For Damilola Olokesusi, Shuttlers wasn't born from a single idea. It grew out of years of navigating Lagos' transport chaos, a family tragedy, and a vision for better mobility. In this edition of Meet the Founder, she shares how she built Shuttlers into a company that has raised over $5 million and completed more than 10 million trips.
From the outside, Lagos is often described as a city that never sleeps. But for the millions of people who wake before dawn each day, the city is better understood as a daily negotiation with time.
The average commuter spends hours battling traffic, squeezing into overcrowded buses and waiting for transport that may never arrive. For millions, the journey to work is the day's first battle. Long before Damilola Olokesusi set out to fix that problem, she was fighting that same battle.
Those daily frustrations would become the foundation of Shuttlers, the shared mobility company that has completed more than 10 million trips, raised over $5 million, become Nigeria's first private shared mobility platform integrated into Google Transit, and is quietly laying the groundwork for what Olokesusi hopes will become the operating system for urban mobility across Africa.
