Musha Ventures

Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

Cashfree is a payments and banking technology company that enables businesses in India to collect payments online and make payouts. Cashfree enables more than 50000 businesses with payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, instant loan disbursements. Cashfree customers include leading internet companies such as Cred, BigBasket, Zomato, HDFC Ergo, Ixigo, Acko, Zoomcar, and Delhivery among others. Cashfree was founded in 2015 by Akash Sinha and Reeju Datta, based in Bengaluru, India.

Tazah's mission is to improve the lives of producers, businesses and consumers by building a tech-enabled OS for food and agri supply chain of Pakistan

Contra gives everyone the tools and infrastructure they need to work for themselves.

Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. We use agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data and crop yield models. Our team team brings together tech and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for ~$1B), Tesla, and One Acre Fund.

Bypa-ss is digitizing healthcare information exchange between healthcare providers who want to deliver best quality of care to their patients. Connecting care providers and creating a single digital identity for a patient with their all medical data on them all the time dramatically enhance quality of care cutting down time waste, redundant costs and medical errors while providing pool of data for further development of operations, marketing, investments and even medical procedures.

Cashfree is a payments and banking technology company that enables businesses in India to collect payments online and make payouts. Cashfree enables more than 50000 businesses with payment collections, vendor payouts, wage payouts, instant loan disbursements. Cashfree customers include leading internet companies such as Cred, BigBasket, Zomato, HDFC Ergo, Ixigo, Acko, Zoomcar, and Delhivery among others. Cashfree was founded in 2015 by Akash Sinha and Reeju Datta, based in Bengaluru, India.

Micro C develops and markets innovative medical imaging devices ergonomically designed for surgeons and physicians. Micro C delivers increased clarity, reduced radiation exposure, faster workflow, and increased surgical and clinical productivity. It is designed for treating extremities in both surgical and clinical environments. Its initial product, the Micro C hand-held, multi-modal x-ray, and digital imaging device enables doctors to capture images with greater accuracy, clarity, safety, and speed. This information concerns a use that has not been approved or cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. The company was founded in 2016 and is a U.S.-based company that was founded by Dr. Greg Kolovich and Evan Ruff.

Chope is a website that enables users to find and reserve restaurant in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta, and Bali through the company’s www.chope.co, mobile apps, and plug-ins. The company offers two solutions for restaurants: a sophisticated table management system that integrates customer relationship management functions and a lighter browser-based platform. Both provides restaurants real time control over their online availability. In addition to online reservations, www.chope.co also provides diners with in-house editorials, a summary of press coverage, menus, pricing, and operational information for the listed restaurants. It also serves as an additional marketing channel for client restaurants via an active social media team and targeted offline marketing initiatives. Chope was launched by Arrif Ziaudeen and Clowie Tan in June 2011 and is based in Singapore.

FinAccess Global LLC designs and develops a cloud based baking platform for micro finance institutions. The company provides digital infrastructure to micro finance institutions which allows them to offer digital services to their clients, such as personalized payment reminders, arrears follow up, transaction notification, issue debit cards, and bring in mobile money integration. FinAccess Global LLC also offers credit scoring capability. The company is based in Nigeria.

Sokowatch revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data-collection tools, Sokowatch increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers. Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses. Sokowatch's systems track real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores. Access to market trends and purchasing habits enables manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies and allows Sokowatch to offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.

KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling secured financial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor.

Sisense goes beyond traditional business intelligence by providing organizations with the ability to infuse analytics everywhere, embedded in both customer facing applications and employee-facing workflows. Sisense customers are breaking through the barriers of analytic adoption by going beyond the dashboard with Sisense Fusion - the highly customizable, AI-driven analytics cloud platform, that infuses intelligence at the right place and the right time, every time. More than 2,000 global companies such as GitLab, UiPath, Tinder, Nasdaq, GE, Rolls Royce and Philips Healthcare rely on Sisense to innovate, disrupt markets and drive meaningful change in the world. Ranked as the No. 1 Business Intelligence company in terms of customer success, Sisense has also been named one of the Forbes’ Cloud 100, The World’s Best Cloud Companies, five years in a row.

Playbook Software Inc. develops application for managing workflow process. The company helps to create, execute, and track any process with a team, customers, and more. It provides services to HR and people Ops, customer success, cybersecurity, finance, operations, and digital events. Playbook Software Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Metafy, Inc. develops and operates an esports platform that enables competitive players to monetize their talent through coaching and courses. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Blairsville, Pennsylvania.

