How African businesses turn competitors into a buying consortium.
DealGroupAfrica is Africa's escrow-secured wholesale market: suppliers post bulk offers, buyer-coordinators pool demand into cross-border RFQs, and Kudu holds every euro until delivery is confirmed — not until someone's word is good enough.
One buyer can't move a cement plant. Six can.
A hardware retailer in Abidjan needs 40 tonnes of rebar. A cement plant in Casablanca only quotes its best price at 20,000 tonnes. Neither side moves alone — and pooling a purchase with five other businesses across three countries means someone has to hold the funds, verify the supplier's certifications, and pay out the moment the goods actually arrive, not on a promise.
DealGroupAfrica needed a way for suppliers and buyer-coordinators who have never met — and may never meet — to commit to six-figure orders, without becoming a bank or a customs broker itself.
Two ways to pool a deal, one rail underneath.
Every listing on DealGroupAfrica — a supplier's bulk offer or a buyer-coordinator's pooled demande groupée — rides the same Kudu escrow pool. Each buyer's share locks in EURC the moment they commit; the supplier is paid, and the coordinator earns a commission, only once delivery is confirmed or a 48-hour keyless window elapses.
From one quote to a cross-border consortium.
Consortiums where alone, there were only quotes.
Property developers who could never reach a supplier's volume tier alone now pool orders in the thousands of tonnes across borders. A network of clinics buys a year of medical consumables as one group instead of a dozen separate invoices. DealGroupAfrica scales into new countries and sectors without ever holding a client's funds itself.
Bigger consortiums, more sectors.
DealGroupAfrica is growing its Enterprise tier so multi-country buying groups — hospital networks, developer consortiums, cooperative federations — can run recurring pooled orders on the same delivery-confirmed escrow, at higher volumes.