The Ivorian start-up has just obtained sponsorship from Mobility 54, Toyota Tsusho's fund and CFAO. Its project consists of “facilitating the advent of a new form of shared mobility for African cities”.

The young shoot from Abidjan obtained, in early March, funding from Mobility 54, the fund dedicated to Africa of the Toyota ecosystem.
Jean-Claude Gouesse, co-founder and CEO of the Ivorian transport start-up indicates that "what interests them is our ability to develop a shared mobility platform, within which will be integrated a payment mechanism that our drivers will be able to present to our financial partners in order to be able to borrow and, in the long term, to own their own vehicle”.
Founded in Abidjan in 2017 by Jean-Claude Gouesse and Stéphanie Assi, two Ivorians living in the United States, Moja Ride was born out of the personal frustration of these two former Abidjanians at having to pay for public transport in cash in the Ivorian economic capital. And this poses problems of cash availability, but also of security.
A key project from the point of view of Mobility 54, which has set Moja Ride the target of 500 vehicles in two years, the operation called "One driver, one vehicle" should be launched in the coming weeks.
Mobility 54 funding will enable Jean-Claude Gouesse and his partner Stéphanie Assi to launch a new service: a home-to-work shuttle system. A project whose pilot was tested for three months, just before the pandemic, by three mini-bus drivers.