Future Africa

Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.

Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchases and financing. The company provides a platform that allows companies to order materials and pay for them later. Cement, steel, paint, tiles, plumbing, electrical work, glass, kitchen finishes, and bathroom finishes are all available for purchase on the platform, which is geared toward hardware retail establishments. The company is situated in Nairobi, Kenya, and was established in 2022.

Veend enables financial institutions and merchants to easily embed credit into various ecosystems profitably and at scale.

Big Cabal Media (BCM) is serving African audiences on the continent and globally by creating high-quality media brands and original content with global reach and impact. We create content through two internationally recognized media publications, a video production unit, and our consulting arm. TechCabal is the foremost publication covering the business and human impact of tech in Africa. TechCabal provides unparalleled insight into startups, innovation and technology in Africa to the most discerning entrepreneurs, investors, decision-makers and ecosystem members on and off the continent. TechCabal Insights is TechCabal's data and intelligence unit. It helps development finance institutions (DFIs), NGOs, State governments, global tech brands and African startups to understand and solve critical challenges within the digital economy. We believe that Africa's digital economy offers perhaps the most viable path to prosperity for the continent. Zikoko sits at the heart of Nigeria’s youth culture, telling the most important stories, via written content, video, images and memes. We create, reflect and amplify the most urgent elements of youth culture in ways no other publications can.

Fintech Spleet Provides Tenant verification, Rent collection solutions for landlords and rent financing (Rent now, pay later) for Tenants

Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

Finclusion is a FinTech accelerating company that provides financial services and credit products using AI-powered and data-driven lending for fraud prevention and credit granting. The company also offers buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services, salary advance schemes, loan services, and transactional banking to individuals and SMEs across 5 countries—South Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Alvin is a U.S.-domiciled fintech that specializes in consumer-facing and embedded spend management tools for people in emerging markets.

Wowzi platform is designed to help brands automate influencer marketing workflows and programs. Wowzi Push brand messages and pull consumer insights from trusted influencers shaping the trends that drive African commerce. Wowzi is an online marketplace that democratizes influence, connecting everyday social media users with big brands, enabling nano and micro creators to earn money by spreading brand messages via social media.

Kuunda provides liquidity management and data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform. Kuunda's liquidity solutions are tools that anyone can use to maintain their standard of living, grow their businesses, and build economic resilience. Kuunda assists clients in increasing network productivity and expanding the usage and distribution of their products, resulting in real, measurable results.

Stitch is a payments infrastructure company that helps businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, so they can deliver a better user experience and optimize operations. Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Stitch launched in February 2021 and has global staff. Stitch offers all popular online payment methods and operates as a Payments Service Provider. Its platform supports a variety of pay-in methods and solutions; financial and payment management solutions; and Payouts. Learn more at stitch.money.

Kwara is transforming credit unions into modern digital financial institutions, powered by an industry-leading core banking system and a modern mobile banking experience for credit union members. Backed by investors across Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA, Kwara currently serves 200+ SACCOs in Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines

Eden Life is a tech-enabled service that puts your home's chores on autopilot.

A digital infrastructure for K-12 Schools in Africa, automating learning and administration for over 1700 schools in 11 countries.

Sety is a security platform company, that connects victims to the security or medical emergency, guaranteeing safety and digitalising out solution, allowing businesses and developers access to our core services. We hope to revolutionise how people report incidents globally.

Akiba Digital is a data and technology company that provides financial intelligence solutions. Our vision is to to unlock financial opportunities for consumers, businesses and society using alternative data.

MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently, access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.

MDaaS Global operates tech-enabled diagnostic centers in clinically-underserved communities. MDaaS Global connects low-income and middle-income patients with modern, convenient, and affordable diagnostic services, helping patients to identify health issues earlier, gain access to medical specialists and treatment options, and ultimately, live healthier, happier lives.

Nexford University is an online higher education institution that provides degree programs and courses. It offers flexible learning options for students. Nexford University serves various industries, including technology, business, and healthcare.

Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.

Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Evolve Credit’s SaaS core banking platform enables financial institutions of all sizes to streamline, digitize, and manage any kind of deposit, lending, and recovery service end-to-end, in one place. Our no-code tools enable financial institutions to offer simple, personalized customer banking experiences, online and offline.

Indicina is a digital lending platform that provides analytics-driven credit decisions for lenders. The company offers technology solutions to help businesses in offering credit to customers faster, more securely, and at scale. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Stears is a data and intelligence company with its headquarters spanning Lagos, Abuja, and London. Initially established as a media publication called Stears Business, the company was founded in 2017 by Preston Ideh, Abdul Abdulrahim, Foluso Ogunlana, and Michael Famoroti, who met at the London School of Economics and Imperial College in the United Kingdom. Stears has evolved into a provider of subscription-based comprehensive data collection tools and insight services tailored to meet the needs of businesses and professionals operating or investing in Africa. The company's mission is to become the world's most trusted source of African data, insight and data collection tools for businesses, financial and policy professionals.