Dermisho Utility and Farm Management Application (DUFMA), is a peer to peer integrated agricultural service startup platform providing farm advisory services, a farm management system and a training centre. Created in 2018, DUFMA connects farmers to service providers and micro investors and in the last two years, the team of agriculturists has managed 3 farms, had over 500 consultations and trained over 1000 persons both online and onsite. Their core objective is to improve agricultural processes through precision farming. The team were inspired to create their organisation after realising the enormous gap between what they are taught in academia and agriculture in reality.
DUFMA is aiming to create the biggest agricultural stakeholders' database in the next 5 years in West Africa, enabling registered agricultural stakeholders to easily verify each other. The organisation strives to improve security of investment within the sector and foster intra sector business partnership and productivity through the transfer of quality information. Ridwan Egbeyemi is the CEO of Unboxd, a wishlist and crowdfunding platform that allows people looking to receive gifts for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc, to create a wishlist of desired items and share with their loved ones who can also make cash contributions for each item on the list. His co-founder, Tolu Adesina, leads product and technology on the team.
The first user of the Unboxd MVP in September 2020 received 450,000 Nigerian Naira [US$1000+] as contributions to their wedding wishlist. After the success of this, the team spent 12 months refining the MVP before officially launching the app for public use in September 2021. Since then, the company has seen a month on month growth in birthday, wedding and Christmas wish lists. 20% of the wish lists in Unboxd are active with an average of N25,000 [$60+] in contributions which has led to over N2 million [$4,800+] in total cash gifts. To date, Unboxd has processed 50+ cash payouts. Founder at Fashtracker, African Digital Fashion Marketplace | Wunmi Akinsola is Afritech Verified4/25/2022
In this month’s episode, our host, Tosin Omowole spoke to Wunmi Akinsola, Founder at Fashtracker, an African digital fashion marketplace. Wunmi Akinsola is passionate about African fashion and has used her experience to build a curated fashion marketplace that caters to the needs of African fashion designers.
House cleaning and technology - Fichaya is changing the game in this sector with their technology-enabled cleaning platform. While most companies have been relying on technology for years now, cleaning businesses have only started adopting tech recently, by helping simplify mundane processes for both the client and the customer alike.
Founded by Jim Ofodum and Steph Ogundoyin, Fichaya is a technology-enabled company that provides cleaning and organising services. They are super customer-focused and strive to create the best experience for every customer by using technology to streamline the process from enquiry to managing customers' homes and offices on a monthly basis via fichaya.com. The company uses technology to amplify easy access for its customers to book and subscribe to monthly plans while providing a mobile application that enables its cleaning associates to view their cleaning schedules, see how much they’ve earned each month etc - a first of its kind for any Nigerian company in the cleaning industry. |
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