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Shekel Mobility

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https://www.shekelmobility.com/

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
Shekel Mobility
Founded:2022
Team Size:18
Location:Lagos, Nigeria
Group Partner:Michael Seibel
    

Active Founders

Benjamen Oladokun, Founder

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.
Benjamen Oladokun
Benjamen Oladokun
Shekel Mobility
 

Valentine Mayaki, Founder

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.
Valentine Mayaki
Valentine Mayaki
Shekel Mobility
 

Sanmi Olukanmi, Founder

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.
Sanmi Olukanmi
Sanmi Olukanmi
Shekel Mobility
 

Company Launches

Shekel Mobility , the neobank and trading platform for car dealers in Africa

Hello Everyone,

Meet, Shekel Mobility, a simplified financing & operating system for car dealers in Africa, founded by Benjamen, Sanmi and Valentine. We share over 15 years of friendship, mobility and technology background and remain committed to a common vision to drive business optimisation for every car dealer in Africa.

Shekel Mobility dealers have been able to triple their sales by growing their inventory through access to our affordable finance.

We are happy to engage strategic partners on this ambitious but exciting journey of building the largest Auto dealership ecosystem powering $10Billion dollars by the year 2025.

Regards.

YC Sign Photo

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Selected answers from Shekel Mobility's original YC application for the W23 Batch

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Neobank and Trading platform for car dealerships

How long have each of you been working on this? How much of that has been full-time? Please explain.

Over 20 months now, First 15 months was part time but we are all full time now.