Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Africa (July 2026)

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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.

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• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• TRAPMINE — TRAPMINE Endpoint Protection Platform provides fool-proof defense against malware, exploit attempts, file-less malware, ransomware and other forms of targeted attacks.Unlike traditional detection-based approaches like legacy antivirus, TRAPMINE combines proven and innovative technologies such as deep learning, behavior monitoring, endpointdeception and anti-exploit techniques to block cyber threats dead in their tracks. TRAPMINE's easy-deploy and lightweight solution comes with a comfortable built-in security console, at a price/performance ratio unmatchable even by the biggest names in Palo Alto.Why TRAPMINE?Cyber criminals target companies of all sizes from every industry, seeking anything that might be of value. Antivirus and other traditional security solutions are no longer efficient to protect organizations from attacks by today’s modern cyber threat actors. That’s why we founded TRAPMINE. TRAPMINE is created to solve the malware problem for all organizations at a reasonable price.
• Colibo A/S — Use Colibo's intranet software as your enterprise collaboration platform to increase productivity, drive employee engagement and better internal communications.
• November First — November First - Betalingsplatform til alle virksomheder

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• GetEquity — GetEquity is a NASDAQ for venture capital. We provide an exchange and liquidity for private companies, and an infrastructure for different cadres of venture capital around investing, founder liquidity, and shareholder management
• SureGroup — Commerce in Africa is deeply facilitated by cash, but cash-based transactions are expensive, unsafe, and difficult to track. Suregifts identified an opportunity to take advantage of the growth and adoption of the internet and all things digital in Africa by creating a simple, yet safe alternative currency to be utilised for specific purposes;Vouchers.At the core of what SureGifts does, is selling and maintaining an inventory of vouchers, which can be exchanged between two or more parties, and spent at a closed but extensive network of merchants across Africa for a near-unlimited assortment of goods and services.
• Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.

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• Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
• Red Bull KTM Tech3 — Red Bull KTM Tech3 is a motorcycle racing team that competes in the MotoGP and Moto3 World Championships. The team fields riders on KTM machinery across the premier and lightweight Grand Prix classes. It participates in the full world championship calendar, racing at circuits such as Sachsenring, Assen, Silverstone, MotorLand Aragón, Misano, andothers. Red Bull KTM Tech3 manages rider development, technical preparation, and race operations for each Grand Prix round.

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• Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
• Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
• SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• Neat — Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneursAs entrepreneurs our businesses are always in motion: starting from an idea, to making a first sale, to expanding globally. We need a financial experience that evolves with us – an experience that’s still stable and secure, but adaptive too. Banks were built for a different era of business, not for thenew economy – where borders are disappearing and it’s easier than ever to start a global business. Neat believes in making international business a reality for entrepreneurs around the world. Today, Neat is a modern alternative to a bank, designed to support you wherever you go. Tomorrow, we’re a platform for doing business: building a dynamic and frictionless economy.
• Bambu — Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves over 20 financial institutions globally. Founded in 2016,Bambu is headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the United States and EMEA representatives.
• Moneyhub — Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.

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• Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
• Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
• Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
• TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.

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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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• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• 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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• Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
• FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
• Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

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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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• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Wild Moose — Wild Moose helps on-call developers more quickly identify the source of production incidents, by providing a conversational AI trained on their environment. This allows developers to delegate the search through logs and metrics to lightning-fast AI.
• The Wedding Company — The Wedding Company provides the best wedding services in India. Book end-to-end wedding planning services online with us and grab the best deals for your wedding, engagement, reception, and other events.

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• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

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• Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.

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• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.

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• BeraTone — BeraTone is a farm life simulation game developed on Berachain technology.
• SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
• Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.

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• Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
• Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.
• Beam — We are a decentralized autonomous organization on a mission to revolutionize gaming. Join us as we build the metaverse by empowering people to be a part of it.

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• KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
• Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
• Treehouse — Treehouse is the decentralized fixed income layer, building yield solutions and unifying on-chain interest rates through its products, tAssets and DOR.

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• Yoco — Save time, money and guesswork. Yoco helps 200,000+ SA businesses run point of sale, take payments and access flexible business funding from one account.

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• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
• Leatherback — Simplifying Global Trade for individuals and businesses across the globe. Leatherback moves your money from one continent to another with ease. Anytime, Anywhere, and to almost Everywhere.
• 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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• Bypa-ss — Bypa-ss is working on creating a world-class SaaS healthcare environment and revolutionizing healthcare in Egypt, Join Us
• Simulon — Studio-quality VFX on a mobile. Sign up to the Simulon beta.
• 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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• Medusa — The most flexible commerce platform for developers and agents
• Heyhack — Automated web application security testing, protection, and reporting for software-as-a-service businesses.
• Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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• Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
• Wealth8 — Wealth8 is a black-owned investment platform that provides a simple and affordable way for the black community to save & invest in globally managed funds.
• Juicyway — Juice is a developer of a payment network platform for cross-border business payments for businesses and individuals. It facilitates financial transactions between parties regardless of location to allow enterprises to participate in international trade and the exchange of goods and services.

