Startups Profile

The founders of Altech Group, Iongwa and Washikala were forced to flee their home village of Baraka in South Kivu during the Congolese civil war. They grew up in a Tanzanian refugee camp, which only cemented their friendship from early childhood. As they grew older, their entrepreneurial spirit was evident to DAFI, a UNHCR program […]

Founded in 2016 by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, Paystack builds technology to help Africa’s best businesses grow from new startups to market leaders launching new business models. Paystack makes it easy for businesses to accept secure payments from multiple local and global payment channels, and then they also provide tools to help you retain

Founded in 2016 and officially launched in 2017, swiftVEE is a livestock trading platform that connects online buyers to livestock auctions for real-time purchases in low-latency areas such as farmlands. So far, the startup has done over 150 auctions, and it has 125,000 farmers in its network. SwiftVEE uses artificial intelligence (AI) to match buyers

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

Mr. Green Africa, the first recycling company to be a Certified B Corporation on the African continent, leverages business as a force for good to realize sustainable, long-term social, environmental, and economic impact through the collection, conversion, and selling of post-consumer plastic waste. Their technology-driven plastics collection model enables waste collection at the source, integrating

Established in 2010, MetroFibre Networx is a South African-owned and managed open-access fibre network and broadband fibre provider with its Head office based in Gauteng.  Now operating nationally, MetroFibre owns and manages South Africa’s first globally compliant Carrier Ethernet 3.0 (CE 3.0) open access fibre network, over which it connects businesses and individuals to the

Established in 2015 by Rehmann and Steve Moran, and based in Homa Bay, Kenya, Victory Farms supplies tilapia for the Nairobi market. Rehmann had a background in investment banking and got to work on an aquaculture project in West Africa. They identified the high but unmet demand for fish in the East African market. While