On-demand food delivery for Africa
Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.
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Active Founders
Femi Aluko, Founder
Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. He was a former Principal Engineer at Paystack, an African payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020. When he started at Paystack in 2017 (as the fifth engineer and the first Core Payments Engineer), he was responsible for building the core payment infrastructure for multiple payment methods. As a Principal Engineer, he was in charge of designing multiple core systems like the circuit breaker for routing over 100k transactions daily.
Olumide Ojo, Founder
Olumide is co-founder and CTO of Chowdeck. Olumide has spent the better part of the last five years working in African fintech companies across various individual contributor and leadership roles such as Technical Lead, Engineering Manager, and, more recently, Principal Engineer at Paystack. His contributions span the entire technical stack from backend to frontend and beyond.
Lanre Yusuf, Founder
Lanre is the co-founder and COO of Chowdeck. He is a former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive where he led a team of software engineers in developing and managing business support solutions for a leading power utility company in Nigeria.
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Hi!
My name is Femi Aluko, CEO of Chowdeck, an on-demand food delivery service in Nigeria founded in collaboration with my two friends, Olumide Ojo (CTO) and Lanre Yusuf (COO).
Launched in October 2021, Chowdeck is Africa's easiest and fastest on-demand food delivery service. Our mission is to empower restaurants to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime.
Today, we serve customers in two major neighbourhoods in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria and the most populous in Africa.
In the seven months since launch, we’ve achieved a record delivery time of under 30 minutes even as order volume increased from an average of 40 daily orders in January to an average of 650 daily orders in July. In addition, at least 88% of the 67 restaurants we partner with have recorded an increase in sales.
Africa’s biggest economic hub still doesn't have an efficient on-demand food delivery for restaurants. We’re on a mission to fix this, starting in Lagos and soon throughout Africa.
Milestones
In the last six months, we’ve:
- Done over 60,000 deliveries(did 17k in July)
- processed over $500k in GMV($125k in July)
- made $24k in monthly revenue in July
- 3500+ active users (65% of whom have ordered more than once)
The Team
- Femi Aluko, former Backend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)
- Olumide Ojo, former Frontend Principal Engineer at Paystack (acquired by Stripe for over $200m)
- Lanre Yusuf, former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive.
Ask:
- If you live or work around Ikeja or Yaba in Lagos Nigeria, kindly try us out ❤️
- If you don’t live in Lagos or Nigeria, kindly follow us and support us on Twitter or Instagram. We’re building a community!
- If you have some experience running operations for a delivery startup, please do reach out. We’d love to learn from you.