Black-founded YC companies

We are a biotechnology company integrating AI, computation and biological automation to accelerate the design of small molecule and protein therapeutics. Our mission is to decrease the timeline and cost of drug development, while improving the success rate of bring innovative medicines to patients in need. We have two drug discovery engines - ELVIS™ and ROSALYND™ - that enable the design of both small molecule and protein therapeutics, an unmatched capability in the AI drug discovery space. Our therapeutic area-agnostic, end-to-end technology powers the full length of early drug discovery - from novel hit discovery to hit to lead, and lead optimization. We are currently applying our technology to drug discovery programs in several areas including, but not limited to, neuroscience, infectious disease, immunology and oncology.

Abundant powers reliable and safe AI deployment with real-time human expertise. Our network of specialized operators works alongside AI agents to: (1) Handle complex edge cases with precision. (2) Maintain rigorous safety standards. (3) Generate high-quality training data that continuously improves AI performance. Companies can meet stringent quality requirements at a fraction of the cost of in-house teams, while accelerating their AI initiatives.

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked. Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that agents across Africa are able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnerships with leading agency banks across the continent.

We help companies like Capital One work with their affiliate content creators like CNBC more easily. Affiliate is an important growth channel, accounting for 25% of new credit card sign-ups, but today's financial companies use multiple layers of middleman to do their affiliate marketing and adhere to compliance guidelines. This is costly and time consuming for fintechs and affiliates alike in this massive market. Affil leverages AI to automate affiliate compliance, monitoring, and management to wrap the middleman into major player. This not only makes it easier for fintechs to market their products, but it also helps improve the affiliate experience as well.

Afriex makes it easy for immigrants to send money home. We offer instant, low-fee remittances to over 25 countries around the world.

Agapé is a relationship wellness app that helps you feel close to your friends, family, or partner, even when apart! We curate daily questions to spark meaningful conversations for over 2 million people around the world.

&AI is a patent due diligence and management platform for attorneys and inventors. Streamline tasks like prior art search and claim chart drafting for prosecution, litigation, and discovery in one secure workspace.

Airfordable is payment plans for airline tickets. The service allows users to secure tickets with a deposit upfront and pay the remaining balance in recurring payments before the departure date.

Altro (altro.io) is a platform that enables members to build credit no matter who they are, where they are from, or their history of credit access/score. We serve the 68M people in the US (mainly Women and POC) who are denied credit due to historical bias and the lack of access that current banks provide to credit building and tools. (It wasn't until The Equal Credit Opportunity Act in the 1970's that Women and "Minorities" could even get fair access to credit)! Altro has created a mobile that allows anyone to have access to credit, using their subscriptions as a means to start building their credit score. Altro lends to members a $75 Line of Credit to pay for their subscriptions, such as Netflix, Hulu, HelloFresh, etc. This card is built to solely work on the subscriptions that the member is already paying for, allowing them to securely use their $75 credit to build their credit using things they are already paying for. Doing this empowers folx who were denied credit a way to start building their score and financial power. Altro will service millions of people in not only building their credit, but also gaining access to the tools (such as personal loans, emergency funds, car/house loans and more) that they could not access prior.

Anchor provides APIs, dashboard and tools that help developers easily embed and build banking products. This includes APIs for creating bank accounts, funds transfers, savings products, issuing cards and offering loans. We also provide regulatory coverage and continuous compliance support to our partners.

AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.

Aragorn enables people ops and IT teams to continuously maintain employee data across diverse systems in a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective manner, all on a single platform - whether through API, EDI, Webhook, or file feeds.

Avion is a drone-based digital health platform, designed to bridge the gap between remote clinics and urban healthcare infrastructures. By connecting these isolated clinics with sophisticated labs and well-stocked pharmacies in cities, Avion brings a new era of remote diagnostics and prescription fulfilment. Avion ensures the rapid, safe, and efficient delivery of vital medical supplies and clinical samples, even to the most hard-to-reach locations. Avion's operation uniquely combines cutting-edge autonomous drone technology with digital health platforms. Our drones, built with advanced eVTOL capabilities, ensure seamless take-off and landing capabilities, even in challenging terrains. Avion's digital health platform serves as the connective tissue between urban health centers and remote clinics. The platform features an intuitive interface, making it easy for healthcare providers to order necessary supplies, track shipments, and even communicate with laboratory and pharmacy staff.

Bamboo is the first online brokerage service that gives wealthy Africans and their wealth managers direct access to the US and global securities. We’re building Fidelity for the African continent. For wealthy Africans and their asset managers, investing in the global capital markets is cumbersome, expensive and practically inaccessible. In Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and home to 30% of all the wealth in Sub Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa), 99.99% of the investing population do not have access to invest globally. Even for the 0.01%, if you wanted to buy a US stock, you’d have to call your asset manager who would then call an international broker to execute a trade. This is inefficient & expensive! We have a mobile app that allows individuals trade the US stock markets by themselves and a brokerage tool for asset managers to execute trades directly & manage multilple portfolios seamlessly.