Taptap Send is an app that lets immigrants send money back home to Africa instantly and at very low prices. Since launching in summer 2018, it has already moved tens of millions of dollars and reached tens of thousands of customers. It is live in seven European countries, and support payments into Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, with more countries launching soon.

ZUMI connects apparel wholesalers and retailers in a transparent, affordable marketplace. It empowers women retailers with the technology, logistics, and financial services to scale. Through ZUMI, customers order via SMS, call, or with a ZUMI Agent. It collects orders from suppliers early each morning. Its logistics partners deliver to customers within 18 hours of ordering then customers pay with mobile money. ZUMI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to your engineers, keeps them engaged, and helps you track their progress.

Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox, and works alongside all your other G Suite applications. It can be used to track any business process including sales, partnerships, support, hiring, deal flow, and much more. Streak also includes a powerful set of email tools including email tracking, send later, snoozing, mail merge, and more.

Banking As A Service protocol built on blockchain to provide a safe and redeemable store of value where even banks cannot go. Topos enables communities to invest in themselves by providing a banking network which they own. By codify monetary policies in democratically controlled smart contracts, we are creating the first deCentral Bank on-chain.

Yoco Technologies Proprietary Limited, trading as Yoco, manufactures and develops tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their business better, and grow. The company offers mobile card machines, payment request, payment page, and payment gateway services, point of sale, business portal, capital, and integration solutions and services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first alternative to urban transportation for Africa’s booming young population. They are working to improve the industry for both drivers and passengers by increasing the number of safe trips taken per day and by making travel around cities convenient and stress-free.Founded in the heart of Kampala Uganda, they are truly an African business, designed for the African context.

Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.

Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. develops and operates an application program interface (API) platform for banks and financial institutions that manages consumer bills and financial data. The company provides real-time bill management and payment services. It provides a detailed picture of the family finances of users such as how many bills they have, how much do they owe, and when the bill is due to be paid. The company was formerly known as Regalii Inc. and changed its name to Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. in June 2018. Arcus Financial Intelligence, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Medsaf engages in delivering medications to hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics in Nigeria. It offers antacids, anaemia, antiviral, antineoplastics, antiseptics, probiotic, vaccine, and anesthetics drugs. In addition, the company also distributes vitamins and minerals supplements. It offers its products online. Medsaf was formerly known as Vitamins.ng. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

We are a software company that categorises and labels bank transaction data. If you think deciphering a transaction on your bank statement is hard for you, it’s way harder for your lender, personal finance manager, or neobank, so we offer an easy service to solve this problem.

BuyPower is a utility payment platform in Nigeria. Their website offers pre-paid electricity recharging service available for customers in AEDC & JED PLC States.

Bypa-ss is digitizing healthcare information exchange between healthcare providers who want to deliver best quality of care to their patients. Connecting care providers and creating a single digital identity for a patient with their all medical data on them all the time dramatically enhance quality of care cutting down time waste, redundant costs and medical errors while providing pool of data for further development of operations, marketing, investments and even medical procedures.

Solve Data Inc. develops an in house data management platform. Its services, include data enablement, application programming interface endpoint management, privacy, smart optimization, and unleashing engineers. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Wellington , New Zealand.

Swell Commerce Corp. develops both client-side and server-side application programming Interface. It operates as a multi-channel direct marketer of surf apparel, equipment and lifestyle products. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lipa Later is a facility that provides electronic loans, business loans, and salary loans to individuals and businesses in the low to middle income bracket in Kenya. The company is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Zelt is a next generation employee experience platform which unites people, software and devices in one place. Zelt provides managers with the tools and automation required to run HR and IT effectively, and enables employees to tailor employee experience to their needs.

HelloHR provides a cloud-based payroll solution connecting accountants, organizations, and employees, and works closely with the Xero cloud-based accounting software in South Africa.

The global mobile money industry moves over $1.3 billion per day. Our Android API enables developers to integrate any mobile money service worldwide in an afternoon.

Sokowatch revolutionizes access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. Through individual agents equipped with proprietary mobile data-collection tools, Sokowatch increases sales and market coverage for companies in emerging markets. It enables informal retailers to order products at any time via SMS or mobile app, and receive free same-day delivery to their store. This makes it easier for shopkeepers to source goods and helps manufacturers ensure that their products are consistently available to consumers. Sokowatch evaluates retailers to provide them with access to credit and other financial services typically not available to informal businesses. Sokowatch's systems track real-time sales and orders across thousands of stores. Access to market trends and purchasing habits enables manufacturers to tailor their marketing strategies and allows Sokowatch to offer personalized promotions and business insights to individual retailers.

