Andile Venter

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Founder & CEO at Saffron Health · HR software · payroll, SaaS

Saffron Health
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
13+ years experience
University of Lagos
English, Afrikaans
Co-founder
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Overview

Building Saffron Health in Cape Town - HR software. Previously built and sold a small HR software company. Before that: Meta and PwC.

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Skills
payrollSaaSHR techsales
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a technical co-founder: field-service scheduling in the UK

The idea
Field-service scheduling in the UK
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
5 years in HR software
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Cape Town or remote

I bring 13 years of HR software (currently Saffron Health). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Cape Town, South Africasalespayrollhr tech
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Saffron Health · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
    • Took Saffron Health from zero to $7 million ARR.
    • Signed 257 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
  2. Director of Product
    May 2020 - Apr 2023
    Meta · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new developer customers from 20 days to 3.
    • Took developer activation from 22% to 38% in three quarters.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Apr 2018 - May 2020
    PwC · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  4. Director of Product
    Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
    Dangote Group · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 14 days to 2.
    • Grew payments revenue from $1 million to $41 million ARR.
  5. Director of Product
    Oct 2013 - Jun 2016
    Jumia · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Ran 118 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.

Projects

Open-source payroll toolkit
2022

A small library for HR software that 817 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a budgeting app
2022

Built with SaaS and payroll. 4013 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. University of Lagos
    BSc, Business Administration
    2008 - 2012

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