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Top Story: Kenyan Startup, BuuPass Wants to Fix Africa’s Travel System With Digitalised Mobility Platform
Kenyan mobility startup, BuuPass is pushing deeper into Africa’s enterprise economy with the launch of Gavanpass, a corporate travel management platform designed to digitise a largely manual segment of business operations across the continent.
The Nairobi-based company said that more than 20 enterprises in Kenya, including banks, fintechs, insurers and manufacturing firms are already using the platform to manage employee travel, signalling early traction as it pivots beyond its consumer-facing roots.
“Finance leaders have been telling us their problem is bigger than consumer travel,” BuuPass co-founder and co-CEO Sonia Kabra said. “They need one platform that handles everything, but also gives them the controls they actually need.”
“Most enterprise software is built elsewhere and then localised,” said Wycliffe Omondi, BuuPass co-founder and co-CEO. “We built this from the ground up with African finance and procurement teams.”
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On Startup Spotlight:
Nigerian Startup, Trazo Launches ‘Pay-for-Me’ Feature to Scale Food Delivery Across the Country
After six years of building a loyal customer base across Asaba and Warri, food delivery startup OliliFood has rebranded to Trazo. Central to Trazo’s new offering is a feature designed with local user behaviour in mind: “pay-for-me”.
The tool allows users to select items and generate a payment link, which can then be shared with the intended recipient. The recipient completes the payment directly, removing the need for intermediaries to handle transactions.
The feature simplifies a common scenario in Nigeria’s urban culture, purchasing items for friends or family in another location, while also reducing friction in the payment process.
The change marks the company’s transition from a food-focused delivery platform into a broader, multi-category service designed to handle a wide range of everyday needs, from groceries and pharmaceuticals to home services such as laundry, cleaning, and personal care.
“We are trying to make speed a thing, make payment processing a thing, make location accuracy a thing, and also make accessibility to other services a thing,” co-founder and chief executive Nweze Ikechukwu says. “We are building Trazo to be that lifestyle utility service,” he emphasises.
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
Also Read:
Nigeria’s NiteonHQ is Reimagining Commodity Trade with All-in-One Marketplace, Logistics and Finance Solutions. Yakub Abdulrasheed brings us the details, here.
Quote of the Day:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
Thank you for joining me yet again this evening. Stay safe, and see you tomorrow for the next tech newsletter.
Best, Quadri
