Startup Couches

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 http://afriexapp.app.link/

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 homes between $500k-$3m and already serve 100% of California. The founder became the youngest broker in California at 20 and works with a builder.

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 launch this month and have gotten about 90 businesses signed up.

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.

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. 500k users, don’t hire too fast.

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, and almost around the world.

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 released in May 2021. Experiencing organic growth, Full version in October, and more partnerships. Angel investments, the team has grown, with 12k installs and 8,500 active members $400k transactions. Adoption is nationwide, employees are also a lot and business owners. 1m installs by 2023 cos we are going to do heavy marketing. Remote work and team being at sync and the power supply issues. Trust issues of Nigerians.