SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

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No Sector Products/Services Description number of users Website
business Exisitence existing

Afrimarket is the first firm which

helps the user make money
sending toward Africa safer.
Based on a high technology
and an innovative solution to Senegal, Ivory
www.afrimarke
1 Afrimarket: IT 2 E-commerce enable the user to pay directly at Coast, Benin, 30,000
t.fr
home all the health, education and Togo
food expenses their
relatives need in Africa. It is a
simple solution of cash to good
delivery.

The platform AM Health

is for clinicians. Using
internet, it is available on
various supports: provides simple and affordable
computer, smartphones, digital solutions to improve
Uganda, kenya
2 Access.Mobile E-Health 6 tablets. Clinicians patient Growing
and Ghana
manage appointments and care provider relationships in
with patients on the Africa.
interface. specify
payment information that
will be sent to insurances.
www.okhi.com

The service can be

accessed via a website
A virtual directory listing small,
developed by the brand,
medium companies, and local Kenya, Uganda
3 Africa 118 Telecom 7 called InfoModby. 100,000 www.africa118.com
shopkeeper for individuals to and Ethiopia
InfoMoby looks like
contact them easily.
a Yellow Pages search
engine where the user
 shopkeeper for individuals to and Ethiopia
InfoMoby looks like
contact them easily.
a Yellow Pages search
engine where the user
SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

Name of Years of Countries

No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users Website
business Exisitence existing

can
refine his search by
Africa 118 locations and categories,
Contd. leading him to
information about the
companies
matching his needs
including contact details.

ACE is an African start-up,

delivering world-class logistics
solutions to both businesses and Hundreds of
Africa Courier Transportation/ Connect goods with
4
Express logistics
4
people across Africa consumers. ACE’s technology- Nigeria Merchants across
enabledlogistics solutions, Nigeria
anchored by a customer service
team and dedicated riders, create a
seamless customer experience
for both retailers and customers. www.ace.ng

Africab is a taxi service that

Optimum use of digital
reverses the usual logic of taxis in
technologies to offer a
Abidjan, by implementing an
high-performance
efficient GPS network and paying
transportation service
its employees. It’s clear to see www.afri-
5 Africab Transportation 3 within everyone’s reach, Ivory Coast Growing
that, despite significant economic cab.com
guaranteeing maximum
development in recent years, the
safety and comfort for
different countries in the region
individuals, and
aren’t able to
businesses
offer modern safe, comfortable
means of transport.

Afrimalin is a free digital Guinea, Senegal,

solution/classified website to Ivory Coast,
6 Afrimalin E-Commerce 1 E-commerce connect buyers and Cameroon, Benin, Growing www.afrimalin.com
sellers : they can be professionals, Mali, DR Congo
or just individuals. and Burkina Faso
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Afrimalin isSTARTUPS
a free digital IN AFRICA
Guinea, Senegal,
solution/classified website to Ivory Coast,
6 Afrimalin E-Commerce 1 E-commerce connect buyers and Cameroon, Benin, Growing www.afrimalin.com
sellers : they can be professionals, Mali, DR Congo
or just individuals. and Burkina Faso

Name of Years Countries

No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users Website
business Exisiting existing

France, Belgium,
Afrostream offers monthly or
Luxemburg,
Access to African and annual subscriptions, Over 2000
Switzerland, https://www.af
7 Afrostream Media 4 Afro-American movies to watch Afro-American, Afro- Subscriptions
Madagascar and rostream.tv/
and TV series Caribbean and African TV series, (from 2015)
Central and West
movies, documentaries unlimited
Africa

Abidjan’s top startup Airshop is a

platform that enables people to
order items online and pick them
up at duty-free shops when they
travel. In turn, customers can save
Duty-free online shopping http://getairsh
8 Airshop E-commerce 3 an estimated 20% off their Ivory Coast Growing
for travellers op.com/
purchases, while the firms can get
better visibility and sell more of
their products, making it a “win-
win” situation all around for the
actors involved

Andela selects and trains African

developers of excellence and after
6 months offer the jobs in client
The goal is to
companies in parallel of their
EdTech / Education (Training Nigeria, USA and train 100,000
9 Andela 3 training. After the first 6 months,
Education Developers) Ghana Engineers in 10
students start working for one of
years
the many collaborating companies
of the academy, among which are
Microsoft, IBM and 6sense. www.andela.co
m

Renewable Energy ARED is a start-up that developed

Clean-Tech / distributor of Solar a franchised network of solar www.a-r-e-
10 Ared 5 Rwanda Growing
energy Energy Mobile Charging energy mobile charging stations d.com
Stations for electrical appliances
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

Renewable Energy ARED is a start-up that developed

Clean-Tech / distributor of Solar a franchised network of solar www.a-r-e-
10 Ared 5 Rwanda Growing
energy Energy Mobile Charging energy mobile charging stations d.com
Stations for electrical appliances

Name of Years of Countries

No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users Website
business Exisitence existing

