African startups

• Bookt

  EdTech startup that's creating a new, recognised form of education by certifying the knowledge gained from reading non-fiction books.

  South Africa

• Boost Technology

  Platform enabling small businesses in Ghana to order stock digitally at the best wholesale prices, and receive efficient, same-day deliveries

  Africa

• Bosso

  E-commerce platform for hardware stores and home builders.

  Zambia

• Bosta

  On-demand delivery service for businesses

  Egypt

• Bottles

  Delivers on-demand grocery essentials to customers.

  South Africa

• Boundlesspay

  Secure application that turns your cell-phone into a mobile bank

  Nigeria

• Boya

  Corporate card for the mobile money world. Issue virtual cards, manage employee expenses on one dashboard and provide an app to pay from virtual card to mobile money

  Kenya

• Boyot

  Offers an end-to-end SaaS solution for payments tailored to real estate businesses.

  Egypt

• Bqube Its

  Implements a dynamic system that ensures a real time track with automated collection data system to provide informations to manufacturing decision makers, at the right time.

  Tunisia

• Brandrive

  Helps merchants around the world to manage daily accounting, retail, sales, inventory, employees, and customers by harnessing sales data to provide intuitive business insights using artificial intelligence.

  Nigeria

• Brantu

  Fashion ecommerce platform

  Egypt

• Brass

  Banking services for small and medium businesses

  Nigeria

• Brastorne

  Enables rural villagers to access the digital world without smartphones or data bundles.

  Botswana

• Brayfoil

  Uses biomimicry-inspired compliant structures that change shape like bird’s wings to enable larger wind turbines and lower the cost of energy.

  South Africa

• Breadfast

  Internet first brand of baked products

  Egypt

• Breaze Delivery

  Last-mile and ondemand delivery services for businesses

  South Africa

• Bridgecard

  Merges a user’s cards, bank accounts, and fintech wallets into one card and an app, allowing users to perform online transactions, pay bills, and withdraw from any linked account.

  Nigeria

• BriefCo

  Secured online platform that allows attorneys to digitally delivery and store their documents, thereby reducing the significant costs associated with printing, delivery, and file preparation.

  South Africa

• Brightskies

  High Performance Computing and Code Optimization as well as Embedded Software Development space

  Egypt

• Briisk

  Work-flows that automate the complete insurance value chain, at a lower cost and higher speed than legacy systems, with the Briisk Instant Transaction Platform (ITP) - fully API-enabled.

  South Africa

• Brimore

  End-to-end social distribution marketplace

  Egypt

• Bringy

  Mobile app that enables customers to buy insurance services instantly, in a simple, digital end-to-end manner, with only a few clicks

  Egypt

• Brito

  Owns and operates a number of commercial food production facilities that allow multiple restaurants to offload their entire kitchen operations, order fulfillment and delivery processes.

  Egypt

• Brolly

  Provides flexible payment auto insurance for drivers in Africa. Commercial drivers get pay-weekly cover while salaried workers get pay-monthly cover.

  Ghana

• Brotinni

  Offers a platform to order hand-cut, farm-sourced and vacuum-sealed fresh meat and poultry

  Egypt

• Brown And Ayo

  Aspirational lifestyle hair extension brand, focused on natural hairstyles and trends for black women

  South Africa

• Brrng

  Allows customers to have a better understanding of their clients, their needs, and their stage in the buyer's journey by providing the tools necessary to collect, analyze and interpret data.

  Kenya

• Brycoal

  Produces clean, sustainable, and efficient cooking and heating fuel for households and enterprises

  Nigeria

• Brydge Technologies

  Allows merchants and funders to coordinate multiple investors, carry out borderless payments and streamline their operations while offering back office support.

  Nigeria

• Bryt-Knowledge

  Multifaceted online educational platform that connects students with subject matter experts using technology

  Zimbabwe

• Buguard

  Offers offensive security services including penetration testing and vulnerability assessment, phishing simulation, compromise assessment, threat intelligence and red teaming.

  Egypt

• Built

  Enables access to business and financial tools for African small and medium sized business

  Ghana

• Bujeti

  Provides businesses with a web and mobile app to issue smart physical and virtual corporate cards for their employees, make bank transfer payments and run expenses management through budgeting and spending controls.

  Nigeria

• Bulkbox

  Provides SMEs with reliable access to a wide range of essential supplies at wholesale prices

  Kenya

• Bumpa

  E-commerce platform that helps merchants and businesses move their businesses online without programming or digital skills.

  Nigeria

• Bunce

  Payment automation and customer value management platform that helps businesses automate, personalize and optimize all customer touch points in their payment lifecycle.

  Nigeria

• Burn

  Designs and manufactures of high-quality, life-improving cooking solutions for the mass market in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Kenya

• Busha

  Offers you several flexible options to buy and sell Bitcoin and other crypto assets instantly

  Nigeria

• Business AI

  Guides organisations, connects them with expertise, and delivers solutions — from BusinessGPT to broader Everyday AI applications — that save time, improve productivity, and elevate performance.

  South Africa

• Business For Teens

  Empowers young people aged 10–16 with practical entrepreneurship and leadership skills through structured programmes, real-life projects, and mentorship from experienced professionals.

  Egypt

• Busymed

  Offers access to thousands of products offered by local independent pharmacies, which users can then have delivered to their homes, including prescription medication, in 60 minutes.

  South Africa

• BuuPass

  Travel startup building digital rails for Africa's intercity transport industry and supporting bus, train, and flight, transportation.

  Kenya

• Buyam

  E-commerce mobile application that helps customers shop from verified and trusted vendors around them.

  Cameroon

• Byit

  Operates an agent-first brokerage model, offering freelance brokers up to 90% of developers’ commission.

  Egypt

• BYON8

  Licensed virtual medical service with medical diagnostic software based on mathematical algorithms and medical AI

  Kenya

• Bypa-ss

  Health-tech startup digitizing health information exchange

  Egypt

• ByteFuse

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development company

  South Africa

• Caafisom

  Healthcare App where users can find a doctor, book an appointment, access their medical records at any time and also ask a doctor free health questions and get expert answers to their health queries.

  Somaliland