Top 40 Financial Services Startup Investors in Tanzania (August 2026)

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• SEED — SEED accumulated technologies and gained customer trust through development of contact lenses.
• Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.
• Tokyu Corporation — Tokyu introduce the list of executives, business organization, year map, head office map and company information (e-BOOK).

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• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Cowboy Space — Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We are building a space-based power grid with solar-powered GPU data centers in Low Earth Orbit.
• Pensieve — AI Grading Assistant that reduces grading time, generates rubrics, and give students timely feedback.

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• Flosfia — FLOSFIA is a spin-off from a research of Kyoto University, specializing in film-formation by mist chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Making use of physical properties of gallium oxide (Ga2O3), FLOSFIA has devoted to development of low-loss power devices.
• TXP Medical — TXP Medical build a next-generation medical system through acute care.
• Startbahn — Startbahn aims to realize a richer society by providing the technology needed by artists and people involved with art all over the world. We are developing Startbahn Cert., a service that issues blockchain certificates for artworks, and promoting the development of Startrail, a blockchain infrastructure that is the basis for Startbahn Cert. We alsorun joint projects with other companies.

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• Hint — Homeownership without the guesswork. Human expertise. An app that knows your home.
• Osmo — Giving computers a sense of smell.
• Tradespace — Connecting companies with innovators to get intellectual property from lab to market. Tradespace provides powerful tools and expertise to commercialize your IP and scout for innovation.

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• Morgenrot — Morgenrot provides Earth-friendly, high-power distributed cloud computing solutions worldwide. GPU/CPU servers, Render Pool
• Active Surfaces — Active Surfaces is commercializing MIT-developed ultra-thin-film solar technology.
• Japan GX Group — Shibuya Blend Green Energy platform analyzes company processes and resources, recommends and plans improvement initiatives, and addresses corporate ESG challenges, assisting companies in balancing business and environmental protection.

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• Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
• Findigs — Simplify every step of tenant screening with airtight fraud protection. Meet the screening and decisioning system built to get renting right.
• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.

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• GITAI — GITAI is the world’s leading space robotics startup, aiming to provide safe and affordable means of labor in space and reduce operational costs by 100 times. GITAI is developing highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, space stations, lunar bases, and cities on Mars.
• Luup — Luup is Japan's #1 e-scooter and e-bike sharing service provider. Luup currently operates in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while planning to expand to other cities all over Japan. The service is based on a high-density port network, where anyone can rent and return to their original fleets.
• Idea Record — Idea Records provided various business support solutions since its founding as a company promoting digital transformation in the restaurant industry. Among them, the SaaS platform GATE, released in 2018, has many functions that are particularly suited to the needs of restaurants, and is being introduced in many stores.

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• Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
• Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
• Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Menthum — Grow your wealth with Egypt's leading fintech platform. Earn up to 2x traditional bank returns with FRA-licensed security.
• Bluworks.io — Transform workforce operations with Bluworks. Manage scheduling, attendance, payroll, and teams from one platform with complete visibility.

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• Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.
• Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
• 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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• Calibre — Shaping the future of testing, inspection and certification. Powered by AI. Built for TIC.
• LightTable — LightTable uses AI to review construction drawings and specs, catching coordination, constructability, and compliance issues before they become RFIs or delays.
• Candex — Candex is your tech-based master vendor, enabling enterprises to engage and make purchases from suppliers in a compliant way without onboarding delays.

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• MVX — MVX is a freight forwarding business and logistics platform that offers freight financing, tracking, and shipping services to help trade.
• Kosa — Domain name KOSA.ai is a powerful tech-driven brand with a sleek, modern appeal. The name KOSA conveys a sense of intelligence and sophistication, making it perfect for AI-focused startups or businesses in the technology sector. As a short,
• Credable — Credable is the Digital Banking Platform that is driving the future of banking by embedding financial services in businesses across emerging markets.

