About Us

We are building Africa's fleet
intelligence platform

Founded in Rwanda. Built for African realities. Expanding across the continent.

The Problem We Exist to Solve

A multi-billion-dollar structural inefficiency

Across Africa, fleets operate in the dark. Fuel is 30–45% of operating cost, and much of it is stolen, wasted, or unaccounted for. Vehicles fail without warning. Data sits scattered across devices, spreadsheets and paper logs, fragmented and unusable for decisions.

This isn't a technology gap. It's a structural inefficiency built into decades of African fleet operations. No platform was designed for African connectivity, African realities, and the African fleet owner's real cost structure. Sawa exists to change that.

30–45%

of fleet cost is fuel, largely uncontrolled

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lost per breakdown, preventable with intelligence

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client retention among operators who see value

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data points processed every single day

Our Story

Founded in Rwanda. Built for Africa.

We founded Sawa in Kigali not because Rwanda is Africa's largest market, but because it is the continent's most rigorous proving ground, its regulation, its mixed urban-and-rural terrain, and its role as a regional logistics hub make it the ideal place to build a platform that actually works for African operators.

We built for Africa's real conditions, multi-network fallback, offline buffering, hardware flexibility, and analytics designed to cut cost, not just collect data. Today Sawa is trusted by Rwanda National Police, Rwanda Defence Force, Volkswagen Rwanda, Move Plus, TABS Logistics and more, 2,000+ vehicles, 10M+ data points a day.

This is Phase 1. The continent is Phase 2 and beyond.

Vision

To become Africa's most trusted fleet intelligence platform, enabling safer, more efficient, and more profitable mobility across the continent.

Mission

To deliver reliable telematics, actionable insights, and integrated fleet services that reduce operational costs and unlock value for fleet owners in Africa.

The Platform

One platform. Three layers. All live today.

All live today

Three layers of one platform, all in production today. What differs is how widely the market has adopted each.

01

Core Fleet Platform

Layer 1 · The operating core

Widely adopted
  • Real-time tracking (multi-network)
  • Fuel level monitoring & theft alerts
  • EV battery health analytics
  • Driver behavior scoring
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Digital logbook
  • Multi-network resilience
02

AI-Powered Intelligence

Layer 2 · The intelligence layer

Growing adoption
  • Machine learning anomaly detection
  • Predictive failure modeling
  • Driver risk profiling
  • Fleet cost forecasting engine
  • Natural language query interface
  • Cross-fleet benchmarking
03

Fleet Ecosystem Platform

Layer 3 · The fintech & ecosystem layer

Early adopters
  • Fuel cards & discount network
  • EV charging infrastructure
  • Spare parts marketplace
  • Insurance data services
  • Fleet financing products
Expansion

From Rwanda to the Continent

Live in Rwanda today, and engineered to run anywhere on the continent: multi-network, multi-currency, offline-first.

Kampala Nairobi Dar es Salaam Lagos Accra ECOWAS KIGALI
Rwanda · live East Africa · expansion-ready West Africa · on the horizon
1

Rwanda

Live · operating today

Our home market. Serving enterprise fleets across Kigali and all of Rwanda, the proving ground for the platform.

Kigali Northern Province All Rwanda
2

East Africa

Expansion-ready

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania. The platform is already built to run across East Africa's fastest-growing fleet markets, multi-network, multi-currency, ready to deploy.

Nairobi Kampala Dar es Salaam
3

West Africa

On the horizon

Ghana + ECOWAS region. Engineered to extend fleet intelligence across West Africa's largest and most dynamic markets.

Accra Lagos ECOWAS
Mobility will change. Fleets will not disappear. As mobility becomes more electric, more shared, more regulated, more financed, the need for fleet intelligence increases exponentially.

The Sawa Telematics thesis

Leadership

The team behind Sawa

Team profiles coming soon. Get in touch to speak with us directly.

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