OuiCrowd for Urban Impact

Making our planet better poses an extra challenge for Africa, which already has to deal with eradicating poverty. While the global environmental problem exceeds its financial capacity, there is an opportunity for entrepreneurs in Africa to play a crucial role to make a positive impact on our planet. 

However, they are facing significant barriers in accessing finance because they operate in an ecosystem where it is difficult to raise capital. Banks are often unwilling to lend them money and international crowdfunding platforms use a payment system, which restricts contributions originating in developing countries. 

OuiCrowd is a reward-based crowdfunding mobile application that breaks ground on how neglected and untapped  communities can participate in crowdfunding. We are different from any other crowdfunding platform out there because our business model empowers businesses in the green industry, uses a cutting-edge payment mechanism and a solution to maintain the momentum of crowdfunding participation.

Our disruptive crowdfunding platform solves the right problem, entrepreneurial finance, to empower rural and urban populations with access to capital for them to start their own business in order to meet their basic needs. 

The UN reports that urbanisation in Africa will exceed 45% growth by 2050.

 Sustainable urbanisation requires cities to generate better income and employment for rural and urban people. The bulk of international migrant flows consists of young people (70% are younger than 30) but goverments and NGOS are unable to significantly increase their income. If nothing is done, millions will remain trapped in poverty with unsecured work opportunities.

We believe that there is an opportunity however for entrepreneurs in Africa to play a crucial role to make a positive impact on our planet with every dollar earned. The problem is that they are facing significant barriers in accessing finance because they operate in an ecosystem where it is difficult to raise capital.

 Banks are often unwilling to lend them money and international crowdfunding platforms use a payment system, which restricts contributions originating in developing countries. Yet, 70.9 million young people are unemployed and at least 20% live in the developing world (Hult Prize Challenge, 2019). 

We leveraged the unprecedented popularity of mobile connectivity and mobile money in Africa.

 One campaign at a time, our customers (from rural and urban areas) sign up and market their funding purpose and funding goal on our crowdfunding platform. Our incentive tool Perk It increases chances to meet or surpass funding goals by 30% from both local and international crowds. At the end of the campaign, one can collect funds generated in order to develop its business and OuiCrowd applies a 4,25% fee to the funds collected.

With a cutting-edge payment processor, entrepreneurs can attract investments on a global scale across 10 industries: agriculture, energy, transportation, packaging, water, construction, cooling, women, health and education. 

Unlike others platforms, our payment processor accepts all existing payments solutions across the wolrd (cash, mobile money, mobile banking, credit & debit and crytocurrency). 

The payment mechanism of all contributions made on OuiCrowd uses Artificial Intelligence, blochain technology and cloud computing, which makes it adaptable, fast, scalable and secure to fund on our platform. 

For the next decade, we want 10 million people to be impacted by startups that have received funding on OuiCrowd. Our platform is already enabling 502 promising solutions signed up to date that all demonstrate a passion for fundamental change in the way we produce and consume products and services that is not only profit-minded but also benefit the planet. In addition, because what we offer has to be much better than our competitors, our team is currently developing an incentive tool that will make entrepreneurs more likely to reach their target funding and investors get a return on their contributions

Our target audience is any individual, particularly the youth between 18 and 35 years old, with the most promising ventures. We believe that their businesses will create social and environmental impact as well as economic benefits.

With our application, you will gain insights into how OuiCrowd displays a robust technology that is easily scalable and from reaching out to customers and establishing partnerships, we already have more than 502 sign ups, from twelve countries and a funding goal volume surpassing 100,000,000 USD. OuiCrowd will unlock opportunity for entrepreneurs, address youth unemployment, and make a positive impact on our planet.

OuiCrowd's mission aligns with 5 Sustainable Goals and Targets.

1. No Poverty: OuiCrowd address youth unemployment by creating jobs opportunities accross 10 industries.

2. Decent work and Economic Growth:: addressing entrepreneurial finance with our crowdfunding platform drives sustainable development, which is fundamental to meeting the needs of people in their personal and economic lives.

9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: OuiCrowd is a crowdfunding platform that leverages mobile connectivty and mobile payment.

10. Reduced Inequalities: One slum-dweller empowered tackles rural migration to cities for a better living.

13. Climate Action: OuiCrowd empowers green businesses 

OuiCrowd is a crowdfunding mobile app that adresses entrepreneurial fiance for African entrepreneurs. A few core differentiators make OuiCrowd greater than any other platforms out there.

We leveraged the unprecedented popularity of mobile connectivity and mobile money in Africa. 

