Top 45 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Nigeria in May 2026

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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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• Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership globally. 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 revenue analyticsof mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
• Filmmakers Mart — FilmmakersMart is Africa’s first film and entertainment marketplace where entertainment businesses and creatives find verified services seamlessly for their video productions while democratizing entry into the film and entertainment industry for emerging creatives. We’re building the operations system for the film and entertainment industry inAfrica.

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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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• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• SimpliFi — SimpliFi is on a mission to democratize payments by building the leading Cards as a Service (CaaS) platform for MENA and Pakistan.
• 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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• 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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• LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
• Buzz Solutions — Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
• Safire Technology Group — SAFIRE, our patented li-ion shear thickening battery electrolyte additive stops explosion/fire through an instantaneous liquid-to-solid transformation upon mechanical impact, and imparts ballistic protection -- all inherent in the electrolyte chemistry.

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• Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
• TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
• GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.

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• Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
• Chowdeck — Enjoy fast delivery from best restaurants near you. Order African food, Asian food, Pizza, fit-fam, Drinks from restaurants near you in Ikeja, Yaba, Surulere, Ogudu, Lekki.
• Klas — Free Online Teaching Tool: Live Classes, Community | Klas

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• Cargoz — Cargoz is a logistics startup that connects SMEs looking for warehousing space with warehousing companies who has extra capacity, like Airbnb but for commercial warehousing & storage.
• PIESHIP — Pieship is a logistics startup serving last mile and their customers using Ai and crowdsourcing.
• Messenger — Messenger is a one-stop logistics platform that finances and aggregates end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations in order to assist businesses and logistics asset owners in achieving an efficient supply chain framework.

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• Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
• New/Mode — New/Mode is the multi-channel advocacy & civic engagement platform that organizations, campaigns & causes use to win. Join the New/Mode Community.

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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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• ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
• tix.africa — Tix is a refreshing approach to event ticketing in Africa. Create and sell your first ticket from your phone in under 10 minutes.
• 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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• QuantumStreet AI — Powering $1.5 Billion in global assets, EquBot's AI investment platform with IBM Watson helps global investment professionals deliver custom AI portfolios with better outcomes through portfolios as a service (PaaS). EquBot's AI is utilized by some of the largest financial institutions like HSBC, Athene, and Amundi and reaches investorsall over the world, including the US, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Russia. EquBot is an IBM partner and was started at UC Berkeley by a team from Intel, Goldman, and Fidelity.
• wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.
• Creative Market — Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

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• Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Secure Data Collaboration Platform platform that enables businesses to collaborate without compromising on consumer identity or information!
• Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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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
• 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.
• Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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• Rayda — Infrastructure to acquire, manage, insure and dispose fixed assets for businesses globally.
• Voyance — Voyance is a big data company helping businesses predict the future using machine learning combined with their data. Our platform can be used to answer questions like what does my revenue look like in the next two months, is this transaction fraudulent, will this customer churn and much more. We are currently piloting with organisations like banks,ecommerce and fintechs companies across Africa and United Arab Emirates.
• Stacs — Stacs allows you to quickly pay for what you need without breaking the bank by dividing your largest bills into tiny bits.

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• Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
• Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
• Propeller Health — Propeller Health is a mobile platform that offers sensors, mobile apps, analytics, and services to support respiratory health management. The HIPAA compliant platform stores users’ data in a cloud computing infrastructure.The Propeller sensor and mobile application help users learn more about and better manage their asthma, COPD, andrespiratory disease. The Propeller sensor attaches to users’ inhalers and wirelessly syncs with their smartphones. It tracks their triggers and symptoms and sends personalized feedback and education to their phones based on the symptoms. Users can see how often they use the medication, and set up medication reminders and alerts.Propeller community enables users to share their Propeller data with their physician and family members.Propeller Health is backed by Safeguard Scientifics, The Social+Capital Partnership, California HealthCare Foundation, and other investors.  The platform works with organizations such as Dignity Health, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Amerigroup Florida, and the City of Louisville. The system has been featured in The Economist, Washington Post, Fast Company, Wired, and Scientific American.Propeller Health has received TEDMED Innovation Showcase, White House Champion of Change, and Bluetooth Breakthrough Product awards.Propeller Health was launched by David Van Sickle, Greg Tracy, and Mark Gehring and its operations are based in Wisconsin, United States.

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• Releaf — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
• Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.

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• Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy
• Ambrosia — Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.
• Mercury — Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate.

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• Qardy — Qardy provide SMEs with a comprehensive array of financial services, such as factoring, leasing, long-term and short-term loans, and leasing. Our objectives are to empower SMEs, encourage financial inclusion, and close the loan financing gap.
• Renda — At Renda, we are passionate about revolutionizing the logistics and mobility sectors with cutting-edge technology that enables businesses and operators to seamlessly scale in emerging markets.
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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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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• VC Lab — We help idea-stage entrepreneurs and pre-seed startups get funding, build a team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, and launch impactful businesses.
• HelpNow — HelpNow Corporate Site
• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !

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• Dripos — Dripos was crafted by restaurant operators like yourself to do it all. We aren't joking, everything from payroll & accounting to mobile ordering & marketing.
• Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
• Superorder — The top off-premise operating system for restaurants. Focus on making the food that you love and we'll take care of the rest.

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• Hadrius — RIA Compliance Powered By AI. Our next-gen platform automates the entire RIA ongoing compliance process, saving you 90%+ of the time and with better accuracy than humans.
• OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
• Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.

