Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)

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• Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
• Cybervergent — Start with your industry and see how Cybervergent delivers Digital Trust, from posture to proof, written for your context.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.

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• BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
• Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
• Drive to Own — Drive to Own allows users to purchase private cars with no maintenance or insurance costs and grants miles for running the vehicle based on their prepaid amount, allowing customers to acquire ownership of private cars without any long-term commitment or loan screening process.

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• Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
• True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
• Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.

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• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!

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• Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
• SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
• Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.

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• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
• TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

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• Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
• Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market

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• Droppa — Discover the courier & moving company that makes nationwide delivery easy. Droppa offers a wide range of delivery services & fleet solutions. Contact us today!
• Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
• Mortgage Market — Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans. Users are able to access a home loan easily via its online platform.

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• Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
• Wattnow — Wattnow's smart meters and AI show every machine's consumption live and flag waste in time to stop it. Plants cut energy costs by up to 30%.
• Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.

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• DTEK — DTEK Group is a diversified energy holding that includes six businesses and Academy DTEK, our corporate university. DTEK Group is the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine, with over €12 billion in invested capital since 2005, employing 55,000 people.
• WIOCC Group — WIOCC Group serves as a provider of interconnected, carrier-scale digital infrastructure and managed network services, operating exclusively as a wholesaler to hyperscalers, cloud operators, content providers, and telcos.
• Global Atomic Corporation — The Dasa Uranium Project scheduled to begin production in 2026 is the highest-grade uranium project in Africa; the Turkish Zinc JV provides positive cash flow.

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• Throne — Throne turns everyday bathroom visits into useful health signals. See trends in your gut health and hydration. Throne gives power to your body's patterns with simple, actionable insights.
• Phinity Labs — Phinity Labs builds AI systems designed to fully automate the entire silicon microchip engineering process, spanning from original architectural concepts to final manufacturing preparation.
• Peppermint — Peppermint provides financial operations software for clinical research sites, focusing on managing billing, reconciliation, and accounts receivable processes related to clinical trials. The platform connects with existing clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and accounting tools to collect visit, contract, invoice, and payment data without requiring research teams to change their workflows. It validates trial activity against sponsor contracts, identifies discrepancies, and helps prepare invoices while maintaining an audit trail tied to specific study visits and payments. Peppermint also gives research networks visibility into outstanding sponsor payments and receivables through real-time financial tracking across studies and sites. Its integrations include systems such as CRIO, Veeva, RealTime, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct, allowing organizations to consolidate financial records from multiple operational platforms.

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• GoMetro — Fleet management simplified with GoMetro. Integrate telematics, gain real-time visibility, and optimize operations with a secure, scalable platform,
• Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
• visionAI — Discover how AI MES software enhances factory efficiency and reduces blindspots to minimize equipment downtime and boost productivity.

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• Trashie — Trashie provides a textile recycling service with rewards through its Take Back Bag and TrashieCash program.
• ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
• Battery Smart — India's largest battery swapping network for electric two and three wheelers. Pay-per-use battery-as-a-service via swap stations.

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• Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
• 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
• Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

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• Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
• OX Delivers — Our objective is to deliver affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact. To achieve this, we are developing the world's first clean-transport ecosystem that combines goods shipment with financial, trading & marketing services. This OX ecosystem will be enabled by ourunique zero-emissions OX truck; the only purpose-designed electric vehicle for emerging markets.
• Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.

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• Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
• Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
• Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.

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• Satlyt — Satlyt helps satellites run software and work together in orbit.
• Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
• LittleFish — Full stack enterprise platform that extends your infrastructure, instead of replacing it.

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
• MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
• Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.

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• National Bank of Egypt — National Bank of Egypt Home Page
• Caixa Econômica Federal — A Caixa é uma instituição financeira, sob a forma de empresa pública do governo federal brasileiro.
• Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) — Empresas Públicas de Medellín provides Public utility service company.

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• i4TECH — Modular, scalable, fully managed manufacturing digital solutions that enable your AI adoption. Moving Industry 4.0 forwards with a unified, comprehensive data driven approach
• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• openmed — OpenMed provides digital healthcare services, telemedicine, pharmacy products, diagnostics, and medication delivery.

