On-demand delivery platform, Chowdeck, has acquired Mira, a point-of-sale platform to expand its offering beyond the African food and hospitality industry.
The acquisition will allow Chowdeck to plug holes in inventory gaps, missed deliveries and untracked sales.
Founded by Mr Ted Oladele, a former VP of Design at Flutterwave, Mira offers a full suite of tools for restaurants. Customers can scan a QR code to browse menus, place orders, and make payments. On the back end, Mira provides inventory tracking, sales monitoring, and customer engagement tools.
It also sells hardware point-of-sale systems and already powers over 500 hospitality brands, helping them manage sales, payments, inventory, kitchen performance, and customer relationships
In a statement on Tuesday, Mira said with Chowdeck’s logistics and scale, it would offer seamless order-to-delivery workflows, more affordable last-mile delivery options for customers, and integrated solutions for both online and physical store operations.
“We are building the first true end-to-end commerce infrastructure for food and hospitality businesses in Africa, from kitchen to checkout to doorstep,” Mr Oladele said in the statement.
As part of this acquisition, Mr Oladele will join Chowdeck as Head of Product, and key team members will also transition into Chowdeck’s product organization.
“Together, we will continue building for the same people who made this journey possible: our merchants, our operators, our community,” he said.
Founded in 2021, Chowdeck has grown into Africa’s fastest-growing on-demand delivery platform, with over 1.5 million users and 20,000+ riders across 11 cities. Backed by Y Combinator and now operating in Ghana, Chowdeck connects businesses to customers in under 30 minutes, every day.
Now, with Mira in its corner, Chowdeck is evolving from a logistics company into a full-stack technology partner for the continent’s food economy.
Ms Olaseike Ibojo, Mira’s cofounder and COO, will exit after a decade at Paystack and building Mira simultaneously.
“Her contribution to Mira’s product, people, and purpose has been profound, and her legacy will continue to shape everything we build going forward,” the statement added.