Startups Profile

Founded in June 2019 by Nigerians Fara Ashiru Jituboh and David Peterside, Okra casts itself as a motherboard for the continent’s 21st-century financial system. Okra is a financial services and data aggregation company. They’ve built an API — the infrastructure that enables end-users individuals and corporations to connect their bank accounts directly to third-party applications. […]

Launched in 2014, Payment24 runs a platform that aims to eliminate the hassle of managing, monitoring, and controlling fleet fuelling transactions using real-time, mobile, and cloud technologies. Payment24 focuses on innovative IT research and development projects within the main focus areas of Fleet Management Systems, Payment Systems, Mobile Solutions, and Retail Solutions. Headquartered in San

Play Sense provides support for children and their families. They exist to give all children the best start in life to help them achieve their full potential and aim to enhance opportunities for play, development, and well-being for children and their families within our community. Play Sense is a unique concept in early childcare and

Founded in 2019 by Mohamed Abdou, Pravica utilizes blockchain to empower user privacy and security in the communication industry, specifically messaging apps, where enormous amounts of data breaches are recorded by some of the most popular communication apps worldwide. Pravica has continued to scale in the communication market, especially notable messaging apps for businesses where

 Founded in the London School of Economics by Preston Ideh, Abdul Abdulrahim, Foluso Ogunlana, and Michael Famoroti, Stears’ mission is to become the world’s most trusted provider of African insight and data. Launched in 2017, Stears has grown gradually to become an important publication focused on data and information about the Nigerian economy.  The idea

Zanifu was founded by Biko and Sebastian Mithika who launched the financing business in 2018, one year after founding the startup in 2017. Zanifu is a company that is built at the heart of the problem it is trying to solve. They look at the needs and pain points of the African retailer & work

SeamlessHR is a Nigerian HR platform that helps organizations make the best of their people all over the world. It develops a human resource platform designed to help organizations make the best of their people. The company’s technology provides hiring, training, payroll, leave, performance, and onboarding with HR, management, and learning management systems, enabling businesses

Gozem was founded by Raphael Dana and Emeka Ajene. The startup kicked off operations in Togo in 2018 as a motorcycle ride-hailing service. Motorcycle taxis, car taxis, and tricycle taxis are just some of the ways you can get around with their app, which also makes it easier to get food and other things you

Solaris Offgrid started in 2014, to develop technology to scale up promising energy access solutions such as Paygo solar.  It is a developer of solar technologies designed to support sustainable and profitable off-grid energy ventures. The company’s technologies offer hardware, software, technical expertise, and funding for generating solar energy in low-income communities by empowering village

Inspired by the fabulous history of trade in West and Central Africa, Diool takes its name from the Dioula language, spoken in many countries when it comes to buying or selling. Diool started life as a mobile recharge project back in 2015, offering small merchants a way to sell prepaid recharges to their customers from