Top 40 Community Startup Investors in Kenya in May 2026

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• Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
• mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
• 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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• 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.
• Turaco — 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.
• MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver

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• Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!

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• Agilize — Agilize offers online accounting services for micro and small businesses. It allows customers to check passive invoices from smartphone, tablet or computer, without worrying about numbers.
• Latour Capital — In creating the VCF Latour Capital at the request of some great French entrepreneurs, we wanted to build a new tool entirely focused investment , majority LBO in business to potential.
• Rivage Investment — Rivage Investment offers asset and investment management solutions for private debt and equity derivatives along with advisory solutions.

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• Turaco — 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.
• Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
• Sun King — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.

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• BURN — The future of clean cooking
• Juhudi Kilimo — Juhudi Kilimo is a social enterprise that provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro-businesses.
• Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network — Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network (GUARDIAN) is addressing the complex water and sanitation problems faced by low-income communities in India through its innovative water credit solution. GUARDIAN provides microloans to low-income families seeking to install water and sanitation facilities in their households.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
• 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.

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• Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
• Agrim Wholesale — Leading B2B platform for agricultural input retailers and suppliers.
• Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth

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• 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.
• 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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• Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
• Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
• Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Kodak — A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.
• Bayport Management — Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.
• Freshtohome — Freshtohome is an online grocery store that sells a range of seafood and meat to its users.The website’s range of products include fish, poultry, mutton, steaks, and fillet. Fish consists of shell, freshwater, and marine. Furthermore, it enables suppliers to supply their seafood and meat to the website.Freshtohome was launched in 2015 by ShanKadavil and is based in Bangalore.

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• I2B — Building, acquiring, and investing in bootstrapped businesses.
• Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
• Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.

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• Spouts of Water — SPOUTS mission is to manufacture and distribute ceramic water filters to provide everyone in Uganda with safe water.
• Ace International — ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and other food grade components.
• Saggraha Management Services — SaGgraha Management Services is a Bottom of the Pyramid financial services provider with a mission to contribute to the country's financial inclusion effort. The company is promoted by a team of professionals with banking, microfinance and financial services experience. The company believes at maintaining highest ethical and professionalstandards, governance and transparency.

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• Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
• Hello Tractor — Growing together with technology. At Hello Tractor, we combine innovation and impact to power smarter farms, stronger communities, and a better agricultural future for Africa.
• Particles for Humanity — Particles for Humanity transforms medical technologies originated in academic labs into products that meet the health care needs of people in developing countries.

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• Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
• Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
• Marathon Fusion — Solving the grand challenge of alchemy

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• Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
• Floworks AI — Deploy AI agents that prospect, personalise emails, handle replies and book meetings 24/7. Floworks AI replaces repetitive SDR work so your team closes more deals.
• Haqdarshak — Made with Framer

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• Awash Bank — Awash Bank offers unique products and services that support small and medium-scale businesses. They provide personal, business, sme banking, corporate banking, mobile banking, online banking, credit services, debit card services, consumer loans, and more.
• Invest In Africa — Invest In Africa improving access to skills, markets, and finance to empower enterprise to create long-term jobs. They focused on job creation and improving the business environment for both investors and local SMEs. They increase the linkages between large international and domestic companies and smaller local businesses and increase access toskills, markets, and finance.
• Ethiopian Airlines — Fly to 125+ destinations worldwide with Ethiopian Airlines. Discover our award-winning services, comfortable cabins, and affordable fares. Book now!

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• Twiva — Twiva is a creator-first, tech-enabled platform that serves as an end-to-end ecosystem. Our purpose is to equip creators with the skills, tools, resources, and access they need to succeed as online entrepreneurs.
• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!

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• Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
• Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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• Igloo — As a top insurtech company, Igloo makes insurance easy across Southeast Asia by working with reputable insurers and distribution partners.
• Netwey — Netwey is a telecommunications company that offers services including mobile internet, internet home, and telephony.
• TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.

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• Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
• Kamino — Kamino Finance is a Solana DeFi protocol for capital-efficient lending, borrowing, and yield generation.
• GKN - GloboKasNet — GloboKasNet is a multibank payment network based in Peru. The company offers transaction, processing, and settlement services to low income urban and rural clients of banks, microfinance institutions and commercial wholesalers. GloboKasNet was launched in 2007.

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• Malaica — Experience Obstetrician-gynaecologist led antenatal clinics, digital support, emergency access,and a community that walks with you.

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• Osome — Osome helps foreign and Singaporean entrepreneurs to manage their businesses. Register and get your new company operational with our certified agents backed by modern technology
• Peakflo — If your finance team spends hours on tasks like manual data entry, 2-way/3-way matching, data validation, document categorization, vendor reconciliation, and cash application, it's time to streamline the entire process with Peakflo AI!
• Datakrew — Datakrew delivers real-time EV battery analytics and AI-powered fleet intelligence. Smarter, safer fleets start here. Explore our solutions.

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• BacAlt — Sustainable Bacterial Alernatives
• PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
• SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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• Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Aerotruth — PISANG77 adalah bandar slot gacor resmi hari ini di Slot777 yang menawarkan peluang menang 99% lebih tinggi dengan bonus menarik yang bikin penasaran.

