, and employee management. Used to automate back office for seed stage companies, a team of 5, and no dedication to Ops

  40. Pideaky

    Pideaky is a POS system to provide services to corner shops in Latam, it is hard for these businesses, to focus on the bottom of the pyramid, the unbanked that lack digital services.

  41. KadAfrica

    KadAfrica is a social enterprise based out of Uganda, creating opportunities for young women using agriculture and technology as a tool to turn these women into business-minded people. He talks about challenges and how KadAfrica

  42. Brick

    Brick is a financial API platform for south east Asia, the market leader for financial data and efficient cash-out, and recurring payouts. Connect your fintech products in one place.

  43. Intro

    Intro, a zoom extension that lets you see the company’s information for pre-call research, and check your next call, and information. Targeting salespeople, early-stage founders, and account executives.

  44. Money Hash

    Money Hash is a Super API infra for payment and fintech, a single point connection to actually run any kinda fintech product. AWS for fintech for the MENA

  45. Devengo

    Fernando talks about Devengo, a platform that provides payroll tech solutions for employers and employees.

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A sit down conversation with people building amazing solutions that are solving big problems across the world.

HOSTED BY

lotanna Nwose

Produced by Lotanna Nwose

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