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Shekel Mobility

Winter 2023 · Active

B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa

Location: Lagos, Nigeria, NG

Founded: 2022

Team size: 18

About

Our platform helps car dealers find, finance and sell more cars in the $30B African used Car market. We are building the largest auto dealership ecosystem ; powering $10Bn transactions annually

Founders

  • Benjamen OladokunFounder

    Benjamen is Founder of Shekel Mobility. Ben founded his first successful business at 17 and has since led teams to launch products that have impacted the mobility sector in SSA and generated several million of dollars. An experienced growth hacker and an experienced entrepreneur.

  • Valentine MayakiFounder

    A rockstar engineer who has over 10 years of experience and has built scalable application for various sectors especially fintech. He has worked for companies like Nextravel, Andela etc.

  • Sanmi OlukanmiFounder

    Sanmi is an experienced mobility entrepreneur and the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Shekel. Over the last 10 years, Sanmi has founded and exited enterprises with an average USD 900K ARR in the automotive industry overseeing sourcing, business Strategy and growth. Sanmi studied Engineering Physics at Obafemi Awolowo University.