Startups Profile

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 […]

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

PowerGen was started in 2011 to give clean, renewable electricity to the 600 million people in Africa who don’t have it yet. Today, tens of thousands of people use their energy services every day, and they have offices in four different countries. PowerGen Renewable Energy is an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) company that specializes

Cowtribe was founded in 2017 with the simple but powerful idea of making a smart logistics platform that would aggregate the demand of farmers for livestock products down to the last mile and then deliver those goods directly to their farms. They thought that if farmers raised healthy animals, it would make them “happy.” More

Grainpulse Limited was started because people wanted to make a difference in the lives of farmers in Uganda. All of their hopes, dreams, and ideas have come together to make an amazing business that they can be very proud of. They are the first company in Uganda to give farmers access to the market by

Migo is a platform for lending that can be added to other apps to help individuals and small businesses get loans. Migo takes the complicated world of lending and makes it easier to understand with a simple API. It does this by using its data and proprietary machine learning algorithms to evaluate credit risk and

In developing countries, Wasla is the main mobile web browser and desktop extension for e-commerce. We collect coupons, promo codes, and cash-back deals from more than 100 local and regional online stores to help you save money when you shop online. In the last three years, 85 percent of the growth of the internet has