Audrey Djiya and Peter N (co-Founders, Zimi) are doing something remarkable – they are bringing AmazonPrime-like fulfillment to African exporters, making it easy, fast, and cheap for these businesses to sell internationally.
Explaining how this works, Audrey says:
Across the continent, millions of businesses export $600 billion worth of goods every year. This is set to surpass $1 trillion by 2035.
But these businesses have no affordable way to sell globally.
Shipping can cost more than 100% of the value of an order.
That just doesn’t make sense to us, which is why we’re building Zimi.
By helping companies store inventory across the globe and fulfill orders directly, Zimi is enabling African merchants to cut logistics costs by up to 80% and deliver goods to their buyers in record time.Special thank you to Mbwana Alliy from Savannah Fund for being our first believer!
In the same way that Amazon transformed logistics for books sold online (and eventually almost every other product), Zimi’s objective is to do the same for businesses in Africa where one in every five people of working age runs a business.