Runnerx Campus Hustle, Delivered Fast

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RunnerX is a student-only hyper-local dispatch and campus commerce marketplace built specifically for university campuses in Ghana, starting with KNUST in Kumasi, one of Africa’s largest universities, with over 89,000 enrolled students living on campus and in surrounding hostels.

The Problem

University students waste significant time every day handling small but necessary errands. Buying food from a canteen across campus, picking up a printed assignment, delivering a document to a department office, sourcing academic materials, or getting an item from a nearby shop, these tasks are routine, repetitive, and time-consuming. For a student juggling lectures, assignments, and personal responsibilities, every hour matters.

Existing solutions do not solve this well. Ride-hailing and delivery apps like Bolt and Yango are built for city-wide logistics and structured store-based delivery. They are too expensive for small campus errands, too slow for urgent needs, and not designed for t

SectorsE-commerce, Logistics
LocationKumasi, Ghana
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