Startup Couches

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 do with changing their norms, how hard product discovery is and what vendors want.

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.