Kepple Africa Ventures

Beacon Power Services, established in 2013 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, specializes in designing and implementing energy management solutions for commercial and industrial facilities. The company's core offering is its AI-enabled grid management platform, Adora, which provides real-time visibility into network performance for electric utilities, enabling them to anticipate outages, identify network losses, and distribute electricity more efficiently. Additionally, Adora empowers consumers with control over their energy infrastructure, facilitating invoicing, installations, and logistics. Beacon Power Services aims to enhance the quality and duration of electricity supplied in African cities by building smart grids and leveraging data to reduce inefficiencies in power distribution systems.

Seso Global is a digital platform focused on secure real estate management and transactions in Africa, with operations in Lagos, Accra, and Cambridge. The company offers a comprehensive property listing service that allows sellers to showcase commercial properties and residential homes for sale and rent in Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana. By facilitating interactions between property owners, land service agencies, and financial institutions, Seso Global enhances the property purchasing experience, ensuring it is secure and efficient. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide risk-free land transactions, enabling buyers to browse listings and connect with essential service providers such as banks and law firms to complete their transactions seamlessly.

MoneyHash streamlines payment processes for businesses by offering a unified API that integrates various pay-in and pay-out rails. It provides a customizable checkout experience, optimizes transaction routing to minimize fraud failures, and offers centralized reporting.

FloatPays is a Cape Town-based fintech company established in 2019. It offers an integrated platform that enables employees early access to their earned wages, along with payroll integration, financial education, reporting services, and payment solutions.

Paps is a Senegalese transport and logistics company established in 2016. It specializes in innovative distribution solutions for businesses and merchants, offering real-time delivery scheduling and tracking via its e-commerce platform. Services include secure warehouse storage, insured parcel delivery, cash on delivery management, courier provision, returns management, collection, and periodic reporting.

CarePoint is a healthcare platform focused on transforming the healthcare landscape through innovation and digitization. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Accra, Ghana, with offices in Nigeria and New York, the company operates a network of healthcare businesses that provide various services, including hospital care, telemedicine, and clinics. By consolidating these services, CarePoint aims to create a connected and patient-centered healthcare system across Africa, enhancing the overall quality and accessibility of healthcare for local communities. The organization promotes a collaborative work environment that encourages professionals to exceed expectations and contribute to the development and success of healthcare in the region.

ILLA is a logistics company based in El Dokki, Egypt, specializing in middle-mile delivery services for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies. Founded in 2017, ILLA operates an asset-light model that digitizes the delivery process, allowing for comprehensive planning and execution. The company monitors logistics activities to enhance efficiency and drive sales growth for its clients. By connecting FMCG companies with a diverse network of trucks, ILLA provides a dynamic solution that addresses the complexities of delivering products to various retail and non-retail outlets. This approach ensures full control and visibility over the logistics process, enabling clients to navigate daily market challenges effectively.

Jibu is a company focused on addressing the critical issue of safe drinking water access in East Africa, where approximately 450 million people lack reliable sources. Operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda, Jibu provides local entrepreneurs with the resources and support needed to establish their own businesses that treat and package water in reusable bottles. By offering a comprehensive start-up package, including seed financing, Jibu empowers these entrepreneurs to create franchises that deliver safe drinking water at a cost that is significantly lower than traditional bottled options, while also providing the convenience of door-to-door delivery. The company aims to expand its impact to neighboring countries, fostering a network of locally owned businesses that promote affordable access to essential resources for communities.

PawaPay is a payments company that specializes in providing mobile payment solutions tailored for African consumers and businesses. Established in 2020, the company addresses the challenges posed by the fragmented mobile money infrastructure across various telecommunications operators in Africa, such as AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone. By integrating the unique mobile money offerings of these telcos into a single API, PawaPay simplifies the payment process for merchants, allowing them to access over 300 million customers across more than ten markets. This streamlined approach not only enhances the reliability of transactions but also reduces costs and eliminates the frustrations associated with using multiple mobile money platforms. PawaPay thus enables businesses to manage payments and payouts efficiently and securely.

MVX is a digital platform that addresses the challenges of fragmented and costly freight shipping processes, particularly in the maritime trade and logistics sector. It connects cargo owners and shippers, facilitating a more efficient freight ecosystem. The platform offers real-time visibility into shipment status, optimizing pickups and deliveries while managing vessel utilization and availability at competitive market rates. MVX aims to streamline the trading of goods in, within, and out of Africa, enabling businesses to charter and manage offshore support vessels effectively. By enhancing operational efficiency, reducing man-hours, and lowering costs, MVX supports clients in improving their overall performance in global trade.

