Top 35 Software Startup Investors in Tanzania (August 2026)

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• Thndr — Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform.It comes with 0% commission, no account minimum, access to market data, easy account setup, and funding processes. Users can also get access to the latest news, market data, and other educational tools. Seif Amr established the company in 2020 in Cairo, AlQahirah, Egypt.
• Ezeebit — Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies.
• Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.

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• Synthpop — Streamlining healthcare, one workflow at a time. Automate 80% of your healthcare business processes with AI. Learn more.
• Telgorithm — Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover).
• Workr — Workr Labs enables manufacturers in industries like aerospace and automotive to unlock the potential of high-mix, low-volume production automation. Our intuitive robotic machine tending solution combines advanced AI-driven learning with seamless integration into existing CNC machines and robots. With Workr, manufacturers can train robots to handlenew tasks in under two minutes, ensuring consistent reliability, increased machine utilization, and reduced dependency on skilled labor. Our flexible SaaS model and scalable hardware make automation accessible, empowering teams to boost productivity and adapt to dynamic production demands.

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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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• Hint — Homeownership without the guesswork. Human expertise. An app that knows your home.
• Osmo — Giving computers a sense of smell.
• Tradespace — Connecting companies with innovators to get intellectual property from lab to market. Tradespace provides powerful tools and expertise to commercialize your IP and scout for innovation.

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• BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• Orbital Sentry — Orbital Sentry delivers real-time wildfire detection and continuous geostationary monitoring to protect communities, reduce losses, and power next-generation risk intelligence. Our persistent infrared data helps insurers, governments, and first responders act faster and build true climate resilience

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• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Cowboy Space — Earth's energy grid can't run at the pace of AI. We are building a space-based power grid with solar-powered GPU data centers in Low Earth Orbit.
• Pensieve — AI Grading Assistant that reduces grading time, generates rubrics, and give students timely feedback.

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• Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
• Findigs — Simplify every step of tenant screening with airtight fraud protection. Meet the screening and decisioning system built to get renting right.
• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.

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• Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
• Novellia — Free personal health tool that centralizes your medical records from multiple healthcare providers in one secure platform.
• Savi Security — The only app built to protect your family from AI-powered scams across calls and texts, 24/7. Try Savi free on iOS and Android.

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• WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps revenue teams run better sales calls and win more deals by automating admin work and guiding reps live, during the call.
• Car Body Lab — The easy way, online.
• Perennial — Cloud Agronomics is the platform for soil carbon management.

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• Tepbac — Less work for farmer, more fish for people.
• Chodeli — Chodeli is a food supply platform that helps eateries, restaurants, hotels, resorts, and industrial kitchens with procuring food supplies.
• Surf — Surf for Brands allows you to generate the highest quality first party data, with consumer opt-in options. Generate ethical, high quality data now - Learn more

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• ofo — Ofo is a “station-free” bike-sharing platform operated via an online mobile application. It is committed to providing the best short distance transportation solution, solving the “last mile” transportation problem by turning the last mile into a green, low-emission trip. To date, ofo has connected more than 10 million bikes to over 200 millionusers in more than 20 countries: Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US. The platform generates more than 32 million daily transactions and has provided global users in 250+ cities with over 6 billion efficient, convenient, green rides.The ofo platform is easy to use. After downloading the ofo mobile phone app (iOS/Android), users may scan the QR code or enter the plate number displayed on each bike to receive a passcode and unlock it. Its bike-sharing system requires no docking stations, providing significant flexibility for users to find and return bikes anywhere, anytime. Once they reach their destination, the user may park the bike anywhere that is legitimate, convenient, and easy for the next user to access. But ofo does more than help commuters and travelers access bikes for getting around their cities. As a partner of the UN Development Programme, they are focused on achieving Global Sustainability Goals and promoting green and healthy living, and they have also launched a partnership with Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation to provide bikes and scholarships for schoolgirls in Malawi.
• Flexport — Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.
• Market Kurly — Love Food, Love Life.

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• 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.
• Spring in Africa — Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts.
• ThankUCash — ThankUCash is a technology company powering rewards and loyalty for African banks and businesses. ThankUCash helps merchants grow revenue by connecting them to customers within and outside of their locations while retaining acquired customers using a data analytics-powered reward system where customers earn cash rewards for every transaction madeboth offline and online.

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• Craftt — Craftt is building a frictionless and fairer future of work. It's on a mission to deliver universal benefits that enable financial confidence for the modern workforce.
• NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
• Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.

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• Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
• Redo — Redo develops a free return automation application for brand owners. It turns refunds into exchanges or store credit. It also automates the return process to operate under preferences and helps clients transform their returns center into a profit center. Its package protection simplifies claims management with an all-in-one customer portal, makingit easy to offer, track, and resolve claims.
• Creekstone Energy — Creekstone Energy is a hyperscale AI energy and infrastructure company. Purpose-built data centers with integrated behind-the-meter power generation.

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• Anevo — Anevo helps real estate companies eliminate tedious backoffice work. Saving up to 90% of your time, Anevo lets you focus on what truly matters.
• Menon Skills — Menon Skills is an information technology firm that develops digital tools to enhance organization team skills through feedback and reviews.
• Waka Payments — Waka Payments is a mobile application that allows user to access, transfer, and manage cross border financial transactions.

