Startups Profile

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

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 Three friends, with long careers in the financial services and insurance industries, saw a way to improve the outdated insurance landscape by creating a smart software solution.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

Movemeback is a members-only community that connects overseas leaders, influencers, talent, and organizations to unique, exclusive, and exciting high-potential opportunities on the African continent. They focus on distinctive and non-cliché opportunities from senior leadership roles with Africa’s most influential organizations to unique investments, creative and entrepreneurial partnerships, nation shaping, social impact, and more.  They are

Bongalow began as MyAwayHome, a mortgage origination platform for Africans living abroad.  Shortly after serving the diaspora and working closely with leading banks, we realized accessibility to financing, securing the best terms, and independent advice on what works best for clients in need of home financing was missing here at home. They rebranded as Bongalow,