Asoriba is a Ghanaian start-up for

Church management, based on a
web and mobile application. It
efficient Church
helps Church leaders and
management, and an https://www.a
11 ASORIBA Service 2 ministers to manage their Ghana Growing
improved communication soriba.com/
finances, their events, and their
with the flock
data. Believers can also receive
notifications for events, prayers or
donations

They are the innovators of the

multi-awarded model
Providing social media the Clickfunding. They specialize
users with the simplest in social media campaigning,
http://bassita.o
12 BASSITA E-Commerce 3 method of contributing to cause marketing, brand identity, Egypt Growing
rg
real change and marketing solutions,
development and video production. They also
are firm believers that clicks have
the power to make a change.
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA
BiNu has developed a mobile
internet application platform that
can deliver cloud-based
applications and services
Delivers internet apps faster and using less data than
Reaching out
13 BiNu Mobile Internet 9 and services to Android other mobile application South Africa http://bi.nu
globally
and other featured phones technologies and is building an
integrated mobile experience
for the next 2 billion Internet users
in emerging and developing
countries.

Name of Years of Countries

No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users
business Exisitence existing
Bongolive is a start-up offering
Bongolive offers BtoB companies and administrations a
Digital targeted messages range of services for targeted SMS www.bongolive
14 BONGOLIVE 7 Tanzania Growing
Marketing services for mobile messages, .co.tz
phones for instance for advertising
campaigns.
Brainshare is an e-learning app
available on different supports and
15 e-learning platform offering educational contents and
BRAINSHAR available both online and support services Uganda, Rwanda www.brainshar
E Ed-Tech 5 offline. to students and Tanzania 100,000+ e.ug
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

BRCK’s routers enable people to

be connected to the Internet for 8
BRCK was designed as a hours long, only if the area in
rugged, self-powered, which they are is able to get a 3G
mobile WiFi device which signal. BRCK has conceived www.brainshar
16 BRCK Mobile Network 5 Kenya Growing
connects people and rugged devices, that can be e.ug
things to the internet in used in wild areas, unlike those
poor infrastructure areas that are usually sold on the market
which are designed to work in big
cities.

Carmine offers an affordable

alternative to
Carmine is a car sharing
owning a private vehicle. It makes
solution. It allows
vehicle use
individuals but also
accessible to individuals or
companies to rent http://carmine.
17 CARMINE Transport 3 companies that do Morocco Growing
vehicles for defined ma/
not have financial resources to
period of time (hourly and
buy one. Users
daily
can then have access to an
options).
affordable rental car
only when needed.

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No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users Website
business Exisitence existing
Chalkboard Education aims at
giving distance
Chalkboard enables
CHALKBOA university courses to all African
distance diploma courses http://chalkboa
18 RD EdTech 2 students. The start-up uses a Ghana Growing
that works on all phones rd.education
EDUCATION mobile app working without the
and without the Internet.
internet to deliver
its courses.
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Car is a carpooling site that
enables all drivers and passengers
to get in
touch with each other in order to
CHEETAH Algeria, Tunisia, www.cheetah-
19 Transport 1 Carpooling market travel together in different cities Growing
CAR Morocco car.com
of the Maghreb region. Thanks to
its extremely
easy to use dashboard, finding
rides has never been easier.
the user can buy Airtime online
for their office with top-ups.
Besides, he can achieve easy
Web and text based money
service that allows mobile transfers from its PayPal account
users to access Airtime to Mpesa (a mobile phone-based https://www.c
20 CHURA Telecom 4 Kenya Growing
and Mobile money money transfer, financing and hura.co.ke
services across the microfinancing service,
different mobile networks launched in 2007 by Vodafone for
Safaricom and Vodacom, the
largest mobile network operators
in Kenya and Tanzania).

Clinic Master is a
Clinic Master is a software for
software for collection
CLINIC collection and management of www.clinicmas
E-Ealth 10 and management of Uganda Clinics in Uganda
21 MASTER medical data for clinic and ter.net
medical data for clinic
hospitals in Uganda.
and hospitals in Uganda.

Name of Years of Countries

No Sector Products/Services Description Number of users Website
business Exisitence existing
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA
DabaDoc aims at helping
healthcare offer and
meet demand. It is a free online 3000+ Doctors
Dabadoc is a platform that North of Africa,
service that facilitates and Several www.dabadoc.
22 DabaDoc E-Ealth 4 connects doctors with South Africa,
appointment bookings and allows hundred thousand com,
patients. Pakistan, Nigeria
localization of general patients
practitioners at any time.

DeliveryBros is an On- It supports intra-city logistics by

demand delivery service matching SMEs, online retailers
facilitating pickup and and individuals
Transportation Nigeria ; USA ; http://delivery
23 DeliveryBros 3 drop-off of parcels using with the nearest dispatch on it’s Growing
/ Logistics Ghana bros.com/
motorbikes, Request and network to pick-up within minutes
track using WhatsApp and deliver their packages thanks
Messenger to motorbikes.

