{"id":64191,"date":"2023-08-12T03:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=64191\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:47:02","slug":"greymatecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/greymatecare\/","title":{"rendered":"How Greymate Care is changing the lives of the elderly in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Greymate<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong> Care<\/strong> <\/span>was co-founded by <strong>Ogochukwu Obi<\/strong> (COO), <\/span>registered<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> nurse with over 6 years experience, <strong>Chika Madubuko<\/strong> (CEO), astute business professional with experience from multinationals such as<em> Amazon UK<\/em> and <em>Guinness Nigeria<\/em>, and <strong>Remilekun Dosumu<\/strong> (CTO) who handles all the technology innovation within <\/span><em>Greymate<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> Care<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Greymate<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> Care<\/em> was born out of a personal pain experienced by one of the co-founders, <em>Chika<\/em>, whose family could not find time to care for their grandmother who had been bedridden due to diabetes. Even when they opted for a paid caregiver, it was difficult to find a regulated marketplace to find them and were exposed to safety and security risks as the caregivers had not been background checked nor trained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have an online platform with over 500 caregivers who have been trained to <\/span>world class<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> standard and over 130 doctors and nurses ready to care for our service users right in the comfort of their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have over 800 paying service users signed onto our platform and have generated over NGN50m revenue. We have strategic partnerships signed with other A-list hospitals and pharmacies for referrals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We deploy technology in our processes by launching an online platform for service users to book our services. This makes the hiring process faster and cheaper as time and money <\/span>is<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> saved when hiring a caregiver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our methods are different and <\/span>mechanized<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, we use hoists and rota stand for moving our service users as opposed to manual handling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We take 25% commission off every caregiver booked off our platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our competitors include <\/span><em>gerocare<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>.ng<\/em> and <em>regalcare.com<\/em>. We differentiate ourselves by our wider range of services and through heavily leveraging technology<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ww.greymatecare.com\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greymate Care was co-founded by Ogochukwu Obi (COO), registered nurse with over 6 years experience, Chika Madubuko (CEO), astute business professional with experience from multinationals such as Amazon UK and Guinness Nigeria, and Remilekun Dosumu (CTO) who handles all the technology innovation within Greymate Care. 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