Startup Couches

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 Nigeria, working on this for 9 months. Businesses and individuals integrate Petra, a Bowen University graduate, who interned at Jobberman. Petra means something solid

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 on their platforms. The b2c side needed a lot of education as escrow services are not mainstream and so the b2b shift makes the most business sense and would also solve the education problem.

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 orders in one city in Egypt and onboarded over 100 retailers. 4 co-founders. 30-people team. We don’t compete with retailers, we do not have warehouses or keep inventories.$30bn market in Egypt alone. The Egyptian market is huge, timing

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.

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 for the general public. The transition was natural, we were spending so much time with tax, CS, and a lot of other things but food.

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 and now expanding into India. We want to start producing predictive analytics for companies coming into the African Market.

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 markets, focus on African and Caribbean markets. De-risk market approval for limited regulatory access. Central Bank digital currencies. Cadet in 10 years at IBM saw the need for tech to increase financial inclusion through the regulators. Looking forward to growing significantly in 2023, a lot of people using the product already.

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, going keto, etc is hard. A browser extension that makes that food shopping. Filter out what you can’t have: save time, Discover what you can have, Helps you become more health-conscious. The social impact of food connects everyone. A chunk of the customer segment is Moms who are typically in charge of groceries in food. Food manufactured under fair trade processes, Santiago had eczema and it was corn intolerant and nut allergic, mom is vegan and dad is avoiding palm oil. Active in the UK and we plan to roll out in the US by next year, we are expecting FoodLama hit millions of users. Food content is personalized to you wherever you go is our mission.

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 platform for JAMStack websites and node js applications, connect your app to GitLab, BitBucket. Vercel and Netlify are great products, we offer flexibility and you can host yourself and you can have full control over your served assets. It has been 3 years now and now we are 2 co-founders and we are bootstrapping. Over 2,000 users with little or no marketing and some paying customers.

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