Top 45 Financial Services Angel Investors in South Africa (August 2026)

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• Book Your Own — Book Your Own is building an integrated travel ecosystem designed to unify India’s fragmented travel market.
• UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.

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• Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
• Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
• StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

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• Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
• BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
• Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.

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• Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
• PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
• Chhotastock — SAUDARATOTO adalah daftar situs toto slot dan bandar togel resmi 4D & 5D terpercaya yang menawarkan layanan aman, transaksi cepat, serta peluang menang besar setiap hari. Nikmati permainan lengkap dengan sistem stabil dan akses mudah kapan saja.

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• TRVL CAPE — Your Cape Town travel companion App. Your gateway to Cape Town! Quickly book flights, hotels, shuttles, and rental cars. Enjoy real-time updates, exclusive deals on our app! Let our travel experts help you plan the perfect trip to Cape Town. Let our skilled advisors craft a flawless itinerary for your journey.
• The AI Studio — The AI Studio is an advanced artificial intelligence research and innovation hub operating under Amani Creative Studios. It is designed to enhance and integrate AI capabilities into our existing services, spanning Web2, Web3, cybersecurity, branding, and software development. Every solution we offer at Amani Creative Studios and Web3 Studio willnow be AI-powered and AI-enhanced, unlocking new capabilities in automation, prediction, personalization, and efficiency.AI-Powered Web3 Solutions – AI-driven smart contracts, blockchain forensics, and decentralized automation., AI-Driven Branding & Marketing – Intelligent content creation, data-driven strategies, and hyper-personalization, AI-Powered SaaS & Software Development – Automated workflows, predictive analytics, and intelligent decision-making, AI-Optimized UI/UX & Product Design – AI-powered design systems, adaptive interfaces, and automated A/B testing.
• Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.

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• BirdyChat — A modern work chat app for professionals. Start conversations with anyone using their work email. Collaborate and grow your network.
• ScamGuardian.AI — ScamGuardian develops AI-powered victim simulations to capture actionable scam intelligence
• Rivan Industries — Rivan Industries designs and builds modular, vertically integrated, synthetic fuel plants.

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• Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
• WizzPass — WizzPass, a rapidly growing leader in the visitor management system and workplace management market is now FMS:Engage powered by FM:Systems.
• The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.

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• EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
• Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
• ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.

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• Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
• Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
• Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.

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• tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
• 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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• Vollar — Transforming communities through volunteering.
• MakieLab — MakieLab is building social toys & games from the same dataset. They're taking 3D modelling for games, and 3D printing for manufacture, and building a pipeline to automatically produce both from a set of characters, furniture, or similar game and toy objects.Their first product is Makies, a new kind of future-smashing toy:customisable, 3D-printed, locally made, and game-enabled. Since Makies first launched in 2012, they've released two apps centering around super creative fashion play (Makies Doll Factory and Makies FabLab), launched Makies into Selfridges and Hamleys (London), won some lovely toy awards and shipped Makies to all four corners of the Earth.

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• Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.

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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.
• Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.

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• Yoco — Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa. Yoco helps 100,000 small businesses in South Africa get paid in-store, online, and on the go. Yoco was named one of the top 250 most promising fintech companies by CB Insights for the last 3 years running.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Cape Town, SouthAfrica.

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• Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
• 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.
• MariHealth Solutions (RF) (PTY) LTD — Proteomics-powered analytics for aquaculture. We quantify 3,000+ proteins per sample to deliver deep biological insights for fish health, nutrition, and farming.

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• Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
• FYX Gaming — Web3 development platform & scaling solutions on the blockchain, proud creator of CryptoFights.
• Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions

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• enza — Our focus on providing the richest possible API environment means that enza clients can concentrate on solving business challenges and not waste valuable time and effort on technical integrations.
• AllLife — AllLife is the only South African insurer of people living with HIV/AIDs. Sadly, prior to AllLife, many HIV patients would be told their lives were un-insurable. Now AllLife tells that they can lead long, productive lives – so much so that they’ll insure it.
• 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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• Knot — Knot powerfully improves products for you and your users, adding revenue-generating features and connecting cardholders to thousands of merchants.
• Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
• Default — The command center for modern sales teams.

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• Quansa — Quansa offers on-demand pay, allowing workers to access earned wages after each shift. The platform connects with time and payroll systems so wages can be released without changing payroll cycles. Workers receive pay in a digital wallet and can use funds when needed. The service helps companies offer an extra work benefit to support employeeretention. Rules for attendance and seniority can be set through the system. The tool updates payroll records so month-end work stays clear.
• Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
• FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.

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• Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
• 1Bstories — Explore the best online casinos Australia offers in 2026, featuring top online pokies, instant withdrawals, and the latest new casino sites.
• Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs builds AI agents for financial services. Automate disputes, KYC, lending, customer support, and the back-office work in between. Book a demo.

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• Baraka — baraka is an investment and US stocks trading platform built to empower the next generation of Middle East investors.
• Moov — Moov is rebuilding banking infrastructure for a cloud-native world without any legacy technology dependencies. Moov’s banking-as-a-service platform takes a developer-first approach of being open-source, portable to cloud providers or on-premises, modular for customization, and decoupled from any single bank program. Their protocols offer the firstde facto standard for embedded payment infrastructure offered publicly.Moov was established in 2017 and is based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States.
• 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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• Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
• ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
• 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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• Omnisient — Privacy-Preserving Data Collaboration platform enabling businesses to collaborate while ensuring consumer privacy and data protection.
• 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.
• Termii — Prevent transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing using AI. Built for banks, fintechs and modern enterprises.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
• OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
• Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]

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• FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
• Rapport — Rapport understands how your people are doing, coaches everyone in your company's own language, and shows you it's working. Launches in Slack or Teams in days.
• 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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• Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
• Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
• Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration

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• FitKey — 29EMPIRE menghadirkan platform jejaring sosial modern dengan komunitas aktif, interaksi digital cepat, fitur komunikasi interaktif, dan koneksi online tanpa batas.
• TaxTim — TaxTim helps South African taxpayers file with confidence using a simple, step-by-step experience linked to SARS eFiling.
• Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• 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.
• 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.

