Food & hospitality

Heyfood

Website

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 pe

Founded 2022Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1.

We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Taiwo Akinropo

Founder

Taiwo Akinropo is the Founder and CEO of Heyfood. Studied Computer Science. Launched a social discovery platform for students while in College, Taiwo has worked on a mobile payment solution for merchants in the past.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Demilade Odetara

Founder

Demilade is a Co-Founder and CTO of Heyfood. Before starting Heyfood he worked as a software/platform engineer for a few top tech companies in Nigeria including Carbon and Fairmoney.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
40team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2022 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedIbadan, YO, Nigeria
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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