Startups Profile

Pineapple is an insurance technology company that sells insurance for things like cars, TVs, and musical instruments. The main office of this company is in Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s also the Head of Operations for a small insurance company whose app will cover your personal belongings. Basic pricing and information about long-term care and life […]

Tribal Credit, which used to be called Aingel, makes business credit cards for new businesses in economies that are still growing. The platform’s AI-driven approval process and blockchain technology make it possible for people to get credit, choose how they spend their money and get financial incentives in the form of tokens. In developing countries,

Sendy was started in Kenya in 2014 to make partnerships that would give companies and people access to opportunities that had not been available before. Sendy’s on-demand delivery platform is designed to provide door-to-door transportation and delivery services. Its service organizes deliveries, keeps track of drivers, makes it easy to pay without cash, and even

AURA is a tech platform that makes emergency response systems cheaper and easier to use. Their newest connected smart emergency response device gives users quick access to elite private armed and medical responders, no matter where they are or what device they are using. In 2017, AURA was started because private emergency and security response

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)