Bankjoy provides a full suite of modern digital banking software, including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan applications, and conversational AI to banks and credit unions.

The main document in a clinical trial is the study protocol. At large companies, floors of people use the protocol to create the study data collection forms, clinical database design, error checks, analysis code, and data transformation mappings. We use AI to automate the process of creating everything from the protocol, saving not only spend on headcount but also months of time which can translate to up to $27M in direct costs + lost revenue saved for a single phase 3 trial.

Benson helps everyday people invest like the rich by helping them identify the best stocks to invest in. We help users know when to buy, how much to invest, and even when to sell.

We help companies like MoonPay and Tesorio measure the impact of AI on developer productivity.

BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. Zac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19. Since launching the beta in February, BiteSight has onboarded 274 restaurants in SF, handled 211 orders, and users are growing more than 50% each week, all organically. UberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.

BlackOakTV is a subscription video platform hyper-serving black viewers and creators. We make it easy for black viewers to find, watch and engage with the content and creators that most reflect their lives and experiences.

Blaze (YC S24) is global Venmo for cross border payments. It's a peer to peer payments app that uses USDC to make payments fast and cheap between any two people anywhere in the world. The founders scaled their last startup to $1M in ARR, studied mathematics and engineering at Duke, NYU, and Cornell, and have led teams at Spotify, Artsy, and Bitpanda. They're live in the US and Mexico, available for download on iOS and Android: https://blaze.money

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

Breezeful gets you the best mortgage online from start to close. Instead of dealing with multiple banks, credit checks and in-person meetings, we’ll use your income, credit score, and other financial data from your application to negotiate with hundreds of lenders on your behalf in seconds.

Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in weeks instead of months. For nearly three years, we’ve supported Africa’s top startups with stable, high-growth card solutions. Thanks to our stability, over 50% of our clients have grown their volumes by more than 5X within 6 months. Our commitment is to deliver great cards that work, provide reliable support, and unbeatable uptime so that your users can be satisfied.

Bujeti is a corporate cards and expenses management platform for African businesses. We help African businesses issue corporate cards to their employees, control and manage their expenses and keep track of their finances.

BuyPower is the modern bill payment platform for Africans. We make it easy for individuals to pay their energy bills, businesses to pay international vendors, and lenders to make smarter lending decisions using our proprietary Energy Data Service. Our mission is to simplify bill payment and empower African SMBs to prioritize their financial health.

Bytebot simplifies and streamlines web tasks by translating natural language prompts into browser automation, including clicks, form filling, and data extraction. The no-code playground enables users to develop robust, dynamic web automation scripts that adapt alongside changing web environments. Effortless to use and easy to integrate, Bytebot helps users boost their workflow efficiency and drive growth, all without the complexity.

CapWay is a financial technology company that creates financial access and opportunity for all via our ecosystem, including digital banking tools, savings tools, financial content, and inclusion consumer fintech products. The company fills financial gaps and provides solutions for the growing cashless economy and those who are looking to move away from the traditional financial system, including those who have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underserved. CapWay has a B2C and B2B2C customer acquisition strategy.

Meet Ceejay, your AI executive assistant that works 24/7 to keep you organized and informed. By securely connecting to your email and calendar, Ceejay intelligently: - Alerts you to important messages you can't miss - Finds exactly what you need in your inbox and schedule - Manages your time thoughtfully, always with your approval - Learns your preferences to serve you better Unlike a traditional assistant, Ceejay is always available and dedicated solely to you. Stay on top of what matters while maintaining your focus and peace of mind.

Founded in October 2022, Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. Chow Central has launched its first product "500chow". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. Our customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius. We are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.

Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.

Cleva enables African freelancers and businesses to receive international payment for their service, while protecting themselves from local currency volatility. With a Cleva USD account, one can easily receive USD payment from anywhere in the world, spend via a card, pay bills, convert to local currency, and save in USD to hedge against local currency volatility.

ClipDrop is an app that turns regular mobile photos into professional product visuals. Thanks to companies like Poshmark, Etsy and Ebay, there are now over 25M sellers who need great visuals for their shops but most of them don’t have access to a professional photographer or a design team. We replace all of this with our app available on mobile and desktop. We’re a team of former Google, Facebook employees and Machine learning PhD’s and academic Professors. We believe that machine learning will bring professional photography and design to millions of businesses for a fraction of the cost.

