Top 30 Beauty Startup Investors in Africa (August 2026)

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• ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
• Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.

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• Musely — Musely offers prescription skincare products for your unique needs. Our certified dermatologists will create a custom routine for you. Browse treatments today!
• Maeva — Fill the nutrition gaps cause by rapid weight loss when you're on GLP-1
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.

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• ReelFruit — On a mission to inspire delightfulness by offering the tastiest snacks in town.
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
• Solar Taxi Ghana — Solar Taxi Ghana app provides various electronic vehicles that are powered by solar energy.

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• Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.
• Cleva — For anyone with global financial needs, A US-based dollar account in your name to receive, hold, and save USD.

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• Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
• Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
• ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.

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• Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
• Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
• KOKO Networks — KOKO Networks is an international venture-backed technology company with offices in East Africa and India. KOKO provides a platform for smart commerce in urban Africa. Our unique suite of technologies connects suppliers, retailers, and customers, enabling delivery of a range of consumer and business solutions that improve life in Africa’s cities.

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• Karpolax — Offering innovative fruit preservation products! For the grower, the packer, and the retailer.
• Silo Africa — Silo Africa is a Grain Storage & Logistics Startup Company.
• Affinity — Join over 125,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans

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• PaidHR — PaidHR works with organizations to streamline how they manage their staff. Our precisely created solutions enable them to create the ideal place to work.
• Socium — Socium these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
• Tuteria — Get Home Tutoring Matched to Your Child's Needs. Prepare for IELTS, Common Entrance, IGCSE, GRE & JAMB. Book Lessons in 150+ Subjects Including Music, Coding & Languages.

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• Kasha — Health products and household goods you want, delivered to where you are.
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
• Cohley — Cohley is a content marketing platform focusing on user generated content, visual asset creation, and text review generation. Streamline your content generation today!
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

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• Soolv — Automated screening that reads every application, surfaces real potential early, and gives you a consistent shortlist in minutes
• SportAI — SportAI is a B2B sports technology firm that is spearheading the revolution in sports technique coaching, commentary, and analysis using advanced AI and machine learning. The company aims to boost sports performance and make high-quality sports data more accessible. SportAI's SaaS platform, powered by Computer Vision and Machine Learning,delivers unbiased sports technique analysis and AI-generated sports data to different sectors in the sports industry. This technology can seamlessly integrate into broadcasting, training apps, simulators, sporting equipment brands, and product recommendation websites, offering significant benefits to the global sports industry.
• Starflow — Starflow goal is to create a scalable energy system that helps people achieve energy independence.

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• Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
• Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
• Fortics Lifecare — Fortics Lifegroup is a healthcare holding company developing existing healthcare assets into world-class health facilities.

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• qiibee — Powering the future of loyalty partnerships. The leading infrastructure to accept and issue rewards across major loyalty programs instantly.
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
• AirMap — We help airspace authorities, airports, enterprise, public safety, military and software developers manage, protect and innovate their airspace. Get in touch.

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• Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.

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• OKALOU — OKALOU is an event services company that specializes in leisure, entertainment and events for children, young people and adults.
• EXA — EXA produces insect-based proteins and products to combat malnutrition, support communities, and promote environmental resilience
• Laiterie Maminiaina — Laiterie Maminiaina is a company that specializes in the production and distribution of dairy products.

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• Kentaste — Virgin coconut oil, Coconut Cream, and Coconut Milk
• MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
• Moringa School — Moringa School is a full-time, immersive coding school in Nairobi, Kenya.

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• Sproxil — Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement. It specializes in brand protection, consumer engagement, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, and consumer promotions. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
• MindRight Health — MindRight Health is a tech startup that provides mental health coaching over text message to empower communities to heal from trauma

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• Coraly — Coraly helps real estate teams create listing-ready content, qualify leads, manage transactions, and share client-ready Packs from one AI-powered platform.
• Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.

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• Shop Zetu — Shop the latest trendy fashion, beauty and accessory brands in Kenya online! Discover affordable clothing, footwear, accessories, beauty products and more. Order today from Shop Zetu.
• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• Uncover — Dermatologist-tested K-Beauty formulas powered by African botanicals for melanin-rich skin. Shop SPF 50 sunscreen, serums & kits with free Kenya shipping.

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• SeraPay — We are revolutionizing social commerce in Africa with SeraPay, ensuring the seamless buying and selling of goods on social media platforms. Our innovative service empowers businesses to access markets beyond their geographical borders, making social retail easier and more efficient.
• Savabyte — A pan-African women-led platform that connects career advancement opportunities to quality tech talent & women in technology. #ConnectingTechTalent
• Jungopharm — Jungopharm is a developer of a pharma and healthcare platform that aims to make health care understandable, accessible & affordable for all.

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• STEM Cafe — STEMCafe by RVRB is a fun out of school learning centre for kids
• Juicyway — The new shape of money? Fluid. Access global currencies with Juicyway. Buy, sell, hold, and pay globally using our fast APIs, web, or mobile apps. Download now.
• 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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• 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.