Tizeti

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Tizeti, Inc.
Wifi.com.ng
Company typePrivate
FoundedJanuary 2017 (2017-01)
Founder Kendall Ananyi
Headquarters,
USA
Area served
Nigeria and Ghana
Key people
Kendall Ananyi (Founder and CEO)
Products Wireless broadband internet
Number of employees
300
Subsidiaries Tizeti Network Ltd (Nigeria), Tizeti Network Ghana Limited (Ghana)
Website Official website

Tizeti is a fixed wireless broadband Internet service provider (ISP or WISP) operated by Tizeti Inc, using Wireless to provide unlimited internet to residential and small business customers in Africa. [1] It is also used to connect its base stations to customer buildings. Tizeti currently operates within Lagos, Ogun, Port Harcourt, Benin, Oyo, and Accra.

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Background and availability

Tizeti, Inc. was publicly announced in Techcrunch in March 2017 by Kendall Ananyi in a Techcunch interview a week ahead of YC Winter 2017 Demo day. As of March 2021, it was providing commercial service to customers in Nigeria and Ghana for $30/month. Tizeti is based in Redwood City, has about 300 employees in West Africa, and had raised $5.1 million of funding.

Tizeti operates on the 5.4GHz Wi-Fi and 3.5GHz 4G LTE bands, [2] connecting its Solar Powered Towers to customer premise equipment on customer buildings . Wireless internet propagation is near line-of-sight, not penetrating buildings and windows. The customers connect to the service via wi-fi routers inside their building. [3]

Tizeti operates a number of Services:

Growth

In January 2017, Tizeti was accepted into Y Combinator and received a $120,000 on investment as part of the Winter Batch.

In June 2017, Tizeti announced its Seed Round after YCW17 demo day. [6]

In September 2018, Tizeti raised another $3 million aimed towards expanding across West Africa. [7]

Funding History
DateFunding TypeMoney RaisedLead Investor
March 24, 2017Accelerator$120k Y Combinator
June 26, 2017Seed Round$2.1M
July 28, 2018Series A$3M4DX Ventures

In March 2022, Tizeti partnered with Microsoft Airband team to improve internet connectivity in Nigeria. [8]

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References

  1. Jonathan Shieber, as reported in Techcrunch, "Tizeti is Bringing internet to urban Africa", Techcrunch, 17 March 2017
  2. Bright, Jake. "Solar-based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria". Techcrunch .
  3. Goodier, Rob. "Wifi? Why not". Engineering for Change.
  4. Magistretti, Bérénice (7 July 2017). "Tizeti partners with Facebook to expand Express Wi-Fi in Nigeria". Techcrunch .
  5. Bright, Jake (30 April 2019). "Nigerian startup Tizeti launches WifiCall.ng IP voice call service". TechCrunch .
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  7. "Expanding its internet service to more countries in Africa, Tizeti raises $3 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
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