Startups Profile

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 […]

FairMoney is working hard to become the best mobile bank in developing countries. Their global reaches and focus on making an impact make them stand out. Their services could help people in developing economies who don’t have bank accounts yet. FairMoney made a new kind of digital bank that lends money based on credit and

MaxAB is an online business-to-business (B2B) platform that connects food and grocery wholesalers and distributors with stores in unserved areas. They are re-engineering the informal grocery and food market by using technology that makes it possible and new supply chains that are tailored to the needs of merchants in the communities they serve. MaxAB is

As the largest digital educational marketplace in Africa, Snapplify is at the forefront of edtech solutions on the continent, making digital learning easier for both people and institutions. Snapplify is used every day in thousands of K-12, higher education, and adult education institutions to teach, learn, and consume educational information. One of the biggest digital

The TemTem One app is a platform for mobility that makes it easy to hire personal drivers and have goods delivered right to the customer’s door. So far, more than 200k people have used it. The company was started in 2018 and has its main office in France. It is the leading pan-African super app

Zazu started as a way for farmers with extra goods to find new markets. In 2017, it turned its attention to digital banking. The Zazu mobile wallet makes it easy to do things with money, like send and receive money, buy things, and store money. You can use the virtual card that comes with our

Dash is an app that makes it easy to send, pay, receive, save, and manage your money all in one place. Built with security that can’t be broken, so you, your account, money, and payments are safe. Dash was started in 2019 by Prince Boakye Boampong. Covid has been a big help for Dash because

Almentor.net went online for the first time in 2016, intending to meet the need for online resources in Arabic for self-improvement. The website has a library of original training videos and interviews with experts in the field. This gives people in the region new ways to improve their skills in areas like medicine, the humanities,

BitPesa was started in 2013 and is Africa’s largest wholesale bitcoin liquidity provider for both consumers and businesses. BitPesa is different from other exchanges in Africa because it allows instant settlement in many different currencies and has the most liquid market of any exchange in Africa.  BitPesa was the first blockchain company to get a

Mostafa Amin, Muhammad Habib, and Abdallah Nofal started Breadfast in 2017 to meet the need for a convenient, on-demand delivery service of freshly baked bread and other breakfast items. They started their business with the simple goal of giving Egyptian families a place where they could buy everything they needed every day, from bread to