Coblocks is a thoughtfully-designed data platform that helps teams write queries and automate workflows faster. We understand the columns, tables, and relationships in your data and use them to help anyone on your team build pipelines with AI, SQL and Python. Think of us like Zapier plus Cursor for data engineering. Here’s how we’re different: • All-in-one: You can get started in 2 minutes – no setup or configuration required. We have one-click integrations, warehousing, transformation, and schedules all built in. • Seamless integrations: Plug in your Postgres database, Stripe transactions, Hubspot leads, or any other data source, without writing code to keep things in sync. • Thoughtful AI: We love Cursor and we love data – we combined the two to help you write accurate queries. We use existing metadata to help you create new datasets, connect sources, fix errors, or edit in place. • Collaborative: Easily share data and discover what others in your org have built as a starting place for your analysis. Wrap common blocks of logic with templates so your team never has to start from zero. • Resilient and Scalable: Our compute engine is lightning-fast for queries and builds. Git and branching are built-in for both code and data, so you can time-travel backwards when things break. You can start with GBs and grow to TBs.

Compra Rápida is the fastest way to checkout in LatAm, leveraging customer experience and conversion rates. We work across all platforms, empowering anyone to collect payments in just one-click.

Quantum computers will allow humanity to understand the world at its most fundamental level, enabling the acceleration of drug discovery and the development of new materials. Currently, quantum engineers spend days, sometimes weeks, manually getting their silicon chips to operational conditions to realize two qubits. A qubit is the information-carrying unit of a quantum computer, analogous to a bit in a classical computer. We need billions of qubits to make a useful quantum computer. Therefore, automation software will be vital to realizing this goal. Conductor Quantum will develop AI software to remove the human from the loop, enable the scaling of silicon quantum technology and build a silicon-based quantum computer.

Confido is a next-generation financial automation and intelligence platform that helps fast-growing CPG brands operate and scale more efficiently.

We are building Convoy for engineering teams that value efficiency, especially during this bear market. You might already know about API Gateways. Convoy is exactly that for webhooks. Engineering teams today use Convoy to securely send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably with robust support for retries, rate limiting, static IPs, circuit breaking, rolling secrets and more. We know both receiving and sending webhooks can become a lot of work to manage, we have built a product to enable engineers to build and ship highly scalable stripe-like webhooks infrastructure.

Cowrywise is a FinTech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply. We are leveraging technology and investment management to re-imagine how financial planning, savings and investment products are delivered to people. We do this by helping our customers achieve their savings and investments goals in a simple, secure and affordable manner.

AI-powered API to sell & process insurance across emerging markets globally. At Curacel, we leverage artificial intelligence to make it faster and more efficient to access and manage insurance. Our solutions help insurers reduce fraud, streamline claims, and improve customer experience. We are building the infrastructure to make insurance work seamlessly for the next billion users across Africa and other emerging markets.

In the global fight against breast cancer, Digistain stands at the forefront, offering a beacon of hope to millions. Our journey began at Imperial College London, where ground-breaking research gave birth to a technology poised to revolutionize breast cancer diagnostics. The Challenge: Every year, breast cancer affects 2.3 million individuals globally. Post-surgery, 60% of patients are advised to undergo genomic testing, an expensive and time-consuming process monopolized by a single lab in the U.S., costing around $4,000 and taking nearly two months. Consequently, only 5% undergo this vital testing. The rest, unable to access this crucial diagnostic step, often resort to chemotherapy—a treatment that, in one in four cases, is more harmful than the cancer itself. Our Solution: Digistain addresses this critical gap. Our technology transforms the current diagnostic process by enabling hospitals to analyze patient samples in-house using existing equipment, supplemented with our innovative technology. This approach offers near-instantaneous decision-making data, a stark contrast to the existing month-long waits. Central to our technology is a proprietary algorithm that identifies a unique spectral fingerprint of the tumour in the infrared spectrum, providing a personalized risk score. This score guides oncologists in selecting the most effective, individualized treatment plans, potentially reducing unnecessary chemotherapy and its harmful side effects. Impact and Potential: Our solution not only challenges the status quo in technology but also in accessibility. In a landmark government-commissioned study, Digistain demonstrated clinical evidence on par with the market leader, but at a fraction of the cost and time. Already making waves in clinical practice globally, with insurance reimbursement at leading cancer centers, our technology represents a paradigm shift in cancer care. Recognized by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, and Imperial College for our innovative contributions, and supported by entities like the NHS, Y Combinator, and the European Investment Bank, Digistain is more than a company—it’s a movement towards equitable, effective cancer treatment. With the potential to democratize access to life-saving diagnostics, Digistain is not just envisioning a better future for cancer patients; we are actively creating it.

Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like Klaviyo and Customer.io. Self-host us for free, or use our low-cost cloud offering to automate messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more. We also offer solutions for embedding Dittofeed in your own SaaS! Instantly provide your customers with automated messaging tools.

Djamo is a challenger Bank for consumers in french speaking Africa where less than 25% of the population is banked, we are building seamless and affordable banking solutions to break into this huge untaped market and bring millions of people into financial inclusion.

Dojah is an end-to-end AI Powered Fraud Prevention and KYC Platform. From onboarding to ongoing monitoring, we are helping businesses fight financial crime and onboard customers faster.