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• JetZero — JetZero develops commercial aircraft centered on an all-wing or blended wing body design that integrates the fuselage and wings into a single structure to improve aerodynamics and reduce fuel use. The company is advancing the Z4 airplane, which targets lower fuel consumption and associated emissions compared with conventional tube-and-wing jets,and is working with industry partners on systems like engines, composites, and potential hydrogen fuel adaptations. JetZero collaborates with aerospace suppliers, research organizations, and regulatory bodies to design, test, and prepare full-scale demonstrators with the aim of advancing certification and entry into service. The company’s work includes aerodynamic simulation, structural engineering, and exploring sustainable fuel solutions to address aviation’s environmental goals.
• Maritime Fusion — Building first-of-a-kind tokamak fusion reactors for marine vessels and remote installations. Zero emissions, no refueling, global range. Join the mission.
• Astranova Mobility — Electrifi Mobility is an operator of an electric vehicle asset management and leasing firm aimed at helping commercial fleets electrify.

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• Brellium — Brellium is an AI-powered clinical note auditor that conducts note audits according to clients' clinical and billing standards, resulting in cost savings.
• HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.
• Rising Tide — Rising Tide is an intelligent automation platform designed to optimise complex, time-critical logistics and dispatch operations. The company develops dynamic streaming routing software that continuously ingests real-time operational data to adjust schedules and route sequences without manual intervention. Built for parcel delivery fleets, field services, and contractors, Rising Tide automates compliance, reduces driven mileage, and improves gross operating margins.

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• Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
• AgrigateOne — One Platform to Connect the Global Perishable Supply Chain. Gain a sustainable edge through unmatched aggregated data and transparency with AgrigateOne.
• Moment — Africa is entering a transformative period of economic and technological growth driven by rapid digital adoption, expanding mobile connectivity, and a young, increasingly connected population. With approximately 1.5 billion people and one of the world’s fastest-growing youth demographics, the continent is experiencing a significant shift towardelectronic payments, mobile-first services, and broader digital transformation.Although widespread internet access and traditional banking infrastructure developed later in many African markets compared to other regions, this delayed adoption has accelerated innovation in mobile technology and financial services. Mobile money platforms, digital banking solutions, fintech ecosystems, and e-commerce adoption are reshaping how consumers and businesses interact across the continent.This youth-driven wave of innovation is creating substantial opportunities in sectors such as fintech, telecommunications, logistics, e-commerce, renewable energy, education technology, and digital services. Both global corporations and emerging local enterprises are actively investing in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital economy, competing to unlock new markets and address underserved populations.The continent’s ongoing transformation is expected to play a major role in global economic growth over the next two decades, positioning Africa as a significant center for innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital commerce.

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• BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
• Spironet — Spiro builds electric motorcycles and operates Africa's largest battery-swap network, cutting daily running costs for riders.
• Cold Solutions Rwanda — Cold Solutions Rwanda offers state-of-the-art temperature-controlled storage and logistics across East Africa from its Kigali facilities, providing short/long-term storage, blast freezing, and refrigerated transport while adhering to global standards and utilizing renewable energy.

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• Ravel — Ravel revolutionizes textile recycling through purification technology, effectively separating and repurposing blended materials. Join us in shaping a circular textile economy.
• Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.
• Mojave Energy Systems — Mojave Energy Systems is a company that provides air conditioning solutions that reduce energy use, improve indoor comfort, and lower costs.

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• ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
• Kai Senegal — Kai Senegal is a digital ride-hailing app that connects customers with drivers and a fleet management solution that allows private owners and institutional investors to buy and maintain high-quality vehicles.
• Touch Group — Touch Group provides a single-account, multichannel, and modular payment solution. Their device manages all the transactional needs of their customers. They offer payment acceptance, digital credit, real-time reporting, service distribution, mass payments, invoicing, cash-flow management, money transfer, and intercontinental settlement services.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Tap Protocol — Tap Protocol is a protocol that focuses on the development of bitcoin capabilities through the Ordinals system.
• Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan

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• Klaim — Klaim is an InsureTech platform offering a SaaS medical claim management and financing platform all in one. They provide them with total visibility on their revenue cycle, increase their revenue through reduced claim processing time and errors, and faster payments.
• Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
• MYCOPHYTO — Co-created in July 2016 by Justine LIPUMA, PhD in microbiology, and Christine PONCET-DOISE, Senior Research Engineer at INRA, MYCOPHYTO is the result of 30 years of experimentation in biological crop protection.

