Startup Couches

Dominic is creating ways for children content creators to get excited, a content marketplace for children content, text, audio and video.

A multi-channel messaging platform for businesses in Africa, CRM, and APIs for businesses to engage their customers. Onboarding, engaging, support, and retention through texts, voices, WhatsApp

An experimental studio, building immersive shopping experiences, product visualization, immersive merchandising, virtual try-ons etc. Plan is to get more engagements and get user feedback. Some of the amazing works from the labs include AR business cards, Tailo’s virtual showroom, Orange Culture’ Virtual 3D-models. Derrick also talks about how building in public is really helping with Sales and product discovery.

A neobank for SMEs in Nigeria: credit, payments, and other services related to your business. All our customers are importers and informal. Cargo insurance, logistics, and customs clearance support from china to your store in Nigeria. $36bn trade deficit. Trade financing

Mollie is on the couch to talk about Crew, a group-based coaching program, helping people coaching, millennial professionals, and career re-design needs. Executive coaches in the pipeline, other professionals who have something to teach and mentor.

Ben is on the couch today to talk about a mobile app that allows people to send money from one region to another, Flux

Philip is on the couch today and we spoke about Opontia and how it enables founders to realize the value of the e-commerce brands that they built, businesses can face an inability to grow further or scale. Above $10k in rev, no reseller, few categories exempt like fast fashion, consumer electronics. Kitchenware, bathroom, sports, gathering, cosmetics.

Ismail is on the couch today talking about WAFR, a mobile payment smartphone app that gives discounts to its users when they pay through the app. Closed-loop mobile wallet, you pay less when using and the businesses earn more while using it, for FMCG, grocers to grow their markets. A great loyalty program. We go to FMCGs and ask for discounts and show them how it can become profitable. 10% of the discount goes to us. 85% of the FMCG market is made up of grocers: mothers, children, more middle to lower-class adults.

Silas is on the couch today talking about Catlog, a set of tools to help buyers and sellers transact better online. Making buying and selling very smooth, a lot of transactions going on today on social media but there are a lot of problems. First, we started with a basic way for sellers to list all their products, buyers can see, select, buy, and check out to the seller's WhatsApp. It is tedious to always update products and prices using social media. To fully minimize pre-sale conversations. Orders and customers feature, when you confirm an order, the customer gets an email, and when you deliver, they also do so too. Solving inventory management. An invoicing feature. The BNPL product is also layered on top of the sellers' platform. Chatbot to help with CX and take orders too.

Ayo was on the couch and we spoke about Gen, a global banking platform created for Africans. From personal to business to the best-in-class global digital banking products. Gen is a cross-border digital banking solution, that empowers Africans, to move, work and do business globally. A lot of people are becoming global, working and being a part of the global economy. A talent marketplace founder, receipt of payments very seamless, faced challenges for talents in Africa. 2021 October working in private equity in NYC and resigned and started this. A must-listen