Startups Profile

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,

One Acre Fund is a non-profit organization that helps farmers feed their families and build stable economies by giving them loans and education. Their goal is to help farmers make more money, and they can only do that with the help of their hardworking staff. The best way they can help farmers is by getting

Africa Health Holdings (AHH) is the largest and most technologically advanced healthcare network in Africa. It has more than 40 medical facilities in Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. AHH is committed to giving its institutions financial, administrative, and technical help as part of a larger effort to create a connected, tech-forward healthcare system in Africa that

Since its start in 2016, Afrikrea has been trying to bring Africa and the rest of the world closer together. Moulaye Tabouré, Kadry Diallo, and Luc B. Perussault-Diallo, their co-founders, are from Mali and Guinea, respectively. They all love Africa and want to bring more Made in Africa goods. They also wanted to make a

Bosta was started as an Egyptian IT giant in the logistics industry to help the whole Middle East grow and be more productive. The company was started in 2017 to make shipping and fulfillment easier for businesses of all sizes, from the smallest documents and packages to the biggest and heaviest items. Mohamed Ezzat and

In 2018, 3X4 Genetics opened its first office in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2020, the company opened a branch in Seattle, Washington, to serve the U.S. market. This institute in Seattle was set up to share health information based on the genes of each patient. The 3X4 Genetics team is made up of experts

Gebeya was started in 2015 and is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It runs a marketplace for freelance talent that serves all of Africa. The organization wants to become a key player in Africa’s digital revolution and help build a prosperous continent by taking advantage of the job opportunities for African talent on the continent

The most advanced financial technology company in Africa is the 4th Generation Capital Company or 4G Capital. They give credit to people who need it the most and do it responsibly. They also give people quick, easy access to low-interest, no-collateral loans that meet our strict affordability standards so they don’t get into too much

In 2011, Amir Barsoum and Ahmed Badr set out to build a complete digital healthcare ecosystem that would give patients the information and knowledge they needed to make informed decisions about their health and well-being, despite the high cost of healthcare and the long wait times that come with it. Residents of the Middle East