Jise Food Delivery App Raises $100,000 Angel Fund

Jise, Nigeria’s food-only delivery platform has announced that it has successfully raised One hundred thousand dollars as angel funds from Europe and Africa.

In view of this, its food service app has now gone live for full operation.

In a statement released by the firm, Jise is led by four co-founders including Marvelous Gbenro as CEO, Tokurah Majid as VP Growth & Operations, Ibukun Olasupo as VP Customer Engagement and Jeremy Osazuwa Agbonze VP Technology.

According to the firm, In the wake of starting its operation officially, Jise has raised $100,000 angel investment from notable investors including Backroom Capital,Nigeria, Winston Capital, Ireland and also a few angel investors including Jonny Enagwolor, Co-Founder Treepz Inc.

They stated that together, these co-founders of Jise promise to improve the livelihood of its merchants, runners and users by continuously creating a swift, seamless and affordable delivery service using its integrated solution.

“Jise has gone live by signing up more than 40 restaurant menus on their platform first within the Lekki Phase 1 axis of Lagos.

“We hope to provide meals within 25 minutes to customers in this axis then gradually expand our community-based model starting with bicycle runners across Lagos in preparation for the holiday season.”

However,the firm revealed that following the covid-19 outbreak in 2020, the demand for food and groceries delivery services has increased around the world.

“This new normal has had consumers demanding a better food delivery service in Nigeria, Jise has seized this opportunity to provide a food delivery platform focusing on providing fast and affordable delivery services starting with Lagos,” the firm stated.

It adds that, “Jise was birthed due to the inadequacies and the problems caused by delivery partners who are multi-category focused that results in unfulfilled or late food deliveries, which then leads to disappointment that invariably threatens brand integrity of most of our local restaurants.

“A solution was therefore created by building a shared logistics platform that enables restaurants to effectively deliver their meals in the fastest possible time leveraging clusters of independent delivery personnel, while simultaneously enabling growth for restaurants via a connected marketplace integrated solution like JISE.”

Commenting about the deal, Leonard Lynch, investor at Winston Capital said, “At Winston Capital, we are always looking for the best teams to invest in and at Jise, we see it as a great opportunity to invest in a great team. We are delighted to continue to support the start-up ecosystem in Nigeria with our second investment on the continent.

With over 3 years of experience working for Techsopht providing web-related services to clients’ businesses across various countries, Marvelous Gbeenro, CEO and Co-Founder of Jise is no stranger to leading a fast-growing, solution-oriented startup.

Majid Tokurah has over 10 years in Logistics and Technology and 4 out of those years, he was a Co-Founder and VP of Growth and Operations at WeMove.

The only female co-Founder on the team is Ibukun Olasupo who has worked with some of the leading technology startups in Nigeria handling their customer engagements.

Her previous engagements include IrokoTV, Konga, Farmcrowdy and Treepz where she led Customer Engagement.

Jise, Nigeria’s food-only delivery platform has announced that it has successfully raised One hundred thousand dollars as angel funds from Europe and Africa.

In view of this, its food service app has now gone live for full operation.

In a statement released by the firm, Jise is led by four co-founders including Marvelous Gbenro as CEO, Tokurah Majid as VP Growth & Operations, Ibukun Olasupo as VP Customer Engagement and Jeremy Osazuwa Agbonze VP Technology.

According to the firm, In the wake of starting its operation officially, Jise has raised $100,000 angel investment from notable investors including Backroom Capital,Nigeria, Winston Capital, Ireland and also a few angel investors including Jonny Enagwolor, Co-Founder Treepz Inc.

They stated that together, these co-founders of Jise promise to improve the livelihood of its merchants, runners and users by continuously creating a swift, seamless and affordable delivery service using its integrated solution.

“Jise has gone live by signing up more than 40 restaurant menus on their platform first within the Lekki Phase 1 axis of Lagos.

“We hope to provide meals within 25 minutes to customers in this axis then gradually expand our community-based model starting with bicycle runners across Lagos in preparation for the holiday season.”

However,the firm revealed that following the covid-19 outbreak in 2020, the demand for food and groceries delivery services has increased around the world.

“This new normal has had consumers demanding a better food delivery service in Nigeria, Jise has seized this opportunity to provide a food delivery platform focusing on providing fast and affordable delivery services starting with Lagos,” the firm stated.

It adds that, “Jise was birthed due to the inadequacies and the problems caused by delivery partners who are multi-category focused that results in unfulfilled or late food deliveries, which then leads to disappointment that invariably threatens brand integrity of most of our local restaurants.

“A solution was therefore created by building a shared logistics platform that enables restaurants to effectively deliver their meals in the fastest possible time leveraging clusters of independent delivery personnel, while simultaneously enabling growth for restaurants via a connected marketplace integrated solution like JISE.”

Commenting about the deal, Leonard Lynch, investor at Winston Capital said, “At Winston Capital, we are always looking for the best teams to invest in and at Jise, we see it as a great opportunity to invest in a great team. We are delighted to continue to support the start-up ecosystem in Nigeria with our second investment on the continent.

With over 3 years of experience working for Techsopht providing web-related services to clients’ businesses across various countries, Marvelous Gbeenro, CEO and Co-Founder of Jise is no stranger to leading a fast-growing, solution-oriented startup.

Majid Tokurah has over 10 years in Logistics and Technology and 4 out of those years, he was a Co-Founder and VP of Growth and Operations at WeMove.

The only female co-Founder on the team is Ibukun Olasupo who has worked with some of the leading technology startups in Nigeria handling their customer engagements.

Her previous engagements include IrokoTV, Konga, Farmcrowdy and Treepz where she led Customer Engagement.