Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Capi Money
Series A in 2025
Capi Money is a digital payment platform designed to assist businesses in making and receiving international payments. The company offers a suite of financial tools, including budgeting solutions, expense tracking, investment analysis, and goal setting features. By providing these services, Capi Money enables users, particularly importers, to manage their finances effectively and make informed financial decisions. The platform aims to enhance financial literacy and facilitate smoother transactions across borders.
Swypex is a developer of spend management software focused on enhancing financial operations for businesses. The company's platform features real-time expense tracking, streamlined invoice management, and secure payment solutions, allowing organizations to manage their expenditures effectively. In addition to facilitating easy transfers, Swypex offers corporate credit cards and cash management services, providing businesses with deeper insights and greater control over their financial health. By prioritizing ease of use and security, Swypex aims to empower companies to spend intelligently and improve visibility into their financial activities.
Cleva
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Cleva is a banking platform focused on serving Nigerian businesses and freelancers, facilitating the receipt and management of international payments. By offering USD accounts, Cleva provides a convenient solution for users to conduct transactions in foreign currencies. The platform aims to simplify the process of receiving payments by providing competitive exchange rates and low fees, thus enhancing accessibility for businesses and individuals operating globally. Through its services, Cleva enables its clients to manage their finances more effectively in an increasingly interconnected economy.
Kera is a health technology company that operates an AI-powered platform designed to digitize and connect fragmented health information in Senegal and beyond. The platform aggregates and analyzes data from various sources such as electronic health records, lab results, pharmacies, and health insurance products, enabling healthcare professionals to enhance care delivery and accessibility.
Custos platform enables it to manage compliance and operations.
Cloudline
Seed Round in 2023
Cloudline specializes in emissions-free aviation using lighter-than-air technology and solar power. It offers logistics services, including drone deliveries of large payloads, goods transportation, data gathering, maintenance inspections, and surveillance. The company connects isolated communities to global supply chains, benefiting remote areas such as rural villages, island nations, and disaster-stricken regions.
Cloudline
Seed Round in 2023
Cloudline is a comprehensive platform designed for leisure and entertainment businesses. It aids these companies in increasing sales, reducing operational costs, and enhancing customer experiences through personalization.
Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Cloudline
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Cloudline specializes in emissions-free aviation using lighter-than-air technology and solar power. It offers logistics services, including drone deliveries of large payloads, goods transportation, data gathering, maintenance inspections, and surveillance. The company connects isolated communities to global supply chains, benefiting remote areas such as rural villages, island nations, and disaster-stricken regions.
Revivo
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Revivo operates an online marketplace and business-to-business platform for consumer electronics spare parts, accessories, tools and refurbished devices. The company connects suppliers with repair shops and other buyers to widen access to high-quality components at reasonable prices, supporting affordable electronic repairs. It offers refurbished devices and related products, enabling customers to source affordable alternatives, and provides inventory financing to help small repair businesses grow and scale their operations. By streamlining sourcing and pricing, Revivo aims to make electronic repairs more accessible and sustainable for repair shops and end users.
Axis is a digital banking alternative for small businesses and solopreneurs in Egypt. It offers a seamless payment management system that handles employee payroll, salary advances, and business payments to suppliers and vendors. Axis's fully interoperable mobile wallet enables users to send and receive money from any mobile wallet in Egypt.
Fuse Financial Technologies
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fuse builds financial infrastructure in the Middle East on MENA's first developer-focused banking stack.
Envio is a technology company that specializes in providing a modern, efficient, and developer-friendly blockchain indexing solution. It addresses the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs in traditional indexing approaches, giving developers peace of mind. Envio serves as a front door for applications to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data from any EVM smart contract, enhancing the development process and unlocking the potential of Web3 infrastructure.
Trustcrow
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Trustcrow is a technology company that specializes in real estate transaction management. It offers a platform that securely holds funds during property transactions, protecting both buyers/renters and sellers from payment fraud. The platform also provides clear insights into property history and risks, aiding in informed investment decisions.
Founded in 2020, Ramani is a software company based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It specializes in developing applications for sales teams to track inventory, register customers, and record sales transactions in real-time.
Yellow Card
Series B in 2022
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
The Fashion Kingdom
Seed Round in 2022
The Fashion Kingdom is an online fashion retailer offering a wide range of clothing, health, and beauty products. Their catalog includes shirts, jeans, jackets, accessories, liquid lipstick, fragrances, and more, catering to diverse age groups and genders in Egypt.
Thepeer
Seed Round in 2022
Thepeer is a technology infrastructure company that facilitates cross-business transactions by connecting digital wallets across various sectors, including mobile money and banking. Its online platform provides a seamless experience for customers by allowing them to perform transactions and direct charges from their platform to any business wallet. Thepeer also offers robust application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers, enabling businesses to implement efficient and direct transaction capabilities across different platforms. The company's solutions aim to enhance the transaction process, making it faster and more accessible for both businesses and their customers.
