We're Raising $300K
The product is built. 92 APIs. 139+ screens. Proprietary AI. We need capital to execute go-to-market across Africa's $4 trillion digital economy.
Already Live — Before Any Marketing
The product isn't just built — it's live, with real users and merchants onboarded organically, before a single dollar of acquisition spend.
Pre-launch organic traction. This round fuels the engine to scale it across the first market.
Investment Structure
SAFE — Simple Agreement for Future Equity
No debt, no interest. Your investment converts into equity at the next priced round (Series A).
Maximum valuation at which your SAFE converts. Even if the Series A values the company higher, you get shares at this capped price.
If the Series A valuation is below the cap, you receive an additional 20% discount on the share price.
Right to maintain your ownership percentage by participating in future funding rounds.
The SAFE is the most founder-friendly and investor-efficient instrument for early-stage investment. Created by Y Combinator, it has become the global standard for pre-seed and seed rounds. No board seats, no interest, no maturity date — just a simple agreement that protects both parties.
MFN Clause: If we issue a SAFE with better terms to a future investor before the next priced round, your SAFE automatically upgrades to match those terms.
What Your Investment Funds
- 40%Go-To-Market ExecutionLaunch in first markets, merchant onboarding, user acquisition campaigns, local partnerships
- 25%Team Scale-UpFirst hires: operations manager, growth marketer, country manager for pilot market
- 15%Compliance & LicensingFintech licenses, KYC/AML certification, data residency, legal setup in pilot markets
- 10%Infrastructure & OperationsServer scaling, CDN deployment, payment gateway integration, customer support setup
- 10%Strategic PartnershipsLogistics partners, mobile money providers, pharmacy networks, vehicle dealers
12-Month Milestones
- Launch in First MarketGo live with full platform (all 6 verticals) in one UEMOA country — Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, or Sénégal
- 1,000+ Active MerchantsVendors, pharmacies, drivers, and service providers onboarded with full dashboard access
- 50,000+ App DownloadsOrganic + paid acquisition across marketplace, BulanPay, and ThirtyMin channels
- Payment Processing LiveBulanPay licensed and processing real transactions — mobile money, wallet, and P2P
- Series Seed ReadinessProven unit economics, user retention data, and operational playbook for market expansion
This Is Not a Pitch Deck Product
Most pre-seed startups ask you to fund an idea. We're asking you to fund go-to-market for a product that already exists.
Complete Platform
7 apps, 12 packages, 92 API endpoints, 139+ mobile screens, 37 database modules, 737 automated tests. Monorepo architecture with shared infrastructure.
BulanPay Fintech
31 dedicated screens. 12 security modules including fraud engine, KYC automation, transaction OTP, and SAR reporting. Wallet, BNPL, investments, savings — all functional.
Yennenga AI Engine
Our in-house AI engine, integrated across every vertical: product recommendations, smart search, fraud detection, and credit scoring — built and trained on African commerce data.
See the Platform in Action
Live mockups of the actual product — not wireframes, not concepts
SuperApp Admin
Dashboard
Revenue
Recent Orders
Why Now
Africa's Digital Boom
Africa's digital economy projected to reach $4 trillion by 2035. Mobile penetration >80%. Digital payments growing 30% YoY. The infrastructure is ready.
SuperApp Model Proven
WeChat, Grab, Gojek proved the SuperApp model in Asia. Africa — with even more fragmentation — is the perfect market for the same approach.
No Integrated Competitor
Jumia does e-commerce. Flutterwave does payments. No one integrates commerce, fintech, delivery, health, auto, and B2B. We do.
Product Already Built
Most competitors at this stage have a landing page. We have 92 APIs, 139 screens, and a proprietary AI engine. The gap between us and funded competitors is execution speed, not technology.
Why Alkebulan
Vertical Integration Moat
Every vertical feeds the others. Marketplace drives BulanPay adoption. BulanPay enables health payments. ThirtyMin delivers for everyone. This creates compounding network effects that no single-vertical competitor can match.
SDUI: Deploy Once, Customize Everywhere
Our Server-Driven UI engine with 38 components lets us launch in new markets by changing configuration — not code. Language, currency, layout, features — all controlled server-side.
Solo Founder = Full Ownership
One person built the entire platform. No technical debt, no team misalignment, no legacy systems. Complete architectural consistency and intimate knowledge of every component.
Built for Africa, by an African
Born in Burkina Faso, experienced the problems firsthand. Not a Silicon Valley outsider — someone who understands the infrastructure gaps, the payment fragmentation, the service deserts.
How We Make Money — and the Upside
A take-rate on every transaction, monetized twice through the integrated wallet. The figures below are illustrative bottom-up projections — not current results.
Revenue Streams
- Marketplace commission on every sale
- Delivery fees via ThirtyMin
- Fintech — BulanPay BNPL, FX margin, cash-in/out
- Seller subscriptions & listing boosts
Three-Scenario Projection — Year-2 run-rate, single market
Projections from a bottom-up model (commission, adoption and cost assumptions). Not a guarantee of results.
A Second Revenue Engine: BulanPay
The same users are monetized again through the wallet. At 120,000 active users, BulanPay alone projects ~$2.4M in annual revenue at ~58% margin — on top of marketplace revenue.
The Market
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