About Siza
Mobility built for African cities,
from the inside out.
Siza is a mobility company built for how African cities actually move: cash-first, reliable, and priced upfront. We are launching with Siza Ride, and building the platform behind it for what comes next.
The context
African cities are growing faster than their infrastructure.
Across the continent, cities are adding residents far faster than they are adding roads, and commuter populations in business districts can double at peak. Urban mobility infrastructure has not kept pace with that growth, leaving millions of people reliant on informal, fragmented, and often unsafe transit options.
Existing global ride-hailing platforms are not built for African operational realities. They don't account for cash-dominant economies, inconsistent connectivity, high vehicle informality, or the distinct commute patterns of African workers. Siza is built from the ground up to solve these exact problems.
Our thesis
“The city that solves urban mobility solves economic access. We're building that solution, starting with Africa.”
What drives us
Our principles
Safety above everything
Safety infrastructure is built into every Siza product as a first design constraint, not an afterthought. Live telemetry, rigorous driver vetting, and an operations console are core to the platform, not features bolted on later.
Economic empowerment
Siza is built to create real financial opportunity: transparent earnings for every driver-partner and a professional management platform for every fleet owner. We will measure our success partly by the prosperity we enable.
Cities built for people
Private car ownership is not a viable solution for African urban density. We're creating an ecosystem of shared, efficient mobility options that reduce congestion, cut emissions, and make cities more liveable, not just more navigable.
African-first thinking
Every Siza product decision is filtered through the lens of our actual operating environments. Cash-friendliness, offline functionality, localised pricing, and multi-language support are table stakes, not optional add-ons.
Relentless iteration
We ship, measure, and improve fast, working in tight feedback loops with driver-partners, riders, and fleet owners to keep closing the gap between what we offer and what our cities actually need.
Transparency in everything
No surprise fares. No hidden fees for drivers. No unexplained account actions. Every material decision that affects our platform participants is communicated clearly and promptly. Trust is built on honesty, not marketing.
Our journey
Built from the ground up
The idea becomes a plan
After years watching existing mobility platforms fail the operational realities of African cities, from cash-dominant payment to patchy connectivity and informal vehicle ownership, founder Ndubuaku Chigozie Emmanuel begins designing one built for them instead.
The idea becomes a plan
After years watching existing mobility platforms fail the operational realities of African cities, from cash-dominant payment to patchy connectivity and informal vehicle ownership, founder Ndubuaku Chigozie Emmanuel begins designing one built for them instead.
Building starts
First commit. A multi-region, multi-currency dispatch engine with real-time telemetry and fleet management, built so that region, pricing and payment method are configuration rather than code. A new market is set up, not rebuilt.
Building starts
First commit. A multi-region, multi-currency dispatch engine with real-time telemetry and fleet management, built so that region, pricing and payment method are configuration rather than code. A new market is set up, not rebuilt.
Built and under test
Siza Ride runs end to end, cash included, on a multi-service platform built to grow: driver verification, live trip sharing and two-way ratings all working. An automated suite of over 1,500 tests runs across every package on each change.
Built and under test
Siza Ride runs end to end, cash included, on a multi-service platform built to grow: driver verification, live trip sharing and two-way ratings all working. An automated suite of over 1,500 tests runs across every package on each change.
The first city
Candidate cities are being assessed on the things that decide whether this works: repeatable commuter corridors, a realistic path through local licensing, and enough drivers to make a first week worth showing up for. We will name the city when it opens, not before.
The first city
Candidate cities are being assessed on the things that decide whether this works: repeatable commuter corridors, a realistic path through local licensing, and enough drivers to make a first week worth showing up for. We will name the city when it opens, not before.
Who is building Siza
The team building Siza
Siza is founder-led. The whole platform, from the backend to both mobile apps and the admin and partner portals, was designed and built by one person, from first principles, for African operational realities.
Ndubuaku Chigozie Emmanuel
Founder & CEO
Building Siza's product, technology and launch strategy. Chigozie has led the development of Siza's passenger and driver apps, dispatch infrastructure, payments architecture, fleet tools and operational systems, and is preparing Siza Ride for its first launch in Mauritius.
Where we are today
Building deliberately
Siza is founder-led and pre-launch, and the technology is already built. We are focused on preparing Siza Ride for its first market in Mauritius, proving the product and operating model before expanding the team and entering additional markets. As the company reaches the right stage, we will build out operations, engineering and growth, adding real people here one at a time.
Interested in Siza? business@sizaride.com
Company details
About the company
Company
Siza
Founded
2025
Business model
Multi-service transit & mobility platform
General enquiries
business@sizaride.com
Status
Pre-launch · not open in any city
Launch service
Siza Ride
Press & media
press@sizaride.com
Where Siza works
What makes a city a fit
We have not opened anywhere yet. These are the conditions we assess a city against. We will name the first one when it opens, not before.
Repeatable corridors
Siza opens with rides. Dense, repeating commuter routes are what make higher-capacity shared services viable over time, so we look for cities where the same journeys happen every day.
Cash has to be enough
Rides take cash from the first trip, so a city needs no particular level of card or wallet adoption before Siza can operate there. A payment rail is something we add, not something we wait for.
A workable path through licensing
Ride-hailing is regulated, and the shared services Siza may add later each differently, often by different bodies. A city we can operate in lawfully and openly beats a larger one we cannot.
Think your city fits? Tell us. The cities people ask for are the ones we look at first.
Press
Newsroom
Siza is pre-launch and actively preparing for our first market. We'll publish announcements, city launch news, and product updates here as we go live.
Press inquiries:
press@sizaride.comBe part of what we're building.
Whether you're a driver looking for flexible income, a fleet owner seeking better infrastructure, a business needing corporate transport, or talent looking to join a high-growth team, there's a place for you in the Siza ecosystem.