Innovation Entrepreneurship Research

Z5 WAIN Africa Invested Startups

Connecting Africa to the World

No. of Startups in this database 15

Company Name:Pago Payments
Founder Name:Philip Mngadi
City:Barcelona & Lugano
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:Akiba Digital
Founder Name:Tebogo Mokwena
City:Gauteng
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
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:Inclusive Innovations Inc.
Founder Name:Paul Kwesi Damalie
City:Ghana
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
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:Brandbook
Founder Name:Bakuena Theo Ntshasa
City:Pretoria
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:Lula
Founder Name:Velani Mboweni & Xabiso Nodada
City:Cape Town
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
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:Prospa
Founder Name:Carl Ngwenya & Dhanyal Davidson
City:Cape Town
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.
Company Name:SnapSlip
Founder Name:Lynton Naicker
City:Johannesburg
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:Survey54
Founder Name:Stephan Eyeson
City:London
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:EduOne
Founder Name:Ben Rath, James Kieser & Jason Basel
City:Cape Town
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:Yobante Express
Founder Name:Oumar Basse
City:Senegal
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:GotBot
Founder Name:Nick Argyros
City:Johannesburg
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.

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