Nigerian Start-ups Led YC’s Winter 2022 Demo Day

Digital emergence is now the new normal in the social co-existence of Africans. It’s expected that this year’s YC Combinator batch is filled with Nigerian start-ups. It is an evidence that Nigeria is the future of tech industrialization in the continent.

This year’s winter batch has more start-ups from Nigeria, Indonesia and Argentina. Fintech is having ceremonial outlook. According to CB insights on annual global fintech funding increased to $132Billion in 2021.

Y Combinator’s latest batch W22 has 414 start-ups from 42 countries. Africa has 24 start-ups with 18 emerging from Nigeria. In 2021 Nigeria had more VC investments in the continent possessing 34% of $5Billion which is $1.8Billion of the total money raised according to Partech a VC firm that collate data based on investments in the tech ecosystem in Africa.

Y Combinator is the champion’s league of tech start-ups  and no- seed stage company in the continent is favorably positioned than those start-ups in the Y Combinator’s league.

These are the start-ups telling the Nigerian’s start-up story regardless of the challenges in the country.

Convoy

Website: https://getconvoy.io

Founded in 2021 by Subomi Oluwalana and Emmanuel Aina it is an opensource web hooks infrastructure. It allows web applications to communicate with each other in real time.

Curacel

Website: https://curacel.co

Founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot and John Dada. The firm built an insurance API that could also function for other sectors and it is also a major player in health insurance automated processes.

Dojah

Website: https://www.dojah.io

Founded in 2021 by Tobi Ololade and Ayomide Oso. The firm provides KYC/ identity platform that enables African fintech and government organization to capture individual’s data and help verification processes.

Duplo

Website: www.tryduplo.com

Founded in 2021 by Yele Oyekola. The start-up firm builds a platform that helps to tackle the problem of digital fraud by creating a digital wallet to aid African B2B e-commerce move credit faster, and safer. It also intend to make cash obsolete.

Eazipay

Grey

Hey Food

Identity Pass

Lenco

Moni

Payourse

Plumter

Remedial Health

SendMe

Simplifyd Systems

Topship

Touch and Pay Technologies

Vendy