Tizeti
| Wifi.com.ng | |
| Company type | Private |
| Founded | January 2017 |
| Founder | Kendall Ananyi |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Area served | Nigeria and Ghana |
Key people | Kendall Ananyi (Founder and CEO) |
| Products | Wireless broadband internet |
Number of employees | 300 |
| Subsidiaries | Tizeti Network Ltd (Nigeria), Tizeti Network Ghana Limited (Ghana) |
| Website | Official website |
Tizeti is a fixed wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP or WISP) operated by Tizeti Inc, using Wireless to provide unlimited internet to residential and small business customers in Africa. [1] It is also used to connect its base stations to customer buildings. Tizeti currently operates within Lagos, Ogun, Port Harcourt, Benin, Oyo, and Accra.
Background and availability
Tizeti, Inc. was publicly announced in Techcrunch in March 2017 by Kendall Ananyi in a Techcunch interview a week ahead of YC Winter 2017 Demo day. As of March 2021, it was providing commercial service to customers in Nigeria and Ghana for $30/month. Tizeti is based in Redwood City, has about 300 employees in West Africa, and had raised $5.1 million of funding.
Tizeti operates on the 5.4GHz Wi-Fi and 3.5GHz 4G LTE bands,[2] connecting its Solar Powered Towers to customer premise equipment on customer buildings . Wireless internet propagation is near line-of-sight, not penetrating buildings and windows. The customers connect to the service via wi-fi routers inside their building.[3]
Tizeti operates a number of Services:
- Wifi.com.ng: Unlimited Wi-Fi internet subscription service that provides unlimited internet starting $30 a month to residential and small businesses in Nigeria.
- GhanaWifi.com: Unlimited Wi-Fi internet subscription service that provides plans starting $30 a month to residential and small businesses in Ghana.
- Tizeti Enterprise Solution: Dedicated internet plans that provide high capacity dedicated internet starting from 10 Mbit/s to enterprise customers.
- Express Wi-Fi: Co-branded hotspot partnership with Facebook sold by retailers and targets dense, high traffic locations.[4]
- Wificall.ng: Voice over IP service that provides unlimited calling, cloud PBX features and a voice api for developers.[5]
Growth
In January 2017, Tizeti was accepted into Y Combinator and received a $120,000 on investment as part of the Winter Batch.
In June 2017, Tizeti announced its Seed Round after YCW17 demo day.[6]
In September 2018, Tizeti raised another $3 million aimed towards expanding across West Africa.[7]
| Date | Funding Type | Money Raised | Lead Investor |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 24, 2017 | Accelerator | $120k | Y Combinator |
| June 26, 2017 | Seed Round | $2.1M | — |
| July 28, 2018 | Series A | $3M | 4DX Ventures |
In March 2022, Tizeti partnered with Microsoft Airband team to improve internet connectivity in Nigeria.[8]
External links
References
- ^ Jonathan Shieber, as reported in Techcrunch, "Tizeti is Bringing internet to urban Africa", Techcrunch, 17 March 2017
- ^ Bright, Jake. "Solar-based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria". Techcrunch.
- ^ Goodier, Rob. "Wifi? Why not". Engineering for Change.
- ^ Magistretti, Bérénice (7 July 2017). "Tizeti partners with Facebook to expand Express Wi-Fi in Nigeria". Techcrunch.
- ^ Bright, Jake (30 April 2019). "Nigerian startup Tizeti launches WifiCall.ng IP voice call service". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Nigerian Tech Startup Tizeti Secures $2.1M To Bring Affordable Wireless Internet To Africa". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
- ^ "Expanding its internet service to more countries in Africa, Tizeti raises $3 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
- ^ "Microsoft, Tizeti to deliver high-speed internet in Nigeria". CapacityMedia. Retrieved 2022-03-22.