Plan, Commute, Connect better on your trips! Road Preppers is an Artificial intelligence focused mobility company. Building solutions that enables people in developing and fragmented cities to: plan, commute and connect better on their trips. We are able to do this by; providing instant, accurate, detailed public transit directions with fare quotes in regions where public transit data are inaccessible, unstructured, chaotic or simply does not exist and are most needed. Our target cities are complicated and have fragmented public transportation networks, which makes getting around the city an incredibly difficult task. Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Kaduna and Abuja, Nigeria are prime examples of our target cities. We're using the power of mobile and data to help people in these regions survive and master their environment. We're a small dedicated team, with HQ in Lagos, that celebrates people with an ever learning, curious, radical mindset. At its core, is a stellar team of diverse and complimentary backgrounds in transportation, maps, data analytics, artificial intelligence, design thinking, startups, apps, investing and academia. We have an incredible knack for solving, hard fundamental everyday problems that improve the quality of people's lives. We like simplifying complexity, redesigning user experience, working with data, executing fast, and bringing order and predictability to erratic transit experiences. We are interested in meeting people with a knack for aiming way above the goals of mere mortals and the capability to succeed at it more often than not.We pay competitively and provide equity/ employee stock options to exceptional team mates. Love to join our team? Let's talk: Hello@roadpreppers.com
Location: Nigeria
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
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| 26.07.2019 | Roadpreppers: The Nigerian startup helping Google bring public transit directions to Maps | Share this article: On Wednesday, at the third edition of the “Google for Nigeria” event in Lagos, the company made some interesting announcements for new products and features as well as updates to existing ones. Some of the products annou... |
| 25.07.2019 | Google targets next billion with localised apps for Nigeria | “What country has the best jollof rice” is an unlikely question to hear on stage at Google’s Google for Nigeria event in Lagos held on July 24th. But here we are. It was a lighthearted question posed by Moustapha Cisse, head of Google’s Art... |
| 13.09.2018 | Co-Creation Hub announces participants of inaugural FbStart Accelerator cohort | Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), in partnership with Facebook, has announced the 15 teams of students and startups selected for the first FbStart Accelerator cohort currently underway at NG_Hub in Nigeria. The six-month accelerator, wh... |
| 13.09.2018 | Co-Creation Hub announces participants of inaugural FbStart Accelerator cohort | Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), in partnership with Facebook, has announced the 15 teams of students and startups selected for the first FbStart Accelerator cohort currently underway at NG_Hub in Nigeria. The six-month accelerator, whi... |
| 08.08.2018 | Artificial Intelligence In Nigeria Is An Infant Space With Huge Potential | Since the 1950s when MIT computer scientist John McCarthy first coined the term “artificial intelligence”, the technology has grown in leaps and bounds across the globe. Today, AI permeates several strata of the digital experience – from we... |
| 27.01.2018 | This week on Techpoint: Techpoint Build is today | Share this article: Techpoint Build is finally here. If you are still undecided about attending, it’s not too late to join us. You can register at the venue but there is limited space left so hurry. Venue is Landmark Event Centre, Water Cor... |
| 17.04.2017 | Startup Profile: Lara — get step-by-step public transportation directions to any destination | Share this article: Launched on the 5th of March 2017, Lara could best be described as a chat bot for public transportation directions in developing countries. As an artificial intelligence system, it assists users to get from one point to ... |