Domestly is a digitally savy

startup that enables consumers in
Cape Town to find their match
Domestly is a professional online or via an app available for
cleaning service that smart and feature phones. It gives
conveniently allows home- consumers the freedom to choose www.domestly
24 DOMESTLY Services 2 South Africa Growing
owners to book available a professional home cleaner based .com
housekeepers in their on her experience
vicinity. and recent reviews, and enables
cleaners to confirm job requests
and track their work schedules at
the click of a button.

Enda Sportswear is a Kenyan

running
shoemaking company. The start-
Enda www.endaspor
25 SportsWear 1 Running shoemaker up notably expects Kenya’s Kenya Growing
Sportswear tswear.com
reputation in running Olympic
disciplines to help make its
production appreciated.
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

Facilyo is a platform which lets

you create high-quality website,
multilingual distinctive design
within 48 hours only.
https://facilyo.
26 FACILYO Technology 1 Website design platform The offer includes the hosting Algeria Growing
com
with comprehensive management.
All of this is through an annual
subscription with
easy steps and mechanism.

FarmDrive promises a better

access to bank lending to
Providing access to
smallholder farmers, with better
financial services to https://farmdri
27 FarmDrive Agribusiness 3 interest rates. The financial Kenya Growing
African smallholder ve.co.ke/home
institutions are also helped by the
farmers.
company, in their calculation of
the rates.
Fasosoap is a startup that
In Africa An estimated 430,000
aims to create a soap that
people die from malaria each year
holds the promise of
Thus, Fasosoap offers was created http://www.fas
28 FasoSoap Health 5 being an affordable way Burkina Faso Growing
to repel the mosquitoes o-soap.Info
to fight the devastating
responsible for spreading the
disease of malaria in
disease.
Africa.

The start-up offers energy

solutions to developing
countries population. It first
Fenix Int is a start-up started in Uganda, with the
Fenix offering energy solutions development of its main product, www.fenixintl.
29 Energy 8 Unganda 300,000 +
International to improve life condition the ReadyPay Power. This product com
in the East of Africa. is a personal and
autonomous solar electricity
generator design to meet Ugandan
rural population’s needs.
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA
Fidel is a free app that enables
anytime, anywhere learning to
Fidel is a free app, based African students, both online and
on learning with games, offline, on PCs, mobile http://www.fid
30 FIDEL Ed-Tech 3 Ethopia Growing
and aimed at secondary phones and tablets. Founded in el.et/
schools students. Ethiopia in 2014 by AhadooTec, it
relies on a fun way to learn, such
as games.

Gifted Mom was created in 2013

by Alain Nteff, a Cameroonian
computer engineer. The
application reminds to
Enable pregnant African
pregnant women the dates of
women able to have a More 20,000
vaccines, medical exams and www.giftedmo
31 Gifted Mom E-Health 4 personalized medical Cameroon pregnant women
consultations during the m.org
supervision and an easier benefited
pregnancy, and the different
access to health care.
precautions to take after the
childbirth. Health advices about
the child after his birth are also
provided.

Founded in 2014 in South Africa,

the company offers an online
Giraffe is a South-African marketplace using mobile
100,000+ www.giraffe.co
32 GIRAFFE Services 3 start-up who develops a technology which helps South Africa
Resumes .za
recruitment application. employers to connect with job
seekers. Giraffe’s main market is
for now medium-skilled jobs.
GoMetro is a mobile app for City
Travelers in South Africa who use
public transport. The mobile
provides real-time train application provides
schedules, trip planner, data on train times, line 200,000 monthly http://www.ge
33 GoMetro Transport 5 South Africa
fare calculator and route announcements and updates on users tgometro.com/
maps. what is happening in Metrorail in
the Western Cape,
Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the
Eastern Cape
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

GoMyWay is an online Nigerian

carpooling platform which enables
intra and inter-cities journeys.
GoMyWay is an online Nigeria, South
Depending on the route, a price is 6000 Users and www.gomyway
34 GoMyWay Transport 2 Nigerian carpooling Africa, Kenya
proposed but can be modified 50,000 ride .com
platform. and Ghana
within the non-profit limit as
GoMyWay does not aim at
becoming a taxi website.

Founded in 2012 in Kenya, the

company GreenChar produces
clean cooking products, less
dangerous for the health than
GreenChar is a renewable
wood or coal. It also helps to fight http://www.gr
35 GreenChar CleanTech 5 energy start-up that Kenya Growing
against global warming, and eenchar.org/
produces clean biofuel.
against poverty. Indeed, the
commercialization of these fuels
happens in poor districts, with
local sellers.

Created in Stellenbosch, this

startup banks on high technology
and on the development of the
HealthQ enables its users
trend of sport gadgets: connected
to know their state of
watches which display the heart
Technologies & health and the sport www.healthq.c
36 HealthQ 5 rate, etc.. The South African firm South Africa Growing
Health activities adapted to their o
is however going further offering
profile thanks to high-tech
an unprecedented experience: a
sensor.
high-tech chamber which
combines several indicators of
physical performances
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

Helvetic Solar Contractor is

specialized in sales, installation
and maintenance of photovoltaic www.helvetics
37 Helvetic Solar Energy 10 Photovoltaic Supplies Tanzania Growing
equipment of any kind: olar.com
solar panels, lamps, photovoltaic
fridges, batteries, control systems.