Chaka Technologies Limited develops and operates an online stock trading and investment application. The company’s platform allows users to create trading accounts to purchase and invest in global blue chip; and stocks listed on NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Nigerian Stock Exchange. It provides investments in equities, mutual funds, fixed income products, and cryptocurrencies. It serves corporate and institutional clients, investment advisors, stockbrokers, and fund managers. The company is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Birddogs offers a pair of gym shorts with a built-in liner freeing men of the need to wear underwear. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

ZUMI connects apparel wholesalers and retailers in a transparent, affordable marketplace. It empowers women retailers with the technology, logistics, and financial services to scale. Through ZUMI, customers order via SMS, call, or with a ZUMI Agent. It collects orders from suppliers early each morning. Its logistics partners deliver to customers within 18 hours of ordering then customers pay with mobile money. ZUMI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sendbox Software Technologies Limited develops a tech-enabled platform which provides shipping, escrow payments, and discovery services to merchants and customers who carry out e-commerce transactions on social media platforms. Its platform provides services, such as pick up and drop-offs, tracking and notifications, integrations, automatic scheduling and routing, cash handling and remittance, and nationwide delivery services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

CrowdVision is a leading automated pedestrian analytics and insights company. CrowdVision software shows what is happening to an entire pedestrian population, in real time. This enables infrastructure operators like airports, transport hubs, retail malls, convention centres and theme parks to act decisively to increase efficiency and profitability, both in the moment and in the future, whilst improving their customers’ experience. The CrowdVision solution processes live video input from commercial off the shelf cameras, and detects pedestrian movements automatically using sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques. CrowdVision outputs live data about everything from flows, queues and wait times to processing times, occupancies, and asset utilisation. Live dashboards reveal actionable insights to improve real-time operations, whilst accumulated historical data provides reliable evidence for planning and investment decisions. CrowdVision is headquartered in London, with regional offices in Dubai, Melbourne, and New York. More information is available at crowdvision.com.

Autochek, through its subsidiaries, operates online automotive dealing platforms that connect buyers and sellers. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in South Africa.

Ramani develops an application for salespeople to track inventory, register their customers, and record their sales transactions. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The mission of ID.me is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent interactions between people and organizations. ID.me is a digital identity network that empowers consumers to prove their identity via a digital medium in contexts where it would benefit the consumer to be known. For relying parties, ID.me provides a single API endpoint through which partners can verify the identity of users attempting to access a website or to unlock an exclusive benefit. The United States Department of Commerce selected ID.me as one of the top five identity companies in America in 2013 and awarded the company a $2.8M grant to participate in the President's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). ID.me was a Finalist for Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Entrepreneur Magazine selected ID.me as one of 100 Brilliant Companies for 2014 in their June 2014 edition. Key customers include SeaWorld, Overstock.com, Under Armour, Dell, Sears Holding Corporation, and 129 additional retailers and brands.

RolePoint's mission is to rethink the way organizations access and retain the highest quality talent by driving the shift in how enterprises use data to hire.

Swell Commerce Corp. develops both client-side and server-side application programming Interface. It operates as a multi-channel direct marketer of surf apparel, equipment and lifestyle products. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.

Stitch Money provides full API access to financial accounts. Stitch Money allows users to share their transaction history and balances, confirm their identities, and initiate payments.

Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

ADG Technology Inc. designs and develops interactive mobile applications for African consumers. The company matches gaming demand in Africa to the youth’s demands. The company's products include Carry1st Trivia and Hyper! games. ADG Technology Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

AMMP Technologies is an Amsterdam-based provider of digital solutions for energy service companies in emerging markets. The AMMP SaaS platform is a vendor-agnostic solution for remote monitoring and management of portfolios of renewable/hybrid energy systems. It enables data-driven operational excellence, leading to higher system uptimes and significant OPEX savings. Since AMMP’s founding in 2018, the company’s operational base has grown to nearly 1,000 systems worldwide. Prior to AMMP, the founding team worked together at E.ON Off Grid Solutions to successfully deploy and operate mini-grids across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Spektra is building APIs and tools that make it possible for businesses to accept and disburse Mobile Money payments from and to multiple providers and currencies within minutes, NOT months, without dealing with Mobile Network operators at all. With a few lines of code, a single tap or click, your customers can pay you with our seamless and easy to use products on the web, mobile, and in-app.

Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.

WorkPay is a payroll processing company for small and medium sized businesses in Africa. We do this by providing this businesses simple tools for time tracking, payroll processing and salary disbursements to banks and mobile wallets like M-Pesa.