Startups Profile

Alex Royea and David Henia are the founders of the app. Wazi is a Swahili app that means open. They started the application after realizing the huge problem that exists in Kenya around mental health and wanted to “open” up the conversations. The app which can be found on Facebook Messenger and Telegram works through […]

Chaka is a platform that provides tech services, marketing, customer service, and operations to brokers on behalf of their customers.  It provides unrestricted access to more than 4,000 stocks trading on capital markets and is fully licensed by the SEC. Tosin Osibodu, while in the U.S., recognized this problem and returned to Nigeria to start

Ctrl was founded in 2017 by Pieter Erasmus, Pieter Venter, and Francois Venter. Three friends, with long careers in the financial services and insurance industries, saw a way to improve the outdated insurance landscape by creating a smart software solution. The awesome team at Ctrl is made up of specialists in the fields of technology,

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

Founded in August 2020 by Chukwudi Enyi, Moses Nmor, and Julian Flosbach, BFREE offers ethical digital-first credit collection solutions for financial institutions in emerging markets.  After 16 months in business, the startup now manages collection processes for more than 30 digital lenders, microfinance banks, and commercial banks in Nigeria and Kenya. After many years of

From coding boot camp to global career development platform. The iX founders were both incredibly grateful for their Yale undergraduate experience but felt there was something fundamentally lacking from their four years on campus.  They were high on theoretical knowledge, but low on skills. The material they had learned was already out of date by