Himore Medical is a firm created

in Cameroon by Arthur Zang, that
conceives and produces systems (
autonomous
Himore Medical sells a
electronic devices ) for medical
device, CardioPad, that
use to ensure that hospitals
Himore helps people in rural areas sell@himore-
38 E-Health 3 receive the necessary material to Cameroon Growing
Medical suffering from medical.com
treat patients in remote
cardiovascular disease get
areas at a low price. Furthermore,
prompt medical attention.
it produces the CardioPad, a tool
that enables any person with
minimal formation
to measure cardiac data.

Founded in 2010 in Kenya, iCow

iCow is an Agricultural
Information Service with
39 iCow Agribusiness 7 a variety of services
available as a subscription
service.
offers a wide variety of services
for African farmers, with advices,
www.icow.co.k
useful content, and the Kenya Growing
e
opportunity to communicate with
other farmers. They are informed
of all these information via SMS.

Founded in Cameroon in 2010,

then expanded to Kenya and now
Infinity Space provides
based in Marseille, France, the
mobile payment solutions Cameroon, www.infinitysp
40 Infinity Space CleanTech 7 start-up wants to reach Growing
for the unbanked around Kenya, France ace.fr
people that are unbanked, so that
the world.
they could buy or sell products on
the internet.
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Zoona efficiently makes up for the

lack of banking infrastructure in
African countries, and enables
local population to make money
transfers from remote locations. Zambia, Malawi & http://www.ilo
41 ZOONA Fintech 8 Money transfer 1.5 million
Zoona is a low-cost alternative to South Africa vezoona.com
traditional banking. It is simpler,
quicker and safer than the cash
transferred by vehicles that has
been in use until now.

Many shops lack access to

internet therefore credit cards
couldnot be used for payment.
This business business offers an http://ziroopay
42 ZIROOPAY Fintech 3 credit card paymet Nigeria
alternative which has to do with a .com
card reader device connected to a
mobile phones. This sends details
of every transaction by sms.

Yenni offers a health cover

service by improving the already
existing money transfer methods
used by Senegalese families,and
by breaking with the traditional
43 YENNI Health 4 Health insurance senegal www.yenni.org
health insurance system (public
health insurance, insurance
companies). Families are insuring
themselves using prepaid Yenni
accounts.
Communicatio They offer a collection of high Cote D'Ivoire & www.Yeelenpix
44 YEELINPIX 4 Photo bank
n quality pictures of Africa. Senegal .com
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

The website helps applicants

write their resumes and publish
45 their CVs. It then ranks them from
0-100 making it easy for
Emplyment companies to find the right http://wuzzuf.
WUZZUF adverts 5 Job adverts applicants for their vacancies. Egypt 200,000 net/jobs/egypt
Wizzpass is a smartphone
application that allows users
toopenparking booms,
gatesorbarriers at shopping malls,
Payment for parking https://www.w
46 WIZZPASS Transport 2 office parks and residential South Africa
space izzpass.com/
complexes. The parking fee
payable is then automatically
deducted directly off the user’s
credit card

It is an application that requires

that farmers create an account.
Farmers can ask questions which
are sent to a WeFarm centre and
Agribusiness & then redireced to another farmer http://wefarm.
47 WeFarm 2 Information exchange Kenya 115,000
Information for an answer based on the org
theme of the question and the
farmers location. The best
answers are archived by wefarm
and can be accessed at anytime.

Wallettec offers exclusively B2B

services, between merchants or e-
merchant and banks or mobile
money companies. It links the
two parties for the transactions. http://www.
48 Wallettec Fintech 4 Mobile phone payments South Africa
Wallettec installs digital payment wallettec.com
solutions and allows merchants or
emerchants to accept any means
of digital payment from
customers.
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The app is conceived for both

types of users: the specialists and
the health workers. The
specialists from Ophthalmology,
Orthopedics, Cardiology,burns,
HIV,dermatology cancreate
http://www.vul
49 Vula Mobile E-Health 3 Information exchange theirownprofile forfree. South Africa
amobile.com/
Throughthe app, they can chat
with health workers, receive all
information they need, then they
can give themsomeadvice. The
health workers give their referral
directly to on-call specialists

VugaPay works as a Lydia-type

app. Users willing to transfer
money log on their account via
the app where an amount of
money and a recipient can be
chosen based on its mobile
number. The user’s mobile money
or traditional bank account is
then debited. When users wish to
Mobile or credit card pay in shops with VugaPay, http://vugapay.
50 VugaPay Fintech 2 Rwanda
payments flashcodes are available. Buyers com
scan the flashcode used by
VugaPay to identify the
transaction andauthorise the
transaction. For credit card
payments, a device where the
card can be inserted is connected
to the phone which can then be
used as a traditional payment
terminal.
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Vericampus provides the

students with a virtual calendar,
educational contents, online
exams, individual support, chat, vericampus.co
51 VeriCampus Edtech online education Nigeria
university guide. Teachers can m
receive notifications from the
board, access online schedules,
and send online exams.

