African startups

• WellaHealth

  Provides access to affordable healthcare using community pharmacies and insurance options to cover common conditions faced by Africans

  Nigeria

• Welnes

  Mobile application that brings top nutritionists and trainers with fully customized meal and workout plans

  Egypt

• Welo Health

  Provides on-demand workplace and homecare services to health insurers and corporations.

  South Africa

• Wemove

  Marketplace for daily gym passes

  Tunisia

• Westa Solar

  Design, install, finance and maintain rooftop and ground mounted solar projects for Commercial and Industrial clients in West Africa.

  Nigeria

• WeThinkCode

  Coding school

  South Africa

• Wetility

  Digital solar energy management system that allows users to remotely manage power usage.

  South Africa

• Wezart

  Online marketplace for African Art, helping artists in creating a virtual gallery, making online sales and tracking their monthly income.

  South Africa

• WhereIsMyTransport

  Big data platform for transportation information

  South Africa

• Whispa Health

  Mobile app that provides young people with non-judgmental access to Sexual and Reproductive Health information, products and services

  Nigeria

• Whoosh

  Provides various payment solutions to merchants and corporates looking to go online

  South Africa

• Wi-Flix

  Entertainment streaming service with members all over the world but primarily in Africa

  Ghana

• WiAssur

  Allows customers to compare all the insurers on the market in order to find the offer that best suits their needs and their budget.

  Cote d'Ivoire

• WiConnect

  Offers end-to-end wireless solutions.

  Angola

• Wicrypt

  Decentralized mobile internet sharing and monetisation network that allows anyone to earn money by sharing their Wi-Fi with others.

  Nigeria

• Widebot

  Conversational AI Platform that build AI-enabled chatbots that communicate in formal and informal Middle Eastern languages.

  Egypt

• WidEnergy Africa

  Last-mile delivery of clean, reliable and affordable energy and connectivity solutions

  Zambia

• Wificombat

  E-learning tech career platform for Africans, offering career pathways for K-12 and tertiary education, as well as job readiness.

  Nigeria

• WildyNess

  Tourism marketplace that specializes in the B2C/B2B2C experiences market and Community-Based Tourism (CBT).

  Tunisia

• Wingi

  Empowers entrepreneurs to grow by providing tech-enabled supply chain and financing digitization solutions to African businesses.

  Kenya

• Winich Farms

  Platform where food producers and informal processors/retailers deal directly without the activities of middlemen.

  Nigeria

• Winshot

  Digital platform for managing and facilitating retail operations

  Tunisia

• WizzPass

  Focuses on improving the often manual and insecure processes and systems involved with traditional facility visitor management.

  South Africa

• Woka

  Provides globally interoperable financial services and benefits for digital workers, freelancers and nomads

  Nigeria

• Woliz

  Gives every nanostore the full technological and AI capabilities needed to outperform modern retail.

  Morocco

• WorkPay

  Human resource management software

  Kenya

• WorkWeek

  Eliminates the need for clunky timesheets and manual processes by automating payroll calculations, real‐time attendance tracking, and overtime management, all from a dashboard.

  South Africa

• Wowzi

  Turns social media users into brand influencers

  Kenya

• Wuilt

  Online Arabic website builder

  Egypt

• Wyzetalk

  Enterprise social network and workforce engagement platform

  South Africa

• Xend

  Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for credit unions and cooperatives

  Nigeria

• Xeno

  Goal-based investment platform that helps Africans to plan, save, and invest for any financial goal from as little as $3 via web, app, or USSD with or without access to the internet.

  Uganda

• Xente

  Online account for businesses with simple payments, finance automation, credit, and more - all in one.

  Uganda

• Xetova

  Technology solutions provider to the procurement ecosystem

  Kenya

• Xineoh

  Machine learning based campaign automation

  South Africa

• Xolani Health

  Provides an AI Model - XolaNets that can be used as an optimising tool to assist the radiologist in choosing a personalised patient's protocol and serving as a second opinion for the radiologist.

  Nigeria

• Xpovi

  Enables early-stage startups to build their financial models and business plans with few clicks through a web-based questionnaire.

  Egypt

• XpressGas

  Marketing and distribution services of LP gas through refilling stations, consumer service stations and cylinder depots

  Ghana

• Yaga

  Offers a localised and secure online second-hand fashion experience

  South Africa

• Yakeey

  Operates a digital marketplace designed to streamline property transactions.

  Morocco

• Yalla Fel Sekka

  Distributed network of small mini-warehouses and dark stores, where businesses can store the goods very close to their customers to ensure quick deliveries

  Egypt

• Yalla Xash

  Money transfer fintech startup operating between North America and Africa

  Morocco

• Yalo

  Helps employees pay their home rents monthly rather than upfront annually leaving them with more disposable income to live life

  Nigeria

• Yamify

  Enables freelancers and web agencies to self-host and deploy pre-configured AI tools like n8n, AI-powered WordPress, LLaMA, and more via GPU-powered vClusters (“YAMs”) on local African datacenters — all within 60 seconds.

  DRC

• Yassir

  Online ride hailing platform

  Algeria

• Yaz

  B2B App that aims to digitize the distribution channel of different types of Top Ups.

  Tunisia

• Yebo Fresh

  Online retailer for ordering groceries

  South Africa

• Yellow Africa

  Digital retail business focused on energy access by providing power on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis

  South Africa