Aubrey Niederhoffer, a 19-year-old Thiel Fellow, has launched Swoop, a food delivery app in Lagos and Eswatini, and raised $7.3 million in seed funding. The UC Berkeley dropout plans to expand Swoop into a broader "super app" offering payments and other services for Africa's young, mobile-first population. Investors backing the 28-person company include Long Journey, Variant, Version One, Dune Ventures, and Soma Capital.
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A 19-year-old Thiel fellow just raised $7.3 million to build an African ‘super app’
Thiel Fellow Aubrey Niederhoffer raises $7.3M to expand Swoop from Lagos food delivery into a pan-African super app for payments and financial services targeting the continent's mobile-first youth.
Thursday, April 23, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Fortune AIBY sys://pipeline
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