It is an intermediate between
producers and retailers. Orders
are made on the mobile app and
employees from the company
bring the goods, thus reducing
transportation costs for retailers.
Twiga promises, as a sign of
http://twigafoo
52 Twiga Foods Agribusiness 4 Food quality, that everything can be Kenya
ds.com
traced back to the farm where
thegoodswereproduced. On the
supplier’s side, a middle man
gives the guaranty to sell at least
a part of his production. The start-
up wants to establish a long-term
relationship with suppliers.
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

Private tutors wishing to give

classes register on the website
and are given an idea. Website
users can then search on the
platform teachers corresponding
to their criteria (school subject,
location, prices, teacher’s profile). www.tuteria.co
53 Tuteria Edtech 2 Online education Nigeria
Both parts agree on a first class, m
paid on the platform. Private
tutors receive the payment when
the class is finished. They are also
evaluated by students to enhance
quality of teaching on the
platform.

The client chooses his departure

and arrival cities, and the
departure day, on the website
tripafrique.com. Among the
different results, he selects a
travel according to different
criteria, specifying the number of
tickets. Then he provides the https://www.tr
54 TripAfrique E commerce 1 Transportation
coordinates, and pays online with ipafrique.com
a mobile money account, a credit
card, a Paypal account or even a
payment by cash in a window of
the transport company. At the
end,hereceives a text message
with the ticket and the booking
number.
 SUMMARY OF FAST GROWING BUSINESS STARTUPS IN AFRICA

You need to sign up on the web-

site to receive advices from the
start-up via SMS. Women and
menare bothwelcomedtosignup,
whether it be to follow a
pregnancy or the first months of a
child. There is indeed a real drive
to make the man more involved
in the management of health https://totohea
Biotechnologie
55 Totohealth 3 Health advise problems in the family. The SMS Kenya lth.org/homep
s & Health
are send twice a age
week,onMondaysandThursdays.
These messages are able to
highlight any warning signs in a
child's development, and to equip
the parents with knowledge on
nutrition, reproductive health,
parenting and
developmentalstimulation.

It was founded o provide water http://www.tel

56 Tech-Innov Agribusiness 4 Irrigation system Niger 200 farms
for farming and animal breeding. e-irrigation.net

To book a cleaning service, you

just have to register on the
website or the app. Then, you tell
whichroomsyouneedtoclean,whe http://sweepso
57 Sweepsouth Services 4 Rentals South Africa
nandwhere, you choose your uth.com
cleaners according to your habits,
preferences or recommendations
of SweepSouth.
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The SunCycle user goes to a

SunCycle site to buy or rent a
solar electric bicycle. He can also
have his own bike equipped with
an electric engine and a
rechargeable battery. Once he ttp://www.sun
58 Suncycles Transport 3 Rechargeable batteries has his bike, the user only has to Namibia cycles-
go to a SunCycle charging point namibia.org
where he can have his battery
charged on a solar powered
system. He can also exchange his
flat battery for a fully chargedone
to skipthe waiting time.

Sortd transforms our mailbox into

a flexible set of lists for important
emails and all other priorities. Our
messages, tasks and priorities are
Sortd transforms brings
handled by an easy-to-use
your email conversations,
platform that we can modify
Technology & your tasks and your http://www.so
59 Sortd according to our preferences. South Africa
Information priorities together in one rtd.com
Sortd creates four lists: a To-Do
intuitive workspace, and
for what you have to do quickly, a
works right inside Gmail!
followup
for the emails you need to be
aware of and two additional lists
if needed.
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It is a mobile scan whch enables

fast and easy mobile payments
thanks to scannable QR. The
application facilitates transactions
www.snpscan.c
60 Snapscan Service 4 for final customers as for firms. South Africa 20, 000 retailers
o.za
This startup boosts economic
exchanges and enables financial
transactions even without
expensive dedicated devices

Founded in June 2012 on the

Indian Ocean island of Lamu,
SleepOut.com provides a secure
SleepOut.com is a secure accommodation
marketplace connecting marketplace. The consumer will
travellers looking for a use SleepOut to book his or her https:sleepout.
61 Sleepout Service 5 Kenya
cool place to sleep with next holiday or business trip and com
hosts renting out their it will the opportunity to meet
empty beds. international and local hosts
throughout Africa, the Indian
Ocean islands, and the Middle
East

Travellers post their flight to

Morocco details on the app, as
well as the space and weight
available in their luggage.
Sheaply is an app Moroccan users wishing to get a
allowing individuals parcel delivered contact the
www.sheaply.c
62 Sheaply Fintech 8 travelling to Morocco to travellers on the app. The two Morroco
om
carry and deliver a parcel users agree on how the parcel will
to someone in Morocco. be collected and delivered by the
traveller. The traveller is credited
upon delivery of the parcel to the
other user who gives him a
confirmation code.
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It offers complete line of data and

document authentification
www.sentrust.
63 SenTrust service 4 Computing service information technology to senegal
sn
companies, organisations and
administrations.