DryMerge lets people automate work with plain English. Say you want to manage inbound leads. Instead of dragging blocks or writing code, just tell DryMerge "Whenever I get an email from a potential customer, add their details to a google sheet and draft a reachout message" and watch it happen in seconds. Counterintuitively, 88% of no-code users are actually programmers. We're changing that by making automation as fast and intuitive as conversation. This opens up the market to all knowledge workers, not just technical ones, and expands it by an order of magnitude.

We are Gusto for Africa. Eazipay is a simple, 5-minute payroll payment solution for Africa. We have grown from 10 businesses in January to over 200 with over $5k MRR. Eazipay processes 8 payroll payment types (Taxes, Pension, Insurances, etc) with just one-click and with our own payment infrastructure. Eazipay Payroll APIs are also available for neobanks and commercial banks - to reach at least 50k businesses.

Eden Care is building a digital health insurer for employers in Africa. Today, health insurance operation costs in Africa are 2.2x the global average. Eden Care is cutting this by 43% making health insurance cheaper. The $11Bn African health insurance market is projected to grow to $72Bn in just 12 years. We are targeting 90 million uninsured African employees.

EdgeTrace makes video data easily accessible and actionable for critical industries. We provide a platform and API for advanced video capabilities, such as semantic search, automated annotations & analytics.

We provide US based USD deposit accounts that sit with a licensed banking partner. Elevate's FDIC-insured USD accounts offer ACH, wire inbound and outbound payments, and a free Mastercard debit card. Our regional payout partners enable our users to send their money back home at very low cost. We're targetting non-US residents in emerging markets who struggle to get paid in USD.

Embark Technology develops self-driving truck software. Embark was the first self-driving truck company to achieve an autonomous coast-to-coast drive, the first to reach 100,000 miles driven on public roads, and the first to open a network of transfer points. Embark went public on NASDAQ in 2021 and was acquired by Applied Intuition in 2023.

Emerge sells online job training to the government. For example, Connecticut has allocated $840K to pay Emerge to train 140 incarcerated people to become truck drivers. The US government allocates ~$10 billion in job training funds every year, which is distributed to state and local governments, and eventually paid off to small brick-and-mortar job training programs, with horrible track records. In just three months since launch, we’ve already signed $2.25 million in LOIs with three cities. Our first deal for $82.5K / month starts next week. Each year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from state and federal prisons. Another nine million are released from local jails. Yet, a year after reentry, 60% of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed. The success of Emerge creates a win-win-win situation: (1) jobs for reentrants, (2) workers for labor-starved industries, and (3) reduction in crime and recidivism.

Enable.us is an all-in-one workspace for the B2B Sales, Marketing, and Customer facing teams to provide a personalized and interactive buying and onboarding experience to their prospective customers. Customer facing teams have everything they need in one single location to: - Capture Video/Audio Product demos, customer references, sales decks, white-papers, contracts, onboarding material, and other content - Automatically organize & contextualize (by industry, persona, deal stage, deal size) - Build personalized deal rooms with AI-targeted content, simplified workflows, and 1:1 communication with the prospect and other stakeholders/influencers. Learn more about our launch here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/referenceable or sign up here https://www.enable.us/

At eqtble, we’re on a mission is to empower companies to make more equitable decisions around their employees. We're building a people analytics platform that enables talent and people leaders to access a rich set of analytics and insights out of their existing data. Within a short time period, we've vaulted to the top of the HR tech industry with our tech-first people analytics solution. With customers such as Etsy, Chobani, Nuro, Harrys, Checkr - eqtble is on a path to being the leader in the people analytics space.

We are building an open-source standard to monitor ML models in production. The tool is used by enterprise data science teams to operate their models reliably and detect and resolve issues.

Eze is a B2B Marketplace that connects telecommunication and global electronic wholesalers allowing them to trade devices in wholesale quantities with real-time market data. Our aim is to formalize the fragmented and inefficient second-hand electronics market that had an estimated beachhead of $17 billion in 2016 which grew 50% from 2015. (Deloitte) Buyers and sellers use our platform to submit buy and sell requests. Eze automatically connects the two parties with compatible bids and executes the trade. The platform gives businesses real-time market prices and eliminates transaction risk by acting as an intermediary with a secure payment system.

Fingo is building a pan-African digital bank. Today, most Africans pay 5-15% fees to transfer money to friends, family, or businesses - with Fingo these fees will be 90% cheaper. In 240 seconds, any young person will be able to access a full suite of financial services including personal, business, investment and savings accounts.

Fizz is the #1 money app for students. Whether you want to build credit, manage your money or have no idea where to start, Fizz is there to help you every step of the way. Download the app for free to check your credit score, get personalized spending insights and take fun bite-sized courses. Become a Fizz Member to take your finances to the next level with a debit card that builds credit. With no interest and daily autopay that prevents you from overspending, the Fizz Card is the ultimate financial hack. Students at over 300 universities including Michigan State, University of Florida, UCLA and Harvard chose Fizz for safe credit building with daily autopay, smart spend limits, and local campus deals. Fizz is backed by Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and the founders of eight Unicorns.

