Top 45 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in South Africa (June 2026)

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• Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
• SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

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• Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
• Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
• visionAI — Enhance factory efficiency with visionAI by using existing cameras to uncover inefficiencies and eliminate your production blindspots. Book a demo now!

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• Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
• 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.
• HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.

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• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

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• CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
• 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.
• Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.

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• Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
• Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
• Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.

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• BriefCo — BriefCo is South Africa's first and only legal cost consultancy leveraging technology. We utilize our own secure online platform to allow for the digital delivery and storage of all documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation. ​
• Vocalysd.ai — Vocalysd is a customer-centric, AI-powered insights tool. Vocalysd unlocks usable, easy-to-digest insights from your conversational data. These insights are key to optimising client interactions and enhancing your customers' experience.
• Sizanani — Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. We partner with like-minded organisations to help our users find the best financial products in the market. We are the first WhatsApp-first stokvel solution because we believe that technology is fundamentally meant to create value, not apps.

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• Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking  
• Noise — Buy latest Noise smart watches, wireless earbuds, BT neckband earphones, wireless headphones, speakers and smart watch accessories online at best prices in India.

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• Gamefam — Gamefam creats an Amazing Experiences for an Amazing Community.
• Nerd Street Gamers — Bringing Esports to Everyone
• Legends of Learning — Math and science games for grades K-8 that increase engagement and test scores. Curriculum aligned. Backed by Research. Teacher Reviewed. Fun for Students.

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• MPost — MPost means Mobile Post office.It enables any mobile phone user to have his or her phone act like a mobile post office. It allows you to make your mobile number be a formal postal address. With it, you get access to Postal Services through your mobile phone.
• RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
• AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .

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• Payabli — Payabli delivers payment infrastructure through a single unified API, enabling software platforms to embed, manage, and scale payments.
• When Insurance — Discover affordable COBRA health insurance alternatives for organizations seeking to minimize COBRA expenses and simplify offboarding.
• Monit — Monit is an award-winning cash flow analysis, forecasting and guidance platform that banks provide to their business customers. So both can work smarter and power the success of the other.

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• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
• MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
• Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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• Andela — Unlock the power of global tech talent with Andela. Hire experienced professionals quickly and cost-effectively. Build your team from our robust network of skilled specialists spanning 175 countries. Our AI-powered platform ensures a 96% talent match success rate. Get started now and hire with confidence.
• Matta — Matta is a B2B platform offering a comprehensive, detailed marketplace for sourcing chemicals and materials efficiently and reliably
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Adaptavate — Adaptavate is leading the carbon change in the construction industry
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.

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• Curse — The entertainment site where fans come first. Your daily source for all things TV, movies, and games, including Star Wars, Fallout, Marvel, DC and more.
• Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
• Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.

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• nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
• SkillMagic — SkillMagic's AI finds the best technical content, delivers it directly to junior engineers, and helps you track progress.

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• Vaionex — Next Generation Blockchain Applications. We are building the infrastructure and services that will power the new internet and economic system.
• BikeFair — BikeFair is an online marketplace for comfortable buying and selling verified non-stolen bicycles.The idea of BikeFair arose from our personal need to buy a cheap (yet usable) bike for everyday use in the Netherlands. That felt like an extremely hard & annoying thing to do with the existent tools. We are also fed up by the number of bikes weand our friends have already lost to theft, and we realized there is a way out of this: we can cut the demand for stolen bikes by creating a nice and easy-to-use alternative.Designed to prevent trading stolen bikes, BikeFair offers an easy and fun to use service alternative to the shady dude trying to sell you an obviously stolen bike on the corner at midnight.
• mintBlue — The infrastructure layer where enterprises and governments share, verify, and act on data without losing control. 50M+ daily transactions.

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• FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
• TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
• Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.

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• Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
• Judi Health — Capital Rx is a health technology company that engages in managing pharmacy benefit plans. The company is redefining the way prescriptions are priced and administered in the U.S. Through its Clearinghouse Model, it unlocks the pharmacy supply chain and reduces prescription costs for employer groups. By establishing a competitive marketplace fordrug pricing, Capital Rx focuses its resources on deploying actionable strategies that improve plan performance and patient outcomes.
• Oasys — The Dedicated Gaming Blockchain. Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.

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• IndiGG — IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.
• XY Finance — XY Finance is a leading cross-chain bridge aggregator that operates on 17+ EVM chains including zkSync, Linea, Arbitrum & Optimism, making bridging as easy as possible.
• Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.

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• Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
• 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
• Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!

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• OpenGov — OpenGov provides software and professional services purpose-built for local government to move communities forward.
• Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.
• Udio — Discover, create, and share music with the world. Use the latest technology to create AI music in seconds.

