Startups

Startups and things I have built

A founder with receipts, not a pitch deck.

Since 2013 I have started, shipped, funded, wound down and franchised businesses across publishing, mobility, creative education and document software, backed twice by institutions and never dependent on a raise to keep building.

Backed by

  • Tony Elumelu FoundationClass of 2016 · ChatClass, then Wakafire
  • ITU Seed AcceleratorCohort 2022 · Find A Mech
  • KuvertrustInvestor & partner
  • Capital SquareStudio & workspace partner
  • GİTYADInvestor & partner
  • 13years building without a break
  • $30,000+raised and deployed into Wakafire
  • 600+photographers trained
  • 2×backed by institutions: TEF and ITU Seed

The ventures

  • 2025Live
    One ChapterPublishing · Faith tech

    Read the Bible one chapter at a time, on your own dates. 1,189 chapters, no streaks.

  • 2025Live
    The RepublicCivic media · Archive

    A searchable archive of Nigerian civic data: budgets, bills, elections and promises.

  • NowLive
    Products suiteSaaS · Documents

    Sign, Verify, Invoice, Transfer and Vault, each on its own subdomain.

  • 2016–2022Franchising
    WakafireCreative education

    Smartphone photography studio. 600+ trained, $30,000+ raised, brands from Puma to TECNO.

    Tony Elumelu Foundation
  • 2022Archived
    Find A MechMobility · Marketplace

    Automotive services marketplace. One of two African startups in ITU Seed 2022.

    ITU Seed
  • 2024Prototype
    Reviews AppPrototype

    A working FlutterFlow build for collecting and showing customer reviews.

  • 2013–2016Archived
    ChatClass NGEdtech · Marketplace

    Online higher-education marketplace across five countries. Tony Elumelu Foundation Class of 2016.

    Tony Elumelu Foundation
  • 2013Archived
    FleuriLanguage services

    French tutoring and consulting practice in Lagos that gave birth to ChatClass.

The full recordWins and write-offs, both listed.Every venture, the products and the founder case live on the ventures site. ventures.extrafemi.com

Brands the ventures have served

  • Advantage Austria
  • TECNO
  • Hugo Boss
  • Puma
  • Domino’s
  • Inglot
  • Persianas
  • Max
  • Pinkberry
  • Kabara
  • On Her Own Lane
  • Doll Designs Ltd
  • BellaNaija
  • TechCabal
  • Cool FM
  • Punch

Extrafemi Labs

21 builds that argue back, audit, or refuse to invent a single fact.

Reasoning tools, live data trackers, client builds and everyday utilities. Each has its own name, its own address and a live look at it doing the work.

  • 5Reasoning toolsTools that argue back instead of writing for you.FieldStoneWhetStone
  • 6Data & dashboardsSourced, dated and updated line by line.Hormuz Crisis TrackerDown in Nigeria
  • 6Client workBuilt for someone else’s launch.Oneremit CareersThe SANU Report
  • 4Consumer & infraEveryday tools, built for everyone else.SignSecureDoorstep

Commissions are open: bring a job worth automating and it becomes the next build.

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