Dojah Inc GTM brain

Dojah sells identity verification and fraud monitoring infrastructure to fintechs, banks and digital businesses.

category

Identity verification and fraud infrastructure

market profile

  • text: African digital businesses need local identity data, onboarding checks and ongoing transaction monitoring while limiting drop-off.
  • text: The Nigerian KYC API market includes several providers with differing document and verification coverage.

personas

  • title: Head of compliance or financial crime
    pains:
    • Must verify customers and monitor suspicious transactions while retaining an audit trail.
    • Coverage and regulations vary by market and document type.
  • title: Fintech product or onboarding lead
    pains:
    • Slow identity checks create customer drop-off.
    • Needs verification flows suited to different products and jurisdictions.
  • title: Engineering or platform lead
    pains:
    • Maintaining integrations with identity and fraud data sources consumes engineering capacity.
    • Needs reliable APIs and mobile onboarding components.

icp

  • text: African fintechs, payment platforms, digital banks and crypto businesses onboarding customers remotely.
  • text: Growing startups and larger regulated enterprises seeking KYC, KYB and transaction monitoring in connected workflows.

message pillars

  • text: Stop fraud while simplifying workflows.
  • text: Tailor verification to the business and jurisdiction.
  • text: Make integrations faster with widgets and mobile SDKs.

objections

  • objection: Does it cover the IDs, countries and rules we need?
    response: Validate jurisdiction, data source and document coverage for each target market before launch.
  • objection: Will integration slow our launch?
    response: Compare prebuilt widgets and mobile SDKs with API integration for the required user journey.
  • objection: Will verification costs scale with volume?
    response: Dojah describes pay-as-you-go pricing and custom enterprise plans; obtain volume and check-specific pricing.

competitors

  • name: Smile Identity
    why: Offers biometric identity verification across African markets.
  • name: Youverify
    why: Provides KYC and identity verification for Nigerian and other businesses.
  • name: VerifyMe Nigeria
    why: Offers Nigerian identity checks and verification data.
  • name: Prembly
    why: Competes in African identity verification APIs.

keywords

  • Africa identity verification API
  • Nigeria KYC API
  • AML transaction monitoring
  • biometric identity verification
  • KYB verification Africa
  • fintech fraud detection

voice

  • Security focused
  • Growth oriented
  • Technical and accessible

signals

  • text: A fintech is launching digital onboarding or expanding into new African markets.
  • text: A payments business needs stronger fraud monitoring and audit evidence as transaction volume grows.

stack

  • iOS SDK
  • Android SDK
  • API

pricing

model: usage
starting price: From $0.04 per verification; custom enterprise plans

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • developer documentation
  • sales consultations
  • customer case studies

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Tobi Ololade
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Tobi Ololade is the Founder and CEO of Dojah. Tobi plays a leading role in driving key strategic initiatives across the global business. Previously he was the CTO of Tradebua, a data and API infrastructure for agriculture finance. Tobi became an entrepreneur in his early days as a student, running a business that served clients in multiple countries.
  • name: Ayomide Oso
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Ayomide is the co-founder and Head of product. Ayomide's tech journey started at Elta Solutions, a dev shop providing a range of services for building digital products. This gave her a good understanding of major problems innovators across the continent face. Ayomide worked on several products, including Ropay (https://ropay.ng/). While at this, she faced similar problem innovators across sectors are dealing with in "sourcing API's and necessary data" and decided to solve it once and for all.

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