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📰 News10 March 2026·2 min read·

Nigeria's Vazzel uses AI to help emerging fashion vendors sell online

Source: disrupt-africa

Nigerian startup Vazzel, founded in 2024 by Mayowa Akande, is an AI-powered fashion marketplace designed to give emerging vendors access to professional storefronts, secure transactions, and an AI measuring tool that reduces product returns. The platform targets the structural gap in Africa's fashion e-commerce sector, where informal vendors often lack trusted selling infrastructure. Vazzel also offers free tools to help vendors build and scale their businesses.

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