FLIP is everyone’s sneaker connect — the premier specialty destination where people find and sell hard to find, rare, limited edition sneakers. They have created a community where their members can buy and sell with confidence and ease. Never miss out on an opportunity to place your bid on hard to find sneakers in 90 minutes from a curated list of quality sellers who really care. Their mobile only platform is currently available for your iPhone and coming soon to Android. They strive to keep an open and trusted environment for their community.

Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on what really matters: the customer experience! We have the best network and customers are switching to us because of the service and flexibility to build their own customized mobile plans. We are doing in telco what Nubank did in banking in Brazil. We are Fluke, thank you!

We're building a visual application development platform to dramatically improve the time to market and quality of digital experiences. FlutterFlow helps companies and product teams improve developer efficiency, accelerate project timelines, and reduce costs for large-scale business applications. Our customers include some of the largest banking, consulting, telecom, and manufacturing companies in the world. We have more than 1.3M users in more than 200 countries and regions around the world. We’re a remote first team headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have offices in Mountain View, New York City, and Singapore.

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $20 billion in payments and 100 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

We are building Flux- Flux is a Mobile App for merchants, freelancers, regular users(P2P) to make and accept payments from their customers anywhere in the world using crypto or fiat. We have built a mobile app that uses the merchants’ phone number, creates a wallet enabling them to receive payments in crypto or fiat without having to go to an exchange or pay expensive fees. Merchants can accept payments in crypto or in fiat. Payments made in Crypto can easily convert into fiat due to the built in fast reconciliation and is made available for spending immediately. Currently the vast majority merchants receive payments in crypto because of two issues (1) Paypal, Venmo, CashApp or Square to not exist in Africa and (2) the local currency fluctuates more than bitcoin due to inflation. But in order for merchants to receive money in crypto and exchange it into fiat they resort to crypto exchange apps and crypto addresses to receive payments which is a very complicated and expensive process. Merchants want to be paid quickly with the lowest amount of fees possible. This is why we are building Flux

FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng

Fortuna Genomics employs methods from revolutionary genomics studies to non-invasively assess embryo traits, enabling parents to optimize their children's innate qualities without the need for gene editing. Through comprehensive genetic screening and forecasting, it empowers families to make informed decisions, optimizing their child’s well-being and capabilities from conception. With the convergence of advancements in genomic technologies, association studies, and sequencing efficiency, we are at a unique inflection point where such services can become widely accessible and impactful. Accurately predicting complex traits from genetic markers involves sophisticated models that must account for the interplay between countless biological and statistical factors. Our team is well-equipped to tackle this problem and make every parent's dream a reality by allowing them to give their children the best possible start in life.

Garage is a marketplace for pre-owned equipment, starting with firefighting equipment. Garage helps fire departments buy and sell used equipment in seconds rather than days. Our marketplace handles payments, freight, and financing – making buying and selling equipment easy & secure.

Garage is a wholesale auto parts distributor in Africa where there are more than 2M retailers selling $25B of auto parts annually. We aggregate parts from the largest suppliers in the world and deliver directly to retailers for a profit. Africa will have the 2nd most vehicle owners in the world by 2050 at 400M vehicles, who will each spend over $1000 annually on vehicle parts, with retail shops 'powered by Garage' being the backbone of all these transactions.

Gather is software that helps high-growth teams build and execute their onboarding, offboarding, and other People Operations programs. Gather replaces manual coordination with smart, automated communication powered by a deep integration with Slack.

Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying their household bills while offering overdraft and late fee protection for all their biller accounts. Our app tracks and pays bills so our users don’t have to. We offer banking services; direct deposits, credit building, cash advance and rewards to simplify bill payments for both billers accounts and consumers.

GiveMeTap is a social enterprise. Our mission is to make clean drinking water available to everyone, everywhere. We create stainless steel water bottles, and each bottle funds 5 years of clean water for someone in Africa. When you get a GiveMeTap bottle, you also have access to the free-water network of cafes and shops who give free tap water to people on the go. No questions, no hassle. We build water projects in remote villages and elect a water committee to run the maintenance of the water. So far we have made an impact in Namibia, Malawi, and Ghana to bring clean water for the first time. We like to think of this as ‘Water for You, Water for Everyone’. We help awesome companies create custom bottles for their staff, customers, and events so that they can stay hydrated, reduce plastic waste and help fund water projects. Our partners include: Deloitte HSBC YCombinator Google TED Flexport Legal & General Richard Branson's The Lodge, Switzerland Cambridge University Want to get your company involved? Visit http://bit.ly/2j2Ef64 Water for you. Water for everyone.

We empower clinicians with our AI platform for developing differential diagnoses and drafting clinical plans.

