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Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best of great teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?

Zibuza is an online professional learning community (PLC) that aims to improve the quality of teaching in South Africa by means of discussions, collaborations and access to resources. Zibuza is personalised to meet the individual and collective needs of a teacher based on location, grade, subjects and interests. We save teachers valuable time.

Siyavula Education is an education technology company that enables learners to improve their performance in high school mathematics and science through technology-empowered learning. Siyavula has developed innovative software that enables learners to practise Maths and Science, intelligently. The software adapts to every learner's individual needs, providing targeted feedback so that they can master the necessary concepts and skills.

Kytabu is a textbook subscription application that allows students to rent preinstalled textbooks on a low cost android tablet or desktop application on a dongle. They can rent content as pages, chapters or books on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly time frame and pay with mobile money. Kytabu allows students to access any textbook in the country's entire education curriculum library, rent the size of content they need, for the amount of time they need it while still fitting the amount of money they have. This is all made possinle by a microSD that holds the 8GB of pre-installed textbook content, an a GSM, data enable SIM card with mobile payment support that comes with it to access updates or additional content through an online data connection payed for by publishers. This translates to affordable content that is always upto date, always accessible and easy to purchase.

Instill Education is a a start-up education organisation with a vision to transform teaching and school leadership across the Africa. Through a practically immersive graduate learning programme, It will meet the pressing and growing need for high quality teaching capacity in Africa.

O’Genius Priority is Empowering Genuine Welfare. IT solutions, Web and Mobile development.

M-Shule is the first personalized knowledge-building platform in Africa to connect learners to tailored learning, evaluation, activation, and data (LEAD) tools over SMS. Meaning “mobile school” in Swahili, M-Shule combines SMS with artificial intelligence to reach offline or low-income communities with self-paced, interactive, and personalised resources to power their success. Organisations leverage this award-winning approach to help individuals learn new skills, evaluate their progress, activate them to new behaviors, and collect and analyse data on their progress. By making an all-in-one skill-building platform possible with the simplest feature phone, M-Shule unlocks new opportunities for millions across Sub-Saharan Africa and the world.

AkooBooks Audio is a platform and experience provider focused on transforming mobile phones and devices into 'accessible libraries' of Black/African audiobooks in English and African languages, that reach new audiences.

Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.

HITCH is a locally-relevant platform for African schools that catalyzes potential by intelligently curating the best educational videos, automatically aligning them with local curricula and textbooks, and storing them on battery-powered video hotspots for convenient student and teacher access offline, via WiFi or local networks. HITCH goes beyond traditional educational resources, technology literacy barriers, and local power and internet infrastructure, to find and deliver world-class educational resources for the vanguard of Africa's knowledge revolution.

Schoolinka is an Edtech company solving the problem of poor teaching quality by powering the continuous professional development and job placements of K-12 teachers in Africa. Using AI and ML, Schoolinka matches teachers with professional development resources tailored to their specific skill gaps and also places these teachers in school and tutoring jobs that fit their skill levels. The Schoolinka platform serves as a connecting port for teachers, schools, parents, and professional development resources. ​ Our platform features a robust LMS that hosts our online courses, training materials, and resources. Teachers can access these resources at their convenience, enabling them to enhance their skills and knowledge. We also have a job board where schools can post vacancies and teachers can apply for positions. The job board is integrated with our LMS, allowing schools to identify candidates with specific skills and qualifications.

Due to poor financial management, 9 out of 10 businesses in Africa will die before their 5th birthday. The problem persists as there is no Spend management platform to help these businesses manage their finances. Leaving them at the mercy of outdated processes Businesses in Africa have high digital literacy and are willing to adopt digital tools to help them manage their finances. Flex is a spend management platform that helps businesses in Africa manage their spending via mobile, web and corporate cards.

Zlto is a virtual incentives platform that allows organizations to track and increase positive behavior while generating valuable data on emerging markets.

RecyclePoints is a waste recycling and social benefit venture that operates an incentive-based scheme which collects recyclable materials from post consumers and in turn rewards them with “Points” which they can accumulate and use to redeem/shop for household items offered through our iRecycle store.

Tulaa combines mobile technology and last mile agent networks to connect agri-input suppliers, financial service providers and commodity buyers to smallholder farmers. The aim is to lower the cost and risk for the partners to do business with farmers.

JUMO is a fintech company. They enable their partners to provide loans, savings, and financial choices. They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to build credit scores and financial products. They provide money and banking partners with reporting, analytics, and insight they need to offer financial services to customers.

Jumo World Limited operates a mobile money marketplace that connects private individuals, small businesses, and mobile network operators to a range of financial products. Founded in 2010 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, the company leverages advanced data science and machine learning to offer innovative financial services, including savings, loans, and insurance, particularly for entrepreneurs in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. Jumo's platform facilitates access to these services through partnerships with mobile network operators, enabling users to build financial identities based on their mobile behavior. By creating a digital banking solution that is cost-effective and responsible, Jumo aims to empower users with unprecedented financial choices, ultimately fostering economic growth and prosperity.

Zoona is a mobile technology company developing products such as money transfers, electronic voucher payments, and agent payments. It brings together the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities all over Africa! It has support offices in South Africa with operations in Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. Since being founded in 2009, they have processed over $2 billion in transactions and been recognized by The Nike Foundation and The Unreasonable Group as one of the top ten Startups best positioned to take girls out of poverty by helping them become entrepreneurs.

Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) is one of the world's premier institutions for computer science research and education.

GiftedMom is the first mobile health platform in Central Africa, which uses low cost technologies to improve the health conditions of pregnant women and new borns in under served and disconnected communities. The GiftedMom project was started by a group of Medical and engineering students, Medical Doctors, health and community workers, with vision to reduce maternal mortality rates (Millennium Development Goal 5) as well as infant Mortality rates (MDG 4) in Cameroon. The project comprises a Web and Mobile platform, SMS Services and Google Fusion Tables, all aimed at divulging important information on the proper management of pregnancy, and a healthy follow up of newborns.