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Investor overview, October 2026

Zambia's skilled trades, on demand.

FIND connects households with vetted barbers, electricians, cleaners and dozens of other trades, plus car and bike rides, at prices shown before anyone sets off. Artisans and drivers get the work in FIND Pro, and FIND keeps 15% of every completed job.

Watch it work Download the pitch deck
FINDThe client books
FIND ProThe pro gets the job
Company
Guava Technologies LimitedPrivate company, Ndola, Zambia. Directors Willie and Annie Mwewa.
Product
Two apps, one platformFIND for clients, FIND Pro for artisans and drivers, and a web console for operations.
Stage
Built and in the storesBoth apps on Google Play and the App Store. Launching in Ndola.
Revenue model
15% of each completed job or tripTaken from the pro's prepaid wallet, so FIND is paid even when the client pays cash.
Market
Zambia firstLive in Ndola, with 17 more towns set up to switch on, from the Copperbelt to Lusaka and beyond.
The round
Raising nowSize, terms and use of funds are in the investor deck. Request it.

Ask around. Phone five people. Wait all day. Haggle at the gate.

That is still how most people in Zambia find a plumber, a barber or a mechanic, and how the plumber, the barber and the mechanic find their next job. Neither side can see who is good, who is near, or what the work should cost.

For households

  • No way to tell who is goodWord of mouth and Facebook groups are the directory. There are no checked identities, ratings or work histories.
  • Prices are argued, not shownThe price is settled at the gate after the person has arrived, so nobody can compare or plan.
  • Nobody answers when it goes wrongA no-show or a half-finished job leaves no record and no one to complain to.

For artisans and drivers

  • Work arrives by luckIncome depends on who happens to have your number. Idle hours are normal, even for the best hands in town.
  • A reputation that stops at the cornerGood work earns referrals in one neighbourhood. It doesn't travel to the next one.
  • Cash, with no recordEarnings are paid in cash and written down nowhere, so there is nothing to show a lender, a landlord or a bigger client.
74%

of Zambia's 3.97 million working people are informally employed.

ZamStats, Labour Force Survey 2024

378,000

craft and trades workers, 76% of them working informally.

ZamStats, Labour Force Survey 2024

76%

of adults already use mobile money; 17.2 million wallets were active in 2025.

FinScope 2025; Bank of Zambia, NPS Report 2025

4.5%

a year: how fast Zambia's urban population grew between the 2010 and 2022 censuses.

ZamStats, 2022 Census

One app to book. One app to work.

FIND runs the same loop for a haircut, a burst pipe or a ride across town.

  1. Pick a trade or a ride

    The client sees who is near, the artisan's own menu and prices, or the fare for each ride class, before booking.

    FIND

  2. Offered to the nearest pro

    Dispatch offers the job to one vetted, online pro at a time, nearest first, widening from 3 to 7 to 12 km.

    FIND's servers

  3. Tracked to the door

    The pro accepts in FIND Pro and heads over while the client watches them come. Drivers get turn-by-turn directions in the app.

    FIND Pro

  4. Paid, rated, settled

    The client pays cash or mobile money and rates the job. FIND's 15% comes off the pro's prepaid wallet automatically.

    Both apps

See it work.

Two flows from the production iPhone apps, recorded today against FIND's live servers. Pick a chapter to jump to it.

FIND: a barber, then a ride

A client books a barber from his own menu, watches him arrive, confirms and rates the job, then books an Economy ride with the fare shown before booking.

Recorded 19 October 2026 on an iPhone simulator running FIND against its production servers, with test accounts. Waits are sped up and taps are shown as rings.

FIND Pro: a job, then a ride

The pro goes online, accepts the booking, drives over, finishes with the client's code and sees FIND's 15% come off the wallet, then takes a ride and collects the fare in cash.

Recorded 19 October 2026 on an iPhone simulator running FIND Pro against its production servers, with test accounts. Waits are sped up and taps are shown as rings.

Live, not a mock-up.

FIND's servers have run in production since 24 July 2026. Both apps are on Google Play and the App Store. Every screen below is a capture of the apps as they run today.

