Top 100 African Startups by Total Fundings

Aspen Pharmacare is a global supplier of branded and generic pharmaceutical products.

Zipline is a Rwandan startup which delivers medical supplies using automated drones.

Tabby creates financial freedom in the way people shop, earn and save by reshaping their relationship with money.

MNT-Halan is Egypt’s largest and fastest growing lender to the unbanked.

Sun King designs, distributes and finances Sun King solar home energy solutions to households and businesses who lack reliable access to the grid.

Zepz is unlocking the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology.

Jumia Group is an e-commerce ecosystem that provides innovative, convenient, and affordable online goods and services to consumers.

d.light is an international Energy startup that serves people without access to reliable electricity.

Moove is a Nigerian mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs across Africa.

Steinhoff is an integrated retailer that manufactures, sources, and retails furniture and household goods in Europe, Africa and Australia.

IHS is a mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider.

OPay empowers users and enables them to accomplish more with their money by providing smart financial services.

M-KOPA has connected more than 500,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to solar power, with over 500 new homes being added every day.

SPIRO is accelerating the access of affordable, clean energy technology in the mobility sector.

dLocal enables global merchants to accept and send payments across emerging markets via one API.

Promasidor is the leading provider of high-quality food products across various regions in Africa

TymeBank is a South African fully black-owned and controlled investment company.

The easiest way to make and accept payments from customers anywhere in the world.

Wave Mobile Money is a Senegalese startup which provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.

Andela is an engineering-as-a-service business that helps companies build remote teams quickly and cost-effectively.

Enabling social mobility and economic prosperity through technology in Africa.

Tala is a financial technology company on a mission to build a financial system that works for everyone.

Glovo is a courier service that purchases, picks up, and delivers products ordered through its mobile application.

Hollard Insurance is an insurance agency selling house, car, business and funeral insurance.

ZOLA Electric is a Silicon Valley startup democratizing clean energy access and smart storage power solutions.

Teraco Data Environments is a network and hosting company providing vendor neutral data centers in South Africa.

Chipper cash is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa.

Mediclinic is a private hospital group with three operating platforms in Southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia)

Moniepoint provides a seamless platform to accept payments digitally, receive credit and access business management tools.

CrossBoundary Energy offers fully financed, customized clean energy solutions for business.

Go1 is a South African eLearning startup which offers digital learning for entire workforce.

JUMO is a technology platform, developed for building and running financial services.

Bayport Management Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides retail financial services in the Republic of Mauritius and internationally.

TerraPay simplifies global money movement – by providing a single connection to the most expansive cross-border payments network.

Swvl is revolutionising the transportation scene in emerging markets, through providing a technology based alternative to public transportation

Pepkor is a South African based investment holding company with retail interests in Africa, Australia and Eastern Europe.

Tracker Connect provides vehicle safety solutions such as vehicle tracking, stolen vehicle recovery systems, and fleet management

Yassir is a transport service that uses smartphone app and allows everyone to book drivers and move around safely.

Cross-border, cross-currency, cross-network payments.

Lumos is a Clean Energy company and a leading provider of high-quality solar home systems that is revolutionising the African market.

Takealot.com’s mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa.

valU is a Buy-Now, Pay-Later lifestyle enabling solution which empowers customers' shopping experience.

Thunes is a B2B company that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses.

SolarAfrica Energy is a South African Energy startup that provides simple sustainable solutions.

The Enterprise Group gives you a range of products for any life and non-life insurance, as well as pension needs.

Husk Power Systems provides reliable power to rural communities and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources

Bboxx is an African-focused next generation utility startup which provides access to affordable clean energy.

Lendable is the leading provider of debt to fintechs in emerging and frontier markets.

H2O Securities is Solving Water Scarcity Through Blockchain Finance

Twiga Foods is a business-to-business marketplace platform that sources produce directly from farmers and delivers it to urban retailers.

