African startups

• Katteb

  Content generation platform that uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to generate content from just a headline

  Egypt

• Kawu

  Addresses money transfer, safety, expenditure, saving challenges amongst students and as well offering an alternative source of income to the school staff as agents.

  Uganda

• Kayko

  Provides a micro-ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform allowing merchants to manage daily bookkeeping and cash flow tracking, inventory management, and tax compliance signals.

  Rwanda

• Kazi

  Connects skilled and casual informal workers with jobs on demand and provides them with access to business advisory and financial services such as digital payments and tools leasing.

  Kenya

• Kazi Yetu

  Produces organic teas, herbs, and spices without the use of chemicals for B2B and B2C customers in Tanzania and Europe

  Tanzania

• Keble

  Provides fractional real estate investment options for Africans at home and abroad.

  Nigeria

• Keep It Cool

  Helps the producers and traders manage the post-harvest losses, improve quality assurance and market access.

  Kenya

• KEIPhone

  Provides free smartphones and solar chargers to unconnected women via an innovative advertising-based revenue model.

  Uganda

• Keiwa

  Accounting and inventory management solutions for SMEs

  Cote d'Ivoire

• Kelo

  Digital Interactive Digital Bookstore and book aggregator

  South Africa

• Kemitt

  Marketplace that connects product and furniture designers with consumers

  Egypt

• Kena Health

  Mobile application allowing users to talk directly to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional using text, voice or video.

  South Africa

• Kentaste

  Produces and distributes a wide range of coconuts-based products, namely coconut milk, coconut cream, coconut flour, virgin coconut oil and desiccated coconut.

  Kenya

• Kentegra Biotechnology

  Produces and sells pyrethrin extracted from dried pyrethrum flowers to global insecticide and pesticide manufacturers.

  Kenya

• Kenzz

  e-Commerce platform presenting unlimited products, the best deals, and the freedom to share them and get rewarded for it.

  Egypt

• Kepler

  Edtech platform that helps identify the skills that are relevant and meaningful to an organization's success

  South Africa

• Kera Health

  Develops digital infrastructure that connects fragmented elements of the healthcare system — from electronic health records to insurance services — into a single AI-powered platform.

  Senegal

• Ketha

  Instant payment solution reducing the payment waiting period for farmers and labourers by up to 45 days in some value chains.

  Kenya

• Keyla

  Tech-focused business delivering quality technical services to customers at all times, in order to drive business efficiency and customer satisfaction

  Nigeria

• Keza Africa

  Provides smartphone financing for Nigerians

  Nigeria

• Kezakoo

  Online platform providing learning solutions for high school students

  Morocco

• Khazenly

  On-demand digital warehousing and fulfilment platform

  Egypt

• Khazna

  Mobile financial services for underbanked (including salary cash advance)

  Egypt

• Khula

  Tools and platforms to support and grow businesses in the agriculture supply chain

  South Africa

• Kiazi Mfalme (Global South Holding)

  Boosts smallholder productivity in Kenya’s potato sector through an outgrower model with guaranteed off-take, cold storage and agronomic support, reducing post-harvest losses and increasing farmer incomes.

  Kenya

• Kibo

  Online school that is set to offer several STEM degree programs targeted at students in Africa

  Nigeria

• Kidato

  Online school for K-12 students that provides a high-quality, affordable education to the growing middle class in Africa

  Kenya

• Kifal Auto

  Provides a seamless process for buying and selling used cars, and enabling access to financing, warranties, insurance, and other value-added services.

  Morocco

• Kijani Testing

  Provides market research, testing and aftersale support services for energy technologies.

  Kenya

• Kilimo Fresh

  Improves supply chains in Tanzania by connecting farmers directly to retailers.

  Tanzania

• Kinko

  Provides a reservation management solution for the hospitality industry enabling real time booking between Hotels, Guesthouses and Travel Agencies.

  Tunisia

• Kiotapay

  Cloud-based property management and services platform that automates tasks and processes for property owners and creates access to goods and services for tenants.

  Kenya

• Kippa

  Mobile App where small business owners can keep track of their daily income and expense transactions, create invoices and receipts, manage inventory and generally monitor their businesses

  Nigeria

• Kiri EV

  Manufactures affordable electric vehicles and charging systems for the Kenyan and East African Market.

  Kenya

• Kitovu Technology

  Web and mobile platform that applies data science and remote sensing to provide smallholder farmers with precise inputs, personalized soil and crop health insights, storage, and market linkages.

  Nigeria

• Kiwe

  Peer-to-peer money exchange app, allowing its users to transfer money instantly to each other.

  Egypt

• Klak

  Centralizes financial data across multiple sources (e.g banks, ERP, accounting software, and spreadsheets) into a single dashboard to present clear visibility into money movement,

  Nigeria

• Klas

  Allows anyone to set up an online school and deliver live classes,

  Nigeria

• Klasha

  Solution for merchants worldwide to sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies

  Nigeria

• KlickIt

  Fees management and digital collection platform

  Egypt

• Klump

  Offers customers the option to buy and receive their purchases right away and spread the payments over four (4) equal installments

  Nigeria

• Knabu

  Clearing infrastructure for firms wishing to leverage Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), become payment institutions, or become electronic money institutions.

  Nigeria

• Knot Technologies

  AI-native ticketing and access control platform designed to combat fraud, enhance demand visibility, and minimize revenue leakage into unregulated resale markets.

  Egypt

• Koa

  Online savings platform for consumers

  Kenya

• Koa Academy

  Online school that combines online learning and the flexibility of home-schooling for grades 4 - 12

  South Africa

• Koa Impact

  Makes products from the pulp of the cocoa fruit to make alternative products, reduce food waste, and provide farmers with additional income

  Ghana

• Kobo360

  Logistics app for individual and businesses

  Nigeria

• Kofa

  Offers a smart solution to convert gas-powered motorbikes to electric vehicles (EVs), while also providing customers with additional applications for the battery

  Ghana