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• Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
• Keep — Keep has higher credit limits, the highest cash back rewards in Canada, and absolutely no fees! Join the thousands of Canadian business owners making the switch to Keep.

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• Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
• Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
• Isembard — Faster, cheaper, greener manufacturing

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• FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.

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• tushop — Shop wholesale groceries, market fresh produce, local brands, and affordable preloved finds on Tushop. Secure checkout, friendly support and fast 90 minute delivery across Nairobi.
• 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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• Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
• Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
• Click2Sure — We provide cloud-based Insurance SaaS solutions for omnichannel distribution, which can save costs & support data-driven decision making. Contact us today.

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• Flip — Transfer uang, top up e-wallet & kirim uang ke luar negeri lebih mudah dengan Flip. Bayar pulsa, listrik, BPJS, PDAM, dan pembayaran lainnya bisa lebih hemat.
• Kick — Daily bookkeeping for the modern business owner. Minimize your audit risk and only pay when you save. Join now and get your first $5,000 in Savings Credits.
• Maplerad — Global payment infrastructure for businesses.

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• Cekura AI — Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents.
• Mentra — Exploring ideas with @Mentraglass. Follow for future updates.
• Cosmoserve Space — Cosmoserve Space is developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to mitigate the rapidly growing problem of orbital debris.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• 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.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• FloatPays — Floatpays help your employees achieve financial wellbeing by giving them early access to earned wages.
• KarmaCheck — Speed up placements with innovative tech, live expert support, and a mobile-first candidate experience. Run every check you need in KarmaCheck.

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• Phyllo — Easily access verified, creator-consented data such as identity, income, and engagement across hundreds of platforms through our API
• Brick — Brick builds financial APIs for fintech products. They give convenience to processing end-users' financial data digitally for every personalized need of fintech companies, with data such as transaction data spanning multiple platforms across telcos, e-wallets, e-commerce, and super apps.
• 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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• Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.
• Myka.Insure — Myka is a insurance sales platform that enables individuals to sell insurance policies to their family, friends, colleagues, and community while earning income . It operates as a micro-entrepreneurship program where anyone (students, gadget sellers, car dealers, parents, retirees) can start their own insurance business with zero investment,flexible hours, and free training . The company is licensed by the National Insurance Commission of Nigeria and provides instant payouts to its partners .
• 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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• Goneke Investment Group — Pioneering a century-long initiative to finance, build, and secure the critical industries that define national strength.
• Saharan Oil & Gas Company — Saharan Oil & Gas Company Limited (formerly Hume Energy) is a conglomerate of project managers that provide energy solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through our global network of partners we develop and apply Next Generation Technologies to help safely and responsibly address Africa’s growing energy deficit. Energy access influences comfort,safety, security, and human progress, touching every aspect of our lives. SOGCOL aims to evolve from a regional marketer to an advanced energy innovator and a global energy solutions provider. We aspire to be an industry leader in all aspects of energy production, transportation, distribution, and marketing. Our operations encompass identifying energy projects and facilitation of financing from research and development to promotion, marketing, and execution.

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• Pelgo — Pelgo is a startup that provides AI-powered career transition services. For employees coming out of layoffs, young grads just entering the job market, or full-time professionals trying to adjust to a developing AI-driven economy, its tools, along with human advisors, help onboarding, transition, and reskilling.
• howie — Howie is an AI calendar secretary for email, SMS, iMessage, Gmail, and Google Calendar. He books meetings, protects focus time, follows up, and handles reminders.
• Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.

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• dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
• Fragment — Fragment develops a ledger database application programming interface platform to build finance applications. Its platform helps users to build compliant fintech apps without having to worry about infrastructure where they can embed financial features into their app, without requiring prior accounting, finance, or compliance expertise to build theledger that runs it and integrate with money moving stack.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
• Dot Product — AI coworkers for operations teams.

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• OMA Mind — Connect with qualified mental health practitioners, ready and available round the clock.
• Momint — Momint is the Web3 investment platform of the future. The safest and easiest to use NFT marketplace in the world. Discover the real-world potential of NFTs.
• SEMOA — Founded in 2016, SEMOA have today an international footprint in 13 countries of Africa with the statement to bring something more to people's daily lives. SEMOA is a pioneering fintech company that is reshaping the financial landscape across Africa by specializing in two key areas: the digitalization of banking services and empowerment ofmobile transactions.As a software editor, SEMOA offers a suite of APIs platform and white-label SaaS tools designed to address financial inclusion challenges in Africa, where traditional banking systems often fall short. As a transaction enabler, SEMOA acts as a schema for mobile transaction allowing banks to create more value through a service layer.

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• OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
• Ongair — Carry out great customer service and support via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WeChat and Line. Get your business on Instant Messaging today. Enjoy a 14 day free trial.
• 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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• Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
• Lutso — Empowering older adults to live independently, safely, and with dignity. Lutso is the smarter way to support aging at home.
• Modash.io — High performing marketing teams use Modash to find, analyze and monitor influencers at scale all over the world. Join them today.