GovDash is an AI platform that assists government contractors with capture, proposal development, contract management & more—in one place. Automate BD workflows across the Capture Cloud, Proposal Cloud, and Contract Cloud.

Grain is a mobile app that transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card by linking it to a line of credit based on your cash flow. For the millennials, Gen Zs, and immigrants who are afraid of falling into crippling credit card debt, there is now a distinct market opportunity to offer an alternative to how these 100M people access and manage credit.

Grey provides US, EU, and UK accounts for remote workers in emerging markets. For the first time, western companies feel comfortable recruiting skilled workers from anywhere and Grey is making it easy for these workers to receive their salary, save in foreign currency, convert to local currency and spend.

At Guide labs, we build Interpretable AI systems, on any data modality, that can reliably explain their reasoning, and are easy to steer and debug. We provide access to these models via an API.

Haven is building AI models to automate property management operations. Our first product, Marvin, is a front-desk assistant that can answer up to 80% of resident phone calls and requests on behalf of the property staff.

Rebuilding Africa's health system, with focus on prevention this time

Helicarrier (previously Buycoins) is building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. Sendcash is an app that lets Africans in the diaspora send money back home. Buycoins is the easiest place to buy, sell, and manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.

Helium Health provides a suite of digital health tools for healthcare providers, payers and patients across Africa — most prominent of which is our maiden electronic medical records (EMR) & hospital management information system (HMIS) for emerging markets, HeliumOS. We offer business loans to healthcare providers through our HeliumCredit product. We also work with donors and governments in executing public health strategies. Finally, we have built the largest healthcare data repository on Africans with over 1 million health records.

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.

HYBRD is Strava for elite athletes who do more than just cardio. It brings all your training data together by integrating with top wearables and uses AI to make tracking weightlifting easy. This allows athletes to fully understand their training load, track holistic progress over time, and compete with friends in fresh, exciting ways. Existing products tend to focus on only one type of exercise—either cardio or strength—leaving hybrid athletes juggling disconnected tools. As hybrid athletes themselves the founders found this frustrating and set out to build the unified approach they needed for their training. Three of HYBRD’s founders previously worked at WHOOP, each leading teams across product, growth and analytics. In parallel, Mats was a member of the US national rowing team and Ben, Shoe and Ruiters have all completed Ironman 70.3s.

There is more text generated than any one person or team can read. A single product team can not hope to sift through their thousands of feedback responses and determine the signal amongst the noise. Hyperglue enables operators, product managers, and analysts to instantly access machine intelligence on large text datasets without the engineering or headcount overhead required to deploy natural language AI within their business.

ideate.xyz is a graphics design as API platform. We help founders, marketing teams and agencies scale their marketing graphics design assets programmatically.

InEvent is an all in one platform that allows you to use multiple solutions (website, registration, mobile app, hospitality, check-in, badge printing, budgeting, etc) altogether, without having to upload data 3-4x times on different pages. Everything is available on the cloud, 24x7, for you and your attendees. Most of our competitors have modules that don't talk with each other, we solved this by creating a solid foundation that all of our solutions are built upon. We have already successfully improved more than 12,400 events, boosting more than 2,390,000 registrations so far. We have integrations with Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Microsoft and other vendors to create a simple, easy-to-use marketing ecosystem for all our customers. Discover the InEvent Virtual Lobby, the top event marketing solution in the world today: https://inevent.com/en/virtual-online-streaming-events-room-events-innovative.php

We are building the world's first community of patients eager to contribute to and advance medical research. Our patient community platform offers health management, patient support and patient health data aggregation. We offer researcher's and life science companies with the opportunity to connect with these patients for their medical research needs. They recruit real patients for clinical trials, for bio specimens sourcing and to obtaining real world patient data.

Qwest is a members-only social club for accessing exclusive in-demand restaurants, clubs, and lounges in social settings in major cities such as Miami, Los Angeles, New York, etc. We provide one membership to access tables at popular places, skip lines throughout the city and meet other high caliber individuals at exclusive high-end restaurants, clubs, and lounges.

Jopwell’s mission is to make a substantial, measurable impact on increasing Black, Latinx, and Native American representation in the workforce. Jopwell strives to build inclusive workplaces where our members can bring their authentic selves to work. We do this by assisting companies with their recruitment, marketing, and retention efforts for communities of color.

KemNet supplies pharmacies with premium reformulations of popular drugs that are more useful for specific groups of patients. For example, more than 30 pharmacies rely on KemNet to supply reformulated products for erectile dysfunction that work up to 8 times faster than alternatives. In addition to sexual function, products reformulated for novel drug delivery and supplied on KemNet include medications for hair growth, pain, weight loss and women's health.

