Started scrappy.
Scaling with intent.
Sandshade started in 2019 as a payments operation — helping Nigerian importers settle their Chinese suppliers when the banking system made it nearly impossible. We built a reliable engine and moved over $300 million across that corridor.
Then we built Reenjar, because Nigerian schools were chasing parents for fees on WhatsApp. Then we built field operations infrastructure, because organisations running social investment programmes had no good way to recruit, manage, or pay distributed field teams.
Each product started the same way: we saw a problem no one had solved well, and we built the solution. We’re a small, focused team. What we do, we do thoroughly — with technology designed for how Nigeria actually works.