African startups

• Spark Schools

  Network of affordable private schools implementing Africa’s first blended learning model for primary school students

  South Africa

• Spark Solar

  Marketplace connecting users to accredited solar providers, product suppliers and financiers in their area in a few clicks

  South Africa

• Sparkle

  Neobank for businesses and individuals

  Nigeria

• Spatialedge

  Bringing together siloed information, creating fit-for-purpose data assets and building highly performant feature stores for data scientists

  South Africa

• Speed

  Connects FMCG suppliers with small to medium-sized merchants and retailers,

  Egypt

• Spendapp

  Helps its users create mobile applications for their own use in less than 48 hours

  Egypt

• Spiro

  Electric motorbike manufacturer and clean energy provider in Africa

  Benin

• Spleet

  Financial services solution making renting a home easier, in Africa

  Nigeria

• Sportable

  Deploys Micro-Tracking (MT) technology to enhance data collection and analysis in ball and contact sports, with a focus on rugby, soccer, and American football.

  South Africa

• Spotter

  Develops an application programming interface (API)-driven platform that helps financial institutions to analyse consumer financial data, aiding people in getting greater access to credit while expanding the capabilities of lenders and other fintech companies.

  Morocco

• Spouts

  Manufactures and distributes ceramic water filters - the Purifaaya - to improve the access to clean drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa.

  Uganda

• Sprints

  Provides users aged between 18 and 35 with a customised learning journey to advance their career in software in the Middle East and Africa region.

  Egypt

• Sproxil

  Empowers consumers to help combat drug counterfeiting with a simple text message.

  Nigeria

• Spunvertek

  Specializes in the sale, installation, and maintenance of solar-powered systems, offering both rooftop and ground mount solutions.

  Nigeria

• Stable Foods

  Offers smallholders an ultra-low-cost, climate-resilient “Irrigation-as-a-Service’-subscription

  Kenya

• Stakefair

  Allows users to predict the outcome of sports matches and other real-world events to earn money by staking digital currency.

  Nigeria

• Stakpak

  AI-powered DevOps platform to simplify infrastructure management for developers.

  Egypt

• Star Kitchens

  Platform offering suite solution for restaurant businesses

  Nigeria

• StarNews

  Network of mobile video channels

  Cote d'Ivoire

• Stars From All Nations

  Education company and immersive career accelerator program

  Ghana

• Startbutton

  Offers a platform that handles all aspects of market entry, including local compliance, payment processing, and customer service.

  Nigeria

• Startup Circles

  Innovative practical business school for entrepreneurs that assists entrepreneurs in scaling their business and becoming investor-ready

  South Africa

• Stax

  Offline payment app for online businesses with a USSD interface that enables African consumers to manage all their bank and mobile money accounts in one place without mobile data

  Kenya

• Stears

  Online platform for Nigerian business news

  Nigeria

• Steward

  Offers working capital, asset financing, salary advance and invoice financing to private schools across Africa.

  Nigeria

• Sticitt

  Provides niche communities with an alternative payment solution to cash, formal banking and card-based payments.

  South Africa

• Stima Mobility

  Sells battery swapping services to individual electrical moto-taxi riders and is building an operating system of battery swapping stations

  Kenya

• Stitch

  Open banking API solutions for financial institutions

  South Africa

• Stllr

  Provides companies with a plug-and-play marketing model through experimenting with different campaigns like SEO, media buying, social media and more.

  Egypt

• Stone Three

  Expert services firm using machine learning to increase operational productivity / I4.0 solution business that provides end-to-end solutions for AI-augmented Digital Productivity, Health and Workplace Safety offerings

  South Africa

• Storspay

  Has developed a decentralised retail lending infrastructure platform for the internet, connecting retail investors seeking alternative asset investment opportunities with small businesses globally needing more affordable capital to grow their businesses.

  Nigeria

• StraTech

  Specialises in the development of critical enterprise infrastructure that powers complex financial operations for businesses across Africa

  South Africa

• Street Wallet

  Enables informal traders to accept secure, cashless payments without needing a smartphone, data, or bank account

  South Africa

• Strove

  Activity-based mobile rewards application that empowers organizations to inspire their employees, clients and customers to live a healthy and active life

  South Africa

• Subsbase

  No/low-code platform, helps such businesses and removes their overhead by managing the full subscription life cycle of invoicing, payments, and notifications

  Egypt

• Sudo

  Provides a card-issuing API for developers and businesses in Nigeria

  Nigeria

• Sudor (Global Fitness)

  Fitness and wellness platform that allows for any fitness-centric individual to scale their business and monetise in the digital space, with no limitations, no requirements and zero signup fees.

  South Africa

• Suitera

  Semiconductor startup aiming to provide tools for the design of next generation integrated circuits

  Egypt

• Sukhiba

  Conversational chat based platform that enables organizations to connect with their customers and grow their reach through WhatsApp all the while driving revenue growth.

  Kenya

• Sumet

  Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) distribution company that enables brands to enter and expand into new markets

  Tanzania

• Sun King (Greenlight Planet)

  Social business that designs, distributes, and finances solar home energy

  Kenya

• SunCulture

  Develops and offers solar powered smart irrigation systems

  Kenya

• SunFi

  Offers payment plans to transition millions of consumers from petrol generators to solar.

  Nigeria

• Super Fny

  Online tutoring platform that looks to help students enrolled in vocational schools foster their technical skills and improve their employability

  Egypt

• Suplias

  B2B marketplace where mom and pop stores in Africa buy inventory directly from manufacturers using a mobile app

  Nigeria

• Suplyd

  Procurement platform for hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa) businesses in Egypt

  Egypt

• Surf

  Provides Wi-Fi hotspots in 1000 locations across Kenya.

  Kenya

• Surge Africa

  Allows individuals, micro-entrepreneurs and MSMEs in Africa to make instant cross-border transfers and pay up to 80% less in fees

  South Africa