Google PlayFIND: Rides & Local ProsLive App StoreFIND: Rides & Local ProsLive Google PlayFIND Pro: Drive or WorkLive App StoreFIND Pro: Drive or WorkLive
Home: Every trade and ride on one screen, with who is nearby
HomeEvery trade and ride on one screen, with who is nearby
An artisan's own menu: Prices set by the barber; booked with him only
An artisan's own menuPrices set by the barber; booked with him only
Tracked live: The pro on the map, with the time to arrival
Tracked liveThe pro on the map, with the time to arrival
A job offer in FIND Pro: Distance, pay and a short window to accept
A job offer in FIND ProDistance, pay and a short window to accept
The job settled: What the pro collected and FIND's 15%
The job settledWhat the pro collected and FIND's 15%
The prepaid wallet: Balance, top-ups and every deduction
The prepaid walletBalance, top-ups and every deduction
Fares up front: Economy, Comfort, XL or Bike, priced before booking
Fares up frontEconomy, Comfort, XL or Bike, priced before booking
A trip in FIND Pro: The road to the drop-off and the fixed fare
A trip in FIND ProThe road to the drop-off and the fixed fare

Running in production

  • Dispatch. Nearest-first offers to one pro at a time, live presence from every online phone, and a sweeper that re-offers anything missed.
  • Money. A double-entry ledger in ngwee: every wallet movement balanced, commission and 5% turnover tax posted automatically.
  • Payments. Wallet top-ups by card and mobile money through DPO Pay, confirmed inside the app.
  • Trust. Phone sign-in, NRC and selfie checks, a vetting level per trade, ratings after every job, and a support queue.
  • Rides. Economy, Comfort, XL and Bike with upfront fares, stops on the way, Google Maps routing and turn-by-turn for drivers.
  • Storefronts. Every artisan publishes their own menu and prices; shops can take walk-in bookings.
  • Operations. A console for verification, the live fleet map, finance with two-person approval, and switching on new towns.
  • Engineering. 578 automated backend tests; Android and iPhone apps from one Flutter codebase.

How we got here

  1. Product specification signed off
  2. Servers live at find.guava.technology
  3. First end-to-end jobs on production, both apps release-signed
  4. Rides added: cars and motorbikes, upfront fares
  5. Artisan storefronts; towns switched on from the console
  6. FIND and FIND Pro on Google Play
  7. FIND Pro approved on the App Store
  8. FIND approved on the App Store

How FIND makes money.

FIND keeps 15% of every completed job and trip. It never invoices a pro or chases a debt: each pro keeps a prepaid FIND wallet, topped up by mobile money or card, and the commission comes out automatically when the job closes, whether the client paid in cash or by mobile money.

Where a K50 haircut goes

The client pays the barber, in cash or by mobile moneyK50.00
FIND's 15%, taken from the barber's walletK7.50
Turnover tax on FIND's commission (5%)−K0.38
FIND keepsK7.12

A pro needs K10 in the wallet to go online, and top-ups start at K20. The wallet may dip to −K50 so a finished job can always close. Rates are set per trade in the console.

Try the arithmetic

Booked per monthK720,000
FIND's 15% per monthK108,000

Arithmetic on FIND's launch commission over a 30-day month, before turnover tax. It is a calculator, not a forecast; the plan is in the deck.

Now

Commission on every job and trip

15% by default, set per trade. Rides keep the same rate: drivers keep 85% of every fare.

Specified next

Payments through FIND

Clients pay in the app and FIND pays the pro out, adding a payments margin and float on top of commission.

Already configured

More trades, more towns

49 trades and four ride classes are already in the catalogue. New trades are added and new towns switched on from the console, with no new code.

Starting where the team can vet every pro.

FIND launches in Ndola, the Copperbelt's commercial centre and the team's home, where every pro can be met and checked in person. The other Copperbelt towns are already set up and switch on from the console; Lusaka follows.

19.7m

people at the 2022 census, with a median age of 18.3.

ZamStats, 2022 Census

2.77m

people in the Copperbelt, about 83% of them in towns. Ndola and Kitwe alone hold 1.29 million.

ZamStats, 2022 Census

3.09m

people in Lusaka Province, the next market after the Copperbelt.

ZamStats, 2022 Census

K892bn

moved by mobile money in 2025, the rail FIND's wallet top-ups and payments run on.

Bank of Zambia, NPS Report 2025

The constraint is the phone: in 2022, 29% of urban residents owned a working smartphone. FIND is built for that market, with small Android builds, a one-time phone-number sign-in and an app that keeps working on a weak connection. The IMF projects 5.6% growth for 2026.

ZamStats, 2022 Census ch. 5; IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2026

Map of Zambia with 18 towns set up in FIND; live in Ndola Ndola Lusaka Kabwe Choma Livingstone Chipata Kasama Mansa Solwezi Mongu Copperbelt, 7 towns
LiveSet up, switches on from the console

Rides are crowded. Trades are not.

International ride apps already compete in Zambia: Yango has run in Lusaka, Kitwe and Ndola since 2022, and inDrive arrived in Lusaka in 2024. None of them sends an artisan, and no Zambian artisan app has reached scale. FIND matches them on rides and has the trades to itself.