Decagon is a Lagos-based company founded in 2018 that focuses on transforming high-potential individuals into skilled tech talent through a rigorous merit-based training program. It recruits the top 0.5% of tech talent in Africa, producing world-class software engineers equipped with deploy-ready skills in various programming languages and methodologies, including Node, Java, iOS, Android, C#, Python, and agile practices. In addition to software development training, Decagon operates as a digital product engineering hiring agency, providing vetted remote software engineering talent to companies worldwide. The company offers comprehensive services that include recruiting, ongoing HR management, and custom onboarding, ensuring that businesses have access to skilled engineers who can meet their specific product needs. Decagon currently serves leading companies in major cities such as Austin, New York City, Berlin, London, and Rome.

NowPay is a fintech company that develops and operates a platform to improve the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform enables salary access and early wage payments, allowing employees to receive a portion of their earned wages at any time during the month, with repayment over multiple months via a mobile app. It also includes personal finance management tools for budgeting, saving, spending and borrowing, and provides salary balances and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company partners with employers to deliver these services, aiming to enhance employee happiness, productivity and loyalty. NowPay is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Wapi Pay is a Nairobi-based company, established in 2019, that provides a secure payments gateway to facilitate digital transactions between Africa and Asia. This platform enables users to make payments through various methods, including mobile money and bank accounts, and supports integration between different financial platforms. Wapi Pay's technology allows for bulk payments, making it suitable for organizations processing salaries and business purchases. The company offers a range of payment options—Bank to Bank, Wallet to Wallet, Bank to Wallet, and Wallet to Bank—catering to both individuals and businesses. It aims to provide a faster and more affordable alternative to traditional telegraphic transfers, allowing for instant liquidity and service completion within 24 hours. Wapi Pay's infrastructure ensures electronic compliance and due diligence for its partners, thus enhancing cross-border commerce in agricultural and manufactured products. The company also has locations in Singapore and Beijing, underscoring its commitment to facilitating international trade.

CoinAfrique is a Senegalese startup founded in 2014 with additional offices in Benin, Ivory Coast, and France. It operates a mobile application for classified advertisements, primarily serving Francophone Africa. The platform facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand goods, connecting users to make quality deals through their phones.

Omnisient (Pty) Ltd operates intersect.ai, an online platform that facilitates secure data sharing and collaboration among businesses while safeguarding data privacy and information security. Founded in 2014 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, the company empowers users to monetize their data by creating revenue-generating data sets, evaluating them, and enabling secure trading of these sets. The platform employs advanced cryptography and artificial intelligence to address privacy concerns, allowing businesses to access consumer data ecosystems efficiently. Omnisient's innovative approach supports businesses in enhancing their profitability and fostering growth through effective data collaboration.

Moniepoint is a fintech company offering comprehensive financial services for businesses. Its platform enables businesses to create accounts, accept online payments, manage expenses, access credit facilities, and more.

Seso Global is a digital platform focused on secure real estate management and transactions in Africa, with operations in Lagos, Accra, and Cambridge. The company offers a comprehensive property listing service that allows sellers to showcase commercial properties and residential homes for sale and rent in Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana. By facilitating interactions between property owners, land service agencies, and financial institutions, Seso Global enhances the property purchasing experience, ensuring it is secure and efficient. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide risk-free land transactions, enabling buyers to browse listings and connect with essential service providers such as banks and law firms to complete their transactions seamlessly.

MoneyHash streamlines payment processes for businesses by offering a unified API that integrates various pay-in and pay-out rails. It provides a customizable checkout experience, optimizes transaction routing to minimize fraud failures, and offers centralized reporting.

Numida Technologies is a digital financial institution based in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 2015. The company specializes in serving micro- and small businesses in East Africa by offering application software that helps these enterprises maintain up-to-date digital financial records. Numida's proprietary credit scoring system enables it to provide unsecured growth and working capital loans to businesses, which not only results in high portfolio yields but also significantly impacts the livelihoods of borrowers. The platform aims to lower risks and costs for lending institutions, leading to improved lending terms for borrowers and fostering a thriving small business sector that creates employment, increases tax revenues, and enhances living standards for entrepreneurs and their staff.

SHYFT Power Solutions develops an integrated hardware and software platform to monitor, manage, and control distributed energy resources from mobile and cloud interfaces. Its core offering, the SHYFT system, combines a hybrid smart meter and transfer switch to enable IoT-driven energy management that automatically transitions between the grid and backup sources. The company provides software that allows users to monitor, meter, and control power sources across sites, supporting residential, commercial, and industrial deployments. SHYFT focuses on industrial IoT and the orchestration of distributed energy resources to improve energy efficiency, resilience, and cost savings, with initiatives to expand decentralized power systems in markets with unreliable infrastructure.

