Top 25 Fitness Startup Investors in Africa (October 2026)

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• Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
• myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.

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• Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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• BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
• Farmoja — FarmMoja builds integrated, seedling-to-export value chains for global markets.
• YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.

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• Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
• Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
• mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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• Jahazii — Jahazii helps employers offer on-demand access to earned wages, giving employees financial flexibility without loans while reducing pressure on HR and payroll teams. Funds on M-PESA in seconds, at no cost to you.
• TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
• The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.

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• Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
• Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.

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• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• ARC Ride — Leading the emobility revolution in East Africa - starting with Kenya #emobilityrevolution
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
• Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
• Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.

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• Lovelytics — Lovelytics is a data and analytics consultancy. We partner with people, teams, and organizations to deliver services and build solutions that drive outcomes while promoting self-sufficiency through hands-on enablement. Lovelytics partners with best-in-class technologies, such as Databricks, Tableau, Microsoft Azure, AWS, dbt, and others to deliverworld-class solutions and services.
• Aryon Security — Aryon prevents multi-cloud security risks, without changing the definition, management, or operation of your cloud.
• The Ben Buckler — The Ben Buckler is a winery that produces wines.

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• Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
• Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
• Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients

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• Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
• Terra Industries — Terra Industries develops autonomous security systems and software platforms that support the monitoring and protection of physical assets, infrastructure, and operational environments across land, air, and maritime domains. The company provides unmanned vehicles, autonomous towers, and sensor-based surveillance hardware that collect and transmitdata for continuous situational awareness. Its software layer, built around an integrated operating system, processes sensor inputs, applies artificial intelligence models, and coordinates automated responses to detected events. Terra Industries designs its systems to support functions such as perimeter security, infrastructure monitoring, asset tracking, and threat detection within complex operational settings. The company’s platforms enable operators to manage multiple autonomous devices through a unified interface that supports mission planning, data visualization, and system control. Its technology is used by organizations that require coordinated security, monitoring, and response capabilities for facilities, remote sites, and distributed operations.
• Irreversible — Irreversible designs next-generation analog AI chips that enable meaningful intelligence anywhere — from sensors to robots.

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• Sofya — Sofya AI is a healthcare AI platform that uses NLP and voice tech to boost patient engagement and streamline clinical workflows.
• Kintsu — Kintsu operates as a healthtech platform that bridges the gap between patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions.
• Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.

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• Adbot — Award-winning AI that manages your Google Ads 24/7 using six years of South African market intelligence. Better results, less cost.
• Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
• Lettuce — Lettuce is an app that lets you keep track of your investments. Just add the assets you own, and we'll keep track of what they're worth right now.

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• Ctrack — Ctrack is the vehicle tracking provider with more than 24 years' experience of developing effective fleet solutions. Ctrack is a part of DigiCore Holdings, a global company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, whose advanced Ctrack technology is fitted to almost 430,000 vehicles operating in 32 countries across 5 continents.
• Peach Payments — Get Peach as your Payment Gateway and Grow your ecommerce. Process online payments with Visa, Mastercard, Debit Orders, EFT payments, and subscriptions. Plugins for Wix, Shopify, WooCommerce.
• Barracuda Holdings — Barracuda Holdings (Pty) Ltd. is an owner-driven company established in 2010 by the founding partners, each of whom has over 20 years of experience. Barracuda Holdings provides manufacturing expertise across multiple sectors, including Automotive accessories, diagnostic tools, and fleet management.

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• Cladfy — Cladfy is a data analytics company that creates tools to assist lenders, merchants, and individuals in making informed loan, savings, and expenditure decisions.
• Karpolax — Offering innovative fruit preservation products! For the grower, the packer, and the retailer.
• Affinity — Join over 145,000 who trust the Affinity to manage their personal and business banking needs, from payments to savings, as well as loans

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• Zoona — Zoona is an interoperable payments business that enables the drive of young entrepreneurs and the power of cutting-edge technology to bring a large variety of safe and reliable financial services to underserved communities in Zambia.
• Farmerline — The Farmerline vision is to see an Africa where Agriculture NGO’s are not a functioning force in the market. Farmerline provides paid services that allow farmers to have the information and access they need to employ an entrepreneurial method of farming. Input dealers and traders pay for more efficient communication channels to farmers andfarmers pay for information packages and services. In this vision, more food is produce, more food gets to market, and GDP from cash crop export soars.
• Penda Health — With medical centres throughout Nairobi, Penda provides healthcare you can trust.

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• PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
• HerSpace — HerSpace operates as an end-to-end industrial housing partner that fabricates turnkey modular worker dormitories, women's housing, and family units in a controlled factory environment. Its value proposition centers on transforming workforce accommodation into a corporate operational advantage by assuming full accountability for sitedeployment, regulatory compliance, and 24/7 hospitality management to reduce worker absenteeism and accelerate project timelines.
• Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions — Kreedo Preschool Non-Franchise Solution | education development partner that helps create your preschool brand | Promotes with strong ROI.

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• Logexa — We are the first Saudi on-demand warehousing platform that provides different storage options within multiple locations. With Logexa’s services, warehouses can increase their utilization rate. On the other hand, businesses can benefit from flexible, dispersed storage and not worry about scalability issues with their inventory.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• Squadio — Ibtikar Technologies Co was born in Saudi Arabia in 2010 at the hands of a group of visionaries working with a simple motto; helping business to digitally transform. The few years since our birth have been a joy ride to fill the gap in the Saudi market and contribute to it with scalable and reliable solutions.Ibtikar Technologies is one of themost experienced mobile applications development providers in the region. We believe in delivering credibility, integrity, reliability and good will with the products and solutions we provide to our clients using our enhanced knowledge and amazing work environment.

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• Anda Africa — Anda is Angola’s leading mobility fintech platform, providing asset financing, ride hailing, and delivery services to empower mobility entrepreneurs. Built for emerging markets, Anda bridges the credit gap by financing productive assets such as motorcycles, tricycles, and cars, enabling drivers to own their vehicles, increase their earnings, andenter the formal economy. Through technology driven credit profiling and fully digitized payments, Anda creates financial identities for people who were previously underserved and unlocks responsible access to financial services. As an impact driven company, Anda brings together mobility, financing, and digital payments to deliver safe, affordable, and inclusive transportation while enabling a new generation of financially empowered entrepreneurs.
• Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.

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• Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• The Awareness Company — We use data to tell stories that are useful to humans.

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• MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
• Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
• Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.

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• Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
• True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
• Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.

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• AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
• Hidoc Consult — Hidoc Consult: Boost your well-being with free consultations, 24/7 access to quality healthcare, complete privacy, user-friendly, and a trusted network of HCPs
• NEXT Life Sciences — NEXT Life Sciences is developing the revolutionary Plan A™ procedure to bring the only scientifically proven technology in the category - Vasalgel® - to market.

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• FitKey — SENGTOTO menghadirkan login alternatif game online dengan akses mudah pilihan permainan menarik hadiah beragam tampilan nyaman dan pengalaman seru setiap hari.
• 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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• 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.
• Hydrosat — Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Leveraging our first-in-history thermal capabilities, we also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.
• Chirps Chips (Six Foods) — As seen on Shark Tank. Delicious soy, grain, and gluten free snacks made from high protein cricket flour. Non-GMO, gluten-free, and great for kids!