---
title: "Why myPadi shut down"
description: "Nigerian student-housing marketplace myPadi (originally Studacom.ng), which had won early awards and raised seed funding from EchoVC in 2018, went functionally dark sometime in 2018-2019 — its site's search, login and registration stopped working and social activity ceased around May 2019 — with Techpoint unable to get a clear answer from the CEO and Crunchbase later listing it as inactive."
canonical_url: "https://liners.com/graveyard/mypadi"
markdown_url: "https://liners.com/graveyard/mypadi.md"
type: "graveyard"
language: "en"
image: "/graveyard/mypadi/certificate.png"
published_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
updated_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
---

# Why myPadi shut down

Nigerian student-housing marketplace myPadi (originally Studacom.ng), which had won early awards and raised seed funding from EchoVC in 2018, went functionally dark sometime in 2018-2019 — its site's search, login and registration stopped working and social activity ceased around May 2019 — with Techpoint unable to get a clear answer from the CEO and Crunchbase later listing it as inactive.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Graveyard](/graveyard)
- [myPadi](/graveyard/mypadi)

## Summary

Here lies myPadi. It matched Nigerian students and corps members with verified off-campus housing and landlords, winning awards and seed money early. Then its search, login, and registration quietly broke and stayed broken. The vacancy sign never came back on.

Nigerian student-housing marketplace myPadi (originally Studacom.ng), which had won early awards and raised seed funding from EchoVC in 2018, went functionally dark sometime in 2018-2019 — its site's search, login and registration stopped working and social activity ceased around May 2019 — with Techpoint unable to get a clear answer from the CEO and Crunchbase later listing it as inactive.

## Product history

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Fate | Dormant |
| Primary cause | Unknown |
| Stage at shutdown | Seed |
| Lifespan in days | 974 |

## Autopsy report

## What the product attempted

myPadi (launched 2016 as Studacom.ng) was a hyper-local platform connecting students and NYSC corps members with verified off-campus housing and landlords in Nigeria.

## What worked

Won the StartUp South competition (2016), a $5,000 grant at GITEX Dubai and recognition as best e-housing startup by NITDA (2017), $20,000 from Ventures Platform's accelerator cohort, seed funding from EchoVC Partners (2018), and was a finalist in the inaugural Techpoint Build.

## Early warning signs

By September 2019, the website's search, login and registration features were non-functional and had shown no service-related social media activity since roughly May 2019; the CEO attributed it to a 'database issue' the dev team would fix, an explanation Techpoint questioned given the prolonged outage.

## What happened

After early competition wins and EchoVC seed funding in 2018, myPadi's platform stopped functioning properly — search, login and registration were broken and service-related social posts stopped around May 2019. CEO Joel Amawhe told Techpoint it was a database issue awaiting a fix, but the site remained broken for months with no clear resolution, and the company was later listed as inactive on Crunchbase. Batch data records a September 2018 shutdown date, but the sourced evidence found points instead to the platform breaking down and going dark around mid-to-late 2019.

## Sources

- [myPadi.ng Shutdown](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mypadi?ref=startupgraveyard.africa): Techpoint Africa
- [Nigeria's myPadi secures EchoVC funding](https://disrupt-africa.com/2018/03/15/nigerias-mypadi-secures-echovc-funding/): Disrupt Africa
- [With Seed Capital Under Its Belt, Nigeria's Hostel Marketplace MyPadi Is Easing Out Student's Semesters](https://weetracker.com/2018/04/03/with-seed-capital-under-its-belt-nigerias-hostel-marketplace-mypadi-is-easing-out-students-semesters/): WeeTracker

## Related pages

- [myPadi alternatives](/mypadi/alternatives)
- [Liners Graveyard](/graveyard)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/graveyard/mypadi)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)