Startups Profile

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

Launched in 2019 as Festival Coins, Tix Africa is an event technology platform that helps event organizers harness granular data from attendees, reducing costs and maximizing revenues in the process.  The app provides tools and services that help event organizers efficiently plan and deliver events, with features including online ticketing, access control, cashless payments, and

Founded in 2020 by medical doctors Chad Marthinussen and Wade Palmer, and chartered accountant Abdul Malick Salie, iNNOHEALTH’s focus is on providing solutions for quality, affordable, and equitable healthcare to everyone on the African continent. The health tech disruptor aims to provide solutions for quality, affordable, and equitable healthcare to everyone in Africa, to pioneer

Founded in 2020, Ada Animation was born out of the desire to build capacity in the animation industry, tell animated African stories and catalyze the animation industry for growth.   Their vision is to build a thriving animation industry in Africa that will, in turn, create employment for the youth and catalyze wealth-creation opportunities. Additionally, their

Tesh Mbaabu and Mesongo Sibuti founded MarketForce in 2018. The founders wanted to solve the fragmentation issue they noticed among small retail shops and their distribution networks.  In addition, these shops are often used as points for offering financial services to the everyday Kenyan. Thus, MarketForce’s play enables the optimized distribution of FMCG goods and

Founded by Jude Dike and William Okafor in July 2021, GetEquity is a fundraising and venture portfolio management company that aims to reduce friction between founders and the funding they need by giving them access to a wide range of funding options.  Dike and Okafor, who are blockchain engineers, are building a blockchain exchange platform,

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

Watobe was founded by Henry Warren, former director of innovation at publishing company Pearson, and Erik Lönnroth, also ex-Pearson and a former consultant at PwC, in 2019. Africa is in the midst of an education crisis – a perfect storm of population growth, teacher shortages, under-resourced schools, and a global pandemic working to curtail the

Founded in 2020 by British-born Nigerians Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, Moove is democratizing vehicle ownership in Africa by providing revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs. Moove was founded in response to the challenge faced by over 2 million African mobility entrepreneurs – the lack of access to vehicle financing.  Moove was initially built to