EXPERT DOJO

Expert DOJO is one of the most active international early-stage startup accelerator and venture capital fund in Southern California. We invest on average $50,000 in each of our startups and up to $1,000,000 of follow-on investment to companies who have demonstrated exceptional growth. We help our companies get traction and scale faster than they could ever do by themselves. Since 2018, we have invested in over 260 startups globally to accelerate their growth. What makes us special is our focus on building visionary companies. If you can visualize your unicorn, you have a higher probability of achieving its full potential. That’s where Expert DOJO comes in. We invest in pre-seed and seed companies ready to scale quickly. Most of our startups are minority and female founded technology companies. However, we remain industry agnostic and invest in founders from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.

Past deals in Sub Saharan Africa

Trade Lenda

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Trade Lenda is digital financial service solution enabling access to credit for MSMEs leveraging alternative data sources to qualify character and capacity in Nigeria. It’s a known fact access to finance is a major challenge for MSMEs with a $5trillion opportunity market across developing economies. According to reports from PWC and IFC, MSMEs account for about 84% of the jobs created in this region and about 50% of the GDP of the African economies. However without needed finance, most of them are likely to shut down within first 2-5 years. Today with our smart data algorithm, we leverage on data to evaluate character and capacity of every request thus removing focus on upfront collateral and cutting bottle necks associated to getting credits by MSMEs. We are not stopping there but also going a step further to provide micro savings, insurance, investment and pension soon for MSMEs.

Trade Lenda

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Trade Lenda is digital financial service solution enabling access to credit for MSMEs leveraging alternative data sources to qualify character and capacity in Nigeria. It’s a known fact access to finance is a major challenge for MSMEs with a $5trillion opportunity market across developing economies. According to reports from PWC and IFC, MSMEs account for about 84% of the jobs created in this region and about 50% of the GDP of the African economies. However without needed finance, most of them are likely to shut down within first 2-5 years. Today with our smart data algorithm, we leverage on data to evaluate character and capacity of every request thus removing focus on upfront collateral and cutting bottle necks associated to getting credits by MSMEs. We are not stopping there but also going a step further to provide micro savings, insurance, investment and pension soon for MSMEs.

Versus Africa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Versus is a tool that combines online and offline consumer data to give brands actionable and competitive insight for the African market. Working with global clients both within Africa and beyond, we seek to help brands have a better understanding of the African consumer.

Flexpay

Seed Round in 2022
Flexpay Technologies is a company that offers an automated platform to enable merchants and their customers manage flexible payments for both goods and services across mobile money and bank transfer platforms. Flexpay helps you break down your payments for purchases into smaller chunks that you can pay over a period of time.

Aladdin

Seed Round in 2022
Aladdin is a "neobank" with an integrated marketplace for the "hustlers," aka SMBs and gig workers in Africa. Our team is highly qualified, motivated and moves at a rapid pace. Aladdin provides customers with traditional financial tools such as Savings, Access to Credit, Secure Payments, Cards, and Investments. Aladdin customers also have a safe platform to buy and sell their products and services using the in-built escrow account payment system while enjoying quality social interactions within the platform's community.

UCard

Pre Seed Round in 2022
UCard enables users to buy and receive airtime from all service providers as well as pay utility bills from the comfort of their home. Their APIs allow billers' accounts to be verified before submission. UCARD also works with 9 power distribution companies in Nigeria, including Abuja, Eko, Ikeja, Ibadan, Kaduna, Kano, Port Harcourt, and Enugu. UCard is headquartered in Lekki, Lagos.

ComiBlock

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We intentionally reinvented how retail investors think about risk and interact with digital-asset investing.

Winich Inc (Winich Farms)

Seed Round in 2022
At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs, agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle. In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible. One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etc Backed by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.

Flutter Connect

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Trueflutter app comes with security features, visibility settings, and audio bios, with the technology that has been designed to work within the African culture and value systems. Trueflutter is a matchmaking app that is designed with African singles in mind. It's an online community of people in search of something real.

Awabah

Pre Seed Round in 2022
At Awabah, we provide easy-to-use working benefits for business owners and their workers: providing a monthly subscription service that gives access to health insurance, micro pension, life insurance, and accident cover for a single cost of $3.

DIal Afrika Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Dial Afrika helps businesses define the future of work, and improve team Efficiency, Productivity, and output all while understanding their customer behavior through our omnichannel customer support tool. 70% of businesses in Africa do not have access to proper and affordable tools through which they can communicate with their customers effectively leading to the loss of up to $47 billion in revenue in Africa.

Fibre Compare

Seed Round in 2021
Fibre Compare is a national fibre comparison platform for all home and business fibres. They have also designed and custom-developed software solutions for fibre network operators and Internet service providers which drive sales and optimize workflows within their respective environments.

Akiba Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.

StarNews Mobile

Seed Round in 2020
StarNews is a subscription-based video streaming service built to allow African creators to monetize their digital content. Based in Los Angeles, CA and with pan-African reach in 7 countries today, StarNewsconnects African content creators with their audiences locally and globally and help them generate a real sustainable income. Their mission is to unlock the massive potential of Africa’s creative sector by enabling monetization of local African content through an affordable streaming platform built for mass market consumers and with a fair payout formula that benefits and rewards African content creators.

Akiba Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.

GladeFinance

Seed Round in 2019
GladeFinance target to accelerate the growth of merchants and SMEs through digital financial solutions to foster financial inclusion.

StarNews Mobile

Seed Round in 2019
StarNews is a subscription-based video streaming service built to allow African creators to monetize their digital content. Based in Los Angeles, CA and with pan-African reach in 7 countries today, StarNewsconnects African content creators with their audiences locally and globally and help them generate a real sustainable income. Their mission is to unlock the massive potential of Africa’s creative sector by enabling monetization of local African content through an affordable streaming platform built for mass market consumers and with a fair payout formula that benefits and rewards African content creators.
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