Zaid Sithole

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Co-founder & COO at Relay Care · Edtech · education, mobile

Relay Care
Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
9+ years experience
Ashesi University
English, Afrikaans
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Overview

Founder of Relay Care (edtech). 18 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. Took Relay Care from zero to $10 million ARR. Before that: Moniepoint and Amazon. Most at home with content and growth. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Skills
mobilecontentHR techgrowtheducation
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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for expense management for nonprofits

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for expense management for nonprofits
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
9 years in edtech
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Cape Town or remote

I bring 18 years of edtech (currently Relay Care). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Cape Town, South Africa · remote OKeducationcontentmobile
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Relay Care is hiring 3 founding engineers in Cape Town

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$120k-$179k + equity
Team
Founding team, 10 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with education Production experience with mobile Ownership of something end to end
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $202k-$227k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Relay Care · 1 yr · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Signed 85 paying customers, 17 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 100 people across 3 countries.
  2. Regional Sales Director
    Jan 2024 - Oct 2025
    Moniepoint · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 9 months to 4.
  3. Account Executive
    Aug 2021 - Jan 2024
    Amazon · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 9 months to 5.
  4. Senior Account Executive
    Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
    Andela · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Built the healthcare team from 2 to 34 reps.
  5. Senior Account Executive
    Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
    Paystack · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
    • Shortened the healthcare sales cycle from 11 months to 4.
    • Signed 9 channel partners that now source 29% of pipeline.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling edtech.

Open-source content toolkit
2025

A small library for edtech that 334 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Ashesi University
    BSc, Business Administration
    2004 - 2008

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