Parents in Africa face either public schools with student-teacher ratios as high as 50:1 or private schools with tuition fees as high as $7500 per year, per child. Kidato classes have student-teacher ratios of 5:1 and teach the same rigorous international curriculum as other private schools — but at a fraction of the price. In our second semester, Kidato has enrolled more than 30 students into our learning-from-home program as a replacement for brick-and-mortar schools. We expect to triple this enrollment by our third semester.

LemFi is a digital bank for the African diaspora. There are over 20 million African immigrants in North America and Europe with many running businesses back home and we provide multi-currency accounts to help manage their unique banking needs.

Lenco is a multi-currency digital bank for businesses in Africa. With Lenco, retail outlets, hospitality businesses and startups can easily pay vendors, suppliers and perform cross-border payment while having access to growth capital.

1 in 4 Americans do not get their full 401(k) match. That means 25 million workers are leaving $24 billion on the table in free employer contributions. The primary reason these workers cannot get their match is because they do not have enough to both cover living expenses and invest. Lendtable helps workers get thousands in additional income by giving them a cash advance to cover their living expenses so they can finally begin earning their employer match. Once their money has vested we take some of the match money earned in order to cover our expenses. Workers now have thousands of dollars more without putting any money down, and we make money helping them do so -- we win if they win.

LiveFlow turns your Google Sheets and Excel spreadsheet into a live FP&A dashboard in minutes.

Loula is a software platform and national provider network for independent birth & postpartum doulas who accept Medicaid/Medi-Cal. Doulas typically operate outside of the traditional healthcare system and face an enormous learning curve and administrative burden when trying to accept insurance. This is why we created Loula. Starting with doulas in California, Loula handles their credentialing, contracting, and revenue cycle management so that they can focus on delivering the best quality care to their clients.

Lume automates data mappings using AI. Lume helps teams ingest client data, normalize data from different sources, and create one to many integrations, automatically.

Lumona is an AI-enabled search engine featuring perspectives from social media to help you understand your search results. When you’re looking to buy a new phone, instead of Googling iPhone 16 reviews and opening multiple reddit threads, blog reviews, and YouTube videos to know if you want to buy it, you can search once on Lumona to get all of that info on one page.

Lysto is a task automation platform built for go-to-market (GTM) teams, designed to streamline workflows and reduce time spent on administrative tasks. By aggregating data from your video calls, emails, and other data sources like internal documents and product analytics, Lysto automates key GTM tasks such as updating CRM records, drafting personalized follow-up emails, and logging customer issues in tools like Slack or JIRA. Each task can be fully automated or flagged for final review in Lysto’s task inbox, providing both efficiency and oversight.

Maple Materials, Inc. (Richmond, California) develops a low-cost electrolysis process to split carbon dioxide into graphite and oxygen. Due to several unique features of our production process and product, we have potential to produce battery-grade graphite anode material one-third the cost of current graphite anode materials. When powered by renewables, this process has the potential to be carbon negative.

MarketForce empowers neighbourhood merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently, access a banking wallet with credit facilities, collect digital payments and earn extra income by offering agency baking services and reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments in their communities. Incorporated in 2019, MarketForce is a fast-growing company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 180 consumer brands trading on the platform.

It is cumbersome to maintain/repair vehicles in Africa. Vehicle owners currently have 2 options to choose from; very expensive and geographically limited branded mechanic garages (less than 1% of the supply pool) or unvetted roadside mechanics (about 99% of the supply pool). About 95% of vehicle owners cannot afford branded garages where quality and reliable service delivery can be guaranteed and thus rely on roadside mechanics. However, low quality and transparency are typical issues associated with roadside mechanics. We created a network of vetted mechanics, spare part vendors and an app that enables easy booking, payment and mechanic matching process. Via the mecho app, a customer or business can make a request for any automobile service (repairs or regular servicing) or part.

We develop AI models & new assays to create functional, therapeutic proteins.

MentalHappy is a secure and compliant platform that leverages AI and data-driven analytics to enhance the group-based therapy experience and boost client/patient engagement. Our platform streamlines administrative tasks for providers, improves group participant self-management capabilities, automates group participant check-ins, and identifies group members who may be at risk. Additional features on the platform allow providers to schedule and host virtual sessions, engage members in secure chat, and share health resources, and offer support groups

Menza is a modern data analytics platform that takes the stress out of strategy. Generate proactive insights and interactive dashboards in seconds using Menza's proprietary AI technology. Enterprises use Menza to make strategic decisions to go to the next level.

Cities are losing billions of dollars trying to price the curb for shared vehicles (Car2Go, Scoot, FedEx). Meter Feeder enables traditional and autonomous vehicles to pay for parking with no human interaction, so cities can make money, and fleets can remain compliant.

Miden is building a modern infrastructure that facilitates the launch of card programs and various financial products for businesses in Sub-Sahran Africa. Just by reducing integration time, card fraud, improving stability, and being customer focused we quickly rose to top 5 in TPV among card issuing Fintechs in Sub-Saharan Africa within 8 months of launch. We’re going to build the first comprehensive fintech and banking software stack for Africa, based on modern technology. We’re starting with a card issuer-processor.