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• qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
• Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
• SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

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• Circa — More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a uniqueformat – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users. Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.Circa was founded by
• HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
• CloudPeeps — CloudPeeps is a community, marketplace and platform that empowers freelancers and businesses to do their best work. Hire a team of quality professional freelancers to get the job done. Work the way you want, wherever you are!

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• Sequr — Genea Security Mobile Access Control software puts the power in your hands. Instantly grant or revoke access. Use mobile phone to unlock doors with a tap.
• Landed — We help education, healthcare, and government employees buy homes by providing access to funds, trusted partners and guidance.
• Farmcrowdy — Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farmsponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.

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• SWAP — Swap empowers companies to transform their financial operation with an innovative approach, technology, and business model. SWAP’s APIs offer clients end-to-end, white-label, financial solutions. Connected to them, its clients are able to develop complete financial ecosystems including pre-paid cards, digital wallets, financial services and furthermonetize their platform while expanding their core experience. It removes barriers and generates new business lines for companies, effectively creating internal fintech.
• Truewind — Using AI to power bookkeeping & finance means less errors, more transparency, and faster monthly close
• Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.

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• Kira — The easiest way for non-fintech enterprises to launch AI-powered, stablecoin-based financial products. Through a unified API platform, Kira enables businesses to embed remittances, payroll, wallets, and real-time cross-border payments.
• Recall.ai — Recall.ai provides a single API for meeting bots on every platform like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more.
• Arena — Arena is a software firm that builds active learning systems and techniques like reinforcement learning.

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• PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
• Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
• MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.

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• Klump — Use Klump to buy now and pay later in instalments for up to 12 months! Businesses accept payments, increase conversion rates, and boost revenue. The Easy Life! Try it now.
• Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.

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• Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
• Paystack — Over 60,000 businesses of all sizes use Paystack to collect payments with a modern, secure payment gateway.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
• OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
• Real Time Wine — Share your wine moments. Real Time Wine is the social wine discovery app for everyone who enjoys wine, not just those who understand it. [In App Stores NOW!]

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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.

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• Mono — Mono helps businesses link their customers accounts for financial data, bank payments and identity verification across Africa.
• Frain technologies — We're passionate about the product delivery value chain.
• Snazzy — Snazzy is a teledentistry platform for teeth straightening. It offers affordable and accessible clear aligner treatment. Snazzy was founded in 2020 by Ayush Pateria and Keshav Chouksey and was headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.

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• MerciYanis — Yanis is a Toulouse start-up that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect buildings and help work environment departments
• Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
• Primaa — Primaa develops AI-based software for automated and accurate histological diagnoses, improving a vital step in the detections of cancer and other pathologies.

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• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.

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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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• NowNow — NowNow aims to democratise the mobile wallet space in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. We provide a bank and MNO agnostic online platform to recharge any mobile, pay bills, and utilities, send/receive money and pay@shop directly to merchants. The amount consumers pay is returned in the form of cashback and coupons making the recharge almostfree. We are PCI-DSS compliant and are licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.NowNow also offers a unique agent platform that enables additional revenue streams for individuals and businesses and provides financial services to the unbanked – allowing them to offer p2p, bank transfers, cash out, mobile recharge, pay bills etc.

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• Stakefair — Stakefair is an ecosystem of blockchain, crypto and DeFi products.

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• Bujeti — Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Manage expenses, automate payments, and issue corporate cards for total control and visibility.
• Greptile — Tabnam is an AI-powered product research tool that scrapes the internet for customer experience data about a product to help shoppers make more informed decisions.
• AddGlow — Our AI-powered video generator turns your product photos into dynamic and captivating videos your customers will love. Each clip is reviewed and refined by human experts to ensure top quality, guaranteed.

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• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids brings African stories to life! Award-winning books, music & media that make early learning joyful, empowering & proudly cultural.

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• Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
• Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.

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• Arrago — Arrago is a Fintech lending platform providing French Lifetime Mortgages
• Qlower — Qlower assists landlords in managing their properties by leveraging on Open Banking and Machine Learning technologies. Qlower offers free rental management and automates accounting & tax declaration. Its DeepTech Wealth Advisory engine provides quantified savings and assists investors in making right decisions.
• Celest Science — Understand, monitor and anticipate your exposure to extreme weather events in the context of climate change with our proprietary AI models. Risk Assessment | Subseasonal to seasonal forecast | CatNat modelling | Climate APIs.

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• Waza — Waza is a web platform with APIs. It helps startups and emerging market businesses manage their cash flow issues, invoicing needs, and international payment requirements.
• 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
• Next Gen Foods — Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists.

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• tushop — Tushop is a community group buying platform where members can sell groceries to those in their social networks and communities.
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
• Fountain — Fountain operates in the finance industry, providing a wallet platform specifically designed for teams. The platform allows users to create permission-controlled wallets in a matter of seconds, offering a centralized location for managing all transactions and treasury. In addition to its wallet services, Fountain also offers a unique way to enjoypodcasts, further diversifying its product offerings. With a team of six, Fountain continues to innovate in the realm of finance and entertainment.
• Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.