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The ONVYLO network
One Hub for African Trade.
Discover African businesses, connect with suppliers, find products, respond to RFQs and uncover new opportunities across the continent.
African businesses
Company profiles, capabilities and verified trade credentials.
Products & catalogues
Industrial products, materials and specifications, in one place.
Suppliers & manufacturers
Factories and producers across every major African market.
RFQs & tenders
Live sourcing requests and tender opportunities as they open.
Import & export
Trade routes, export markets and cross-border opportunity.
Industry information
Sector signals and business intelligence for African industry.
Choose your side of the trade
Whether you sell or you buy, ONVYLO works for you.
I want to sell
Get discovered by buyers across Africa
- Showcase your factory, products and capabilities
- Receive quote requests and tender opportunities
- Reach procurement teams in new markets
I want to buy
Source from verified African suppliers
- Search manufacturers by product, industry and country
- Send RFQs and compare responses in one place
- Shorten supply lines and reduce landed cost
What you can achieve
Business outcomes, not features.
ONVYLO exists to help African businesses win work, sell more and buy better.
Find new customers across Africa
Put your factory, products and capabilities in front of buyers who are actively sourcing.
Source products and suppliers
Search African manufacturers and distributors by product, industry and market instead of chasing referrals.
Win tenders and RFQs
See requirements from buyers and procurement teams, and respond with a complete company profile behind you.
Enter new markets
Reach buyers in countries your sales team has never visited, without opening an office there.
Reduce sourcing costs
Compare more suppliers within Africa, shorten supply lines and cut the cost of imports.
Grow your business
Turn discovery into quotations, quotations into orders, and orders into long-term trade relationships.
Africa as one market
Your next customer is on this continent.
African businesses buy from the rest of the world far more easily than they buy from each other. ONVYLO connects industry across borders so trade can happen inside Africa first.
Step 1
A business in one country
A manufacturer, distributor or service provider with real capacity to supply.
Step 2
Becomes visible continent-wide
A verified profile that buyers in other African markets can actually find.
Step 3
Meets demand across borders
Quote requests and tenders arrive from markets outside its usual reach.
Step 4
Trade happens in Africa
Value, jobs and margin stay on the continent instead of leaving it.
Where the opportunity is
Real trade moments ONVYLO is built for.
Illustrative scenarios — not live marketplace activity. They show the kind of business the platform is designed to create.
A manufacturer
A factory in one country is discovered by a buyer in another, and quotes on volumes it could never have reached through local sales alone.
New export customer
A procurement team
A procurement manager finds three African suppliers for a component previously imported from another continent — shorter lead times, lower landed cost.
Lower cost of supply
A supplier
A supplier sees a tender for materials it already produces, responds the same day, and competes on capability instead of contacts.
Tender won on merit
Tenders & RFQs
Compete for work on capability, not contacts.
Buyers and procurement teams publish what they need. Suppliers respond directly. No middlemen, no closed circles.
Step 1
A requirement is posted
A buyer describes what they need to procure, with volumes, markets and timelines.
Step 2
Relevant suppliers see it
The opportunity reaches businesses that actually produce or supply what's needed.
Step 3
Suppliers respond
Quote, attach capability and pricing, and answer questions in one thread.
Step 4
The buyer awards
Responses are compared side by side against verified company profiles.
Meet TENDAI
Sourcing that takes weeks, done in minutes.
TENDAI is ONVYLO's AI procurement assistant. Describe what you need in plain language and it finds suitable African suppliers, prepares your request for quotation and helps you compare what comes back.
How members will use it
You say
"I need 20 tonnes of packaging material delivered quarterly."
TENDAI finds
Verified African suppliers with matching capability, capacity and export reach.
TENDAI prepares
A complete RFQ with specifications, volumes and delivery terms, ready to send.
You decide
A clear comparison of responses so you can choose with confidence.
Available to ONVYLO members after launch.
How it works
Discover. Source. Connect. Grow.
Four steps from joining to trading — the same journey for buyers and suppliers.
Step 1
Discover
Explore African industry by product, country and sector, and see who does what.
Step 2
Source
Shortlist suppliers, send quote requests and respond to tenders and RFQs.
Step 3
Connect
Talk directly to the other side of the trade, with verified profiles behind every conversation.
Step 4
Grow
Turn first orders into lasting cross-border trade relationships.
The complete trade journey
From discovery to delivery.
Sourcing is only part of trade. ONVYLO's roadmap follows the full journey African businesses have to manage.
Available at launch
Discovery & sourcing
Company profiles, product catalogues, search, RFQs and tender opportunities.
On the roadmap
Logistics & freight
Shipping guidance, delivery reach and documentation support across borders.
On the roadmap
Trust & trade support
Verification depth, trade references and support for cross-border compliance.
Why ONVYLO
Built for how African businesses actually trade.
Built for Africa
Designed around how African businesses actually trade — across borders, industries and currencies.
Verified businesses
Every company profile is reviewed before it goes live, so buyers know who they are dealing with.
AI-assisted sourcing
TENDAI helps translate a requirement into the right suppliers and a ready-to-send RFQ.
One professional profile
A permanent digital storefront for your company, products, certifications and export markets.
Both sides of the trade
Buyers and suppliers on one platform, so demand and capability meet in the same place.
Free to join before launch
Build your profile now and be positioned from the first day the platform opens.
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