Startups Profile

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 […]

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)

Founded in 2016, ScholarX is a social impact startup that focuses on Educational Financing.  They are committed to helping young Africans access quality education and skills through Scholarships, Crowdfunding (Village), and E-Learning. By linking young people with financial aid both domestically and overseas, they are closing the funding gap for education. The ScholarX app allows

The Zambian woman-led business WidEnergy Africa was established in September 2016 by Liliane Munezero Chabuka, Agnes Imasiku, and BiziSol which is a Sweden-based social for-profit enterprise that empowers African women in clean energy.  The energy startup provides a last-mile distribution of clean energy solutions.  WidEnergy has displayed growth with the Paygo model, which is the

Kezakoo is an E-learning platform specializing in educational videos for high school students founded in 2013.  With their expertise in creating e-learning content (more than 2,500 videos), Kezakoo has positioned itself as a major player in education in Morocco in the digital age, with an audience that today reaches more than 2.5 million young Moroccans

Founded in 2018 by Dane and Bastiat Viljoen, Troygold digitizes gold bullion and Krugerrands and then allows customers to buy, sell, spend, and borrow against their gold.  Vaulted gold bars or coins with serial numbers are digitized via Troygold’s system, offering whole or fractional ownership.  Gold is directly allocated, and customers receive an ownership certificate

Sendmarc startup was launched by CEO Sam Hutchinson, Keith Thompson, and Sacha Matulovich in 2020 off the back of selling their former startup: a communication platform that allowed businesses to send, deliver, and track email and SMS communications.  With Sendmarc, they sought to solve email impersonation issues their former clients faced, thereby making the internet

Klasha is a technology company that builds cross-border commerce solutions for Africa.  Klasha Business allows international merchants to accept payments from Africa using African money methods and currencies with payouts in hard currencies.  B2B African merchants can also send money cross-border to different parts of the world in G20 and hard currencies.  Klasha Personal allows

Founded in 2017, Complete Farmer allows users to own shares in tech-enabled farms. Over the past three years, it has implemented a crowd-farming model with a total of 7,200 acres of production serving commodities to Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world. Complete Farmer’s platform currently supports over 2,000 acres of farmland across six

Founded in 2017 by Simon Schwall (a French national) and Shehzad Lokhandwall (an Indian national), OKO develops affordable mobile-based crop insurance products to provide smallholder farmers with the financial security they need, regardless of unstable climate trends.  The startup operates in Mali and Uganda and has so far brought insurance to more than 15,000 farmers.