Weyz Mobility
Payment infrastructure for public transport in Africa.
The Problem
Nigeria's public transport system moves millions of people daily — but it runs on cash. Every naira handed through a bus window is an unrecorded transaction. No fare data. No route data. No passenger data. The transport operators who move Lagos can't access working capital because they have no financial trail. The banks won't lend to a system they can't see.
The Product
Weyz builds the wallet and tap-to-pay layer for public transport. Passengers load a Weyz wallet and tap to board. Operators see their revenue in real time. Every transaction is recorded, every route is mapped, and the data that has never existed starts to exist.
The architecture: a lightweight card-reader on the bus, a backend that handles transaction reconciliation, and a wallet app passengers actually want to use. No QR codes. No internet required at point of payment.
Current Stage
Product development stage. MoU signed with Federal University Akure (FUTA) as the first institutional deployment partner. The wallet architecture and card-tap hardware are in active development ahead of campus pilot.
Why Now
Mobile money penetration in West Africa has crossed the threshold where a tap-to-pay behaviour is learnable. The infrastructure gap is widening as cities grow faster than the formal financial system can track. The operator willing to put a reader on their bus today is the one who owns the data in five years.