Startups Profile

Founded in 2019 and a participant in the S21 cohort of the Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator accelerator, Floatpays is a technology platform that enables on-demand access to pay, seamless savings functionality, and financial education to build employee financial wellness. Floatpays is a digital platform that offers on-demand access to pay, seamless savings functionality, and financial […]

Jirogasy and its solar kits made in Madagascar were born at the end of 2017 from the desire of the Kasay brothers to create a production unit in charge of manufacturing solar kits and connected objects on site in Madagascar. Jirogasy is the first company with a production line and a design office that locally

They are Africa’s Digital Channel for Seamless Freight Management. They simplify global trade through end-to-end digital access to world-class freight forwarding. They are a dedicated team of freight forwarding experts with several decades of combined industry experience. As such, they provide a solid technical and operational advantage to their clients as they support every stage

The history of solar pump engineering is a tale of thousands of years and is briefly covered in their solar pump guide. It is from these same principles that Dutch Engineer (and Futurepump’s Technical Director), Gert Jan Bom has developed the solar pumps we manufacture today. Futurepump has grown as a company to scale the

Founded in 2012, HyperionDev is an online course platform for computer science education, which allows anyone to take online courses in coding with a personal computer or mobile phone. HyperionDev is southern Africa’s largest tech education provider. It was founded as a small grassroots movement of Computer Science students working towards a single goal: to

Yuppiechef was founded in 2006 by two good friends, selling just 32 kitchen products online, from a lounge in Plumstead. More than a decade (and more than a million cards and fridge magnets) later, nearly 275 of us are now working together to help our customers find more moments of joy in their homes. The

Bitnob is a peer-to-peer platform that enables the purchase and sale of Cryptocurrency. These services are facilitated by Bitnob Technologies Limited, British Virgin Islands. Bitnob does not provide remittance services in the form of fiat.  Bitnob is not a foreign remittance or money exchange platform. Bitnob is in partnership with third-party licensed companies that facilitate

AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana by solving two critical problems rural-based smallholder farmers faced namely, access to market and access to finance, be it formal or informal.  The lack of access to structured markets results in smallholder

SunCulture: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds Founded in 2013 by Samir Ibrahim, Sunculture offers solutions tailored to smallholder farmers by combining mobile banking technology with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing and value-add to reach customers across Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Togo, and Ivory Coast. As the first company to commercialize solar-powered irrigation in Africa, SunCulture

Launched in 2019 as a digital logistics marketplace, Amitruck connects shippers with transporters operating trucks, vans, tuk-tuks (three-wheelers), pickups, and motorbikes, allowing them to negotiate the rates of haulage.  The platform also lets shippers customize services, for example, to add off-loading charges and it includes a transporter’s rating and the mean number of trips made,