Solaris Offgrid started in 2014, to develop technology to scale up promising energy access solutions such as Paygo solar.  It is a developer of solar technologies designed to support sustainable and profitable off-grid energy ventures. The company’s technologies offer hardware, software, technical expertise, and funding for generating solar energy in low-income communities by empowering village […]

SeamlessHR is a Nigerian HR platform that helps organizations make the best of their people all over the world. It develops a human resource platform designed to help organizations make the best of their people. The company’s technology provides hiring, training, payroll, leave, performance, and onboarding with HR, management, and learning management systems, enabling businesses

 Founded in the London School of Economics by Preston Ideh, Abdul Abdulrahim, Foluso Ogunlana, and Michael Famoroti, Stears’ mission is to become the world’s most trusted provider of African insight and data. Launched in 2017, Stears has grown gradually to become an important publication focused on data and information about the Nigerian economy.  The idea

Founded in 2019 by Mohamed Abdou, Pravica utilizes blockchain to empower user privacy and security in the communication industry, specifically messaging apps, where enormous amounts of data breaches are recorded by some of the most popular communication apps worldwide. Pravica has continued to scale in the communication market, especially notable messaging apps for businesses where

Play Sense provides support for children and their families. They exist to give all children the best start in life to help them achieve their full potential and aim to enhance opportunities for play, development, and well-being for children and their families within our community. Play Sense is a unique concept in early childcare and

Launched in 2014, Payment24 runs a platform that aims to eliminate the hassle of managing, monitoring, and controlling fleet fuelling transactions using real-time, mobile, and cloud technologies. Payment24 focuses on innovative IT research and development projects within the main focus areas of Fleet Management Systems, Payment Systems, Mobile Solutions, and Retail Solutions. Headquartered in San

Founded in June 2019 by Nigerians Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside, Okra casts itself as a motherboard for the continent’s 21st-century financial system. Okra is a financial services and data aggregation company. They’ve built an API — the infrastructure that enables end-users individuals and corporations to connect their bank accounts directly to third-party applications.

Founded in July 2018 by a French National, Romain Poirot-Lellig, Kwik is a business-to-business (B2B) focused, on-demand, and last-mile delivery service. The Logistics startup launched in Lagos in July 2019 after months of intensive operations planning and software development. Kwik is a brand new on-demand, last-mile bike delivery service focusing on large West African cities.

The company, founded by Omar Saleh, Ahmed Wagueeh, Fatma El Shenawy, and Omar Salah in 2019, provides basic banking and various financial services focusing on middle and lower-income earners.  Its entry point product was an earned wage access product launched in 2020. Dubbed Khazna HR, this product allows partner employers to offer cash advances to