Startups Profile

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

Launched in 2014, Charis UAS was the first-ever licensed UAV company in Rwanda and provides high-quality aerial imagery and data solutions to support intelligent decision-making. They are the first-ever licensed drone company in Rwanda and a leader in drone services and manufacturing. Their company provides high-quality aerial imagery and data solutions to support intelligent decision-making

The startup was founded by Miishe Addy and Solomon Torgbor in 2018. The founders started Jetstream to enable African businesses to see and control their cross-border supply chains. It aggregates private sector logistics providers at African ports and borders and brings them online. Jetstream Africa is also an e-logistics company founded in Tema, Ghana, and

Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup Xend Finance, which in 2019 took part in the Google Launchpad Africa accelerator and the Binance Incubation Programme has developed a platform that gives everyone access to the global money market so members can save and invest in stable currencies.  Xend Finance, popular and widely used in

The Student Hub increases access to vocational education for large numbers of students, whilst reducing the costs of delivery of education and training, by partnering with government-accredited Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges to help them deliver their courses online.  The Student Hub increases access to vocational education for large numbers of students while

Since 2010 local African small-scale farmers and producers have enjoyed the sourcing support of Black Mamba which manufactures a range of chili sauces, pesto, pickles, chutneys, and jams, all of which are made from natural, fresh ingredients without artificial flavors or preservatives.  Black Mamba not only creates world-class food products, but also market access and

The company started at the end of 2018 when Jessica Boonstra who is the Founder & CEO and a British entrepreneur, Stefan Allesch-Taylor decided to address the challenges and opportunities of food supply in South Africa’s townships.  Yebo Fresh (YF) is an award-winning e-commerce platform on a mission to provide township entrepreneurs and community organizations