The technology is available both

64
as a website and a mobile app
adapted to the basic smartphones http:sendyit.co
Sendy Transport 3 often used by deliverymen. Kenya m
SendOut was created in Angola in
2013. Originally, it developed a
technology allowing
individuals to send SMS via the
SendOut is a targeted internet to any mobile phone in https://www.s
65 Sendout Telecom 4 SMS sending service to the world, using any provider. Angola endoutapp.co
every provider The start-up quickly developed m
services for companies based on
the same technology,
allowing targeted messages to
clients or thirdparties.

It offers safe and intuitive

http://www.sa
guidance to nigerian users for
66 Save and buy Fintech 4 Nigeria veandbuy.com.
saving money inorder to buy
ng
specific goods for the future

It is an educational tablet
designed to replace traditional Ivory Coast,
http://www.qe
67 Qelasy Education 3 school bags and expose students Senegal and 196 schools
lasy.com/
to the digital era. It is adapted to Morrocco
African climatic conditions.
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It aims to give people all across

the country access to internet by http://www.pr
Technologies &
68 Project Isizwe 4 facilitating the roll-out of free wifi South Africa ojectisizwe.org
Services
in public spaces in low income /
communities

Name of Years of
No Sector Products/Services Description Countries existing Number of users Website
business Exisitence

Paydunya creates a technology

for users to pay online on
different platform, merchant or
not, and for all online sellers to
get secure payment. It optimizes
the interface between online
Paydunya offers online
sellers and buyers and allows the
payment solutions for
development of the online sale https://paydun
69 Paydunya Fintech 2 websites, mobile apps Senegal
industry by establishing trust ya.com
and sales on social
between parties. Paydunya
networks
creates new business
opportunities in Africa and allows
other entrepreneurs in the digital
sector to enhance their
application thanks to an efficient
digital payment solution
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Paga allows private users and

companies to transfer money and
make secure payments very
easily. Like many fintechs, it
offers a real and simple
Paga is a financial services
alternative to cash payment and 9000 Kiosks https://www.m
70 Paga Fintech 8 supplier on mobile Nigeria
promotes exchanges. Paga also counted in 2015 ypaga.com
phones.
stands out with its high
accessibility, as it is available on
any kind of mobile
phone,computers via internet,
and in local kiosks.

Individuals and companies buy an

item online and get it delivered to
a OuiCarry address in France, USA
or China. The purchase reference
is forwarded by email to OuiCarry
by the buyer. OuiCarry receives
the parcel from the merchant www.ouicarry.
71 OuiCarry Transport 5 Senegal
website and takes care of com
customs clearance and transport
to Senegal. It is possible to
choose between air or surface
mail for special parcels
(largevolume,high-
techproducts,etc.).
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Founded in Kenya in 2014, OkHi is

the developer of a physical
address system to connect people
in emerging
countries. The company provides
OkHi is a start-up who a next generation address system
wants to unlock designed to unlock access to basic
Telecom & commerce to emerging services for people in emerging
72 OKHI 3 Kenya www.okhi.com
Technologies countries inhabitants by markets. It offers to more than
giving them a physical half the world’s population the
address possibility to get out of their
geographical isolation ! Gains in
time, fuel, money are obviously
huge, but these people’s lives are
also going to be entirely
changed.

Cartoons are centered on the

character of Mudi, a Nigerian
student. Each episode is 5
minutes long and brings one
Nicademia is an e-
theoretical concept. Cartoons can
learning platform creating www.nicademi
73 Nicademia Edtech 6 be accessed online via the Nigeria
educational cartoons for a.com
platform by paying for a
Nigerian students.
subscription, or watched on
Nigerian TV channels. They can
also be ordered by academic
establishments
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It is a bus transportation
comparator. Users can download
the app for Android. They first
choose their journey. Then they
access the different companies
providing this ride, the different http://www.m
74 MyQ Transport 2 Nigeria
existing fares, and the number of yq.com.ng
seats left in each bus. They can
finally purchase their ticket and
book the journey. Tickets come as
flash-
codestobeshowntothebusdriver

