Foodstantly.com is another very interesting online business shooting out of Africa. Founded only nine months ago, the startup helps Nigerian consumers receive food orders instantly from partnered vendors on its growing online marketplace. Foodstantly definitely isn’t the pioneering entrant in this market; Rocket Internet’s Hellofood currently dominates the multi-player meal delivery space. But here’s the interesting part. Aside the ready to eat service, Foodstantly also helps connect farmers to food stuff demands under its ready to cook product segment. An immensely rich potential business model that helps small-scale agriculture producers solve one of their major problems.

Growing up in the coal city of Nigeria Port Harcourt, Uche Ariolu witnessed farmers complain of massive produce wastage due to market inaccessibility and poor distribution. Being a farmer in remote areas of Nigeria can be disheartening; difficulty in reaching markets and lack of finance to build storage bans contribute as high as 50 percent of harvest loss of perishable goods like tomatoes. So the inquisitive young man dreamt of possible solutions.


Uche Ariolu would be pitching at Microsoft-sponsored DEMO Africa 2014, the first and largest gathering of African angel investors. Nigeria has over 160 million peoples with over 80 percent purchasing their food directly from local markets. The market volume and potential for Foodstantly is awesome and he just might go home with some investments after the much-anticipated angel gathering.

We spoke with Uche and this is what he had to say.

Click link to read the interview http://enterprise54.com/no-need-to-visit-the-market-this-innovative-startup-will-deliver-meals-and-farm-produce-to-you/