Kobo360 2022

Kobo360 is an African tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners, and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework It also provides vehicle financing program through which drivers can finance new trucks through citizen investors and pay them back directly over a period of time, enabling clients to receive freight trips and logistics-related assistance.

Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. It enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full.

A self-style, Uber for truck platform which was launched in 2017, by the duo of Obi Ozor and Ife Oyedele II, with the aim to make supply chains more efficient, affordable and transparent has worked with around 50,000 truck drivers in Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda to help them transport over 760 million kilos (1.67 billion pounds) of goods, worth an estimated $200 billion

Kobo is running with its vision to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets. In addition, it is also preparing to get into the agro-trading space by creating a marketplace that links farmers with buyers all over the world. The marketplace will effectively eliminate the high cost of middlemen for smallholder farmers and significantly improve profits.