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Supported a Nigerian fintech with refining its pitchbook & business plan

2025

​About the company

  • Shecluded is a fintech that leverages technology to offer women-led businesses simple access to formal credit, business education and community support
  • Based in Nigeria, Shecluded has provided formal credit to 500+ women-led businessesand plans to expand their regional reach
  • Addresses systemic financial exclusion by designing trust-focused products tailored to the unique needs of female business owners

Their challenge

  • The pitchbook revealed inconsistencies and lacked clarity on historical performance and the business model
  • The business plan lacked clarity inarticulating future growth drivers and provided limited evidence to support key assumptions

The deal accelerator gave me the guidance and support I needed to elevate my pitch to investors

Ifeoma Uddoh

CEO and Founder, Shecluded

Provided crucial support in revenue and business model clarification

How we helped1

  • Built a bottom-up revenue model and validated growth drivers and target customer segments
  • Refined the pitchbook to align with investor expectations
  • Guided founder through pitch delivery and investor targeting
  • Assessed that Shecluded drives significant women’s economic empowerment impact across leadership, employment, end-user, and supply chain indicators

We are now integrating the customer segmentation developed through the deal accelerator into our marketing and growth strategy

Ifeoma Uddoh

CEO and Founder, Shecluded

Impact generated

9

Introductions facilitated with investors

+4k

Women entrepreneurs receiving business training

+500

Businesses moved from informal to formal

+3500

Women entrepreneurs financed to date

  • Delivered ready-to-use, data-driven pitchbook to facilitate investor conversations
  • Introduced 9 potential investors focused on funding women-led African Fintechs like Shecluded
  1. ​​Shecluded was supported through Growth Gateway’s Women in Africa Tech Deal Accelerator (WAf Tech DA) ↩︎

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