Startups Profile

Founded by Layla Li and Sonali Sanghrajka, KOSA AI is headquartered in Nairobi and the company helps solve this challenge by helping companies to detect, audit, and hopefully solve the AI bias in their systems. KOSA AI also helps to implement corrective measures to address or mitigate the bias. Additionally, the company also can support […]

Launched in 2019, Bitmama provides a secured blockchain infrastructure that allows users across Africa to transact Bitcoin, Ethereum, Celo, and other cryptocurrencies.  Simultaneously, its payment solution Changera enables cross-border payment and remittance for businesses and individuals in Africa and globally.  Bitmama started as a P2P digital currency exchange. It quickly grew into a platform where

Founded out of Stanford University and backed by Greycroft, Guidewheel went through Stanford’s Launchpad as well as top accelerator StartX.  Guidewheel’s product has been recognized with prizes from Stanford and MIT, and the team brings both manufacturing expertise and success in building world-class cloud software at scale. Guide Wheel is on a mission to empower

Hya Bioplastics is a startup that creates biodegradable packaging from agricultural waste.  They use starch-biofiber composites relying on plant fiber from agricultural waste and starch from the largely undervalued cassava(tapioca) starch.  Mark spent two years working as a part-time salesman for his father’s plastic manufacturing factory.  This made him witness first-hand the evolving packaging needs

Formed in 2016 by Dimeji Falana, Edves offers an integrated management platform for schools. It also allows clients to manage the overall operational activities of schools.  The platform enables clients to manage student learning systems, student admission, fee payments, student performance, etc. Edves’s clients include American Christian Academy, Trove Schools, and Hansal International School, among

Launched in 2017, ClinicPesa is a healthcare financing solution targeting uninsured individuals through its digital mobile healthcare microloans, savings, payments, and value creation platform where members set aside dedicated funds used to offset their medical bills and purchase drugs/medicine in a time of need at your partner facility. You can set aside funds either daily,

Infiuss Health provides clinical trial access to African participants and allows pharmaceutical companies to conduct and monitor these trials via the Infiuss Health Probe Platform.  Through a single dashboard, the all-in-one software platform helps companies identify and select suitable sites for trials, manage the entire research process, and recruit participants remotely. Infiuss Health offers a

XpressGas Ghana Limited is a Ghanaian-owned Gas Company that began operations in 2010 to provide cleaner and environmentally friendly Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to households and commercial entities across Ghana.  XpressGas is the largest distributor of LPG in Ghana and has over the past seven years, distributed over 97000MT of LPG to Ghanaian households, institutions,

Acumen Software is the company behind My Smart City, a platform for city residents to report service delivery issues, track reported matters and mobilize fellow community members. Johannesburg and Cape Town are the first two cities with access to Phase One of the free mobile and desktop-based platform, which allows citizens to report potholes, monitor

RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge, Amy Kao, and Wei Lui. As students at Yale University, the trio came together to collectively solve a problem they faced firsthand, either personally or relating to a loved one. In 2006, Alonge was a victim of fake pharmaceuticals and almost died after taking medicine that contained