Startups Profile

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 […]

Interswitch is a market leader in integrated digital payments and commerce, which helps to make sure that money moves quickly and safely and that goods and services are spread out evenly across Africa. The company was started in 2002 to create and run payment infrastructure and to offer new payment products and transactional services all

Flutterwave is a software company that wants to help financial institutions and businesses in Africa do better by making it easier for them to do business online. It gives merchants, PSPs, and Pan African banks around the world the technology, infrastructure, and services they need to accept and process payments through any channel (Web, Mobile,

In 2011, Ahmed Zahran, Randa Fahmy, Yumna Madi, and Xavier Auclair started KarmSolar in a café in Zamalek. Their goal was to help Egyptian businesses and communities get clean energy. They were so moved by their stay at the Karm Ecolodge in the St. Catherine’s area of Sinai that the word “KarmSolar ” was created

Halan is an Egyptian financial technology company that helps people and small businesses get loans from places other than banks. To meet the challenge of providing financial services to all 100 million people in Egypt, Halan made its proprietary technology to make it easier to finance a growing customer base and give its customers access

Lori is a logistics company that uses technology to set up shipping between faraway places. It is a startup backed by venture capitalists that are building Africa’s transportation and logistics infrastructure for the next generation. The start-up is taking on a big problem because every year, Africa spends $180 billion on transportation. Lori’s market is

OPay is a mobile money platform that is run by OPay Digital Services Limited. It has received the green light from the Central Bank of Nigeria. Since its launch in June 2018, the company’s services have grown to include more than 500,000 mobile money merchants in all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

PalmPay is changing the way that people and businesses in Africa pay for things by making banking services cheaper and more available. Since PalmPay launched in 2019 in Nigeria and Ghana, they’ve helped more than 5,000,000 customers save money and time with digital payments. About 20% of people who use PalmPay say that it is

uLesson is an ed-tech company that wants to give everyone in Africa an equal quality education at a price they can pay. The professional instructors who teach the tens of thousands of video courses in their app are available around the clock to answer questions and give more information.  The uLesson app has mock tests

Since its start in 2018, Yodawy has used technology to bring together healthcare stakeholders, manage a large network of pharmacies, improve difficult supply chain operations, and use analytics to prevent stockouts. The app Yodawy was developed by Yodawy, a digital firm. You can use it to get e-prescriptions for medicine from your doctor, send photos