Startups Profile

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,

Launched in 2017, Synatic has developed a low-code data automation platform that enables enterprises to iterate quickly and provides rapid time to value for businesses needing to accelerate innovation leveraging multiple complex data systems. The concept for Synatic developed from the market needs of businesses trying to integrate data from multiple sources and systems using

SPARK Schools was co-founded by Stacey Brewer and Ryan Harrison in 2012. Concerned by the state of South African education they committed to finding a solution.  They believed that an innovative approach could disrupt the crisis in South African education and dedicated themselves to creating a new model that would provide access to high-quality education

VeggieVictory was founded in 2013 and its flagship product is a plant-based meat chunk alternative dubbed Vchunks, a protein-rich analog developed, produced and packaged locally in Nigeria, and currently sold in over 12 states in the country. After Hakeem, himself a vegan for many years, returned from a trip to Asia where he found many

TymeBank offers a transactional bank account with zero or low monthly fees and a savings product. Most of its customers are onboarded via physical kiosks, usually in Pick n Pay and Boxer stores around the country.  Since launching in February 2019, TymeBank has grown rapidly and now has about 2.8 million customers. TymeBank claims to

Founded in February of 2017 and led by Jonathan Ovadia, CEO, Ovex is a cryptocurrency exchange platform, specializing in OTC trading and arbitrage, offering South Africa’s largest selection of digital asset markets.  With $300m (USD) in monthly trading volume, the company delivers prime brokerage services to institutions and high net-worth individuals globally amid rising demand

Founded by Kiaan Pillay, Natalie Cuthbert, and Priyen Pillay, Stitch works to provide full API access to financial accounts across Africa starting from its first market, South Africa. The Stitch API also allows developers to connect apps to financial accounts within minutes, allowing their users to share their transaction histories and balances, confirm their identities,

Mehta co-founded Uncover with Jade Oyateru (COO) and Catherine Lee (advisor), who were inspired to build a data-driven, digital-first health and wellness brand for African women by leveraging their experience and expertise. Uncover was launched after incubation at Antler. It uses African botanicals and outsources its manufacturing to Korean original design manufacturers, who they say

The story of Koa can be traced back to MEST Africa as it’s the first place the two co-founders met and worked. But the idea to start a company together hadn’t been born yet.  They were only heavily involved in MEST’s mission, which is to incubate and help scale African entrepreneurs and startups, and were