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• Educatly — We help you get into the University of your dreams. We are the only platform with all the information you need to Study Abroad
• Zone — Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies.
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• Toybox Labs — Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home.
• FlyCoin — Flycoin is a first of its kind crypto-based rewards program that pays guests every time they fly or transact with our partners.
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• OnsiteIQ — OnSiteIQ is a computer vision platform for construction risk assessment
• Conservation Labs — H2know by Conservation Labs can help you better manage your water consumption and protect you from water disasters! Learn More...
• Fitwel — The Center for Active Design is the leading non-profit organization using design to foster healthy and engaged communities.

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• xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
• Pomelo — Send money cross border with zero transfer fees. Use and build credit with Pomelo.
• Astuto Technologies — Continuous Cloud Cost Optimization | Anomaly Detection | Waste Prevention

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• Merge — Startup Funding | Investment Opportunities | Merge App
• Big Cabal Media — Big Cabal Media is a Nigerian digital media company making amazing content loved by young and passionate Africans everywhere
• Ubawa Technologies — A payment processing platform that helps social media entrepreneurs accept payments and increase their customer conversion and retention rate with our conversational AI chat bot.

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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
• Mecho — Mecho is an on-demand auto repair and maintenance platform for individuals and businesses in Africa.
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Instanda — Digital insurance solution that enables carriers, brokers, and MGAs to design, build and launch insurance products. Learn more.
• Index Coop — Index Coop builds decentralized and exchange traded (ETF) crypto index funds based on web3 product themes. Buy & build your crypto assets investment portfolio with us today
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• MAKA — MAKA is a community commerce platform for fashion and beauty, enabling everyone to discover their style, feel represented.
• Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
• Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.

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• Gamr — 4,500+ tournaments. $550K+ prize payouts. 480K+ gamers. 27+ countries. Africa's largest gaming ecosystem powering esports, tournaments, and gaming culture.

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• Gamr — Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events. It also organises its own e-sports tournaments, including Techplus e-sports, which hosts over 4,000 gamers annually.

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• wifi.com.ng — TIZETI (wifi.com.ng) has been deploying high speed internet access to estates, offices, multi-tenant building using next generation wi-Fi technology. They deploy unlimited internet to residential and business customers which allow customers get the full benefit of the internet with no data or time caps. They also offer VOIP and Video on Demandservices.

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• AvantStay — Travel with the people you love. Group travel has never been this easy - check out our homes and locations across the country.
• Mighty Buildings — Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company innovating the construction industry by creating beautiful, and sustainable homes using 3D printing, robotics, and automation. Learn more about Mighty Buildings today!
• Phiar Technologies — Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services.

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• Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
• Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
• PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

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• Flex Finance — Flex Finance is a simple, accessible mobile platform that allows SMEs manage and track their expenses, with little-to-no financial knowledge required. Using our inbuilt AI, business owners also receive insights that help them stop waste, save money and make smarter spending decisions. Flex is committed to enabling more SMEs make it past their thirdbirthday, so they can continue to provide the income and jobs that sustain the vast majority of Nigerians.
• Super Seguros — Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• RELAYTO Content Experience Platform — RELAYTO converts your PDFs & presentations to interactive web experiences with instant branding, analytics & more
• Tyms — Tyms online accounting software for your business connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today. Also available in Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa.
• Venco Platforms — Venco automates visitor management, billing, and collections, as well as smart utility vending for communities across Africa.

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• Stears — Stears Business has a simple mission: deliver original, analytical, well-written stories that make sense of the Nigerian economy

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• InterSpace Entertainment — InterSpace Entertainment is a Music Publishing & Entertainment Agency, headquartered in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Founded in 2021, the group has expanded at a steady rate and currently houses a Record label, Music Publishing / Distribution service and a creative management Agency for Artists, Brands and Enterprises.

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• SkySQL — SkySQL is a software company that provides databases and backup services.
• Innventure — Innventure is a provider of a global open-architecture venture platform.
• RightsFlow — RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing and royalty accounting, reporting, and payment services for online music companies, record companies, distributors, artists, and songwriters. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licenseesand licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary licensing technology and 30+ million song database allow us to license content, render accounting, and pay royalties on behalf of clients quickly and accurately, ensuring that rights-holders are paid for the use of their work. RightsFlow was acquired by Google in 2011 and is now part of the team at YouTube helping to simplify music licensing, content identification, accounting and payments for songwriters and publishers worldwide.

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• NaijaHacks — NaijaHacks organizes the largest tech competition/Hackathon in Africa
• Food-X Technologies — Food-X Technologies is a SaaS startup in the grocery space. Food-X Technologies offers a software that helps grocery retailers operate fulfillment centres and track food freshness.
• Unity Health Toronto — Unity Health Toronto, comprised of providence healthcare, st. joseph’s health centre and st. michael’s hospital works to advance the health of everyone in our urban communities and beyond, that provides a health network that serves patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care, spanning primary care, secondary community care,tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care while investing in world-class research and education.

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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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• AuthMind — AuthMind, an innovator in identity security, prevents identity-related cyberattacks. It's an Identity SecOps Platform including Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM). It works anywhere and deploys in minutes.
• Ceramic.ai — Ceramic.ai builds enterprise-grade infrastructure to optimize how companies train and deploy their AI models
• NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.