Orda, a Nigerian food-tech startup, says it has raised a pre-seed round capital of $1.1 million to expand its operations to South Africa and scale up financial products.
The company, formerly known as StarKitchens, was founded in 2020 — and currently operates in Nigeria and Kenya.
The investors who participated in the round include Microtraction, DFS Labs, Oxford Seed Fund, Enza Capital, Agrolay Advisors, Techstars Boulder, Magic Fund, Hustle Fund, Norrsken Foundation, and angel investors like Ire Aderinokun, Jesse Ovia and Ademola Adesina.
Guy Futi, chief executive officer, Orda, said the company would use the funds to scale up financial products, especially in lending, venture into processing payments for restaurants, and expand its operations to South Africa before the end of the year.
We listened to everything, from how African restaurants reconcile inventory, how customers pay, to how they handle logistics and more,” he said.
“Orda offers restaurants that use its platform access to a dashboard that allows them to accept and process orders from food delivery services Jumia Food, Glovo, Bolt Food, and in-store, website, social media channels like WhatsApp. In addition to this, it offers an ePOS solution that restaurants can operate in remote areas with little or no internet coverage.
– The Cable