Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1.
Heyfood is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Doordash for Africa. The founders listed are Taiwo Akinropo (Founder), Demilade Odetara (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 2, 2022).
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Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.
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