Top 15 Startup Investors in Mali (June 2026)

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• GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
• Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.

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• Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
• PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.
• Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.

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• ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
• Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
• Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.

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• OKO — New generation crop insurance designed for emerging markets Droughts and flood insurance available from any mobile phone in Mali

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• WeLight — WeLight deploys sustainable and accessible solutions to accelerate energy inclusion in rural areas of Africa.
• Solarise Africa — Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewableenergy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.
• Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.

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• BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.

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• OKO — New generation crop insurance designed for emerging markets Droughts and flood insurance available from any mobile phone in Mali

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• Afterwind — Afterwind® exists to preserve natural resources for future generations by recycling glass fibre assets into circular advanced materials with full traceability.We help asset owners and industrial manufacturers in Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy, and Construction recover and reuse end-of-life and byproduct materials without compromising theiroriginal properties, including glass and carbon fibres, PET and PVC foams, and resin powders.Team Afterwind is expanding across Europe, working on- or near-site to help our clients cut costs, CO2, and risks, while supplying stable, high-quality, circular advanced materials that deliver on EU Taxonomy and green targets.
• Affinity — Join over 125,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage their banking needs, from savings to payments, as well as instant loans
• ChipAgents — Alpha Design AI is reinventing semiconductor design and verification through advanced AI agent techniques. Alpha Design AI is pioneering an AI-native approach to Electronic Design Automation (EDA), transforming how chips are designed and verified. Our flagship product, ChipAgents, aims to boost RTL design and verification productivity by 10x,driving innovation across industries with smarter, more efficient chip design.

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• Solarbox — Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system.
• Transnet SOC Ltd — As the custodian of ports, rail and pipelines, Transnet’s objective is to ensure a globally competitive freight system that enables sustained growth and diversification of the country’s economy.Transnet is currently transitioning from its Market Demand Strategy, characterised by accelerated capital investment, towards the Transnet 4.0 Strategy,which is focused on repositioning Transnet, and the country’s freight system, for competitiveness within the fast changing, technology- driven context of the 4th industrial revolution. The strategy’s main growth thrusts includes; geographic expansion, product and service innovation and diversification and expansion of the scope of Transnet’s manufacturing business. The key objectives of Transnet’s effort is directed towards increasing the connectivity, density and capacity of the integrated port, rail and pipeline network.Transnet 4.0 Strategy aims to grow Transnet to a R100 billion business by 2020. Organic growth of the current freight transport and handling divisions will account for the bulk of this growth and Transnet will continue to focus on improving operational efficiency and reliability in order to grow its market share. Consequently, capital investment to modernize and expand the port, rail and pipeline network and operations will continue to be a key priority, as will continued development of our people.Significant growth is being targeted from new markets, particularly in integrated logistics, the development of logistics hubs and clusters, natural gas midstream infrastructure, manufactured products and new digital businesses. Transnet will increasingly make use of strategic partnerships to drive these new ventures.Transnet has a critical role to play in furthering South Africa’s strategic and economic objectives and is actively refreshing its brand as it moves into new markets, expands and diversifies its service offering, and redefines its market position.Transnet operates as an integrated freight transport company, formed around a core of six operating divisions that complement each other. These are supported by a number of company-wide specialist units - Transnet Group Capital and Transnet Foundation- which underpin our company.
• Democratic Republic of Congo — DRC is an investment management company that provides portfolio advisory, asset allocation, and wealth management services.

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• Teliman — Teliman has launched the very first on-demand taxi-moto service in Bamako, connecting urban commuters with professional drivers (trained, equipped and fully insured) in Africa’s fastest growing capital (Bamako). Rather than “disrupting” the local eco-system, Teliman aims at developing innovative solutions to create shared value for a communitywhere public transportation is highly insufficient and 600,000+ passengers struggle every day to commute. Having gained the trust of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (via CFAO) and local investors in pre-seed, Teliman aims to provide a safe, convenient and affordable solution for Mali and West-Africa.

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• OKO — New generation crop insurance designed for emerging markets Droughts and flood insurance available from any mobile phone in Mali

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• 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.
• Elimutab — Elimutab - Find the best learning tablets for children and students, including options for 1-year-olds, studying with pens, and work and study needs.
• Rabbit — Transforming transportion in the region. Rabbit is a micro-mobility sharing platform for short-distance transportation using environmentally friendly vehicles.

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• bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
• PartnerSlate — Matching pre-qualified CPG brands with compatible co-manufacturers for over a decade, PartnerSlate makes reaching production faster and easier than ever.
• Cellevolve — Situs slot online ALEXISTOGEL menghadirkan server Thailand gacor setiap hari dengan ragam game dengan tema dan fitur yang bervariasi.

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• Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
• Eldrive — Eldrive Makes electric vehicle charging simple: our intelligent platform automates the entire charging process and infrastructure, ensuring a smooth experience for drivers and businesses.
• ABN AMRO Bank — Als bank leggen wij de focus op inclusiviteit, duurzaamheid, sociaal ondernemen, innovatie, dagelijkse bankzaken en meer.

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• Teliman — Teliman has launched the very first on-demand taxi-moto service in Bamako, connecting urban commuters with professional drivers (trained, equipped and fully insured) in Africa’s fastest growing capital (Bamako). Rather than “disrupting” the local eco-system, Teliman aims at developing innovative solutions to create shared value for a communitywhere public transportation is highly insufficient and 600,000+ passengers struggle every day to commute. Having gained the trust of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (via CFAO) and local investors in pre-seed, Teliman aims to provide a safe, convenient and affordable solution for Mali and West-Africa.
• Kai Senegal — Kai Senegal is a digital ride-hailing app that connects customers with drivers and a fleet management solution that allows private owners and institutional investors to buy and maintain high-quality vehicles.
• Touch Group — Touch Group is a financial aggregator which provides payments and digital services through mobile application, web and API.