LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Simplifyd announced a redesign of simplifyd.com and new pricing; it highlighted Zerodata delivery on Nigerian/Kenyan carrier networks, per-second pricing, scale-to-zero billing, and terminal/web deployment.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Public sources conflict on the founding date (2020 incorporation/company-page signals vs. YC's August 2021 profile); I used 2020. Simplifyd Systems is an Africa-first cloud/PaaS platform that lets developers build and deploy apps, APIs, databases, and object storage, with Zerodata data-free delivery on supported mobile networks and per-second usage billing.
Primary product
Simplifyd Cloud / Zerodata
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Hertford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cloud infrastructure / PaaS
Offices
Hertford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Lagos, Nigeria
Nairobi, Kenya
London, United Kingdom
Business model
usage-based SaaS
platform-as-a-service (PaaS)
cloud infrastructure services
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & COO; Product Innovation & GTM Lead
Co-founder & VP of Engineering
Founders
Mayowa Amao
Co-founder
Investors
Work & culture
Developer-centric and African-first, with an emphasis on low-friction deployment, no DevOps overhead, local-currency billing, and making apps accessible on data-constrained mobile networks.
Product & market
Pricing
Usage-based, per-second metering with scale-to-zero; charges for compute, memory, storage, and network, plus Zerodata-specific bandwidth on supported carriers.
Differentiators
- —Data-free access (Zerodata) on supported African mobile networks
- —Per-second metering with scale-to-zero billing
- —Built for African teams and local-currency billing
- —No YAML/Helm/Kubernetes required
- —Managed Postgres and object storage in one platform
- —CLI or web deployment from Git or local directories
Technology
CLI-based deployment
Git-based builds
local-directory deploys
managed Postgres
S3-compatible object storage
Zerodata reverse-billed proxy
DNS/CNAME routing
macOS/Linux/Windows CLI
Node.js 20 build support
MongoDB interface
BadgerDB interface
leaky-bucket rate limiter
Customers
African teams shipping apps and websites to African users
Businesses listing web/mobile apps on Zerodata
Developers building APIs and services for mobile subscribers in Nigeria and Kenya
Competitors
Heroku
Render
Railway
Fly.io
DigitalOcean App Platform
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Latest news
Disrupt Africa · Mar 2022
Disrupt Africa reported Simplifyd's $500k pre-seed round and said the cash came from Future Africa and Y Combinator after the company joined YC W22.
TechCabal · Mar 2022
TechCabal described Simplifyd's ZeroData launch, said the company was founded in 2020, and reported over $500k in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator and Future Africa.
Business Insider Africa · Mar 2022
Business Insider reported the ZeroData launch and said Simplifyd had raised over $500k in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator and Future Africa.
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