Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Africa in May 2026

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• Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.

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• Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
• SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Paycrest — Paycrest decentralized payment routing protocol enabling secure conversion and settlement between stablecoins and fiat.
• Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
• LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress

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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
• 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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• 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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• Mojito — Mojito is an NFT studio and tech platform company that designs, powers, and operates NFT marketplaces for industry leading brands and IP holders.
• AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
• Token — Tokenize develops Token, a biometric-based wearable ring that can make payments, power up a computer, and part doors. The ring is integrated with MasterCard, Microsoft, Visa, HID, FitPay and the FIDO Alliance.Token uses a combination of fingerprinting (there’s a fingerprint sensor at the base of the ring) and an optical proximity sensor toensure that a user’s credentials can’t be accessed by a third party. Using an app (available for iOS and Android), Tokenites can pair the ring and their biometric information with anything from their credit cards to their car keys.

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• CurbWaste — A software by haulers, for haulers
• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
• CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.

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• Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
• Credit Coop — Leverage Future Cash Flows
• VOID — The framework for building sovereign multi-chain apps. Deploy once, access everywhere.

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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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• Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
• Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
• FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.

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• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
• Torii — Torii is the most advanced SaaS management platform on the market. Discover, optimize, and control your organization’s SaaS usage and cost.

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• Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
• CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
• Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.

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• Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
• Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
• Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

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• Gondi — Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market.
• Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
• Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.

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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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• ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
• Open Game Protocol — Open Game System is a project that helps web games work better on phones, allowing the games to use tools that phones already have.

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• Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
• Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
• Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.

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• Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• Miaopai — Miaopai develops a mobile based application for sharing short videos. Its service now has 70 million daily active users. Miaopai produces mobile device applications. It offers software products that allow users to customize videos and pictures.Chan Sheng and Han Kun founded Xuanyixia Technology in 2011 that later became Yixia Tech and thenMiaopai. Its headquarters is in Beijing in China.
• Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
• Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.

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• BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
• Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
• Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.

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• ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
• Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
• Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.

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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
• Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
• Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.

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• Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
• OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
• Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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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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• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
• MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
• Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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• Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
• AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
• TechAdvance — Get the Bet9ja app today! Download and install to place bets, play casino games, and enjoy seamless, secure betting on mobile.

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• Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
• Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
• MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

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• GoodScore — GoodScore is a credit management app in India designed to help users build and maintain a high credit score, with targeted features and expert support for financial wellbeing.
• XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
• HELIX — Gain access to curated alternative investment opportunities and make your crypto do more today. Helix is an accredited marketplace utilising blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.

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• Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
• Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
• Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.

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• Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
• Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
• Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products

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• ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
• Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
• RAYNAL Assurances — RAYNAL Assurances operates as an insurance company. RAYNAL Assurances underwrites a large range of non-life insurance risks associated to automotive, health, accident, fire, transport, and other multi-risks, addressing a clientele composed of both corporate and retail customers.

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• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
• FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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• Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
• Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
• Operant — Own OperantAi.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
• Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative

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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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• Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
• Stack — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
• Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications

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• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
• General Counsel AI — GC AI is an AI platform for in-house legal teams. Draft contracts, review documents, and research legal issues in seconds with SOC 2-certified, zero data retention AI. Trusted by 1,400+ legal teams.

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• CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
• 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 is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.

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• CTGT — CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions.
• Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
• Emerge Career — All-in-one workforce development training programs

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• SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• 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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• Wingbits — Explore Wingbits, the DePIN flight-tracking network powered by Solana's blockchain. Shape the future of aviation - register for free today!
• Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
• Shiprocket — Shiprocket is India's most-used eCommerce logistics and shipping software solution for the best courier services. Avail features like COD (Cash on Delivery), prepaid delivery, automated shipping, etc.

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• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
• Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
• Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.

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• Nevoya — Nevoya's focus on zero-emission freight transport is a significant step toward sustainability in the logistics industry. Nevoya is an electric truckload carriers can help reduce the carbon footprint of shipping while also potentially lowering operational costs in the long run.
• Brellium — Clinical teams use Brellium to audit every patient visit against their clinical and payor requirements.
• Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

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• OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
• Arintra — Arintra is an AI-powered autonomous coding technology that delivers significant efficiency and accelerates your revenue cycle business performance.
• Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!

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• Viva — Landlords use Viva to grow a property's online reputation, improve renter behavior, reward residents to increase renewals, create loyalty, drive more referrals, reduce vacancy, increase profits by up to 9%
• Starboard — Starboard revolutionize global trade by empowering SMB freight forwarders with cutting-edge AI tools.
• Flora — Flora Fertility is dedicated to empowering the next generation of parents by putting the control of reproductive health outcomes back where they belongs—in your hands. It aims to revolutionize how women's health and family building are approached, making fertility care more accessible, transparent, and personalized. By reimagining thefinancial and medical aspects of family planning, we help you navigate the journey to parenthood with greater confidence, ease, and support, ensuring that your fertility choices align with your personal goals and circumstances.

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• Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding and business banking accounts to make cash flow.
• NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
• Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer

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• SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
• Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.
• Advocatia Solutions — Advocatia simplifies how uninsured patients identify financial assistance programs and enroll into coverage.