Africa’s Hedge Layer
You can’t scale if every decision is a gamble.
We build financial tools that let African businesses protect themselves and move forward with confidence.
What’s Broken
African businesses are forced to build under risky conditions no company should tolerate unequipped.
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Importers in Ethiopia are expected to sign contracts in USD with settlement in 90–180 days. By the time the money's due, the birr has slid, the margin’s gone, and the business eats the loss. There’s no FX safety net.
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Foreign factories are willing to extend terms. Customers are ready to buy. But the risk between those two points is so unhedgeable that firms walk away from potential growth.
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The bigger a business gets, the harder it hits the volatility wall. More volume means more exposure, longer settlement cycles, and more friction with every new contract.
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Fuel imports move the whole economy and make up a quarter of imports, but companies can’t lock in pricing or protect against shocks. Every hike squeezes operating margins without warning.
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You can’t plan cash flow when customers pay months late. There’s no way to insure against collection delays, and no local product to convert invoices into cash today.
Risk kills growth.
Here’s how we will fight back.
FX Hedge Structuring
We help businesses lock in stable FX rates on tenored transactions using offshore hedges.
Contract-Linked Hedging
We embed our hedge products directly into long-term supply contracts. Businesses can now commit to 3–18 month deals without gambling on the currency market.
AI-Powered Risk Engine
Our engine analyzes macro trends, pricing behavior, and cross-sector flows to guide hedge timing, sizing, and pricing.
Synthetic FX Matching
We coordinate synthetic matches between the flows of importers and exporters to match future FX risk to current exporter cash shortage.
Beyond FX
We’re expanding into diesel, fertilizer, clinker, wheat, and more by bridging global hedge tools to local African businesses. Eventually, our AI engine will price every major risk cheaper, compounding protection across the continent.
Abenezer, our CEO
MIT 2020
Meet the team
Abenezer grew up inside the problem, running a family business that lost deals due to FX volatility. He’s part of the tight-knit community of Ethiopia’s largest importers and brings firsthand insight, trusted relationships, and a deep sense of urgency to solve this.
Abel brings the technical firepower to make it real, along with an investor network and a client list already feeling this pain. Together, we’re building a risk infrastructure platform designed for the real constraints of African markets—starting with FX, but built to scale across categories.
Abel, our CTO
AAU 2018