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• OFGEN — OFGEN is a commercial and industrial solar market with outstanding capacity to build solar power plants.
• BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.

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• Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
• Meridia — De-risk the sourcing, procurement, trading & compliance of commodities under the EUDR.
• ReForest Latam — ReForest Latam is an biotech company restoring ecosystems and creating forests to fight climate change.

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• SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
• Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

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• Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
• Arran Aromatics —
• Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.

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• Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa. The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing, logistics, and last-mile/instant delivery platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenueanalytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
• Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.

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• Bintix — Bintix averts landfill waste ... one household at a time.
• eBik — eBik is an innovation-driven company that builds high-quality products by investing in R&D, innovation, and automation.
• EduBridge — EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with thenecessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
• Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.

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• Savoteur — Travel More, Work Less, Be Curious
• Mobius Motors — Mobius Motors sells affordable vehicles designed specifically for the needs of developing world consumers. We aim to change millions of lives by providing the appropriate transport to mobilise rural Africa. Our vision is a more connected, more prosperous Africa.
• Bridge International Academies — Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, freeof cost, for a brighter future.

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• Revoy — We haul Pacific Northwest freight with our 95% electrified fleet.
• Ludwig Computing — Ludwig Computing is an AI hardware startup creating energy-efficient compute platforms for future intelligent computing.
• American Supercritical — American Supercritical manufactures modular supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO₂) power blocks designed to convert heat into electricity. The systems connect to energy infrastructures like gas turbine exhaust stacks, nuclear reactors, reciprocating engine gensets, and heavy industrial factories. They function across a temperature range of 300 to 1000 °C to produce scalable power outputs from 10 to 100+ MW. The factory-assembled blocks utilize dry-cooling by default and operate without requiring site-specific boiler or water chemist staffing.

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• Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
• Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
• Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa

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• Mujin — At Mujin, we design automation platforms to enhance any robot, enable advanced capabilities and lower operating costs.
• RegCell — RegCell aims to generate novel therapeutic technologies through augmenting or controlling the immune system and our goal is to save patients who suffer from autoimmune diseases and cancer .
• United Immunity — Just another WordPress site

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• Sylndr — Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range ofhigh-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.
• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.

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• Lissun — Lissun is an online counselling platform, which allows you to get expert advice and counselling for any mental health problem anytime and from the comfort of your own home.
• Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
• BimaKavach — Buy business insurance online from India's top 25 insurers in minutes with AI-powered risk analysis, policy comparison, and customised coverage for businesses in India

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• Josys — Stop letting runaway SaaS costs & unsecured SaaS access ruin your day. Josys is the only SaaS Management Platform that provides true 360-degree control.
• Essen — Essen is a technological company that specializes in mobility and data analysis, as well as using data to improve transportation.
• Deeping Source — Real-time Video Analytics based on Data Anonymization. High-accuracy computer vision for large-scale spaces: hypermarkets, shopping malls, convention centers, hospitals, logistics warehouses, construction sites, etc.

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• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.

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• Jibo — Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston.
• Metaphi — Metaphi is the AI agent that gives you superpowers by proactively researching things of your interest, and executing tasks for you.
• MelodyArc — MelodyArc is a platform for building and deploying AI operators - agentic AI systems that work across real-world tools, data and teams.

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• Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
• TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
• Ingenix — Our solution leverages proprietary multimodal AI essential for tackling the complexities of multimodal biological systems.

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• Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
• Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
• Solarbox — Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system.

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• Solarbox — Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system.
• Courageous Land — Courageous Land is to counteract climate change while improving the health and abundance of all living things. Courageous Land designs and operates biodiverse multi-strata agroforestry systems, as well as develops technologies that are critical to our operations and beneficial to land stewards and buyers.

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• Munify — Fast, secure, and cost-efficient cross-border payments powered by stablecoins. Send and receive money globally without delays, high fees, or the complexity
• Stream — Stream is a company that helps make payments simpler, faster, and reliable.