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• Agrinorm — Agrinorm is a Swiss deep tech company leveraging cutting edge machine learning techniques for the optimization of fruits and veg supply chains.
• hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
• Carewell — Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs.

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• Vanhu Vamwe — Vanhu Vamwe is a luxury accessory brand that creates handcrafted, sustainable handbags using traditional African crafts and eco-friendly materials.
• The Rad Black Kids — The Rad Black Kids is a lifestyle and apparel company that specializes in fashion. The company’s main business includes selling clothing items such as hoodies, caps, t-shirts, and etc. It also offers a range of skate boards and vintage guitars. The Rad Black Kids was founded by Thulani Ngazimbi.
• African Warriors Fighting Championship — African Warriors Fighting Championship is Africa's leading promoter of traditional combat sports: Dambe and Wrestling.

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• ImaliPay — ImaliPay is a financial health platform offering financial products to freelancers and blue collar gig workers in partnership with gig platforms.
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• 10 Minute School — 10 Minute School is the largest online educational platform in Bangladesh. Through our website, app, and social media, more than 10 Million+ students are accessing quality education each day to accelerate their learning.

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• heva — Heva - AI-native practice management platform connecting global patients with quality healthcare. Find affordable medical procedures, trusted providers, and seamless cross-border care coordination.
• Creatify AI — Empower everyone's ad creation.
• ThetaWave AI — Turn lectures into notes, mindmaps, quizzes & flashcards in real-time. Trusted by 1,000,000+ students from Stanford, MIT & more. Free to try.

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• Kindo — Kindo brings AI-native security and automation to DevOps, SecOps, and ITOps. Streamline operations, cut alert fatigue, and resolve incidents autonomously with intelligent agents.
• Mesa — Earn points on your mortgage. With the first ever Homeowner Membership Platform, Mesa makes homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Join Mesa and get rewarded for your home.
• Candid Intelligence — Candid is compressing months of pre-construction engineering into hours of compute.

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• Tilera — High-performance, low-latency networking for AI workloads.
• Strut Learning — Deliver flexible online experiences your students demand all in your in the ecosystem. Complete degree programs, plug and play, and customizations in a snap.
• Simply Measured — Reimagine how social media can grow your business with Sprout Social. See our social media management tools in action. Start your own free trial today.

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• PastPay — Give your customers the opportunity to purchase now, but pay later with PastPay's payment solution, tailored to the needs of B2B merchants!
• Loop Golf — Search less, golf more with Loop Golf. We make it effortless to search and book tee times at popular local golf courses near you. Used by golfers across the nation, we're committed to simplifying your golf experience. Discover a range of golf courses and effortlessly secure your ideal tee time. With Loop Golf, embracing the joy of golfing has never been more accessible.
• Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.

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• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• MilkStraw AI — Save 53% on your AWS bill in 5 minutes!

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• Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
• Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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• OkHi — Smart addressing for emerging markets. Enabling businesses to collect an accurate address, navigate to it without getting lost and verity it remotely.
• Ongair — Carry out great customer service and support via WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WeChat and Line. Get your business on Instant Messaging today. Enjoy a 14 day free trial.
• Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

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• Calibre — Shaping the future of testing, inspection and certification. Powered by AI. Built for TIC.
• LightTable — LightTable uses AI to review construction drawings and specs, catching coordination, constructability, and compliance issues before they become RFIs or delays.
• Candex — Candex is your tech-based master vendor, enabling enterprises to engage and make purchases from suppliers in a compliant way without onboarding delays.

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• Vergo — Vergo is a financial technology company and is not a bank. Banking services provided by Blue Ridge Bank, N.A.; Member FDIC.
• Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
• Keep — Keep has higher credit limits, the highest cash back rewards in Canada, and absolutely no fees! Join the thousands of Canadian business owners making the switch to Keep.

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• Bud — Bud uses Open Banking to help financial companies to access and make sense of messy financial data.
• Sardine — Solve risk, compliance, and payments with one powerful API.
• TILT — Tilt is a live auction app where you can bid on clothing, sneakers and rare collectibles in real time. Join live stream auctions across the UK and Europe. Download on iOS and Android.

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• Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
• Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
• Affogato AI — Create stunning AI images and videos starring your own custom-designed virtual humans

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• Zazu — Zazu is a neobank for African SMEs, offering seamless banking tools, cash flow automation, and real-time insights. Zazu simplifies finance management in one all-in-one solution.
• Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
• Udu Technologies — Udu Technologies is an AI infrastructure company that offers GPU systems, AI platform integration, and technical support services.

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• Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs builds AI agents for financial services. Automate disputes, KYC, lending, customer support, and the back-office work in between. Book a demo.

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• Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Valar Atomics — Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production.

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• Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the productsand providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
• Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
• Luminai — DigitalBrain helps you get through your support tickets twice as fast.

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• Cerbos — End-to-end access control for Zero Trust environments and AI systems. Enforce fine grained contextual authorization in every layer of the software you build
• Nala — A new kind of mobile money transfer for Africans worldwide! Make safe, affordable, and reliable international payments to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Parafin — Parafin provides you with an end-to-end solution to offer one-click financing to your sellers.