Nile.ag
Seed Round in 2022
Nile.ag operates a food trading e-commerce platform that facilitates the exchange of fresh produce among farmers across various African countries. By connecting buyers and sellers, Nile.ag aims to enhance the accessibility of nutritious food while addressing challenges in the food trading process. The platform offers solutions for price discovery, quality verification, payments, and traceability, ensuring that clients can trade safely and efficiently. Through its digital offerings, Nile.ag seeks to streamline food trading and improve the overall transparency of transactions, benefiting both producers and consumers.
BVNK offers modern payment infrastructure for businesses. It unifies banks and blockchain networks on a single platform, allowing companies to send and receive stablecoin payments, convert currencies, and integrate crypto payments into their checkout processes. BVNK's flexible platform enables innovators to launch new payment products swiftly while ensuring compliance.
Float Capital
Seed Round in 2022
Float Capital is a blockchain-based financial application made for use in the financial sector. Users can meet their financial needs due to the company's platform, which offers a next-generation synthetic asset protocol for minting synthetic assets without over-collateralization or liquidations.
Octo
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Octo is a digital banking platform focused on serving Egyptians without access to formal credit. It offers flexibility in financial transactions through its platform, allowing users to deposit and withdraw funds, spend with a card, transfer payments, and pay with credit at stores that accept cards.
VALR is a Johannesburg, South Africa-based digital asset platform and cryptocurrency exchange that enables customers to buy, sell, store, transfer, and protect a broad range of digital assets, with more than 50 cryptocurrencies and a digital wallet service. The platform emphasizes secure, multi-layer protection and aims to provide access to financial services at a fair and transparent price.
Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Thndr is a financial services company established in 2020 by Seif Amr in Cairo, Egypt. It operates an app-based investment platform designed to facilitate commission-free trading for investors. The platform offers a range of features, including no account minimums, real-time market data, and easy account setup and funding processes. Users can also access the latest financial news and educational tools, empowering them to make informed investment decisions. Thndr aims to simplify the investing process and enhance financial literacy among its users.
Nestcoin
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nestcoin is a company specializing in web3 applications. It develops, operates, and invests in crypto-native products across decentralized finance, media, digital art, and gaming.
FloatPays
Seed Round in 2022
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.
Future Africa
Seed Round in 2022
Future Africa is a Lagos-based venture capital firm established in 2016, dedicated to empowering mission-driven founders and innovators to tackle significant challenges across the African continent. The firm focuses on creating a future where purpose and prosperity are accessible to all. Future Africa invests in a diverse array of sectors, including agriculture, data and artificial intelligence, e-commerce, education, finance, healthcare, and technology, among others. By supporting startups and entrepreneurs, Future Africa aims to foster the development of transformative solutions that contribute to the continent's economic growth and social progress.
Cova is a fintech company that enables users to consolidate and manage their diverse financial assets securely through a unified dashboard. It supports connections with bank accounts, crypto wallets, stock portfolios, pension accounts, and allows storage of relevant documents in an encrypted virtual vault.
Busha is a crypto platform that enables users to buy, sell, swap, and manage cryptocurrencies, offering a crypto-to-crypto exchange tool and support for major assets to provide consumers and merchants with instant access to digital currencies in one place.
Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Kwara GmbH is a technology company that specializes in developing a digital banking platform tailored for savings and credit co-operative societies (SACCOs). Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with an additional office in Nairobi, Kenya, Kwara aims to modernize credit unions by providing a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The platform facilitates loan application servicing and approval for members, while also offering integration services, customer support, real-time financial tracking, and compliance assistance. Kwara's offerings include Kwara Pronto, a tool for managing loans. Currently, the company serves over 200 SACCOs across Kenya, South Africa, and the Philippines, enabling these financial institutions to enhance their operations and improve access to formal financial services.
Caliza develops global financial infrastructure to facilitate borderless commerce. It enables businesses to offer instant cross-border settlements and regulated digital dollar accounts to their customers, powered by stablecoins.
Yellow Card
Series A in 2021
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
OnePipe
Seed Round in 2021
OnePipe simplifies complex infrastructure so you can focus on creating market-defining innovations. Banks and fintech partners of OnePipe have contributed the majority of the underlying infrastructure required to establish your product as a service.
Shara is a mobile application that facilitates systematic business growth. It offers free scheduled reminders, customized professional statements, and a secure digital wallet for organizing transactions.
Yoco is an African technology company that enables entrepreneurs and small businesses to accept secure payments online and in person through a single platform. Its product ecosystem includes payments, lending, and business software.
