Startups Profile

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

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