It is a music streaming service

withou internet requirement or
app to install. Muziik is based on
a very simple to understand
idea.Indeed,toquotethedescriptio
ngivenonits website: “A typical
use case: You are in a taxi and you
want to play "Aye" song by
http://mmuziik
75 M-Muziik Media 6 Entertainment "Davido" for your friend. You Cameroon
.adelrick.com/
didn’t have enough space on your
memory card to copy the song.
There is no Internet connection.
Just send an SMS with the title of
the song to m-MuZiik short code.
A few seconds later, the service
calls you and plays
"Aye"onyourmobilephone"
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Founded in 2013 in Ghana, then
integrated into Microsoft’s
incubator in Tel-Aviv, mPharma
offers to connect every
mPharma connects
member of the health sector
patients, clinicians and
(patients, clinicians, pharmacists,
Biotech & pharmacists so that www.mpharma
76 mPharma 8 insurance companies, drug Ghana
Health quality medicines can .com
manufacturers) in order to
always be found and at
better synchronize drug needs
the lowest price possible
and stocks. The different apps
developed by mPharma allow
notably cheaper drugs of
higher quality
It is specialised in low cost bike www.mozambi
77 Mozambikes Transport 7 Retail Mozambique
sales. kes.com

Modisar is a livestock
management application. The
name comes from a TSWANA
Modisar is platform that
name "Modisa" which
guides livestock farmers
means 'livestock care taker '. The
through a precision
goal of Modisar as a https://www.m
78 Modisar Agrobusiness 3 livestock management Botswana
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) odisar.com/
app, livestock farming
software is to assist livestock
knowledge base & market
producers by allowing them to
insights.
keep accurate records &
automated, continuous
monitoring of their farm animals
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It is a virtual platform enabling

farmers to share information
through mobile phoes and sell
M-Louma is a virtual
their production. The offer is set
platform enabling
online directly by farmers. If they
Senegalese farmers to www.mioum.o
79 M-Louma Agribusiness 5 cannotaccesstheweb, senegal 10,000 farmers
share information via m
theycancallacallcenter, either to
mobile phones and sell
sell or buy products. This service
their production
allows integration of users who
do not have any
advancededucation.

Mescadeaux is an e-commerce
website where products can be
found by category and paid online
before being delivered. The www.miscadea
80 Mescadeaux E commerce 5 Online sales Morroco
website also proposes to create ux.ma
gift lists from its range of
products. It also offers a directory
with all the eventagencies.

It is an app that enables Rwandan

expatriates to pay for services to
be rendered to their relatives
back in Rwanda. Users sign in on
the platform. On the website or
via the app, the sender selects
the service or good he wants to
https://www.m
81 Mergims Cash to good 2 be delivered in Rwanda, as well as Rwanda 2,550
ergims.com
the supplier and the amount he
wants to spend. A 5% commission
rate is applied on the total
amount for transfer fees. The
payment can be made by credit
cards or via Paypal. The recipient
can then use the service or good.
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With the application Goldkeys

developed by mPedigree, the
consumer can check its drugs
quality. He just need to scratch-
off a mini-label on the drug
container to reveal an unique
code, and to send it by SMS to the
server. The server then provides
as an answer (via SMS) where the Ghana, Nigeria www.mpedigre
82 mPerdigree Services 10
drug came from, and, if it’s the and Kenya e.net
case, if it doesn’t
comefromknownmanufacturers.
Consumers can evaluate directly a
product while buying it, giving
important feedback to
companies.Theappcanalsodirect
themtowards
productfromabrandtheyprefer.

It supplies low price sustainable

energy and high tech products to
African households. M-Kopa Solar
sells solar home systems on an
affordable mobile money
payment plan, with an initial $35
deposit, followed by 365
payments of 45 cents. Thus, you www.m-
83 M-Kopa Cleantech 6 Households Kenya
can equip your household by kopa.com
paying a small sum of money
every day. After completing the
payment package,customers own
a world-class solar home system,
with multiple lights, phone
charging and a radio. You can also
buy the pack with a TV.
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It is an app that enables kenyan

farmers to share information
especially about crop prices. The
farmer pays a monthly, trimonthly
or annual subscription to use M-
Farm. He can then have access to
daily selling prices of 45 different
crops on the five major Kenyan
marketplaces via a website. For
those with no internet access, the ww.mfarm.co.k
84 M-Farm Agribusiness 7 Kenya
informationisavailablebytextmess e
ages. Using the same methods, a
farmer can offer his cropat a
defined price, anda buyer
canpurchase that crop, enabling
the crop to be sold much quicker.
M-Farm charges its remuneration
as a percentage of the
transactions made on the
platform.

Its aim is to respond to township http://lumkani.

85 Lumkani Technologies 4 South Africa
fires. com/
It targets advertising in smart
phones. Users download the app
for free. They create an account.
Their smartphone is then
www.lik-
86 Lik Service 2 equipped with a Lik bar, ready to Morrocco
app.com
receive targeted advertising.
Every watched ad gives points
and when the bar gets to 150 a
free top-up is offered.
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Its aim is ti show case Africa's

superheroes with future
tchnology. Thestart-
up’sgamesarecrossplatform(availa
ble on multiple devices) and in
most cases multiplayer. Leti Arts
hopes that their games are « fun,
addictive and challenging ». They
are accessible to everybody, by
supporting gameplay that are
entirely playable via text, which www.letiarts.c
87 Leti Arts Entertainment 8 Video games Ghana
means that people with devices om
both lowor high end will be able
to play with each other. Games
are
freemium(orbasedonmicrotransa
ctions),thatis theyarefreebutin-
apppurchases makes winning
easier. The company also
provides another product, digital
comics. It further spreads their
superheroes in modern culture.
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The start-up’s games are cross

