Company | First partnered @ | Co-partners | Focus | Sector |
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Cloudline | Incubation | Schmidt Futures | VKAV | Software-powered autonomous airships and last-mile logistics | Climate |
Moment | Incubation | General Catalyst | Multichoice | Rapyd | Payments and financial services | Fintech |
Axis Pay | Pre-seed | firstminute | Sawari | Tiger Global | B2B2C fintech and payments company | Fintech |
COVA | Pre-seed | Angels | Consolidated tracker for financial and digital assets | Fintech |
Cleva Banking | Pre-seed | 1984 | YCombinator | USD banking for African and global freelancers | Fintech |
Flutterwave | Pre-seed | Avenir | PayPal | Tiger Global | Payments API infrastructure across Africa | Fintech |
Custos | Pre-seed | Angels | Operating system for trust and entity management | Fintech |
Fuse | Pre-seed | Shooroq | Sequoia Scout Fund | Payments and banking infrastructure for MENA | Fintech |
Octo | Pre-seed | Raba as Founding partner | Consumer wallet and companion card | Fintech |
OnePipe | Pre-seed | Tribe Capital | Banking as a service for African fintechs | Fintech |
Ramani | Pre-seed | Village Global | YCombinator | Software and payments for distributors and merchants | Fintech |
Shara | Pre-seed | Canaan | Index Ventures | Social payments and finance for African markets | Fintech |
Revivo | Pre-seed | Musha | Village Global | Electronics parts, repair, and insurance marketplace | Fintech |
Stitch | Pre-seed | firstminute | PayPal | Ribbit Capital | API infrastructure for African fintechs | Fintech |
Thndr | Pre-seed | Prosus (Naspers) | Tiger Global | Digital investment platform focused on Egypt and beyond | Fintech |
Trustcrow | Pre-seed | Angels | Real estate escrow and payments platform | Fintech |
KERA | Seed | IFC | TO.VC | AI focused on Africa | AI |
BVNK* | Seed | Avenir | Concentric | Tiger Global | Digital asset payments and banking | Fintech |
Capi | Seed | firstminute | YCombinator | Francophone cross border money movement platform | Fintech |
Cashi | Seed | Fawry | Merchant payments and software | Fintech |
FloatPays | Seed | YCombinator | Fintech software focused on earned wage access | Fintech |
Kwara | Seed | Norrsken | Softbank Emerge | Credit union focused challenger bank | Fintech |
Nile.ag | Seed | Naspers Foundry | PIP | B2B marketplace and financial infrastructure | Fintech |
SwypeX | Seed | Accel | Foundation Ventures | Spend management software and payments company | Fintech |
Djamo | Series A | Partech | Digital bank focused on Francophone Africa | Fintech |
Yoco | Series B+ | Dragoneer | TPG | Merchant payments and software starting in South Africa | Fintech |
Kobo360 | Seed | Goldman Sachs | IFC | Digital freight forwarder and logistics for Africa | Logistics |
Twiga | Seed | Goldman Sachs | IFC | Digital vertically integrated grocery for Africans | Logistics |
Lori Systems | Series A | DST | Hillhouse Capital | Trucking logistics marketplace and software for African carriers | Logistics |
Mara | Pre-seed | Alameda | Coinbase | Pan-African crypto wallet and infrastructure company | Crypto |
Nestcoin | Pre-seed | Alameda | Distributed Global | Crypto and decentralised finance infrastructure | Crypto |
Bitnob | Seed | FTX Ventures | Kingsway Capital | Lightning network payments infrastructure | Crypto |
Busha | Seed | Cadenza | Jump Capital | Crypto exchange and payments | Crypto |
Caliza | Seed | Abstract | QED | Valor | APIs for fintechs to offer crypto payments and wallets | Crypto |
Float Capital | Seed | Alameda | Maven 11 | DeFi primitives and infrastructure | Crypto |
YellowCard | Series A | Coinbase | Square Inc | Valar | Pan-African crypto payments and exchange | Crypto |
VALR | Series B | Coinbase | Pantera | Institutional crypto exchange and payments | Crypto |
Future Africa | Seed | LocalGlobe | Holding company that builds and invests in African companies | HoldingCo |
Pandora | Seed | OneBio | Genomics focused on African populations | Healthcare |
54gene | Series A | Adjuvant | KdT | YCombinator | Global medical discovery using African DNA | Healthcare |
mPharma | Series A | Breyer Capital | Social Capital | Software and data focused on digitising healthcare in Africa | Healthcare |
AMMP | Seed | Point Nine | Software tools for renewable energy companies | Climate |
TFK | Seed | a15 | CVentures | Building a fashion first ecommerce company in MENA | Consumer |