An innovation company for how Africa trades.
Eaven Holdings is a Lagos-based innovation holding company. We create and operate technology businesses that make it simpler to buy, sell, trade with factories and set up across borders. Today that means three companies - OnePoint, TradePoint and TryLaunchpad - and a small team that builds, runs and grows them.
Trust is the missing infrastructure.
Nigeria’s commerce already runs on phones: products are discovered on Instagram and TikTok, negotiated on WhatsApp, paid by transfer. Traders already buy from China. Companies abroad already want in. What is missing is the layer that makes a stranger safe to deal with - whether that stranger is a seller in Yaba, a factory in Guangdong or a regulator in Abuja.
Eaven builds that layer, one company at a time. Each company is operated, not just owned, because the trust has to be earned in the transaction itself: goods inspected, payments protected, licences actually filed.
A studio, not a fund.
We do not invest from the outside. We find a friction in how Africa trades, build the product ourselves, operate it until it works, then scale it. Each company shares Eaven’s engineering, design and operations, so every new one starts further ahead than the last.
Identify
A real transaction that is slower, riskier or costlier than it should be. Not a trend - a friction we have felt ourselves, trading between Nigeria and China and helping companies set up here.
Build
Product, design and engineering in-house. Mobile first, because that is where Nigerian commerce lives. Shipped to real users in weeks, not quarters.
Operate
Our own team runs support, logistics and partnerships until the model is proven with paying customers. We learn what the deck could never tell us.
Scale
Open the platform to partners and new markets, and fold what we learned into the next company.
The kind of company we start.
- A transaction, not a feature. Money and goods must change hands; we build where the risk sits.
- Both sides are better off. The buyer gets what was promised, the seller gets paid, the newcomer gets a running business.
- Works on a ₦60,000 phone. If it needs a laptop and a fast connection, it is not built for the market we serve.
- Connects Africa outward. To factories, to capital, to companies - in both directions.
- Can be operated by us first. We run it before we ask anyone else to.
Principles every Eaven company is built on.
What you order is what you get
Whether it is a dress from a creator or a container from a factory, the buyer gets exactly what was agreed or gets their money back. The honest side never carries the risk.
Build for how people already trade
Nigerians shop by chatting. Traders buy through relationships. Companies enter Africa through people who know the ground. We build on those habits, not against them.
Africa is a two-way corridor
Goods come in; businesses come in; African creators and traders reach out. Eaven sits in the middle of that flow, in both directions.
Ship, operate, learn
We would rather run a small thing well for real customers than describe a large thing in a deck. Every company started as a working product.
Founder-led, builder-run.
Stephen Bankole
Stephen founded Eaven Holdings in 2025 and leads product, operations and partnerships across its companies. He built OnePoint and TradePoint out of first-hand experience of trading between Nigeria and China, and TryLaunchpad out of the questions international companies kept asking about setting up in Africa. He works closest to the product: most weeks he is in the app, on the factory calls and in the support chats.
Product and engineering
A small in-house team designs and builds every Eaven product - mobile apps, web platforms, 3D shop rooms and the AI advisor behind TryLaunchpad.
Operations
Riders, hubs, factory relationships, inspection and customs partners: the people who make the promise on the screen true in the real world.
Partners
Verified manufacturers in Guangdong, logistics and clearing partners, licensed payment providers, and advisors in Lagos, Nairobi, London and San Francisco.
What we run today.
OnePoint
A marketplace where creators and small stores sell to shoppers across Nigeria, with chat, protected payments, delivery and group buys.
TradePoint
Links Nigerian businesses and traders with verified factories in China to choose from and transact with, inspected in Lagos before anyone is paid.
TryLaunchpad
An AI-powered platform that helps Chinese and global companies set up, license and operate in Africa.
Build with us.
We work with manufacturers, logistics partners, companies entering Africa, and people who want to help run the next Eaven company.