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A Nigerian peer-to-peer logistics marketplace that matches people with spare luggage space to people with packages, takes 20% of every job, and ran its first hundred users entirely by hand on a website while the mobile app was still unbuilt.
100+ users, all Nigerian · 20% commission on every package moved · closed ₦20M on the show for 26%, part equity and part convertible note converting at the next round with a 10% discount
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Moses walks onto a Nigerian pitch show at 23 and opens with the biggest numbers he has: logistics is a $5.5 trillion global market, Nigeria alone moves some 700 million packages, and Travella intends to capture 50 million of them by letting individual travellers carry packages on behalf of other people, taking 20% of every job. He asks for ₦20 million for 15%. His comparison is Airbnb — decentralise the spare capacity that already exists, in this case empty luggage space on trips people are taking anyway. Then the investors take the numbers apart. He rolled out in January 2021 to validate the market, had over 100 users within about two months, and in roughly three months had earned about ₦200,000 — a figure the captions garble as "$500 in naira, that's ₦200,000." All 100 users are Nigerian, deliberately, because he wanted traction at home before going global. There is no mobile app yet; everything runs on a website with the steps performed manually. The operational questions land hardest. What if the sender is a drug dealer? Support staff at the airport screen packages. At every international airport in the world? Yes, sir. Who does the last mile? Either the receiver waits at arrivals or a support agent collects. One investor's verdict: "There's a business here somewhere later on, but it's nowhere near that right now. It's purely an idea." A second is out over missing insurance. Three others come in anyway, at ₦20 million for 26%.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel in one click · first payment refundable for 7 daysData credibility: A televised investor pitch, not an audited disclosure. Every number is the founder's own, stated under questioning, with no dashboard or documentation shown. The revenue figure is garbled in the auto-captions — it is rendered as "we've made $500 in naira, that's ₦200,000," and moments later an investor refers to "about 100,000," so the exact amount is uncertain; treat it as roughly ₦200,000 over about three months and do not convert it at a modern exchange rate, since the only conversion offered is the founder's own from 2021. The Nigerian market-size claim is also mangled by the captions ("1 billion 150 billion in naira") and is not usable. The $5.5 trillion global logistics figure, the 700 million Nigerian packages and the 50-million-package target are unsourced pitch claims, not evidence. The business name is spelled Travella in the video's own title and description while the captions transcribe it as "Traveler." The ₦20 million for 26% deal is agreed on camera but its equity/convertible split is garbled; televised handshakes are also not always completed after filming, and nothing here confirms the money was wired. Two of the investors state on camera that they consider the business an idea rather than a company.