Accounting finance ops

Sanifu

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Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time

Some of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank reconciliations, report consolidation, payment allocations, channel attributions. Spreadsheets have become the standard workbench for handling these tasks and in the process, teams lose valuable time doing manual data entry, filling templates, formatting data, applying formulas, deleting rows or columns.

Sanifu is replacing the spreadsheet while maintaining the logic and processes behind the work, getting you from inputs to your desired outputs in seconds. This significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run.

Sanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native functions, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Patika Technology Limited, Patika

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Sidney Rema

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Patika - helping finance, marketing, operations, and revenue teams automate the manual data processes they currently do across spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and disconnected systems. Trained as a Medical Doctor (Partly). 5 Years+ experience in Banking - Extending credit to micro & small businesses in Nairobi, Kenya. In my previous company, built payments systems with $10M+ monthly GTV across Kenya, Nigeria & Uganda.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Phelix Juma

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Sanifu - helping finance, marketing, operations, and revenue teams automate the repetitive work they spend hours doing manually in spreadsheets I previously helped 3 companies build payments systems that processed $10M in monthly GTV across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. I am an EE graduate from University of Nairobi with background in information systems, banking, payments integration and data science

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2021 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya; Remote
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