Team Team: Founder-Market Fit is Our Unfair Advantage Just Vendors is led by founder Andile Wonderboy Mbhele. This isn’t a startup guessing at a market. It’s a solution built by a 15-year industry veteran who started as a street vendor and rose to manage regional distribution. Andile’s expertise is 10+ years of frontline sales, logistics, and scaling operations in the exact informal markets we serve. He has lived the problem, built the relationships, and designed the solution based on authentic, lived experience. While founder-led, we are not alone. Our mission and model are validated and backed by: Microsoft for Startups Y Combinator (Startup School) Investec Startup School (Shortlisted Finalist) The Baobab Network (Shortlisted Finalist) Our next step: We are raising our pre-seed round to build our core engineering team and launch the MVP.