Startups Profile

Founded in 2016, Helium uses proprietary technology and data to empower healthcare providers to make better decisions, operate more efficiently, and improve patient outcomes. Wider healthcare stakeholders also benefit from Helium’s data-driven insights, leading to optimum resource allocation and oversight. Helium has grown rapidly to date in Africa, solving the continent’s problems of fragmented markets, […]

Located in Rondebosch the heart of Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs, their location offers convenience and world-class facilities, that are easily accessible from all the major arterial routes in and out of the City. Ingress Medical Centre Rondebosch provides patients with the best possible medical services, delivered with integrity and respect. They pride themselves on their

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

In 2018, the same year it was founded, Argineering won both RiseUp’s pitch competition and CBC’s Hona El-Assema and has been making waves in Europe ever since. With their product “RG Kit,” Argineering had to think meticulously about the market they should start at. Their eyes landed on one of Europe’s busiest shopping avenues, Oxford

Field Intelligence is a tech company that was founded on the idea that universal healthcare is the foundation on which equality, development, prosperity, and sustainability can be built. It is a platform for managing the supply chain of pharmaceuticals. Its goal is to help governments and companies provide healthcare in the world’s fastest-growing areas. They

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,