When you think about crowdfunding, you may think of Kickstarter ( targeting projects in arts and technology), Indiegogo ( targeting projects in technology) or GoFundMe ( for social purposes). However, they completely disqualify the participation of entrepreneurs in Africa particularly, as their payment processor is not aligned with the prominent payment solutions in Africa. Indeed, they are still more than 1 billion people across the world that do not use credit cards.

 With our application, you will gain insights into how OuiCrowd displays a robust technology that is easily scalable : our payment processor accepts payment solutions across the world, given us a comparative advantage to the current market. 

In addition, we targert the most promising ventures in the green industry aa mean to make our planet better with every dollar earned.

The core differentiator of platform is our payment processor, which makes crowdfunding accessible in Africa. This is imperative as entrepreneurship is vital to drive sustainable development.

Our payment processor accepts all existing payments solutions across the world ( from cash, debit & credit, mobile money and crytptocurrency). In order to accomplish that, we use an innovative and new payment mechanism usually used for e-commerce, which uses AI, blockchain technology and cloud computing. It is called WeCash Up.

Within a signle API provided by WeCash Up, OuiCrowd integrates into its crowdfunding portal all the existing payment solutions across the world. 

We use an innovative and new payment mechanism usually used for e-commerce.  

Please feel free to check this link.

https://www.wecashup.com/fr

OuiCrowd was created to tackle youth unemployment and empower population battling to get access to capital. 

Our story begins in 2016 with the story of Mary-Catherine, a three-year-old Gabonese girl who was mutilated alive by three young people seeking to sell her organs to earn $100 . While such crimes are on the rise across Africa because some believe them to be ritual practices that grant wealth, our research found that the perpatrators of these crimes were youth severally impacted by the lack of opportunities through which to earn income. These youths must therefore resort to other means, such as crimes or gang life. 

Imagine that the 3 young people that did that to Mary Catherine were able to get their business of the ground, live a dignified personal and economic lives, do you believe the output on Mary's life will have been the same? About on their lives?

 Our platform is already enabling 502 promising solutions signed up to date that all demonstrate a passion for fundamental change in the way we produce and consume products and services that is not only profit-minded but also benefit the planet

For the next decade, we want 10 million people be impacted by startups that have received funding on OuiCrowd.

The overview of our SWOT Analysis outlines that the operational team of OuiCrowd works part-time. In addition, even tough teh team was shorlisted TWICE in the Hult Prize Challenge (2016 and 2017), which rewards the best social enterprise with 1,000,000 US dollars in start-up capital, OuiCrowd currently seeks mentorship for funding and business development as it scales its model to multiple geographies and markets. Finally, the absence of regulation of crowdfunding in Africa compared to North America limits OuiCrowd to a donation and reward-based model. Whereas, the debt and equity crowdfunding models are on the rise globally. 

Roll up our sleeves and get to work...

We are a social enterprise.

6 people.

Grace Mabika (+241 077 55 03 57)

Candice Yun (+416  418 9799)

Wonu Adeshina ( Part-time)

Gabriella Kerr ( Part-time)

Miriam Sykorova (Part-time)

Karl Mougengui (Web-Development)

To solve the right problem, you need the right team. The dynamics of our teamwork are based on a beautiful friendship, perserverance, comminment, and diverse backgrounds and accruements in Business development, social entrepreneurship and digital enterprise management. We have already overcome the challenges of creating our own company, for young budding entrpeneurs like us, the next milestones is to get OuiCrowd into market.

Available upon request in our Business Overview.

With crowdfunding platform, we provide a convenient and efficient way to get access to capital. For apply a 4.25% platform fee on funds generated at the end of each campaign.  

We were shortlisted twice in the Hult Prize Challenge, which enables to gain major traction and secure key partnerships for the developement of our application.

In 2021, we will officially launch the first start up on our platform: they are building bicycles out of bamboo and we are excited about that.

We will continue to seek funding pat contacting mentors and potential investors.

We believe this application has to potential to be a stepping stone to getting OuiCrowd on the market.

OuiCrowd displays a robust technology that is easily scalable and from reaching out to customers and establishing partnerships, we already have more than 500 sign ups, from twelve countries and a funding goal volume surpassing 100,000,000 USD. 

There is hope for them to transform their lives if we get connected woth the right people and the right skills.

OuiCrowd displays a robust technology that is easily scalable and from reaching out to customers and establishing partnerships, we already have more than 500 sign ups, from twelve countries and a funding goal volume surpassing 100,000,000 USD. 

There is hope for them to transform their lives if we get connected woth the right people and the right skills.

We are solving the problem. We are ready to impact.

We are solving the problem. We are ready to impact.

We are solving the problem. We are ready to impact.