Startups Profile

Founded and launched by CEO Joanna Bichsel in July 2016, Kasha sells menstrual care products, contraceptives, pharmaceuticals, and a range of beauty products, and delivers to customers confidentially. The startup allows customers to place orders for products via its website, a mobile app, an SMS shortcode, or a phone call. It does not require a […]

The company, founded by Omar Saleh, Ahmed Wagueeh, Fatma El Shenawy, and Omar Salah in 2019, provides basic banking and various financial services focusing on middle and lower-income earners.  Its entry point product was an earned wage access product launched in 2020. Dubbed Khazna HR, this product allows partner employers to offer cash advances to

Founded in July 2018 by a French National, Romain Poirot-Lellig, Kwik is a business-to-business (B2B) focused, on-demand, and last-mile delivery service. The Logistics startup launched in Lagos in July 2019 after months of intensive operations planning and software development. Kwik is a brand new on-demand, last-mile bike delivery service focusing on large West African cities.

Fuzu was started in 2015 to change the African job market. It does this by offering AI-powered personalized coaching to individuals and talent acquisition and data services to businesses. More than 7.5 million people have used it at some point in their lives, and in the last five years, it has quickly become the most

The goal of the Grindstone program is to help fast-growing, innovative small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) become self-sufficient and financially stable. Through growth measurement, gap analysis, and deep interventions, Grindstone gives each cohort the knowledge, networks, and funding readiness they need to build a solid foundation for growth, transfer skills, create relevant business networks, and

Founded in 2015 and based in Canada & Tanzania, Jaza Energy is a developer of solar energy charging stations which helps off-grid communities to charge batteries, power lights, and phones. Jaza is a solar energy provider for rural areas focused on building a network of renewable energy hubs in communities beyond the electrical grid. It

The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. It offers consumer insights and market benchmarking, data partnership evaluations, customer data commercialization, and customer data exchange. Omnisient is Africa’s first cloud-based privacy-preserving data collaboration platform and the leader in emerging markets.  Omnisient’s bank-grade cryptography protects consumer privacy and ensures compliance

Youverify came into Africa’s regtech scene when founder and CEO Gbenga Odegbami founded the company in 2018. Launched in the Nigerian market, Youverify first provided an API for address and identity verification to several financial institutions. Now it has added more KYC products and expanded into new markets such as Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa,

WhereIsMyTransport was founded in London in 2015. This gave the company a central place to access important resources, such as human capital, technological innovation, and business growth. Their team has grown and they now work from home, but one thing hasn’t changed: their commitment to giving people useful information that helps them get where they

The African Clean Energy Group started in 2007 as a South African company that helped businesses install solar panels on their roofs. Since then, it has grown quickly to become a global leader in energy solutions. African Clean Energy has become the leading independent power producer in Africa. It does this by providing high-quality end-to-end