Startups Profile

Treepz was founded in 2019 by Akumah, Johnny Ena, Afolabi Oluseyi, and John Shuaibu as a bus-hailing platform in Nigeria.  At the time, the startup, which was named, Plentywaka, provided a convenient way for users in the bustling city of Lagos to book bus trips. Only a few months before its launch, Opera-backed OBus had […]

The company was founded in 2014 by two brothers, JP van der Spuy and Thomas van der Spuy, and it has since evolved, growing its product offering and capacity.  This came after the company supplied a white-labeled telephonic payment mechanism at first. Callpay is a Payment Solution Partner to Merchants and the digital payment industry.

Launched in 2020 by Tunji Andrews, Tina Ajishebiyawo, and Gboyega Olatunde, Awabah is a digital platform providing pension access to Africa’s self-employed. The startup is dedicated to making micro-pension services available to those in the informal sector and those whose employers are not legally required to deduct and remit pensions.  Tunji Andrews co-piloted a project

Babban Gona delivers low-cost agriculture inputs, financial services, and training to a franchise network of smallholder maize and rice farmers. Babban Gona is working to revitalize Nigeria’s agricultural sector by serving networks of smallholder farmers. Babban Gona delivers training, credit, agricultural inputs, marketing support, and other key services to farmers’ doorsteps.  Babban Gona’s model is

Founded in 2017 by Abiodun Adereni, a student at the University of Ibadan at the time, the health startup uses technology and low-cost birth kits to tackle maternal and infant mortality. While taking a course, he realized that pregnant women in rural areas who keep animals around them expose their unborn children to toxoplasmosis.   This

Formed in late-2018 by Simon Ngigi, who was later joined by Allan Thiga, CashBackApp helps fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies to build loyalty amongst customers by allowing them to earn cashback via M-Pesa on their everyday shopping. They started CashBackApp in 2020 to help middle to lower-income consumers in Africa save on their everyday grocery

In 1990, Peter Scott was traveling through Zaire when he witnessed the deforestation caused by charcoal production for household cooking. At that moment, he committed his life to saving forests in Sub-Saharan Africa through the design and manufacture of fuel-efficient cookstoves.  In 2010, after spending 13 years as a cookstove consultant in Central America and

The company was founded in 2015 by Josef Murad & Matias Murad to make healthcare affordable and available to those who need it the most in Africa. BYON8’s app runs 24/7 and you can easily access the app any time you face a problem. The goal was to make high-quality healthcare more accessible, affordable, and

Launched in 2020 as a spinoff of Rensource, an African energy company offering power-as-a-service to customers, Sabi provides merchants and resellers with business tools and services that help them reach new customers, improve cash flow, and streamline logistics.  The startup targeted the over 41 million MSMEs in Nigeria that need efficient platforms that can connect

Founded in 2014 under the name, ‘Divine Mercy,’ CapitalSage provides inclusive solutions to individuals and businesses for continuous value and wealth creation in Africa. They are an integrated digital financial service group that provides people-driven empowerment and inclusive solutions to individuals and businesses for continuous value and wealth creation in Africa. They retail top-notch innovations