Shekel Mobility
Shekel Mobility is a YC Winter 2023 (W23) company. Based in Lagos, LA, Nigeria; San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 18.
About Shekel Mobility
Summary
Shekel Mobility builds a B2B platform for auto dealers across Africa, covering inventory sourcing, trade financing, import logistics, and dealership operations management. It connects local dealers, agent dealers, and global suppliers through a single marketplace, replacing fragmented manual processes for finding, funding, and moving used vehicles. The platform handles cross-border car trade end-to-end, from clearing and shipping to invoicing and team management.
Business model
Free to get started, with revenue tied to financing and transaction services on the platform.
Go-to-market
African auto dealers, from physical lot operators to independent agent dealers, sign up directly through a self-serve onboarding flow on the Shekel Mobility platform.
From the Y Combinator listing
B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa
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
Facts
- Fintech / Fintech
- Lagos, LA, Nigeria; San Francisco, CA, USA
- 18
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
- Benjamen Oladokun
- Sanmi Olukanmi
- Valentine Mayaki
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