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• SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.
• Britto's Brainwaves — Britto's Brainwaves is a healthcare company that emerges as a beacon for those seeking in-depth medical insights.
• Power Solutions Solar — Empresa especializada em limpeza e manutenções de usinas Solar, atendemos clientes que possuem usinas solares em todo Brasil, garantindo mais geração e mais retorno do investimento realizado pelos clientes. Elaboramos um pacote de manutenções anual, onde os clientes apenas agendam as datas e nossa equipe realiza todo serviço, zerando os custos commão de obra , compras de equipamentos, manutenções de equipamentos, treinamentos, EPI´S, EPC´S, aquisição de veículos e manutenções. Nossa equipe e equipamentos a disposição dos clientes nas datas certas.

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• PayCode Inc — Paycode - Financial Inclusion. We are a B2B technology provider with a unique digital payments platform, providing Last Mile solutions to the unbanked and undeserved.

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• Rally — Invest in collectibles for as little as $50 per share, on Rally
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• Step — Build credit, bank smarter, and grow your money with Step. No hidden fees, no minimums. Join 7M+ users taking control of their finances. Start free today.

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
• Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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• Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.

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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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• 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.
• Centi — Unlocking Financial Potential with Blockchain Empowering businesses and individuals with innovative solutions that bridge traditional...
• Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions

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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
• Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
• Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.

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• wiGroup — Award-winning loyalty and rewards software powering South Africa's largest network. Bank card-linked loyalty, digital gift cards, and vouchers across 27,000+ stores.

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• Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
• Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
• Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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• ROW8 — ROW8 is a subscription-free streaming service that gives moviegoers access to new hollywood films straight from theatres, as well as a curated selection of the best hit movies of all time.
• Centbee — Centbee is a B2C payment company providing cross-border remittances and digital wallet. Founded in 2017, we provide an easy-to-use app that enables financially excluded customers to buy a wide range of important digital goods; and send money to family and friends quickly and cheaply.
• Buzzmint — Buzzmint is a BSV tech platform that enables brands, creators, media specific businesses and individuals to simply and quickly ideate, create and deploy utility led NFT/Token projects.

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• Releaf Earth — 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.
• ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
• MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

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• Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
• Cauri Money — Collect funds locally in EUR and GBP and settle in hard currency via SWIFT. Infrastructure designed for banks in emerging markets.
• Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.

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• Octiv — Turbocharge your fitness business, grow your community and build your brand with Octiv's leading Gym Management Software.
• Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.

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• Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
• Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.

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• OOVA — OOVA is a fertility diagnostic company that spun out from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Using patent pending biochemistry and artificial intelligence, OOVA learns a woman’s fertility profile by accurately measuring key hormones over time through daily urine samples. By monitoring this critical balance of hormones, OOVA can help a woman getpregnant, identify reasons she is having trouble getting pregnant, and even expose reproductive health issues like PCOS.
• Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
• Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.

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• hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.

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• Flow — Flow enables automated social media advertising for the real estate industry, providing high volumes of quality property leads and brand building.
• hearX Group — hearX is an award-winning start-up with the mission of providing affordable access to hearing healthcare using smart digital solutions. With a strong research and engineering background, we aim to democratize and decentralize hearing care, obliterating the traditional audiology model and market, which was never built to scale, instead providinghearing care to millions by leveraging our smart tech, big data and artificial intelligence expertise.The hearX Group four categories of solutions: Lead Generation and Remote Care solutions, Clinical solutions, Preventative Solutions as well as Direct to Consumer intervention solutions.We have had more than 1 000 000 tests and screenings done using our products across 39 countries. Our innovative solutions are as accurate, but faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional methods. We pride ourselves in offering a fully managed service, providing an entirely new way to overcome traditional barriers to the detection and diagnosis of disabling hearing loss.
• Inseco — Sustainable insect protein producers, converting organic by-products into nutritious protein. This high in protein product is used in animal feed, pet food, crop production, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

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• Autogrid — AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers and energy service providers to deliver cheap, clean and reliable energy bymanaging networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid applications utilize petabytes of smart meter, sensor and third-party data, along with powerful data science and high-performance computing algorithms, to monitor, predict, optimize and control the operations of millions of assets connected across global energy networks.Established at Stanford University in 2011, they have assembled a team of world-class software architects, electrical and computer engineers, data scientists and energy experts who apply cutting-edge analytics and in-depth energy data science to solve the world’s most critical energy problems.
• 45-8 ENERGY — 45-8 ENERGY is exploring eco-friendly helium for uses in many industries.
• Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

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• Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
• Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
• Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.

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• AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
• Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.
• Pele Energy Group — Pele Energy Group owns and runs renewable energy infrastructure in addition to providing economic and community development consulting services.

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• Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
• Power Protocol — Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem.

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• Dailyhunt — Dailyhunt offers personalized news in 14 Indian languages. Stay updated with the latest in news, cricket, football, viral content, entertainment, technology, travel, politics, business, lifestyle, and more. Available on Android, iOS, and the web.
• SafeTraces — Delivering veriDART, the first field diagnostic platform leveraging aerosol tracers that safely simulate airborne pathogen mobility and exposure levels.
• Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.