Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Grabr — Grabr is a global community marketplace that allows people to get unique or hard-to-find items from around the world by connecting them with travelers headed their way. Grabr is the safe, fast and friendly way to get anything from anywhere in the world and earn money on the road.
• PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
• Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.

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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• 24SEVEN — 24seven.pk is using tech and data to digitize and disrupt the fresh food and FMCG verticals in one of the fastest-growing and rapidly evolving consumer markets in the world.

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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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• BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
• Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
• Pier — Pier's mission is to create tools for the next generation of innovators to improve credit access. They are developing an API to help us launch credit products. With just a few lines of code, they enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance, and servicing.

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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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• Smalls — Smalls is a direct-to-consumer pet food company that produces human-grade and fresh food for cats.The company's cat food is prepared with human-grade ingredients and offers customized kits as per the cat's nutrition needs, enabling pet owners to get healthy and fresh food directly at their doorstep. It offers variants such as chickenand beef; freeze-dried chicken, and turkey and duck.In 2017, co-founders and best friends Matt Michaelson and Calvin headquartered the company in New York, New York.
• KAST — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.
• Diamond Standard — Invest in diamonds. Each Diamond Standard Coin and Bar contains an equivalent scarcity of carat, cut, color, and clarity. Diversify your portfolio.

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• OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
• HostnFly — HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.

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• SatSure — Premium domain available for purchase
• 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.

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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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• Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
• JADA — JADA focuses on both technical expertise and soft skill development and is designed to upskill experienced professionals in data analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
• 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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• Fivot — Fivot is a financial company that provides venture capital, financing, credit, money lending, and prepaid payment services.
• MODE — With offices in both San Mateo, California, and Tokyo, Japan. The company is rapidly growing with now over fifty employees and is in business to provide end-to-end semi-custom IoT and AI solutions for organizations to improve their operations by connecting them to their data, giving them “real-time” insights, so they can turn innovative ideas intosustainable solutions that address a wide range of challenges.Simple, yet powerful, our latest "next generation" BizStack IoT and BizStack AI solutions are comprised of a continuous improvement technology stack that collects real-time data from any sensor, device, product, equipment, or legacy system. The data is then sanitized, uniquely structured, and provided to highly customizable, intuitive dashboards with powerful insights, along with proper security in the cloud for ongoing IoT and AI applications.BizStack can be deployed 4X faster and 75% less expensively than in-house developers or outside consultants.
• OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

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• Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
• SimpliFi — We power the cards behind your brand. Instantly issue and manage virtual or physical cards, enable payments in multiple currencies, and scale globally through one secure API platform.
• ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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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.
• Conta Simples — Conta Simples is the all-in-one finance plataform. The union of checking account, expense management software and corporate cards in one place. We bring peace to finance teams and entrepreneurs. Control, visibility, autonomy and decentralization of payments for SMBs in Latam.
• 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.

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• Inovat — Travellers have to stand hours in the queues and get charged hidden fees to receive Tax refund that they are entitled to. They change that. With Inovat, get the best Tax Free experience that you deserve.
• 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.
• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.

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• Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding 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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• Luna POS — Luna POS provides cloud-based cashier, inventory management, and accounting solutions for SMEs in Indonesia. The company offers a seamless mobile cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) and accounting system, helping the retail industry with managing business activities such as checking the stock of goods, making a bundle menu, calculating sales, and tosee financial statements of the business.
• Unbox — Unbox is the branded commerce operating system for SMEs helping them to sell online and increase their sales. We provide a ready to sell platform that allows entrepreneurs to digitize their business in less than 5 minutes - fully integrated with social commerce channels and our payment and shipping solutions, helping SMEs to save costs andcentralizing sales into a single platform.
• SnappRetail — SnappRetail aims to create the largest virtual retail franchise across Pakistan, through deployment of its POS hardware/software, focusing on:1. Traditional trade Analytics for brands and retailers 2. Order Aggregation for manufacturers and distributors 3. Payment Solution for customers 4. Fintech enablement for small merchantsTheSnappRetail POS application has been carefully curated keeping the retailer in mind, the application focuses on digitizing his shop operations and cash flow and creating a real-time tertiary sales data lake.

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• Brellium — Brellium audits 100% of your clinical documentation against payor, regulatory, and quality requirements. Trusted by 250,000+ providers.
• Arc Boats — Arc is electrifying the marine industry, starting with recreational boating.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sunsave — Save money on your bills and gain energy independence with Sunsave solar panel and battery solutions. Get a free quote today.
• Ankar AI — Your AI Operating System for Patents
• Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.

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• VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
• Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
• Outfox Health — AI copilots answer benefits questions instantly. Lower costs without changing carriers. Launch in under 30 days.

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• Drawboard — Remarkable markup tools for WIndows 10, iOS and your web browser. Download for free today.
• Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
• Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• Sudo — Sudo is an open API platform that enables businesses to embed powerful financial features into their products. Build in minutes, launch in days.
• CreditChek — Bridging the trust gap between global credit businesses and underserved African consumers.

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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
• Xpand (formerly 1MRobotics) — Last mile delivery challenge, solved!
• Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

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• Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
• 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!
• Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

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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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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
• G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...

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• Kippa — ## Build Setup
• Ringkas — Ajukan KPR dengan Mudah Bersama Ringkas. Rasakan proses pengajuan KPR yang lebih cepat dan aman.
• Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service

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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.
• Lingawa — Learn African languages online with expert tutors. Gain practical skills in Yoruba, Igbo, and more. Start your language journey today.
• Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.

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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.