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• Immunocore — Immunocore is focused on the discovery and development of novel T cell receptor-based drugs to treat diseases with a high unmet need, including cancer and viral disease. The company’s expertise in engineering T Cell Receptors (TCRs) and linking them to an antibody fragment (scFv) known as anti-CD3, has led to its first product candidate, IMCgp100,entering clinical trials in patients with metastatic melanoma. The proprietary T Cell Receptor technology platform is well validated and can easily be manufactured for clinical and commercial supply in microbial systems. Immunocore is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of TCR bispecific immunotherapies.
• SeamlessHR — Africa's Leading HR & Payroll Software - Empowering African Businesses for Productivity and Profitability Through Technology.
• BioNTech — BioNTech is a next-generation immunotherapy company pioneering novel therapies for cancer and other serious diseases. It contains several classes of drugs, including mRNA-based drugs to encode antigens, neoantigens, cytokines, and antibodies; cell therapies; bispecific antibodies; and antibody-drug conjugates.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Atom — Atom is a humanoid robot built platform. Its bipedal, dual-armed robots are designed not just as industrial tools but as collaborators that expand human capability. By combining advanced Physical AI—environmental perception, judgment, and action planning—with robust robotic hardware, Atom is creating adaptive agents capable of working acrossdiverse settings to augment or, where appropriate, replace human labor. The company positions these robots as a next step in societal evolution: a new class of machines that learn and behave in human-like ways to advance productivity, safety, and quality of life.
• Link Therapeutics — Link Therapeutics specializes in developing therapeutic methods for targeting autoantibodies and identifying pathogenic autoantibodies.

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• Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• 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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• Cerbos — End-to-end access control for Zero Trust environments and AI systems. Enforce fine grained contextual authorization in every layer of the software you build
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.

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• SWAT Mobility — SWAT Mobility is a smart mobility company that provides demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology in high capacity vehicles. We work with corporates, transport operators and government agencies to improve transport services. Learn more about how we can help you leverage technology for your transport.
• Sakana AI — We are creating a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence.
• Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.

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• Tilera — High-performance, low-latency networking for AI workloads.
• Strut Learning — Deliver flexible online experiences your students demand all in your in the ecosystem. Complete degree programs, plug and play, and customizations in a snap.
• Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.

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• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
• MarketForce — MarketForce is a US, Kenya and Nigeria-based technology company that is building the SuperApp for Africa's 100 million merchants. MarketForce provides an all-inclusive B2B Commerce and Fintech platform (dubbed “RejaReja” – Swahili for ‘retail’) that empowers merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently,access financing, collect digital payments and make extra money by reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments. Launched in 2018, MarketForce is a fast-growing YC backed company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 50 consumer brands trading on the platform.
• ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.

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• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!

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• Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
• Novellia — Free personal health tool that centralizes your medical records from multiple healthcare providers in one secure platform.
• Savi Security — The only app built to protect your family from AI-powered scams across calls and texts, 24/7. Try Savi free on iOS and Android.

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• Anevo — Anevo helps real estate companies eliminate tedious backoffice work. Saving up to 90% of your time, Anevo lets you focus on what truly matters.
• Menon Skills — Menon Skills is an information technology firm that develops digital tools to enhance organization team skills through feedback and reviews.
• Waka Payments — Waka Payments is a mobile application that allows user to access, transfer, and manage cross border financial transactions.

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• Agrinorm — Agrinorm is a Swiss deep tech company leveraging cutting edge machine learning techniques for the optimization of fruits and veg supply chains.
• hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
• Carewell — Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs.

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• BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• Orbital Sentry — Orbital Sentry delivers real-time wildfire detection and continuous geostationary monitoring to protect communities, reduce losses, and power next-generation risk intelligence. Our persistent infrared data helps insurers, governments, and first responders act faster and build true climate resilience

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

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• Craftt — Craftt is building a frictionless and fairer future of work. It's on a mission to deliver universal benefits that enable financial confidence for the modern workforce.
• NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
• Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.

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• heva — Heva - AI-native practice management platform connecting global patients with quality healthcare. Find affordable medical procedures, trusted providers, and seamless cross-border care coordination.
• Creatify AI — Empower everyone's ad creation.
• ThetaWave AI — Turn lectures into notes, mindmaps, quizzes & flashcards in real-time. Trusted by 1,000,000+ students from Stanford, MIT & more. Free to try.

