Xignal is a community-powered safety app that delivers real-time hazard alerts, verified incident reports, and safer route suggestions for urban and rural travel across Africa. Users can report threats like floods, roadblocks, or accidents, which are then confirmed by nearby community members before alerts are pushed out to everyone in the area. The free app also includes one-tap SOS sharing live location with trusted contacts)Skip.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Personal safety information in African communities moves too slowly—through word of mouth or after-the-fact warnings—leaving people unprepared for hazards like floods, roadblocks, accidents, or security threats. Existing alert systems are often centralized, slow to verify, and not tailored to local terrain, so commuters on city streets and rural roads frequently learn about dangers only when it is too late to change course.
Solution
Xignal provides a community-powered mobile app that streams live, verified hazard alerts so users can avoid active risks and choose safer routes. The app enables anyone to report a threat in seconds with location and details; nearby members then confirm or reject each report, and once it earns enough community confidence, it is pushed to everyone in the area within seconds. Xignal includes real-time hazard alerts, community verification combining upvotes with trust scores, route intelligence that navigates around active risks, and a one-tap SOS feature that shares live location with trusted contacts and nearby responders. The platform is designed specifically for African terrain, covering urban roads, highways, rural areas, and border routes, and it keeps all user data private and never sells location information to advertisers.
Target Audience
Primary users are commuters, drivers, and residents across African cities like Lagos who need real-time, community-verified safety alerts for urban and rural travel; the app is also valuable for frequent travelers and those navigating highways, remote areas, and border routes.
Features
- Live hazard alerts pushed to users within seconds of community verification, covering floods, roadblocks, accidents, security threats, and other risks
- Community verification system that combines upvotes, user trust scores, and automated signals to score each report before it is treated as reliable
- SOS feature that shares live location with trusted contacts and nearby responders, with a full location trail stored in the user's history
- Anonymous Reporting mode (premium) allows users to file reports and join discussions with their profile hidden, except from the moderation team
- Trusted Circle (premium) lets users share live location with up to five contacts, who are notified first during an SOS
- Zone Subscriptions (premium) delivers hyper-local alerts for user-selected areas, and Location Intelligence (premium) provides insights into trends, hotspots, and safety patterns
- Ghost Mode (premium) enables anonymous reporting and discussion participation, with profile visibility fully hidden from other members