platform (available on multiple
devices) and in most cases
multiplayer. Leti Arts hopes that
their games are « fun, addictive
and challenging ». They are
accessible to everybody, by
supporting gameplay that are
entirely playable via text, which
https://www.k
means that people with devices
88 Kwnza Online Fintech 3 Payments Angola wanzaonline.co
both lowor highend will be able
.ao
to play with each other. Games
are freemium
(orbasedonmicrotransactions),tha
t is they are free butin-
apppurchases makes winning
easier. The company also
provides another product, digital
comics. It further spreads their
superheroes in modern culture.

It works like Ebay and Amazon

with a large variety of products.
Products can be either sold by
konga.com itself, or by third-party http://www.ko
89 Konga E commerce 5 Nigeria
merchants (brands, nga.com
tradespeople,streetvendors,privat
e sellers). Itis
possibletopaywithMobileMoney.
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It was launched in 2007 by

Vodafone for Safaricom,the
largest Mobile network operating
in Kenya and Tanzania.
-It also allows the users to pay for
goods and services (Lipa na M-
PESA) easily with mobile phone.
- The service allows the user to
depopsit money into an account
stored in their cell phone,to send Kenya,Tanzania,
Money transfer: Deposit, balances using PIN- Secured SMS Afghanistan,Sout KENYA- 17
90 Safricom Financial 10 Withdraw and Transfer text message to other users h Million,Tanzania-
Money including the sellers of goods and Africa,India,Rom 7 Million
services and to redeem deposits ania and Albani
for regular money.
-Users are charged a small feee
for sending and withdrawing
money using the service.
-M-PESA Customer can deposit
and withdraw money using from a
network of agent that includes
airtime resellers and retail outlets
acting as banking agents.

purified,tested and approved

91 KEVIAN
and bottled
KENYA
at the LTD.
source.
Agriculture
Juice
Driniking
are available
Water,
25 inCarbonated
a deliciousdrinks,
variants
Kevian
including
Ketchups
:Orange,Mango,Passion
and Dishes Fruits,Pineapple,Whie
Kenya grapes,Tropical
40Million
Mix,Red grapes and Tomato. Afia has e
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Job vacancies in Cameroonare

posted online and people can www.njorku.co
92 njorku Employment Cameroon
access them. Users have to upload m
their CVs.

Name of Years of
No Sector Products/Services Description Countries existing Number of users Website
business Exisitence

It is a platform that eases

communication between mobile
app developpers and their user.
Users can report bugs, send
feedback and ask questions by just
shaking their phones, without the
https://instabug
93 Instabug Service 4 Communication need to leave the app. They can Egypt
.com/
also attach screenshots, images
and voice notes. Instabug then
captures the steps to reproduce the
problem and all other device
details so that developers can fix
the bug faster

It is a delivery service for products

purchased on foreign websites.
Users have to create an account
first on the website . Then the Uganda,Rwanda, www.intership.
94 Intership UG Logistics 3 Product delivery
product they buy is delivered to SouthernSudan ug
the mail address owned by this
enterprise then they deliver it to
their homes.

It offers online specialised media

distribution. iROKO’s online
95 Iroko Media 7 Entertainmant services are only available on an Nigeria www.iroko.ng
app in Africa, but on app and
website outside Africa.
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It offers job opportunities and

training via educartis.com. They
www.jobartis.c
96 Jobartis Services 4 offer services such as CV Angola
om
checking, a reference portal, and
advice.

Jobberman.com sources jobs

directly from companies and
recruiting agencies and broadcasts http://www.job
97 Jobberman IT 8 Online employment Ghana, Nigeria
them via the website, blog, email, berman.com/
partner websites and social
networks.

It takes a phone number to get

registeredin the JokkoSanté
https://www.jo
98 Jokkosante Health 3 Drug aharing platform and become a user. The Senegal
kkosante.org
user can then deposit drugs to get
points.

After registering their journey

and the parcel size available on
the website, travelers get in touch
via the platform chat with users
willing to get a parcel delivered, www.jwebi.co
99 Jwebi Transport 2 Parcel transportation Tunesia
either on the fly in or fly out m
journey. They can then agree on
time and location of the meeting,
and on delivery charges which
will be paid online by credit card.
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It is specialised in collecting and

analysing data on large Africa
consumer markets. Potential
Data Collection and clients can order data collection, http://www.kas
100 Kasi Insight Big Data 4 Kenya
analysis market survey and consultancy iinsight.com
from KASI Insight. The survey is
carried out in a two-week time
period.

All users, can publish their ads

in only a few minutes. Revenues
https://www.ke
101 Kerawa E commerce 10 Adverts are gathered from the Cameroon
rawa.com/
additionalservicesoffered:VIPads,
specificemail system.
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