{"id":377,"date":"2022-05-22T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/nigerias-topship-raises-2-5m-from-flexport-and-yc-to-help-merchants-with-international-shipping-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:35:11","slug":"nigerias-topship-raises-2-5m-from-flexport-and-yc-to-help-merchants-with-international-shipping-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Topship raises $2.5M from Flexport and YC to help merchants with international shipping &#8211; TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2318823\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2318823\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2318823\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg\" alt=\"Topship\" width=\"1024\" height=\"846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg 4861w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=150,124 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=300,248 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=768,634 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=680,562 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=1536,1269 1536w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=2048,1692 2048w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Topship-Team-Image.jpg?resize=50,41 50w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2318823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> Topship<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> Topship<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">African merchants encounter many challenges when it comes to international shipping, ranging from logistics and customs to hidden and excessive charges<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital freight forwarders on the continent have grown to tackle these supply chain issues<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In some way, they are taking after the likeness of an $8 billion company and a market leader in the freight space, Flexport; some have dubbed themselves the &#8220;Flexport for Africa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent YC graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/topship.africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topship<\/a> is one such startup, and it has raised a $2.5 million seed round months after concluding the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/29\/yc-w22-batch-nets-24-african-startups-including-18-from-nigeria\/\">recent YC winter batch<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flexport is its lead investor. Other backers include Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Starling Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, Capital X and True Capital<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The individual investors in the round include Immad Akhund, Mercury CEO and Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topship <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was founded<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2020 during the pandemic when co-founder and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/moses-o-enenwali-b37694192\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moses Enenwali<\/a> noticed a surge in merchants&#8217; needs for shipping parcels and cargo outside Nigeria<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He had built relationships with these merchants following his time with logistics company ACE Logistics and e-commerce fulfilment provider Sendbox. Though demand was steady during his time with both companies, from 2015 to 2020, this was different<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The world was shutting down, but there was this high demand for stuff and demand for international shipping was going up simultaneously. So I was like, &#8220;this is interesting.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a business then as we <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">just<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> helped these people move stuff like a scrappy, little hustle,&#8221; Enenwali\u00a0told TechCrunch over a call.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Globally, about 60% of air cargo is flown in the belly hold of passenger flights, which is one reason shipping air cargo is more straightforward <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to start than ocean cargo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For Enenwali, it even made more sense to go through this route because passenger planes flew half empty for most of 2020. After months of iteration, Topship <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">went live in March 2021 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junaid-babatunde-9a7929147\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junaid Babatunde<\/a> as CTO.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topship says it wants to create the easiest way for African businesses to export and import parcels and cargo to their customers, suppliers and distributors worldwide<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The company and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">imilar players such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/11\/12\/sote-wants-to-be-africas-shipping-logistics-gateway-beginning-with\/\">Sote<\/a>, SEND and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/28\/nigerias-oneport-365-lands-5m-to-digitize-freight-management-in-africa\/\">OnePort365<\/a> want to improve the overall shipping experience in Africa. However, Topship&#8217;s expectations are pretty lofty; it said in a statement that &#8220;its mission is to make the shipping experience in Africa as easy and stress-free as booking an Uber ride.&#8221; And o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ne factor that might work in its favour is its focus on air cargo even as others explore a mix of air, ocean and truck haulage pioneered by Flexport.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CEO Enenwali argues that while African startups, including his, take some cues from Flexport&#8217;s playbook, he doesn&#8217;t think Africa is ready for the unicorn&#8217;s model, which is super-heavy on ocean cargo movement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The reason why the Flexport model wouldn&#8217;t work here is it&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">heavily<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> invested in ocean freight and we don&#8217;t have enough ports on the continent. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, in Nigeria, we have one function port, and for ocean freight to work, we need ports, railways and roads for trucking. But we don&#8217;t have the roads, and we don&#8217;t have the railways,&#8221; said the CEO, giving reasons why Topship doesn&#8217;t involve itself with ocean cargo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to connect the continent with ocean freight. Flexport&#8217;s business model makes a lot of sense even with how they attack problems <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aggressively,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and I love that. But for Africa, we need to tweak it to fit the use case here. So what we&#8217;ve seen is the way to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">connect the continent is via air. Every country and major city on the continent has a functioning airport, and airlines are flying to all those airports daily.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topship caters to a wide range of users. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From a merchant moving tons of heavy equipment and a solo entrepreneur sending parcels to a student mailing documents to a school abroad and a Gen Z shopping from a foreign store, Topship is a borderline local and international shipping solution between digital freight and e-commerce fulfilment<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flexport has backed several African companies from both categories, such as Trella, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/05\/05\/egyptian-startup-flextock-closes-3-25m-in-the-largest-pre-seed-yet-in-mena\/\">Flextock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/10\/31\/shipblu-bags-2-4m-for-its-e-commerce-and-fulfilment-service-in-egypt\/\">ShipBlu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/10\/18\/nigerias-sendbox-raises-1-8m-to-provide-e-commerce-fulfilment-for-small-merchants\/\">Sendbox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/02\/17\/moroccos-freterium-grabs-4m-to-scale-its-freight-trucking-software-across-mena\/\">Freeterium<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/05\/05\/egyptian-startup-flextock-closes-3-25m-in-the-largest-pre-seed-yet-in-mena\/\">Egypt&#8217;s Flextock closes $3.25M in the largest pre-seed yet in MENA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Enewali, Topship allows 1,500 merchants to move cargo and parcels from Nigeria to more than 150 countries. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although it can help Nigerian merchants receive parcel deliveries from the other way round,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> they can only accept cargo deliveries from the U.S., the U.K and China<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company&#8217;s revenue comes from selling shipping insurance and taking a margin on transactions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enewali said the company is exploring other revenue streams, including trade financing and customs clearance charges<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The company has recorded ~50% month-on-month revenue growth since getting into YC this January.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> what YC does more than anything is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">just<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> push you to dive as deep as possible in understanding your users,&#8221; said the CEO about Topship&#8217;s revenue growth after YC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking into the future, a lot of it&#8217;s coming from that ethos of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the user being the most important piece of the puzzle, and we have to be obsessive about it. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We&#8217;re taking all the learnings and insights that we&#8217;ve learned from our users over the past five months or six months and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> building it into the product in a way that is merchants-focus<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late last year, merchant groups from Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya invited Topship to gauge the possibility of launching in their respective markets. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enewali said this new funding provides Topship with deep enough pockets to follow through and start operations there. In addition, a portion of the investment would improve its asset-light technology and build out a proprietary global shipping infrastructure to make imports and exports significantly faster and easier, he said. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topship has also set aside some money in fashion design and retail grants worth <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$3,500 each to award new and established fashion brands in Nigeria as a sign of &#8220;support for the future of the growing e-commerce sector&#8221; in the country.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/03\/29\/yc-w22-batch-nets-24-african-startups-including-18-from-nigeria\/\">YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/05\/16\/nigerian-freight-and-e-commerce-provider-topship-raises-2-5m-from-flexport-and-yc\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credits: Topship Image Credits: TopshipAfrican merchants encounter many challenges when it comes to international shipping, ranging from logistics and customs to hidden and excessive charges.Digital freight forwarders on the continent have grown to tackle these supply chain issues. 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