tisini / ti·SEE·ni / noun · Swahili for ‘ninety’

tisini makes payment behaviour bankable for the ninety percent.

tisini welcome screen on a phone
0%
of African businesses are unseen by the current financial system
<0%
of SMEs can access formal credit
US$0bn
annual SME credit gap across Sub-Saharan Africa
The problem

The financing gap is an information problem, not a capital problem.

Capital wants to reach Africa's small businesses. It cannot see them. Without collateral, audited accounts or a credit file, a business that pays its suppliers on time every month looks identical to one that does not.

tisini reads conduct, not paperwork. Every payment, contribution and transaction through the wallet is a data point the business generates itself, with its consent. Intelligence in place of collateral opens finance to businesses that have earned it but remain invisible.

How it works

Three stages, one platform. Familiar on the surface, intelligent underneath.

Stage one
Raw behaviour in

A familiar mobile-money wallet. Business payments and statutory contributions flow through it; money moving in and out is the raw material.

Stage two
Distilled into behavioural signals

Activity is compressed into a small set of habits and read in the context of the trade. There is no blanket standard: a tour operator's quiet season and a chip shop's flat year mean different things, so the same signal is read differently by sector. Not "312 transactions" but "pays regularly, earns steadily, contributes on time."

Stage three
Combined into transparent reads

Each read is explained to the owner in plain language: where the business stands, what changed, and what to do next.

The reads

One read of the business. Three questions behind it.

Business Health is tisini's headline view of an SME, updated as behaviour changes and shown to the owner in the same words an investor sees. Behind it sit three reads, each answering a question a lender or investor would ask anyway.

Every movement is explained: what changed, why, and what to do next. The owner is coached toward the mark, not judged against it.

64 of 90 Business Health one read, 0 to 90, explained in plain language Trust · Is it reliable as a counterparty? Growth Readiness · Is it positioned to grow? Credit Readiness · Can it carry a facility?
64 of 90
Business Health
one read, 0 to 90, explained in plain language
TrustIs it reliable as a counterparty?
Growth ReadinessIs it positioned to grow?
Credit ReadinessCan it carry a facility?
Two sides, one marketplace

The business sees the same read the investor sees. That is the point.

For businesses

A wallet that works like the one you already use. Underneath, a read of how your business is doing, what changed this month, what would move it, and a path to finance when you have earned it.

Register interest
tisini business dashboard
For capital

Institutional, diaspora and retail capital reaches businesses it could not see before: underwriting behaviour it can watch, with returns and late payments stated plainly and every investee anonymised.

Talk to our investor team
tisini investor dashboard
How we operate

Within the regulation, not around it.

tisini sits between the business and the institutions that already exist. It reads, explains and connects. It never holds the money, never writes the loan, and never files anything about a business with a bureau.

The business consents to every use of its data tisini intelligence layer reads behaviour · explains it · connects never holds money · never lends Licensed payment partners move the money Regulated institutions deploy the capital Investors see conduct, never identity BEHAVIOUR DATA PROTECTION ACT
The businessconsents to every use of its data
tisiniintelligence layerreads behaviour · explains it · connectsnever holds money · never lends
Licensed payment partnersmove the money
Regulated institutionsdeploy the capital
Investorssee conduct, never identity
Within the Data Protection Act
Facilitator, not lender

tisini is not a bank, a lender or a credit bureau. Payments run through licensed partners; capital comes from regulated institutions.

Behaviour, not bureau

We read conduct the business generates itself. No bureau file is needed to be seen, and none is created.

Consent, not surveillance

The business consents to every use of its data, within the Data Protection Act. Investors see conduct, never identity.

Founders
David Ofungi
David Ofungi
Co-founder and CEO

Continental microfinance experience as Regional Director for a JSE-listed group, with a career across pensions, PPPs and impact finance. Leads tisini's regulatory engagement and operations from the continent.

Thomas Einhorn
Thomas Einhorn, CFA
Co-founder and CIO

Global credit, structured finance and fund management across institutional investing in New York and emerging markets. Leads tisini's investor architecture and capital relationships.

Let's talk.

Whether you run a business, deploy capital, or work on the infrastructure that connects the two.

info@tisini.ai