Retailers and wholesalers use Agabb to track sales, inventory, and expenses. In the age of automation, systems such as delivery routing and batching, logistics coordination, automated inventory replenishment, demand forecasting, and working-capital financing all require structured, real-time data. In the Horn of Africa, that data does not exist in a usable form. At its core, this work is about recording how goods and money actually move across the region—who buys from whom, at what price, in what quantity, and under what conditions, at scale.

Abdiasis Daauud
I built my first website with real users as a freshman in high school. Today, I’m building a startup focused on digitizing products and transactions across retailers and wholesalers in the Horn of AfricaDjibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland.
Academic Background
Abaarso School of Science and Technology
Abaarso, Somaliland
2016 - 2020
Phillips Academy Andover
Andover, Massachusetts
2020 - 2023
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut
2023 - Present
Startups
Projects
Rydar
Visit →Movement in Nigeria is a systems problem before it is a logistics problem. Standard routing assumes formal infrastructure, but real networks run on relationships, local knowledge, and routes that change daily. We are building something that learns from how movement actually happens on the ground.
Rippl
Visit →A customizable assessment platform developed in collaboration with Professor Lisa Dierker. The platform is designed to help students master concepts through structured repetition and interleaving, allowing instructors to tailor assessments and learning paths to specific courses, skills, and learning goals.
Featured
Wesleyan Shark Tank: $15,000 Funding Secured
Agabb received the highest funding amount at Wesleyan's inaugural Shark Tank event, securing the full $15,000 requested from two investors. The pitch was part of the student forum "Wesleyan Shark Tank: The Art of the Pitch" co-led by student leaders and facilitated by the Patricelli Center.
2025 New Venture Awards Grand Prize Winner
Agabb won the $6,000 grand prize from Wesleyan's Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The NVA, formerly called the PCSE Seed Grant, began in 2013 to recognize and support impactful student ventures.
NEPSTA Championship: Tenth Place Overall
Finished first for Andover and tenth place overall at the NEPSTA Championship, surging in the last 400 meters. The Phillips Academy boys' cross country team secured second place as a team at Saint Paul's School, competing against more than a dozen New England prep school teams.
Blog
View all →Building Payments on Half an API, Literally.
Trying to sell and operate a software startup in Somaliland means learning exactly where payment programmability ends, and how one missing capability can stall an entire product roadmap.
The Cost of an Offline Market
Why delivery, logistics, capital, and macroeconomic stability cannot emerge until retail itself is online—and what is truly at stake if it never does.
Technical Decisions That Compound Into Constraints
The infrastructure choices that matter most are rarely the obvious ones. How to think about decisions that quietly compound over time.
Why Software Is Met With Distrust in Hargeisa
On one-off systems, broken follow-through, and how trust is lost and slowly rebuilt in Somaliland’s business community.