African Founders Webinar Series: Bringing Last Mile Businesses into the Digital Economy
Africa’s digital economy is expanding rapidly. Yet millions of small and informal businesses still operate without structured records, financial visibility, or access to formal systems.
Join us for the next session of the African Founders Webinar Series (AFWS) as we explore how a fintech innovation is formalising the informal economy and unlocking growth at scale.
Speaker Bios:
Olapeju Nwanganga, Founder, Ploutos Page Limited
Olapeju leads Ploutos Page, a Lagos-based fintech and professional services company transforming financial management and compliance for SMEs, startups, and informal businesses.
Ploutos Page Limited is a leading fintech and professional services company based in Lagos, Nigeria, revolutionizing financial management and compliance for SMEs, startups, and informal businesses. The company combines innovative technology with human-centered solutions to solve one of Africa’s biggest business challenges: poor bookkeeping, weak financial visibility, and limited access to funding.
Its flagship products, AuditMe and OWA by Pepcode, showcase Ploutos Page’s market-leading approach. AuditMe is a digital audit and compliance platform that allows businesses to organize financial records, generate AI-powered trial balances, and obtain audited statements faster through structured online workflows. With its freemium model, businesses can start for free, gradually prepare for audits, and upgrade only when ready, reducing friction and driving conversions.
OWA by Pepcode complements this by providing an agent-led, phygital bookkeeping solution for market women and nano-scale traders in Nigeria’s informal economy. Trained agents help users record daily transactions using simple logbooks, which are digitized to provide clear business insights, enabling financial discipline, better decision-making, and access to credit.
Together, these products position Ploutos Page as a one-stop financial empowerment platform, bridging the gap between informal and formal business ecosystems, unlocking growth for businesses, and providing investors with access to a scalable, high-impact market with massive adoption potential.
This session will unpack:
Why poor bookkeeping blocks growth and investment
Designing accounting for informal markets
Balancing technology with human-centered delivery
Building scalable infrastructure for SME financial visibility
Laurianne Lingbondo (Moderator), MPhil Sociology (Media & Culture), University of Cambridge
Laurianne is a journalist and researcher with a focus on the digitisation of African newsrooms, bringing a critical lens to questions of technology, power, and institutional change.
WHEN: Wednesday 4th March 2026
5.00PM – 6.00 PM: Online Webinar
WHERE: Join via Zoom