Curacel is an insurtech company founded in 2019 by Henry Mascot in Ikoyi, Lagos. It offers an AI-powered platform designed to streamline and enhance the insurance claims process. The platform automates the processing of claims, enabling insurance staff to handle higher volumes efficiently. Additionally, it incorporates advanced algorithms for fraud detection, waste, and abuse management, ensuring that claims are thoroughly vetted. Curacel's technology integrates seamlessly with various systems and third-party applications, facilitating improved operational efficiency for insurance providers while fostering customer loyalty and retention.

NowPay is a fintech company that develops and operates a platform to improve the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform enables salary access and early wage payments, allowing employees to receive a portion of their earned wages at any time during the month, with repayment over multiple months via a mobile app. It also includes personal finance management tools for budgeting, saving, spending and borrowing, and provides salary balances and the maximum eligible loan amount. The company partners with employers to deliver these services, aiming to enhance employee happiness, productivity and loyalty. NowPay is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Termii is a Lagos-based company founded in 2014 that provides a cross-channel messaging and customer engagement platform tailored for African businesses. The platform facilitates communication with customers through SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging, enabling teams to secure repeat customers via personalized outreach. In addition to messaging services, Termii offers a suite of business applications that address various needs such as digital branding, sales, marketing, customer relationship management, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, and project management. This comprehensive approach allows clients to enhance their business operations and improve customer engagement across multiple channels.

FloatPays is a Cape Town-based fintech company established in 2019. It offers an integrated platform that enables employees early access to their earned wages, along with payroll integration, financial education, reporting services, and payment solutions.

Paps is a Senegalese transport and logistics company established in 2016. It specializes in innovative distribution solutions for businesses and merchants, offering real-time delivery scheduling and tracking via its e-commerce platform. Services include secure warehouse storage, insured parcel delivery, cash on delivery management, courier provision, returns management, collection, and periodic reporting.

Sanergy, Inc. focuses on enhancing sanitation infrastructure in urban slums, particularly in Nairobi, Kenya. Established in 2010, the company builds a network of low-cost sanitation centers equipped with essential facilities such as toilets and showers. These centers are then franchised to local entrepreneurs, with financial support from microfinance institutions. Sanergy not only provides access to hygienic sanitation but also collects human waste daily for processing. This waste is converted into valuable byproducts, including organic fertilizers and renewable energy through a biogas generation process. The organic fertilizers are sold to both commercial farms and smallholder farmers, while the generated biogas is used to produce electricity for sale. Sanergy's mission is to promote public health and environmental sustainability by creating an efficient and equitable sanitation system that addresses the needs of underserved urban communities.

Indicina Technologies Limited is a Lagos-based company that offers a digitized credit analysis platform aimed at enhancing consumer finance strategies in Africa. The platform serves a variety of financial institutions, including banks, insurers, and consumer finance companies, by providing tools for creating credit rules and models, conducting credit assessments and scoring, managing loan portfolios, and facilitating loan collections. By leveraging analytics-driven insights, Indicina helps these institutions optimize their credit decision-making processes, improve application acceptance rates, and reduce default rates, thereby contributing to the development of a robust credit infrastructure in the region.

Founded in 2017, WorkPay Technologies offers a cloud-based platform for managing payroll, benefits, HR, and employee self-service needs. Its solution caters to small and medium-sized businesses across Africa.

Bamboo is a digital investment platform based in Lagos, Nigeria, that allows users to buy, hold, or sell stocks listed on the United States and Nigerian stock markets. The platform offers real-time access to stock trading through a mobile application and web interface, making it convenient for users to manage their investments from various devices. By focusing on user-friendly technology, Bamboo aims to simplify the investment process for individuals looking to participate in global financial markets.

Founded in 2013, FUZU operates a mobile-first career development platform for users in emerging economies. It focuses on skill testing, recruitment, and learning, keeping users engaged through high-quality content and social network integration.

Mobius Motors Ltd. is a vehicle manufacturer based in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2011. The company focuses on designing, producing, and selling affordable vehicles tailored for the African mass market, specifically addressing the needs of consumers in developing regions. Mobius Motors' vehicles are engineered for durability and functionality, making them suitable for transporting heavy cargo, navigating rough and degraded terrains, and serving public transport and goods delivery needs. The company's mission is to enhance connectivity and improve the livelihoods of rural African communities by providing appropriate transportation solutions.

Tagaddod is an Egyptian renewable energy and waste-management company founded in 2013 and based in the Giza region. The company specializes in converting waste vegetable oil into biodiesel and other green fuels, contributing to sustainable energy and reduced environmental pollution. By producing biodiesel, Tagaddod provides a renewable fuel alternative compatible with conventional diesel engines, supporting cleaner transportation and waste valorization.