Nigerian founder sells Dubai business to fund Keepaza, a payment identity platform built for how Nigerians actually transact

Akindele Liasu has committed significant founder capital to Keepaza, the Nigerian payment identity platform he founded under OH Mobility Solution Limited, following the restructuring of his UAE business operations under OH Mobility FZ LLC.

The capital commitment marks a defining moment for the platform and signals the beginning of an aggressive growth phase for a product that has quietly been solving one of the most frustrating daily problems in Nigerian commerce.

The decision to liquidate overseas business interests and redirect the proceeds into a Nigerian startup is not a common one. Most founders move in the opposite direction. Akindele’s choice says something deliberate about where he believes the most important opportunity sits right now.

“Every day in Nigeria, millions of people are pasting their bank account numbers into WhatsApp chats with strangers, sharing their financial details publicly in Instagram DMs, and hoping nothing goes wrong,” said Liasu. “I have watched vendors lose clients because they looked unprofessional. I have watched freelancers lose international deals because they could not explain how to receive USDT. I have watched people send money to the wrong account and lose it permanently. These are not edge cases. This is daily Nigerian life. I sold a part of my Dubai operations because I believe deeply that this problem deserves a real solution and I was not willing to wait for someone else to build it.”

Keepaza gives every Nigerian a single verified username that resolves simultaneously to their bank account and cryptocurrency wallet addresses across five blockchain networks including TRC20, ERC20, BEP20, Bitcoin, and Solana. Instead of sharing sensitive financial details in public chats, a user shares one clean link — keepaza.com/theirname — and anyone who wants to pay them sees exactly what they need without the risk of screenshots, wrong numbers, or public exposure of private financial information.

The platform has also introduced an invoicing layer that allows freelancers, vendors, and small business owners to generate professional payment request links in under thirty seconds. Clients receive a clean invoice page, copy payment details, make their transfer through their own banking app, and upload proof of payment directly. The invoice owner gets notified the moment someone views or responds to their invoice. The entire experience replaces what most Nigerian small businesses currently manage through a combination of WhatsApp voice notes, screenshot exchanges, and handwritten receipts.

What makes Keepaza structurally different from existing payment platforms in Nigeria is the identity layer rather than the transaction layer. Paystack, Flutterwave, and Moniepoint are transaction infrastructure. Keepaza is identity infrastructure. It does not process payments. It verifies who you are and tells the world where to send money safely. That distinction matters enormously for regulatory positioning and for the size of the opportunity.

The platform is free for all users. Revenue is generated through premium username registration for short usernames, cryptocurrency swap commissions through integrated third party swap widgets, and B2B API licensing for financial institutions and fintech companies seeking to embed username based payment resolution into their own products.

The founder capital injection will be deployed toward product development, the buildout of new platform features including services listings, social profile integration, invoice analytics, and daily engagement mechanics, as well as early user acquisition efforts across the country.

Akindele has indicated that Keepaza will pursue its first institutional funding round within the coming months, and that the company’s Dubai entity, OH Mobility FZ LLC, will serve as part of the international holding structure for that process. The existence of an already incorporated UAE entity positions the company ahead of most Nigerian startups that are forced to create that structure from scratch at the time of international fundraising.

“I did not want to be the founder who came to investors with only an idea and a pitch deck,” Akindele said. “I wanted to come with a working product, real users, documented traction, and money I had already put in myself. The founder capital gives us the runway to prove everything we need to prove before we raise from institutions. By the time we go to market for our Series A, the story will speak for itself.”

Keepaza is live at keepaza.com. Registration is free and takes under sixty seconds.

About Keepaza

Keepaza is Nigeria’s first payment identity platform. It enables users to create a single verified username linking their Nigerian bank account and cryptocurrency wallet addresses, eliminating the need to share financial details publicly in social media and messaging applications. Keepaza supports TRC20, ERC20, BEP20, Bitcoin, and Solana networks alongside all Nigerian bank accounts. 

The platform is built and operated by OH Mobility Solution Limited.

About OH Mobility Solution Limited

OH Mobility Solution Limited is a Nigerian technology company building financial infrastructure for African commerce, with operations in Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.

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