African startups

• truID

  Single API to access identity data, balance and transactions from your user’s bank account

  South Africa

• Trukto

  Platform that connects shippers with truckers across Egypt

  Egypt

• truQ

  Automatizes and optimizes short-haul (or intracity) logistics in Africa, making it smarter, faster and more efficient.

  Nigeria

• Tubby’s Kitchen

  Manufactures a range of healthy cannabis-based kitchen products for home use, including loose-leaf tea, spices, and pastes.

  South Africa

• Tugende

  Motorcycle leasing services

  Uganda

• Tulix

  Enables African migrants to make direct remittances to institutions and to manage how beneficiaries spend funds using ring-fencing technology

  Kenya

• Tuma

  Offers sellers an easy way to accept payments by providing contactless payment acceptance on the sellers Android, iOS smartphones and feature phones.

  DRC

• Tunl

  Solves exports for African manufacturers, makers and merchants.

  South Africa

• Turaco

  On-demand health insurance

  Kenya

• Turnstay

  Reduces the cost of getting paid for African merchants and platforms in travel and tourism

  South Africa

• Tushop

  Social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs).

  Kenya

• Tutadoo

  Allows event creators to create, list, ticket, market, and build communities around their events, and for people to find, participate and connect with events and activities they love to do.

  Kenya

• Tuteria

  Helps learners connect with teachers and educational content, while also empowering people to earn income by teaching what they love.

  Nigeria

• Tutoro

  Platform connecting students and teachers for face-to-face lessons, with plans to collaborate with universities and introduce an AI-powered robot assistant for future study support.

  Egypt

• Tuzzo

  Social commerce platform that allows users to select items, set their own profit margins, and share products directly on social media platforms.

  Cote d'Ivoire

• Twende

  Tech-enabled platform that connects consumers to operators, making it easier to manage travel and logistics needs in a unified, transparent and cost-effective way.

  Kenya

• Twende App

  Pools city dwellers with transport options.

  Cote d'Ivoire

• TwentyToo

  Solution for e-commerce retailers to optimize product strategy, pricing, and sales performance with real-time market insights

  Egypt

• Twiga Foods

  Mobile-based supply platform for small- and medium-sized fruit and vegetable vendors

  Kenya

• TymeBank

  Multi-country digital bank

  South Africa

• Tyro

  Streamlines the process of searching, finding, connecting, and conducting live 1:1 sessions with an experienced instructor

  Egypt

• Ubawa

  Provide customers with easy ways to make payments to their service providers/merchants

  Kenya

• Ubongo

  Creates fun, localised and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives.

  Tanzania

• Ubuntu International

  Faith-driven company dedicated to promoting sustainable economic growth through ethical gold mining and diversified ventures

  South Africa

• UCOOK

  Dinner kit delivery service providing sustainable and ethically sourced ingredients straight to a user’s doorstep.

  South Africa

• Udok

  Provider of online medical consultations and prescriptions for multiple health disorders

  South Africa

• UfarmX

  Digital platform that connects smallholder farmers to premium sales markets and climate smart resources that not only increase their productivity but also reduce their carbon footprint

  Senegal

• Ugabus

  Bus company that aggregates inter-city bus operators

  Uganda

• UjuziKilimo

  Provides a platform advancing data-driven decisions for smallholder farmers by collecting, organising and interpreting agricultural data.

  Kenya

• Ukheshe

  Technology platform helping banks and telecoms provide SMMEs with affordable digital banking and payment services

  South Africa

• uLesson

  Provider of online learning platform for school students

  Nigeria

• UltraTeb

  B2B e-commerce platform connecting vendors directly to business customers (hospitals) and providing multiple financing options

  Egypt

• Umba

  Digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services

  United States

• Umoja

  Provides digital, low-interest financing and decentralized credit to smallholder farmers.

  Tanzania

• Unchorlight

  Provides a Rent-to-Own motorcycle sales service to self-employed motorcycle taxi riders.

  Kenya

• Uncover

  One stop shop for skincare

  Kenya

• Underlie

  Online platform offering diversified banking APIs to banks

  Egypt

• Union54

  Card Issuing APIs for African corporates who want to have virtual or physical multi-currency debit cards.

  Zambia

• Unlock

  B2B marketplace for professional services

  Egypt

• Untap

  All-in-one software used by organisations to plan, launch, manage, and assess online innovation and talent acquisition programmes

  Egypt

• UpEnergy

  Distributes electric cookers designed specifically for African households and supported by integrated sensors that capture real-time usage data

  Uganda

• upOwa

  Solar powered systems for rural areas

  Cameroon

• Uptyke

  Specializes in developing digital educational content tailored for K-12 curriculums, with a particular focus on the CBC curriculum in Kenya

  Kenya

• Uqudo

  Offers A.I.-powered trusted identity-as-a-service

  Egypt

• Uruhimbi Kageyo

  Delivers hydroponic animal feed and system installations that boost livestock productivity in Rwanda

  Rwanda

• Userguest

  Userguest provides software and advertising services that help hotels increase direct bookings through their own websites.

  Morocco

• UsPlus

  Provides tailor-made working capital finance solutions principally through the purchase of transferable instruments (i.e., invoices, purchase orders and contracts).

  South Africa

• Uwana Energy

  End-to-end solution improving access to stable electricity in Nigeria through solar with support from regular people from all over the world

  Nigeria