Stitch operates a financial API platform that facilitates secure connections between bank accounts and various applications. By providing full API access to financial accounts, Stitch enables users to share their transaction history, confirm their identities, and initiate payments efficiently. The platform integrates directly with existing bank infrastructures, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience through a lightweight single sign-on process. This approach allows clients to conduct fraud-free bank payments and access financial data with ease.
Founded in 2020, Ramani is a software company based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It specializes in developing applications for sales teams to track inventory, register customers, and record sales transactions in real-time.
OnePipe
Pre Seed Round in 2020
OnePipe simplifies complex infrastructure so you can focus on creating market-defining innovations. Banks and fintech partners of OnePipe have contributed the majority of the underlying infrastructure required to establish your product as a service.
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AMMP Technologies
Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, AMMP Technologies develops operational software solutions for the off-grid energy market. Its platform enables remote monitoring and management of distributed energy systems, benefiting energy users, service companies, and vendors alike. With a global portfolio of nearly 1,000 systems, AMMP's technology drives operational excellence, enhancing system uptime and reducing operational costs.
54gene is a biotechnology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria. The company focuses on unlocking the potential of the African genome to enhance genetic research and development, addressing a significant gap in the global genomics market where a majority of genetic data is derived from individuals of Caucasian descent. By developing a pan-African biobank, 54gene aims to identify new drug targets and create diagnostics and treatments for various diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and neurodegenerative disorders. In addition to its research initiatives, the company offers genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services to patients and healthcare providers, ensuring compliance with international data privacy laws. Through its efforts, 54gene seeks to contribute to the discovery of medical advancements that can benefit diverse populations.
Thndr
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Thndr is a financial services company established in 2020 by Seif Amr in Cairo, Egypt. It operates an app-based investment platform designed to facilitate commission-free trading for investors. The platform offers a range of features, including no account minimums, real-time market data, and easy account setup and funding processes. Users can also access the latest financial news and educational tools, empowering them to make informed investment decisions. Thndr aims to simplify the investing process and enhance financial literacy among its users.
Lori Systems
Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, Lori Systems operates a logistics platform that connects transporters with cargo owners. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, with offices in Mombasa, Kampala, and Lagos, the company uses technology to improve transparency, flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (up to 18%) in Africa's $180 billion annual haulage market.
Flutterwave
Series A in 2018
Flutterwave is a global payments technology company that enables businesses worldwide to accept payments from customers globally via web and mobile. It offers services such as Flutterwave Checkout, API for virtual card management, invoicing, payment links, and more, serving industries like gaming, events, transportation, hospitality, and individuals.
Kobo360
Seed Round in 2018
Kobo360 is a digital logistics platform that connects cargo owners, truck owners/drivers, and recipients. It uses data analytics and technology to streamline supply chains, reduce waste, and enable efficient delivery of goods across Africa.
mPharma is a healthcare company focused on enhancing access to affordable medications in emerging markets. Founded in 2013 by Gregory Rockson, Daniel Shoukimas, and James Finucane, mPharma collaborates with drug manufacturers, insurance providers, financial institutions, and governments to streamline the delivery of prescription drugs to consumers. The company offers a pharmaceutical data analytics platform that assists pharmacies in managing their inventory, prescribing medications, and reporting adverse drug reactions. By ensuring that high-quality chronic disease medications are consistently available at sustainable prices, mPharma aims to improve health outcomes for patients, doctors, and pharmacists alike.
Twiga Foods
Seed Round in 2016
Twiga Foods Ltd. is a mobile-based supply platform that caters to retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls across Africa. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company facilitates a cashless, business-to-business supply chain that connects small and medium-sized vendors with essential agricultural products. Twiga Foods enables vendors to order a variety of supplies, including bananas, pineapples, and tomatoes, through its innovative platform, streamlining the distribution process in urban markets. This approach not only enhances efficiency but also supports local businesses by improving access to quality produce.
Flutterwave
Seed Round in 2016
Flutterwave is a global payments technology company that enables businesses worldwide to accept payments from customers globally via web and mobile. It offers services such as Flutterwave Checkout, API for virtual card management, invoicing, payment links, and more, serving industries like gaming, events, transportation, hospitality, and individuals.
Flutterwave
Pre Seed Round in 2016
Flutterwave is a global payments technology company that enables businesses worldwide to accept payments from customers globally via web and mobile. It offers services such as Flutterwave Checkout, API for virtual card management, invoicing, payment links, and more, serving industries like gaming, events, transportation, hospitality, and individuals.
Thndr is a financial services company established in 2020 by Seif Amr in Cairo, Egypt. It operates an app-based investment platform designed to facilitate commission-free trading for investors. The platform offers a range of features, including no account minimums, real-time market data, and easy account setup and funding processes. Users can also access the latest financial news and educational tools, empowering them to make informed investment decisions. Thndr aims to simplify the investing process and enhance financial literacy among its users.