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Asoriba
Techstars '16East Legon, GH · Founded 2015 · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
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Ghanaian company offering church management software, a member mobile app and digital giving tools across African markets.
Also known as Asoriba Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Asoriba is a Ghanaian technology company that builds software for churches. Its product set combines a web-based church management application for administrators and leaders with a mobile application for congregants, plus an online giving tool. The web application captures member records (family relationships, work, education, special dates such as birthdays and anniversaries), tracks tithes, contributions, prayer requests, group membership and attendance, and provides financial management features including general ledgers, accounts receivable and payable, inflow/outflow tracking, pledge reminders and welfare dues. A branch management module lets a church integrate multiple branches under one dashboard while restricting core settings to headquarters administrators, and attendance can be recorded via headcount analytics, NFC devices and tags supplied by the company, or USSD check-in.
The member-facing mobile app distributes devotionals, sermons, audio and video content, event notices and announcements, supports commenting and group/cell discussion, allows prayer requests, and enables members to pay tithes, offerings and pledges, with real-time notification when a contribution is received. Communication can be sent by SMS, email and push notification so that members with feature phones, smartphones or computers can be reached. In interviews the company has described the mobile app as a social network for church members and leaders and the web app as a CRM for church administration, with analytics and summaries intended to support data-informed decisions by leaders.
The company describes itself as a ministry technology partner operated by Christian founders, with a stated vision of using technology to grow congregations and to open its technology to other organised groups for member connection and donations.
Founding story
The four co-founders — Saviour Dzage, Jesse Johnson, Patrick Ohemeng Tutu and Nana Agyemang-Prempeh — met at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, graduating in 2014. All were closely involved with their churches and identified four recurring problems for African churches: managing membership data, communicating with members outside services, managing finances, and reaching members with timely information about events. They built the management web application first, then the member mobile app, founding the company in 2015. The name means "child of the Church" in Twi.
Business model
Asoriba sells subscription-style access to its cloud-based church management software, accompanied by a free mobile app for members and an online giving tool. Churches with 50 or fewer members are offered the product free of charge as an entry tier, with quotes provided on request for larger congregations; the company advertises 24-hour customer support and a dedicated client success manager. Payments infrastructure for donations is supported through a partnership with Interswitch.
Paid plans for church management software with a free tier for churches of 50 members or fewer; donation/digital giving processing forms part of the platform.
Traction
The website states more than 1,000 churches use the platform. Wikipedia reports 395 partner churches and 30,000 registered followers as of June 2016, rising to 1,100 partner churches and 69,000 registered followers in 2017, across Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States.
Latest developments
The company's service-details site carries a 2019 copyright and publishes privacy policy, terms of service, service level agreement and security documentation. The main site markets the web management software, member mobile app and online giving tool across Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positioned as a church management and engagement platform for African congregations, reporting more than 1,000 client churches and recognition including Seedstars awards and a Ghana Startup Awards category win. The company has also stated ambitions to serve African diaspora churches in the UK and US.
Combines administrative CRM, multi-branch consolidation, financial management and digital giving with a member-facing social/content app, and supports low-end connectivity through SMS and USSD alongside smartphone apps; provides NFC-based attendance hardware.
Technology
Cloud-based web application for church administration integrated with native mobile applications for members, supporting SMS, email and push notification delivery, Facebook distribution, and card/bank-account or mobile money donations. Attendance capture uses headcount analytics, NFC devices and tags, and USSD check-in. The core API of the system was built in-house by co-founder Patrick Ohemeng Tutu, who leads the technology unit.
Go-to-market
Direct sign-up and quote requests through the company website, a free tier for small churches, partner and reseller programmes (business, sales and brand partners), and payments partnerships such as Interswitch in Nigeria. Visibility has come from accelerator participation and startup competitions, and the company has cited partner-led presence in Nigeria as an entry route.
Churches and Christian organisations of varying sizes, including multi-branch denominations with international branches, their leaders and administrators, and individual congregants.
Geography
Headquartered in Accra, Ghana, with listed contact numbers and addresses in Ghana (Haatso, Accra), Nigeria (Victoria Island, Lagos, at Interswitch), South Africa (Woodstock, Cape Town) and Kenya (Westlands, Nairobi). Client churches have also been reported in the United States, and a testimonial cites a church in England. In 2017 the company named Kenya, Congo and Tanzania as expansion targets alongside the UK and US diaspora markets.
History
Founded in 2015 in Accra by four MEST graduates. In April 2016 Asoriba was selected as one of ten startups worldwide for the first Techstars accelerator programme in Africa, run with Barclays in Cape Town, where it received seed funding after having bootstrapped previously. It was named Africa's best startup at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland in 2016 and had been voted best startup in Ghana by Seedstars and by Ringier/Pulse. In October 2016 it partnered with Nigerian payments company Interswitch to enable donations via mobile money transfer. In February 2017 it launched church management software in Ghana, and in 2017 it won Technology Startup of the Year at the Premium Bank Ghana Startup Awards. As of 2017 the company said it was seeking to raise $2 million for pan-African expansion.
Risks & controversies
The company has cited difficulty recruiting and affording technical talent as its main operating constraint, and has funded itself largely through bootstrapping, accelerator seed funding and proof-of-concept work with partners.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsThe company stated it was operating in Ghana and Nigeria and was about to open in South Africa, with Kenya and Congo identified as priority markets.
Reported launch of the company's church management software in Ghana.
Asoriba partnered with Nigerian digital payments company Interswitch to allow church donations via mobile money transfer.
Asoriba was one of 10 companies chosen from 450 worldwide for a three-month Techstars startup accelerator programme, the Barclays Techstars Accelerator in Cape Town, where it received seed funding.
Named Africa's best startup at the Seedstars Summit; the company has also been voted best startup in Ghana by Seedstars and by Ringier/Pulse.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Asoriba do?
- Ghanaian company offering church management software, a member mobile app and digital giving tools across African markets.
- Who are Asoriba's investors?
- Asoriba's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Asoriba headquartered?
- Asoriba is headquartered in East Legon, GH.