Lagos-based on-demand supply platform Chowdeck has hit 1 million month-to-month orders for meals and on a regular basis necessities in Nigeria for the month of October 2025.
The milestone was introduced in an X submit by the corporate’s CEO and co-founder, Femi Aluko, on Monday.
He famous that each day order volumes in Nigeria have elevated from a mean of about 30,000 each day orders a couple of weeks in the past to over 40,000 presently, with numbers persevering with to rise.
“I’m tremendous pumped to share that final month, @chowdeck hit over 1 million orders in Nigeria in a single month,” Aluko’s submit learn partially.
It added, “Our each day order volumes in Nigeria has grown from a mean of ~30K each day orders a couple of weeks in the past to over 40K each day orders presently and nonetheless rising day on day.”
Chowdeck mentioned it’s the first African on-demand supply platform to succeed in this degree of month-to-month orders. The corporate presently serves about 1.5 million customers and works with over 20,000 riders throughout each international locations.
The milestone follows the corporate’s $9 million Collection A funding in August 2025, supposed to assist the corporate’s quick-commerce growth and enhance operational effectivity throughout West Africa.
What you need to know
Chowdeck was based in October 2021 and has grown quickly, with the worth of meals delivered by way of the platform rising greater than sixfold in 2024 in contrast with 2023. The corporate additionally reported N30 billion in complete deliveries for 2024.
In April 2024, Chowdeck raised $2.5 million in seed funding to broaden operations in Nigeria, attracting traders together with Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, FounderX Ventures, Hoaq Fund, Levare Ventures, True Tradition Funds, and Haleakala Ventures.
- The corporate launched operations in Ghana in Might 2025 and has been increasing its presence in West Africa.
- Chowdeck can also be increasing past supply by constructing a software program layer into its enterprise. In June 2025, it acquired Mira, a point-of-sale platform for meals and hospitality companies, to optimize operations and place itself as each a logistics and vertical SaaS supplier for eating places.
- The corporate is rising as a homegrown various in a market beforehand dominated by international gamers resembling Glovo, Bolt Meals, and Yango, a few of which have scaled again, whereas competing with different African tremendous app contenders together with Gozem, Yassir, and MNT-Halan.
In Lagos, on-demand supply riders earn as much as N25,000 each day on common, finishing a number of orders whereas navigating town’s busy streets, in accordance with a Nairametrics survey carried out in March 2025, highlighting their position as a vital a part of the meals supply ecosystem.
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