Building the infrastructure that helps African auto dealers find, finance, fulfill, and sell vehicles across borders.
Profile
Shekel Mobility is a technology-enabled infrastructure company powering automotive trade across Africa. We help auto dealers and mobility businesses find, finance, fulfill, and sell vehicles more efficiently by bringing global vehicle sourcing, embedded financing, payments, logistics, and transaction technology into one integrated platform.
Through Shekel, dealers can access vehicle inventory from global sourcing markets, secure financing to complete purchases, coordinate international payments and cross-border fulfillment, and manage transactions from sourcing through delivery. This removes many of the capital, trust, and operational barriers that make automotive trade across Africa fragmented and difficult to scale.
Our core customers are independent and institutional auto dealers, dealer groups, vehicle distributors, and other participants in the automotive trade ecosystem. We currently operate from Nigeria and are expanding across African markets, including Kenya, while connecting customers to vehicle supply corridors across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, UAE, Japan, Korea, and other global markets.
Since launch, Shekel has facilitated more than $250 million in automotive transactions and built a network of over 1,000 dealers. We work with financial institutions, global vehicle suppliers, logistics partners, and other ecosystem participants to create a more reliable infrastructure layer for automotive commerce.
What makes Shekel unique is our integrated approach. Rather than solving financing, sourcing, payments, logistics, and distribution as separate problems, we bring them together around the transaction. This enables dealers to operate with greater speed, transparency, and capital efficiency while making it easier for global suppliers and financial institutions to participate in Africa’s automotive market.
Our long-term vision is to build the trusted cross-border infrastructure that enables automotive businesses across Africa to buy globally, pay locally, and scale without being constrained by access to capital or fragmented trade systems.
Services
Vehicle Sourcing: Access to automotive inventory from trusted suppliers, auctions, and sourcing partners across major global markets including the US, Canada, UK, UAE, Japan, and Korea.
Dealer & Inventory Financing: Embedded transaction and inventory financing that enables qualified dealers to purchase more vehicles without relying entirely on their own working capital.
Cross-Border Payments: Infrastructure for coordinating international supplier payments and local settlement across automotive transactions.
Vehicle Import & Fulfillment: End-to-end coordination of vehicle movement from overseas suppliers through shipping, documentation, customs processes, and delivery into African markets. Dealer Technology Platform: Digital tools that help dealers discover vehicles, request financing, manage transactions, monitor fulfillment, and operate their businesses more efficiently.
Vehicle Valuation & Transaction Intelligence: Technology and data used to assess vehicles, pricing, transaction viability, and financing decisions.
Dealer Network & Distribution: Access to Shekel’s network of automotive dealers and partners for inventory distribution, market access, and transaction opportunities. Global Supplier Market Access: Infrastructure that enables international vehicle suppliers and automotive partners to reach and transact with vetted African dealers.
Financial Institution Infrastructure: Origination, transaction management, and operational infrastructure that enables banks, credit providers, and institutional capital partners to finance automotive trade.
Automotive Trade Infrastructure: An integrated operating layer connecting sourcing, financing, payments, logistics, and distribution across the automotive value chain.
Leadership team
Benjamen Oladokun
Founder
Benjamen Oladokun is a tech entrepreneur and company builder with nearly 15 years of experience building ventures across fintech and mobility. He is Co-founder of Shekel Mobility, a Y Combinator-backed company building the infrastructure powering Africa’s auto trade.
Sanmi Olukanmi
Co-Founder / CEO
Sanmi Olukanmi is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur with over a decade of experience and the Co-Founder and CEO of Shekel Mobility, a Y Combinator-backed company building financing and logistics infrastructure for cross-border vehicle trade.
Location
11701 Holderrieth Road, Tomball TX