VenturesCommerce + Fintech
Mercado
The commerce operating system for Africa.
Why it exists.
African merchants run their businesses across disconnected tools — a chat app for orders, a notebook for inventory, a separate ledger for accounts, and payment rails that rarely talk to each other. Growth from a solo seller to a multi-branch chain means outgrowing each of those tools in turn.
Where it plays.
Commerce + Fintech
The sector Mercado is built for.
Africa
The market Mercado is scaling into.
What we’re building.
An integrated commerce platform that scales from a solo WhatsApp seller to a 50-branch retail chain. It brings POS terminals, WhatsApp-native ordering, real-time multi-location inventory, double-entry accounting, and payment processing across African rails into one operating system.
Under the hood.
Multi-tenant POS architecture
WhatsApp ordering pipeline
Real-time multi-location inventory sync
Payment orchestration across African rails
Double-entry accounting backend
The AI inside.
Incoming WhatsApp orders are parsed by an AI layer that turns free-form messages into structured, priced order lines — so merchants sell where their customers already are without manual data entry.
Where it stands.
In build
Mercadois actively in development inside the Morphlix venture studio — engineered, operated, and backed by our team as we bring it to market.
Built & backed.
Mercadois an independent venture with its own brand and domain. Morphlix builds it and backs it — contributing engineering, cloud architecture, and operating support as the studio behind the company.
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The commerce operating system for Africa.