Nigerian ed-tech startup TITA is helping schools solve a problem most people overlook — academic scheduling and student coordination.
“In many Nigerian schools, timetables are still created manually, leading to clashes, confusion, and wasted time for students and staff,” Rachel Eghene, co-founder of TITA, told Disrupt Africa.
TITA, founded in 2023, automates this process and gives students, lecturers, and administrators a single platform to manage academic life in real time.Its fully automatic timetable generator intelligently, accurately, and effortlessly creates a complete institutional timetable in less than three seconds, eliminates clashes, and improves communication between students, lecturers, and administrators.
“It also handles assignment uploads and announcements, class cancellations and adjustments, academic notifications and institutional broadcasts, and course-based chat groups,” Eghene said. “Once generated, the timetable is instantly available at the fingertips of both lecturers and students through two dedicated mobile apps.
Moreover, every student that uses the TITA app contributes to a steady stream of digital traffic – traffic Eghene says can be monetised. On the homepage of the TITA app sits the advert bar – a digital billboard where local brands, campus businesses, and national and international advertisers can promote their products and services.
The startup was founded after the team members experienced first-hand the inefficiencies in academic timetable generation and management during their time in tertiary institutions.
“We identified recurring challenges institutions face with scheduling, coordination, and operational delays, and we built TITA as a structured, technology-driven solution to simplify and automate the process,” Eghene said.
After conducting a rigorous pilot phase with three tertiary institutions, which ended at the beginning of last year, TITA refined its product and commercially launched in The Gambia last April. Since then, it has secured clients at home in Nigeria as well as in Liberia.
“Our cross-border institutional traction validates both demand and scalability,” said Eghene.
TITA has an adoption model that is “institution-first”.
Once deployed within a school, student onboarding scales rapidly due to mandatory timetable access. Lecturer engagement is driven through academic administration. Usage intensifies during active academic sessions,” said Eghene.
“The three-school pilot phase provided strong validation, and our The Gambia launch marked our first international commercial rollout. We are now transitioning from the validation phase to the structured scale.”
TITA’s expansion strategy focuses on West Africa consolidation, and expansion in Southern Africa through corporate-tech partnerships. It is also looking at government-backed institutional rollout models.
“We are building toward a pan-African tertiary infrastructure footprint,” said Eghene.
The startup monetises via student subscriptions per academic session, institutional service agreements, in-app advertising placements, and enterprise partnerships.
“We prioritised product-market validation and institutional credibility before aggressive monetisation,” Eghene said. “Revenue is currently in the early scaling phase, with structured revenue growth expected as multi-institution deployments increase.”
Founder-funded to date, TITA is now looking at raising seed funding to accelerate market penetration, infrastructure scaling, and sales expansion.
