Top 30 Platforms Startup Investors in Africa (September 2026)

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• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
• Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
• Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.

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• EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.

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• Provider — When you send us your food shopping list via Facebook Messenger, provider helps you shop with your budget and same day delivery. Powered by natural language understanding, we want to make food and condiments market more conversational, flexible and convenient. We're one of the first conversational food market players and we'll help tochange the future of mobile food market!Our goal is to make food and condiments available through messaging and we use bots (chatbots, voice assistants) and existing channels to enable instant and sustainable 1-to-1 communication.

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• HollaNow — HollaNow is a smartphone user's best friend when they need to urgently call/whatsapp people or services whose phone numbers are not saved. With a super smart personal contact list that users can add contacts to and never bother about backup or restoring, they only sign in anywhere.Africans can now use their phonebook to locate and dialphone numbers of the nearby security and emergency service providers when they are in distress. Made in Africa.

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• about.me — Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
• Flourish Labs — Flourish Labs is a purpose-driven startup combining cutting edge mental health science and technology to foster flourishing and good mental health. Our mission is to mobilize and scale professional peer support with tech to address the mental health crisis.
• Nord Security — Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.

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• Vivid Vision — VR vision care platform. Digital endpoints for AMD, GA, and glaucoma trials. At-home and in-clinic vision traing for amblyopia, strabismus, and convergence insufficiency.
• Shred Video — Make awesome GoPro movies from raw footage in seconds. Download now on the Mac App Store! http://t.co/huKZsX8RBY
• Vantage Robotics — Silicon Valley-based Vantage Robotics designs, builds and sells UAVs and UAV components for government and commercial customers.

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• Eden — Eden unifies medical imaging operations with clinical AI: PACS, teleradiology, AI-assisted diagnosis and structured reporting, deployed across 2,600+ imaging departments.
• Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital
• Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.

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• Treinta — Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools.
• Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.

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• LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
• Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.

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• Aktwist — AI-Powered Battle Royale Platform , Experience next-generation gaming with AI-driven combat, immersive environments, and competitive gameplay.
• Sahinov — Generate launch-ready visuals from a simple prompt
• SocheraAI — Turn your ideas into professional videos, realistic voiceovers, and high-quality content, all from a single AI-powered platform. No editing skills required.

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• FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.
• Rapport — Rapport understands how your people are doing, coaches everyone in your company's own language, and shows you it's working. Launches in Slack or Teams in days.
• 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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• Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
• Aseon Labs — Robotic pitstops for self driving cars. A depot in a box for charging, cleaning & inspecting AVs directly in operating zones. Backed by @ycombinator
• Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.

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• Enki — Enki is the most effective way to learn Looker, Tableau, SQL, Excel, and other data skills. Training fully customized by role and team. Use data in the highest impact way for your role.
• Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
• Willow Voice — Willow Voice is a technology company that develops voice input solutions using artificial intelligence. Its primary product is a dictation tool that converts spoken language into text in real time. The platform is designed to support everyday digital tasks by reducing reliance on manual typing.

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• 1001 AI — 1001 is the AI-powered intelligence layer helping enterprises transform decisions, orchestrate actions, and accelerate outcomes.
• Augustus — Building the clearing bank for the AI era
• Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

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• VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
• 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
• Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.

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• Growwr — Growwr is an AI-native workforce infrastructure platform building the operating system for global work.Its flagship product, Growwr AI, acts as an intelligent hiring agent that helps companies source, screen, evaluate, and hire talent through conversational workflows instead of manual recruiting processes. Companies can describe a role, definehiring priorities, and automatically receive ranked candidates based on verified skills, work history, and performance data.Beyond hiring, Growwr provides integrated global payment infrastructure that enables companies to pay talent across 180+ countries through cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and local payment rails.Because hiring, work, and payments happen inside one system, Growwr continuously generates verified workforce data around earnings, productivity, reliability, and work consistency. The company is leveraging this infrastructure to build workforce financial services including payroll, invoicing, credit scoring, and access to financial products for professionals in emerging markets.Growwr supports 90,000+ users across 15 countries, has processed over millions in payouts, and serves businesses across Africa, the UK, and the US.The company is building the AI and financial infrastructure layer powering the future of global work.
• Paycrest — Decentralized routing protocol for instant, secure, zero-fee payments in emerging markets.
• Cr3dentials — Embedded financing for neobanks

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• EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.
• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Jalebi — An award-winning restaurant point of sale (POS) & inventory management system thathelps you save 5% on the cost of every order served.

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• Kapu — Your favorite supermarket on every street.
• Nitex — Nitex is a B2B platform for sustainable garments supply chain allowing fashion retailers to manage product design, developments, compliance, order tracking, and insurance in one platform.
• Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.

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• nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
• Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
• Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.

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• Prospa — Prospa is a technology company building the operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses.

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• Orbital — Orbital is a startup that is creating artificial intelligence data centers for deployment in low-Earth orbit to circumvent terrestrial power and cooling limits. The company specializes in satellite-based compute for AI inference workloads, utilizing continuous solar power and space's inherent radiative cooling.
• Terminal — Easily add 30+ telematics integrations to your application with a single API. Connect your application to the services you need, without worrying about the underlying details
• Greenboard — Greenboard is the modern operating system for SEC and FINRA compliance.

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• Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
• Uvera — Long Lasting Fresh Food
• Zetta Technologies — Zetta Technologies is a Device as a Service (DaaS) provider with a unique business model. With us you get a complete service that enables sustainability, increases your flexibility, simplifies your operations, gives financial control, and decreases the total cost of ownership.

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• Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
• 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.
• FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.

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• Vulture Labs — Transforming your existing CCTV into your Most Powerful Operational Tool.
• TRIC Robotics — TRIC Robotics develops an autonomous, non-chemical pesticide alternative for strawberry farms. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Newark, DE.
• Pilot Protocol — Network OS for AI Agents

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• Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
• WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
• Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity

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• Bekia — We are proud to say that Bekia is the most flexible company when it comes to recycling.
• SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
• T7D Gaming — Gaming infrastructure for 600M+ players across MENA. Home of Pulse.

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• Osium AI — Speed up your materials and chemicals innovation with AI.
• Lately — Lately uses AI to create your social media content and manage your social media marketing and social selling programs.
• FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.

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• Zalos — Automate repetitive Finance workflows without changing your Finance systems. AI agents that connect, act, and audit across ERPs, banks, and invoicing platforms.
• Sourcetable — Sourcetable connect, sync, and query all the data in a spreadsheet, without needing to know how to code. Founded in 2019, Sourcetable is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
• ShredSpots APP — Social Map App Of Hidden Street Sports Art

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• FoondaMate — Foondamate brings the internet through messaging applications so students with limited internet access can study online.