FeatureFINDRide-hailing appsWhatsApp and Facebook groups
Cars and motorbikes on demandEconomy, Comfort, XL, BikeYesNo
Barbers, electricians, cleaners and other trades on demand49 trades in the catalogueNoPost and wait for replies
Price shown before you bookFares and artisans' own menusFaresNegotiated on arrival
Identity-checked and ratedDrivers and artisansDriversNo
Tracked to your doorYesYesNo

Yango: Zambia Monitor, Dec 2022. inDrive: Techpoint Africa, Oct 2024.

The category gets funded elsewhere in Africa

  • SweepSouth, South Africa: home-services marketplace, raised US$11m in 2022. ImpactAlpha
  • Kandua, South Africa: 40,000+ vetted home-service pros, bought by insurer Santam in 2024. Daba Finance
  • Gozem, West and Central Africa: rides-plus-services super-app, US$30m Series B in 2025. Techpoint Africa
  • Yango: committed at least US$150m in 2026 to enter ten more African markets. Ecofin

Artisans are the wedge

Ride apps move people. FIND also sends the barber, the electrician and the cleaner, and rides on the same app give people a reason to open it every day.

Commission without collections

The prepaid wallet means FIND is paid on cash jobs, carries no receivables, and holds pros' top-ups before work starts.

Pros own their storefront

Artisans set their own menus and prices and build ratings in one place, which gives them a reason to stay.

Built here

Designed and engineered in Ndola by the founder, on payments, phone numbers and maps that work in Zambia today.

The team.

Willie Mwewa

Founder and lead engineer

Designed and built FIND end to end: both apps, the servers, payments and the operations console. Runs Guava Technologies, which builds software for businesses in Zambia and the region.

Annie Mwewa

Director

Director and shareholder of Guava Technologies Limited, the company behind FIND.

FIND is a product of Guava Technologies Limited, a private company registered in Zambia and based in Ndola.

Talk to us about the round.

We're raising to launch FIND in Ndola and take it across the Copperbelt. The investor deck sets out the round size, terms, use of funds and the plan.

  • The full investor deck, with the round's terms, by email
  • A call with the founder and a live walkthrough of both apps
  • Try it yourself today: FIND and FIND Pro are free on Google Play and the App Store
Download the pitch deckPowerPoint, 17 slides with both demo videos inside, 7.8 MB

Prefer email? Write to hello@guava.technology.

Request the investor deck

We use these details only to reply about investing in FIND.

Questions investors ask.

Is FIND live?
Yes. FIND and FIND Pro are on Google Play and the App Store. The servers have run in production since July 2026. Ndola is the first city, and pros there are being signed up and vetted now.
How does FIND get paid when the client pays cash?
Through the pro's prepaid wallet. Pros top up by mobile money or card before they work, and FIND's commission is deducted automatically when each job or trip closes. There is nothing to invoice and nothing to collect.
Why would an artisan join?
Jobs near them, sent to their phone, with no advertising to pay for. They set their own menu and prices, keep 85% of every job, and build ratings that travel with them across town. FIND Pro is free to install.
Why not just use a ride-hailing app?
Ride apps move people; they don't send a plumber. FIND does both on one account, and the trades are where nobody else is organised: vetted, priced up front, tracked to the door and rated afterwards.
How are pros checked?
Every pro signs in with their phone number and is verified against their NRC and a selfie before their first job. Drivers also submit their licence and the vehicle's papers. Each trade has a vetting level, and every job ends with a rating.
What about data protection and payments?
FIND asks for consent at sign-up, publishes its privacy policy, and lets anyone delete their account in the app or on the web, with Zambia's Data Protection Act 2021 in mind. Card and mobile-money payments are taken on DPO Pay's hosted page, so FIND never sees or stores card or wallet numbers. For rides, FIND shows the fare before booking and the driver's name, car and plate before pickup.
Who owns FIND?
Guava Technologies Limited, a private company registered in Zambia. Its directors are Willie Mwewa and Annie Mwewa.
Can I try it?
Yes. Install FIND and FIND Pro from Google Play, or FIND and FIND Pro from the App Store. Booking works inside a live town; browsing, menus and fares work anywhere.

This page is for information only. It is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, shares or any other securities of Guava Technologies Limited, and it is not investment advice. Any investment will be made only on the terms of signed definitive documents. Statements about plans, launches and markets look forward and may not come true. Market figures come from the third-party sources cited and have not been independently verified. The recordings and screens on this page show test accounts on FIND's production servers.