Access to mobility for the underbanked

Wasoko (formerly Sokowatch) is transforming communities across Africa by revolutionizing access to essential goods and services.

PalmPay is a simple and secure payment app that give rewards.

Tasaheel is a financing company for micro-projects with easy and simple payment systems.

BURN is a Kenyan clean energy startup working to create the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves.

Yellow Card Financial is a digital currency exchange for the cash market.

TradeDepot enables manufacturers and key distributors keep their brands in stock on the shelves of millions of retail stores across Africa.

Agriprotein specializes in nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.

Fawry is the leading Egyptian platform for digital transformation & e-payments

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company.

Lemonade Finance is a Nigerian multi-currency payments solution.

Gro Intelligence is an AI-powered insights company that provides decision-making analytics to the agriculture economies and their participants.

Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer.

Clickatell gives consumers the power to manage their daily lives and transact with businesses in chat.

Stitch is a South African fintech platform building API to make Africa a world-leader in fintech.

InstaDeep is a Tunis-based AI startup which provides self-learning decision making systems.

Yoco is a point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses in Africa.

Empowering Morocco with CashPlus: Your Trusted Fintech Partner for Seamless Money Transfers, Currency Exchange, and Financial Services Nationwide.

Helios Towers (HT) enables mobile operators to roll out and enhance coverage in high-growth markets.

mPharma offers solutions to health insurance and pharmaceutical companies to make it easier for patients to afford their medications.

Copia Global provides a consumer catalog order and delivery system intended to serve consumers in the developing world.

Edita Food Industries manufactures croissants, cakes, bakery products and distributes imported sweeteners, olive oils and pasta.

MaxAB is a B2B e-commerce marketplace that connects food and grocery retailers to suppliers in Egypt’s most under-served geographies.

CrossBoundary is a mission driven investment firm that unlocks the power of capital for sustainable growth and strong returns in underserved markets.

US-based hearing-health company formed by Eargo and South African hearX Group.

Ethomed develops treatments for neglected diseases.

CSquared builds metro fiber and Wi-Fi networks to help local providers connect more people to the Internet and each other

SA Taxi is a vertically integrated company servicing the minibus taxi industry.

MainOne is a telecommunications startup aimed at enabling West Africa's digital economy.

Oragroup SA provides personal and business banking services.

MAX (Metro Africa Express) is on a mission to fix Africa’s notorious last-mile delivery and online-retail problems.

Fido is an Africa-focused credit first neobank for the unbanked

Flow48 enables SME growth by transforming future revenues into up-front capital under flexible terms.

Kuda Bank is designed for your smartphone, free of ridiculous charges and great at helping you budget, spend smartly and save more.

Paymob runs millions of transactions for different business sizes across the Middle East and Africa.

Solar power and Energy efficiency solutions for businesses

Breadfast is your one-stop shop for bakeries, groceries, fruits & veggies!

caif is a provider of training services intended to break down the barriers of hiring by offering appropriate training courses.

RapidDeploy is a South African Cloud-based Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Analytics platform.

Sama provides high-quality training data that powers AI technology.

Webuycars is South Africa's one-stop service to either SELL or BUY a vehicle.

African Leadership Academy (ALA) is a pre-eminent educational institution that seeks to transform Africa

SunFunder is unlocking debt capital for solar energy access & climate change

Apollo Agriculture is a technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits.

Beloxxi is a Nigerian distributer and importer of branded biscuits from an international source.

Nawy is Egypt's proptech which allows users to browse houses online using customisable criteria.

Konga Online Shopping is a Nigerian online shopping website selling books, home appliances, mobile phones, groceries, and others.

Lulalend is an online lending company that provides fast and easy working capital funding to small businesses in South Africa.

Wetility enables you smartly generate solar power on your rooftop, then seamlessly store, release and monitor clean energy to your home or business.

NALA Money is the smartest and safest way to make payments in Tanzania and Uganda