Startups Profile

AiCare: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

AiCare was incubated in 2020 at the Antler Program and later joined the BIMA Lab Insurtech accelerator run by the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Kenya (IRA). AiCare has developed an in-house technology that uses automobile driving data and driving behavior data to calculate the driver’s accident risk and quantify a risk score for insurance products […]

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MoveMeBack: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

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

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Bongalow : Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

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,

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Thrive Agric: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Founded in 2017 (and fully operational since 2018) and led by Chief Executive Officer Uka Eje, CTO Ayo Arikawe, CFO Olurotimi Arigbede, and Head of Risk Management and Compliance Michael Kadiri, ThriveAgric empowers farmers in Nigeria to sell their products to FMCGs and food processors, leveraging its proprietary technology to access finance as well as

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Money254: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Money254 is the only comprehensive integrated financial services marketplace in Kenya. Launched in April 2021, Money254 is a financial services comparison platform, making it easier for users to find, compare and apply for financial products that match both their needs and eligibility.   In response to the decades-old problem of low financial sector transparency, Money254 aggregates

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Seso Global: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Launched in Nigeria in June 2019, Seso has developed a customer relationship management (CRM) portal that enables property developers, agents, and governments to manage their properties, documentation, and transactions on a secure blockchain database.  Once verified, properties are listed on the Seso marketplace where clients can browse properties and interact with further service providers such

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Semicolon: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Semicolon Africa was founded in 2019 by Sam Immanuel; a software engineer, passionate about people and economic development.  The mission of Semicolon is to develop a generation of software engineering talent that will solve problems and create economic opportunities by addressing tech-skill gaps, nurturing talent, fostering innovation, and building a thriving tech ecosystem. The enterprise

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MFS Africa: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments gateway supported by a multicultural, multi-talented, agile team from over 30 different nations that is driven to create access to a borderless world – a world where access overcomes borders. Consistently at the forefront of relevant, timely tech innovations, we connect people across Africa – to each other

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Africa118: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Africa 118 is a company founded in 2010 with the mission to help African startups and Small & Medium Enterprises(SMEs) get discovered online. For the past years, Africa 118 has been doing that in three ways: developing accurate business directories; providing SMEs with digital marketing services, and creating a complete, accurate, flexible database. The problem

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Ensibuuko: Story, Founders, Investors & Funding Rounds

Ensibuuko was founded in 2014 out of the desire to address a real problem that affects millions of people across Africa: the problem of poor banking infrastructure. Most banks are concentrated in urban centers and struggle to reach remote, rural communities. Partially regulated microfinance organizations and savings groups (owned and operated by the communities themselves)

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