Startup Couches

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 financial goals.

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