For many Nigerians, organising a wedding, birthday, naming ceremony or corporate event is almost a second job. Guest lists live on WhatsApp, RSVPs come through Google Forms, vendors are contacted by phone, payments are tracked through bank transfers, while someone at the gate is still holding a printed list.
Nigerian startup SecVite is taking aim at that fragmented process with a mobile-first event management platform designed to bring planning, invitations, guest management, payments and event-day operations into one place.
The startup, founded by software engineer Hameed Yusuf, was launched in 2025 after the founder encountered the practical difficulties of managing a large wedding himself. According to Disrupt Africa’s report, SecVite already has more than 600 users and is now looking at its next phase of growth.
The platform allows organisers to create events, send digital invitations, collect RSVPs, approve guests, sell tickets, manage vendors, receive payments and contributions, and check attendees in using QR codes. SecVite also provides analytics and post-event records, making it possible for organisers to follow what happened before, during and after an event.
SecVite targets one of Africa’s most fragmented event processes
The idea behind SecVite is relatively simple: reduce the number of separate tools required to organise a modern African event.
Yusuf told Disrupt Africa that event organisers commonly combine WhatsApp, spreadsheets, Google Forms, bank transfers and paper guest lists to make everything work. While those tools are useful individually, keeping them connected can become difficult, particularly when guest numbers increase.
SecVite instead creates a central digital record for an event. Its official website says organisers can manage guest lists, RSVPs, digital invitations, QR check-in, vendors, ticketing and cashless gifting from the same platform. The service is built for both private and public events, including weddings, birthdays, conferences, festivals and corporate gatherings.
One feature that could be particularly relevant to Nigerian celebrations is its digital gifting and “Spray” functionality. Guests can make cash gifts from their phones, while enabled transactions can be connected to the event record. SecVite says guests can participate without downloading an app for the Spray feature, with payments processed through Flutterwave.
The platform also offers QR-based check-in designed to continue working where venue connectivity is unreliable, an important consideration for large events where entrance delays can quickly become a major problem.
Back Story: A wedding exposed the problem SecVite wanted to solve
SecVite’s origin story is closely tied to the problem it is trying to address.
Yusuf, a senior software engineer with more than a decade of experience, began building the platform after organising his own wedding. He had hundreds of guests to manage and found himself personally dealing with invitations, approvals and other administrative tasks.
Rather than treating the challenge as just an inconvenience, he turned it into a product idea.
The first version was tested during his own wedding, where more than 400 guests were managed through the platform and over 300 attendees were reportedly checked in using QR codes. That real-world test gave the team an opportunity to see how the technology performed under the pressure of an actual event.
SecVite’s own account of its development similarly says the product began as a solution for a large private celebration and was designed around practical problems such as guest approval, invitations, access control and event-day coordination.
SecVite wants to prove Nigeria first before expanding across Africa
SecVite is currently self-funded and has surpassed 600 users, according to Disrupt Africa. The company is considering pre-seed funding as it looks to expand its operations and increase adoption among people organising their own events.
Its immediate ambition, however, appears more measured than simply chasing user numbers. Yusuf said the company wants organisers to repeatedly use SecVite for real events and is using feedback from external organisers to improve the product.
The startup eventually wants to expand beyond Nigeria because many of the administrative problems it addresses exist across African markets. For now, the priority is strengthening the product and business model at home before entering more countries.
SecVite operates on a transaction-based model rather than charging organisers an upfront fee. Disrupt Africa reported that its service fees range from 5 per cent to 7.5 per cent depending on the type of transaction, including tickets, gifts and contributions. Its current website also states that event creation and basic event management are free, with applicable fees shown when payments are made.
For Nigeria’s increasingly digital event economy, SecVite represents an interesting attempt to solve a very familiar problem: too many moving parts, spread across too many platforms. Its real test now is whether organisers will make it part of how they consistently plan and run celebrations.
