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Z5 WAIN Africa Featured Startups

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No. of Startups in this database 39

Company Name:Flutterwave Inc
Founder Name:Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji
City:Lagos
Website:www.flutterwave.com/int
About us:Flutterwave aggregates payment services from over 68 gateways including mobile money and places them under one platform. The service can receive and send money in over 30 African countries.
Company Name:Bettr
Founder Name:Andrzej Stempowski & Tobie van Zyl
City:Cape Town
Website:www.bettr.finance
About us:Bettr is a next generation digital banking platform that financially empowers those who know their worth by providing tech and tools that improve the way people bank, save, borrow, insure and invest their money.
Company Name:Xente
Founder Name:Allan Rwakatungu & Francis Nkurunungi
City:Uganda
Website:www.xente.co
About us:Xente is an e-commerce and digital payment app with a wallet application providing many ways for customers to buy airtime, data bundles across all networks, pay bills, buy event tickets and more.
Company Name:Asilimia
Founder Name:Tekwane Mwendwa
City:Kenya
Website:www.asilimia.co.ke
About us:Asilimia enables and accelerates the digitization of cash transactions in informal markets by making mobile money transactions easier, faster and cheaper for small and micro-businesses.
Company Name:DusuPay
Founder Name:Kenneth Ntende
City:Kampala
Website:www.dusupay.com
About us:DusuPay is the most secure, efficient, simple and fast global payment infrastructure provider that enables businesses to accept and make payments to mobile wallets across Africa.
Company Name:Spoon Money
Founder Name:Nicky Swartz
City:Cape Town
Website:www.spoonmoney.com
About us:Spoon Money is an impact-driven enterprise that tracks the financial behavior of group savings and credit schemes (stokvels), capitalizes creditworthy groups in order to support their financial growth, thereby bolstering economic activity in townships.
Company Name:Pago Payments
Founder Name:Philip Mngadi
City:Barcelona & Lugano
Website:www.paywithpago.com
About us:Pago is an online payments system that supports carrier and airtime driven online payments as a financially inclusive alternative to traditional electronic debit and credit card payments.
Company Name:Cinnamon Clubs
Founder Name:Dickson Mushabe
City:Kampala
Website:www.cinnamonclubs.com
About us:Cinnamon Clubs help several clubs to manage their records and improve their efficiency in collections, activity monitoring, financial analysis and reconciliation.
Company Name:Akiba Digital
Founder Name:Tebogo Mokwena
City:Gauteng
Website:www.akibadigital.com
About us:Akiba offers a combination of financial behavioral coaching, a premium rewards program, goal-setting & visualization to make savings more effective.
Company Name:Kuda Bank
Founder Name:Babs Ogundeyi
City:Oworonshoki
Website:www.kudabank.com
About us:Kuda Bank is a free full service digital online bank with a banking license. It offers customers an interest earning spending account that has zero charges, a savings account with above average interest rates, and access to low interest instant loans.
Company Name:Curacel
Founder Name:Henry Mascot
City:Lagos
Website:www.curacel.com
About us:Curacel is an online platform that uses intelligent rules regime to help health insurers realize massive time and cost savings by tackling fraud, waste and abuse.
Company Name:eFactor
Founder Name:TITO Mbatha
City:Johannesburg
Website:/www.e-factor.co.za
About us:e-factor is a factoring platform, where companies can sell their receivable invoices at the auction to investors with the highest bid.
Company Name:Inclusive Innovations Inc.
Founder Name:Paul Kwesi Damalie
City:Ghana
Website:www.inclusiveft.com
About us:Inclusive's API helps digital financial services reach the remotest customers across Africa by enabling them to onboard, verify and monitor them via digital channels (USSD, web and mobile).
Company Name:Digitech Group
Founder Name:Alexandre N'djore
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.digitechgroupci.com
About us:Digitech Group specializes in the development, integration and commercialization of professional solutions and value-added consumer services, exploiting new information and communication technologies.
Company Name:Convergenc3 Databotics
Founder Name:Stefan Smit
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.convergenc3.co.za
About us:Convergenc3 DataBotics employs transformative technologies to fast-track delivery of RPA and datascience solutions. Customers receive a streamlined solution that is geared towards generating value for their client base with least efforts.
Company Name:HouseME
Founder Name:Ben Shaw
City:Cape Town
Website:www.house.me
About us:HouseME is a digital platform that connects prospective tenants to landlords with full automation of the letting agency process and fair and transparent rental pricing for a fraction of traditional fees.
Company Name:Rentoza
Founder Name:Chris Govender
City:Gauteng
Website:www.rentoza.co.za
About us:Rentoza is an online marketplace that allows individuals and businesses to list their lazy assets. Customers can seamlessly access these products via a low-cost rental model which is augmented with a robust screening process and backed by insurance.
Company Name:Brandbook
Founder Name:Bakuena Theo Ntshasa
City:Pretoria
Website:www.brandbook.co.za
About us:Brandbook is aimed at providing users with free gift card coupons for completed purchases. Users simply upload receipts of selected purchase completed at brick and mortar stores or online to earn points.
Company Name:Brownie Points
Founder Name:Pascale Henke
City:Cape Town
Website:www.browniepoints.africa
About us:Brownie Points connects volunteers and companies with non-profit organizations to achieve meaningful impact. They simplify volunteering and donations and reward good deeds with brownie points, a social currency that accumulates over a lifetime of giving.
Company Name:FOMO Travel
Founder Name:Andrew Katzwinkel
City:Cape Town
Website:www.fomo.travel
About us:FOMO Travel is an automated, interest-free online lay-buy travel platform which utilizes the traditional method towards a holiday or experience. FOMO Travel also allows to crowdfund holiday by sharing travel package with friends and family.