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• TomoCredit — TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum fromCoinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.
• Career Karma — Learn about bootcamps, ask questions and read reviews to find the best job training program for you. Connect with peers, coaches and mentors to accelerate your technology career.
• AlwaysHired — Cost neutral sales hiring solutions for employers. Join top tech companies.

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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.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
• Cloud9 - Africa's Lifestyle Network — Cloud9xp.com is a online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.We believe that everyone deserves to have fun, feel good and be happy. We believe happiness starts with a drop, becomes a ripple and creates a wave. We believe happiness is amplified when shared.Put simply, Cloud9 is in the business of happiness and are passionateabout giving people more #HighOnLIfe moments.All of our products; across apparel, consumer electronics and lifestyle items are authentic, and we only work with the most upstanding, and energetic brands in the world to bring you the best possible products.

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• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

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• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Clafiya — Clafiya connects patients to health practitioners to provide fast and affordable on-demand primary care services in Africa.
• Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

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• Posh — Event marketing made easy.
• Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
• Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

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• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• 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.

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• LGND — LGND is a technology business that specialises in AI-powered spatial data solutions.
• CloudX — CloudX is a supply side platform for mobile and AI publishers. Boost revenue with AI workflows and a liquid marketplace.
• Decile Group — Decile Group helps aspiring and active venture capital fund managers launch, grow, and scale with world-class training, AI tools, and fund administration.

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• Ziada — Ziada is a mobile application that connects you to service providers near you and vice versa. Download Ziada today from the Google Playstore to start experiencing convenience.
• HealthDart — Consult with a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, order medicines or get health advice - at a price you can afford
• Raino Tech4Impact — Raino Tech4Impact is a social enterprise that leverages technology as an enabler to empower African communities. We have been deploying technology-driven solutions in agriculture and health, powered by renewable energy to achieve sustainability.

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• Komaza — Komaza is a tech-driven sustainable forestry company revolutionizing the wood industry in Africa with its farmer platform. It combines technology, training, and service to create a new sustainable wood supply for Africa at an 80% cost disruption over traditional plantations. The company was founded in 2006 by Tevis Howard.
• Kueski — Kueski is the online lender for the Middle Class of Mexico and Latin America. The company uses big data and advanced analytics to approve and deliver loans in a matter of minutes. Simple, paperless and available 24/7, Kueski is the most convenient lending platform for those who need an immediate loan. The company has become the fastest growingplatform of its kind in the region and has already granted thousands of loans.
• Drexel Schools — Drexel Schools is a resource-rich, cutting-edge approach to Catholic education. Committed to redefining student engagement through robust technology and data-driven instruction, Drexel Schools is transforming Catholic education. Drexel Schools seeks to prove that the creation of a new model of Catholic schools is possible and scalable. The networkof Drexel Schools forms the whole person through faith, knowledge, community, and by leveraging the resources and knowledge of a network of Catholic schools. Drexel Schools are recognized for sending forth into the greater community Christ-centered, compassionate, and confident leaders and problem solvers who exercise moral courage and service to others in their daily lives.

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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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• iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
• Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
• Robust International — Robust International the company initially dealt in plantation logs. It has gradually and steadily expanded into the Agribusiness industry while concurrently reducing and eliminating its profile in the timber logs segment.

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• Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
• 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.
• Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.

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• Synthium — Synthium offers Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) for consumer robotics, using gamified web-based simulations to crowdsource human cognitive data for training robot AI models. Users engage in robotics tasks like spatial navigation via webcam and microphone inputs, generating diverse datasets for model training across robot types such as humanoids anddrones. Data captures human intuition in dynamic environments, enabling scalable AI development without physical robots.
• Alchemyst AI — Alchemyst AI is an innovative generative AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to deliver unique solutions tailored to various industries. Alchemyst aims to empower businesses to harness the potential of generative AI for enhanced creativity, efficiency, and decision-making.We arebuilding force multipliers within teams across various verticals - starting with Maya, our first Alchemyst for Sales Development. We would soon be horizontally scaling to other roles as well, integrating into wherever you work.Since inception, we have taken a bottom-up approach to building our platform as opposed to a top-down approach usually seen in SaaS products - keeping the client experience first.
• Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!

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• Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
• GetWork — Looking to hire top talent for your organization? GetWork is the platform for you! With a candidate pool of 1.9M+ job seekers, you can easily post your job and find the perfect candidate for your needs. Sign up today and start hiring with GetWork.
• KarmaLifeAI — KarmaLifeAI is an AI-powered digital solution for the financial well being of blue-collar gig workers and micro-business. The company allows the user to pay directly for key expenditures and smoothen their consumption patterns. It offers real-time access to credit for gig workers, based on their payroll account, through partnerships with thedigital platforms they work for. It operates an interest-free subscription model in which the platform or the gig worker can pay a flat fee and access credit equalling up to one-third of their monthly income. The company analyzes alternative data points and payment behavior over time to unlock higher credit lines for the workers.