Africa

Afriex is an African-focused international money transfer platform enabling fast, low-cost remittances between the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and African countries including Nigeria, Ghana

Anchor is a Lagos-based embedded finance platform — backed by Y Combinator with $3.4 million raised including a $2.4 million seed round led by Goat Capital — providing Nigerian fintech developers and

Andela is a global technology talent marketplace that connects companies with on-demand software engineers, AI practitioners, data analysts, and cloud specialists from over 175 countries. Founded in 2

Bujeti is a Lagos-based corporate card and expense management platform that helps African businesses issue corporate cards, automate payment workflows, and gain real-time visibility into company spend

Capi Money is a London, United Kingdom-based cross-border payment platform for emerging market businesses — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with €17.2 million in Series A funding in February 2025 led by

Carry1st is a mobile gaming and digital content company founded in 2018 by Cordel Robbin-Coker, Lucy Hoffman, and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu, headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. The company operat

Chipper Cash was founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled with a mission to make money transfers across Africa as simple and affordable as sending a text message. The platform operates in

Chow Central is a restaurant technology and ordering platform serving the food service industry — providing online ordering, delivery management, and restaurant operations tools for independent restau

Chowdeck is a Lagos-based on-demand food delivery platform — backed by Y Combinator with $18.4 million raised including a $9 million Series A led by Novastar Ventures — operating in 11 cities across N

Curacel is a Lagos-based AI-powered insurance technology platform automating claims management, fraud detection, and embedded insurance infrastructure for African insurers and distributors — processin

Duplo is a Nigerian B2B fintech company providing an integrated platform for African businesses to automate payables, receivables, and corporate expense management — enabling companies to pay supplier

Eazipay is a Lagos-based payroll and payment automation platform enabling Nigerian and African businesses, fintech companies, and embedded finance platforms to process payroll, distribute wages, and m

Eden Care is a Nairobi, Kenya-based digital health insurance platform for African employers — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $1.29 million in total funding including a $500,000 investment from Y Co

Finclusion Group is a Cape Town, South Africa-based credit-led neobank — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $62 million in total funding including $20 million from Lendable and $40 million in combined

Fingo Africa is a Nairobi-based Pan-African neobank targeting young Africans (18-35) across the continent with mobile-first banking, payments, savings, and investment products designed for the majorit

Floatpays is a Cape Town-based earned wage access and financial wellness platform providing African employees with on-demand access to their earned wages before scheduled payday — enabling workers to

Flutterwave is a pan-African payments technology company building the infrastructure enabling businesses to make and accept payments across Africa and beyond. Founded in 2016 in San Francisco with ope

FoodCourt is a Lagos-based virtual restaurant platform operating cloud kitchens that serve the African food delivery market — building and operating its own food brands (virtual restaurants) through c

Glovo is a Spanish on-demand delivery company founded in 2015 in Barcelona that connects consumers with local restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, and retailers for fast delivery via its mobile ap

Grey is a fintech company providing US, EU, and UK bank accounts to remote workers, freelancers, and digital professionals in Africa, Latin America, and Asia — enabling users in countries with limited

InMobi is a Bengaluru-based multinational technology company and one of the world''s largest independent mobile advertising platforms. Founded in 2007, InMobi was India''s first technology unicorn. Th

JABU is a Windhoek, Namibia-based B2B commerce and payments platform digitizing the cash economy for small retailers and informal merchants across Southern Africa — connecting 6,000+ retailers to supp

M-Kopa is a financial services and technology company founded in 2011 by Nick Hughes, Jesse Moore, and Chad Larson, and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. M-Kopa pioneered a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financi

Moni is a Nigerian fintech company providing group-based business loans to African SMBs (small and medium businesses) through a community-powered model where groups of entrepreneurs collectively guara

Orange S.A. is a French multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Paris and the incumbent carrier in France. The company serves more than 285 million customers across Europe and Af

Partna is a Wilmington, Delaware-based fintech company providing a global payment platform and API infrastructure enabling African businesses to process cross-border payments, manage multi-currency tr

PayJoy is a San Francisco-based fintech public benefit corporation founded in 2015 by Doug Ricket, Mark Heynen, and Gib Lopez. The company provides smartphone financing and credit lines to underserved

Paystack is a payments technology company enabling African businesses to accept payments from customers worldwide through cards, bank transfers, and mobile money. Founded in 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria by

Plutto is a Santiago-based supply chain risk management and vendor compliance platform that automates third-party vendor risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and regulatory due diligence for enterp

Prospa is a Lagos, Nigeria-based digital business banking platform — backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $3.92 million in total funding including a $3.8 million pre-seed from Global Founders Capital, Li

Shekel Mobility is a Lagos, Nigeria-based B2B automotive fintech platform — backed by Y Combinator (W23) with $7 million+ in total funding including $3.2 million in equity and $4 million+ in debt in N

Sun King (formerly Greenlight Planet) is the world's largest off-grid solar energy company, providing affordable solar lanterns, home systems, and inverters to households and businesses in communities

Tala is a fintech company providing digital financial services — including credit, payments, savings, and transfers — to underserved consumers across emerging markets. Founded in 2011 by Shivani Siroy

Termii is a Lagos, Nigeria-based communications-as-a-service platform — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $5.18 million in total funding including a $3.65 million round in June 2023 led by FinTech Col

Thunes is a Singapore-headquartered global payment infrastructure company founded in 2016 by Peter De Caluwe and Floris De Kort. It operates a proprietary cross-border payment network that connects pa

Topship is a Lagos-based logistics platform building an operating system for African cross-border trade — enabling Nigerian and African businesses to seamlessly import and export parcels and cargo wor

Touch and Pay Technologies is a Lagos-based Nigerian fintech company digitizing microtransactions across transportation, education, healthcare, and government revenue collection in West Africa — opera

Union54 is a Lusaka, Zambia-based fintech company — backed by Y Combinator — operating ChitChat, an integrated messaging and digital payments platform that combines secure instant messaging with USD d

VaultPay is a Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo-based digital banking platform — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $500,000 in pre-seed funding in September 2023 led by Y Combinator — providing D

Vodafone Group Plc is a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Newbury, England, serving approximately 300 million mobile customers and 30 million broadband customers worldw

Vooma is a San Francisco-based AI freight broker automation platform — backed by Y Combinator (W23) with $16 million+ raised including a $13 million Series A in December 2024 led by Craft Ventures wit

Wasoko is a B2B e-commerce platform serving informal retailers (dukas, kiosks, and small shops) across sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to order fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) via app, phone, or f

Waza is a Lagos-based B2B cross-border payments platform enabling businesses in Africa and other emerging markets to make and receive international payments — solving the specific challenge of settlin

Zepz is a London-headquartered global financial services company formed as the parent entity of WorldRemit and Sendwave — two of the most widely used digital money transfer platforms in the world. Wor