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• Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• Billpocket — Billpocket convierte tu smartphone o tablet en una terminal punto de venta. Ya no tienes que esperar al banco y pagar exageradas cuotas de mantenimiento, fianzas y papel para poder cobrar con tarjeta. Simplemente necesitas una cuenta bancaria a donde puedas recibir tus cobros con tarjeta de débito y crédito.

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• Aumet — Aumet allows medical manufacturers and distributors increase their sales by sharing hospital inquiries, business news, search for products, and find potential clients.Manufacturers and distributors who work together connect and get verified so they share hospital inquiries, market business news between each other .Suppliers list their productsand connect with distributors who sell these products and select countries, where they are looking for distributors, in the meantime distributors, connects with their suppliers, search for new product and list their interests.
• Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
• Chowdeck — Order food, groceries, drinks, medicines & everyday essentials from top restaurants, pharmacies, local markets, and stores near you. Fast delivery with Chowdeck.

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• Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
• Redo — Redo develops a free return automation application for brand owners. It turns refunds into exchanges or store credit. It also automates the return process to operate under preferences and helps clients transform their returns center into a profit center. Its package protection simplifies claims management with an all-in-one customer portal, makingit easy to offer, track, and resolve claims.
• Creekstone Energy — Creekstone Energy is a hyperscale AI energy and infrastructure company. Purpose-built data centers with integrated behind-the-meter power generation.

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• Antares — Factory-produced, deployable fission microreactors to provide strategic energy for mission-critical systems across Earth, space, and underseas.
• Walden Robotics — Walden Robotics is an industrial robotics company that builds and deploys general-purpose, semi-humanoid robots for manufacturing and logistics.
• Turnout — Turnout Technologies is a technology related company.

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• Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
• Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
• Luminai — DigitalBrain helps you get through your support tickets twice as fast.

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• Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Valar Atomics — Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production.

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• 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.
• Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
• ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.

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• Coelba — Coelba is an energy distribution company.
• Infinity Power — Infinity Power is the largest African renewable energy company, offering innovative solutions in solar power, wind energy, and low-carbon hydrogen technologies. Discover our projects and commitment to sustainable energy solutions.
• ANSA McAL — ANSA McAL specializes in automotive, beverage, manufacturing, financial services and retail.

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• ofo — Ofo is a “station-free” bike-sharing platform operated via an online mobile application. It is committed to providing the best short distance transportation solution, solving the “last mile” transportation problem by turning the last mile into a green, low-emission trip. To date, ofo has connected more than 10 million bikes to over 200 millionusers in more than 20 countries: Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US. The platform generates more than 32 million daily transactions and has provided global users in 250+ cities with over 6 billion efficient, convenient, green rides.The ofo platform is easy to use. After downloading the ofo mobile phone app (iOS/Android), users may scan the QR code or enter the plate number displayed on each bike to receive a passcode and unlock it. Its bike-sharing system requires no docking stations, providing significant flexibility for users to find and return bikes anywhere, anytime. Once they reach their destination, the user may park the bike anywhere that is legitimate, convenient, and easy for the next user to access. But ofo does more than help commuters and travelers access bikes for getting around their cities. As a partner of the UN Development Programme, they are focused on achieving Global Sustainability Goals and promoting green and healthy living, and they have also launched a partnership with Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation to provide bikes and scholarships for schoolgirls in Malawi.
• Flexport — Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
• Market Kurly — Love Food, Love Life.

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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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• Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
• Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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• Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
• Vicentin — Vicentin S.A.I.C., through its subsidiaries, operates as an agroindustrial company that manufactures and exports cereals and oilseeds.
• Cube Highways Trust — Cube roadways Trust is utilizing the public-private partnership (PPP) model in the roadways sector to operate and manage highway projects in collaboration with the federal and state governments.

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• Menza — Menza is a data analytics platform that generates interactive dashboards and proactive insights using AI.
• Modelence — Build production-ready apps with AI
• Karumi — Karumi is an AI agent that joins a live video call with your prospects to deliver personalized product demos, 24/7, in any language.