Company Name:Virtual Drive
Founder Name:Chantalle ten Napel Wilson
City:Cape Town
Website:www.vdrive.co.za
About us:Virtual Drive's mission is to provide a revolutionary digital platform that allows vehicle buyers and sellers to connect safely and enjoy the benefits of dealership support within a private sale environment.
Company Name:JustNow
Founder Name:Alexandre Vellieux
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.justnow.co
About us:JustNow is a system that helps both large and small food businesses save money while increasing revenue and client engagement. This is achieved by reducing fresh food waste through the use of a smart advertising mobile application.
Company Name:House Africa
Founder Name:Uba Nnamdi & Ikokpu Ndifreke
City:Nigeria
Website:www.houseafrica.io
About us:House Africa uses blockchain technology and divides properties into shares (measured by square meters) and allows users to own them and make returns from the sales profits, rent profits or capital appreciation.
Company Name:Lula
Founder Name:Velani Mboweni & Xabiso Nodada
City:Cape Town
Website:www.lulaloop.co.za
About us:LULA is a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that focuses on the convergence of public and private transport. Through our platform, we ensure mobility is convenient, safe, reliable and accessible for rural and urban areas.
Company Name:MPost
Founder Name:Abdulaziz Omar & Twahir Mohamed
City:Nairobi
Website:www.mpost.co.ke/mpost
About us:MPost enables any mobile phone user to transform his or her phone into a unique mobile postal address and mobile postal box. They provide an innovative addressing solution that works on both smart phones as well as older generation feature phones.
Company Name:Yobante Express
Founder Name:Oumar Basse
City:Senegal
Website:www.yobanteexpress.com
About us:Yobnate Express is a web and mobile platform that connects independent carriers with e-commerce, retailers, businesses, and individuals for deliveries from point to another.
Company Name:WeeGo
Founder Name:Saad Jittou
City:Morocco
Website:www.weegolife.com
About us:WeeGo is a user-based transport app that helps communities in emergent and developing countries to commute on a daily basis. Weego makes the user experience better by giving real time arrivals of buses, trains and metros.
Company Name:GotBot
Founder Name:Nick Argyros
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.gotbot.co.za
About us:GotBot is a multi-channel AI solution, focused on increasing and improving retail and customer experience for businesses through always-on AI, real-time training.
Company Name:SnapSlip
Founder Name:Lynton Naicker
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.snapslip.net
About us:Snapslip eradicates paper receipts, by sending these receipts digitally to a customer's profile within the application. They take the data from each receipt and produce spend, trend and predictive analytics.
Company Name:Khoyn
Founder Name:Tamiswanashe Chipika & Victory Matibiri
City:Cape Town
Website:www.khoyn.com
About us:Khoyn is an AI-powered shopping assistant that allows users to discover and shop fashion from thousands of retailers in Facebook Messenger. It provides the user with a personalized shopping experience by curating products to the users' specific choice.
Company Name:Aura
Founder Name:Warren Myers
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.aura-app.io
About us:AURA provides a technology platform to localized security and armed response providers in South Africa that aggregates the armed response industry nationally, into one dynamic response organism, providing clients direct access to a rapid response network.
Company Name:MobiCure
Founder Name:Dr. Charles. I. Akhimien, Dr. Emmanuel Owobu & Raman Anurag
City:Nigeria
Website:www.mobicure.biz
About us:MobiCure makes use of mobile technology devices and tools such as phones, tablets, apps, Interactive Voice Recordings and videos to solve some of the most pressing healthcare problems facing by developing countries.
Company Name:Recomed
Founder Name:Sheraan Amod
City:Cape Town
Website:www.recomed.co.za
About us:Recomed is South Africa's largest and fastest growing online and mobile-friendly healthcare booking platform that helps patients quickly find and make appointments with quality healthcare providers, 24/7, without any phone calls or paperwork.
Company Name:Survey54
Founder Name:Stephan Eyeson
City:London
Website:www.survey54.com
About us:Survey54 is automated survey platform that helps companies collect consumer data in emerging markets. Survey54 is creating a mobile-first platform that uses channels such a voice, bots and SMS to reach consumers.
Company Name:YouFarm
Founder Name:John-Paul Matenga
City:Zimbabwe
Website:www.youfarm.co.zw
About us:YouFarm provides farmers with access to collateral free finance by getting people to invest in crops and livestock and share the profits with the farmers.
Company Name:EduOne
Founder Name:Ben Rath, James Kieser & Jason Basel
City:Cape Town
Website:www.eduone.co.za
About us:EduOne is a digital tool that enables stakeholders in the world of learning to connect for meaningful interactions, transactions, conversations and opportunities. Products take the form of websites, SaaS platforms, apps and other digital tools.
Company Name:Sortd
Founder Name:Wayne Silbermann, Rodney Kuhn & Bradley Greathead
City:Newark
Website:www.sortd.com
About us:Sortd is an application that gets one's inbox organized. It brings emails, tasks & priorities together in one intuitive workspace, and it works right inside Gmail where people spend oodles of time reading and responding to emails already.
Company Name:Lohocla Global
Founder Name:Llewellyn Devereaux
City:Johannesburg
Website:www.lohoclaglobal.com
About us:Lohocla™ is the world's first premium anti-hangover shooter that helps alleviate the symptoms of a hangover in a classy way at the scene of crime.
Company Name:Prospa
Founder Name:Carl Ngwenya & Dhanyal Davidson
City:Cape Town
Website:www.prospa.co.za
About us:Prospa is a mobile enabled savings solution for low income earners which allows them to save small amounts through a voucher-based USSD solution. It combines the powers of group saving, flexibility, and discipline to maximize your savings.

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