Miru provides developers with the infrastructure to easily deploy updates over-the-air to fleets of robots and IoT devices by simply pushing new changes to GitHub.

Moneco is a neobank targeting the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora. We are making banking easier and more affordable for underserved communities, starting with a current account, a payment card and free remittances. The long term vision is to turn Moneco into a one-stop-shop where all of their financial needs will be addressed.

Moni finances small businesses in groups across Africa. The collective responsibility of the group serves as a collateral on the loan while the social pressure from the members ensures on-time repayment. There are over 44million SMBs in Africa.  
 We launched 7 months ago and we already have $72k MRR growing at 50% MoM. We achieved 99% repayment on 11,000 units of loans with over $5M disbursed. This is 15 times higher than most financial services in Africa. 
 Femi (CEO) worked previously with the World Bank with a focus on financial services while Dapo (CTO) led the development of the technology for one of the largest digital lending apps We are also backed by Y Combinator(W22), Magic Fund, Ventures Platform, Voltron Capital and more.

We allow companies to access data from their customers bank accounts and allow them to debit money from these same bank accounts.

Moots is an AI-powered networking and relationship management app designed to help professionals, super-connectors, and entrepreneurs track, manage, and leverage their relationships efficiently. Moots goes beyond traditional contact management by capturing both online and offline interactions, enabling users to remember key personal details and business contexts. It provides a seamless way to manage introductions, track interactions, and utilize AI to surface important insights, helping users nurture valuable connections over time.

mRelief is a nonprofit that provides an easy-to-use platform on the web and text messaging -- at 74544 -- for Americans to sign up for SNAP. Built on public datasets provided by the USDA on BBCE and COVID-19 Waivers, they help people find out if they might be likely eligible for SNAP in all 50 states and DC.

Myria is a private community and concierge for off-market goods & services — the things you can't Google. Ultra-high net worth individuals spend $390 billion per year ($1.3 million each) on lifestyle, but they still struggle to find everything they want. Why? Because the best of any category — homes, boats, restaurant reservations — the best stuff is never listed online. Likewise, the best people don’t need the internet to find a new client or job. The best is always off-market. Myria is the Off-Marketplace. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest and wealthiest buyers. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people access the best of everything, give back, and get the most out of life. If it’s off-market, it’s on Myria!

Story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPsHg3Ap_qw We have two products: 1. Consumer Cross Border payments to Emerging Market: nala.com 2. Payment Rails for Africa: rafiki.com

Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.

Nash enables finance teams to manage all their finance flows in one place and craft their money flow experiences globally. Our ledger-based operating system allows your borderless business to connect all your money accounts, accounting systems, payment service providers, treasury operations, spend management in one place. Our mission is to enable borderless commerce in Africa. We achieve this initially by providing your team with all the finance tools needed to build, scale, and grow your borderless business without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure.

Since its inception, NS has raised over $80 million to build thousands of homes across Latin America and impact ~20,000 individuals. In 2021, NS launched a venture capital fund, Hometeam Ventures, focused on early-stage construction and housing innovations. NS graduated from Y Combinator and is a 4x recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company.

Nomba provides Banking and payment to 200k+ small business in Nigeria through point of sales solutions.

Novig is a sports betting exchange that eliminates the need for traditional sportsbooks by creating a two-sided marketplace. We do this by enabling users to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable.

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We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

Openlayer helps you test and monitor high-quality AI systems.

OutRival empowers customer experience teams to create and deploy Conversational AI Agents that leverage existing resources, cut costs, and grow revenue. Starting with Admissions Teams in Higher Education.

Pactima is a value-centric, fast-growing, and venture-backed company that’s transforming the manner in which businesses conduct transactions in our remote world. Our flagship product, Live eSignatures^TM, is a real-time solution that allows people to view and sign documents while simultaneously hosting a secured video call. This easy-to-use solution allows transactions that could only be done in-person to now be performed online.

Paragon enables companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

Modern companies use Partna's API and B2B payment tools to smoothly launch and operate in Africa

Passage is a co-pilot for the customs brokering space. Today, companies employ entire teams of customs brokers and entry writers who spend hours keying in data and corresponding with clients. With our co-pilot, we plan to streamline this tedious data entry work, and email correspondence, making compliance teams significantly more efficient

Our Product: Sanifu Sanifu enables manufacturers and distributors to automate the entry of sales orders from emails and WhatsApp into their ERP systems. By extracting customer order details from various formats—including emails, PDFs, and handwritten notes—and accurately entering the data into ERP systems, Sanifu significantly reduces manual data entry time and errors. This automation enhances overall efficiency for businesses, allowing them to scale more effectively and focus on core operations. We are targeting a market of 180,000 manufacturers and distributors across Africa, representing a $2.5B+ opportunity. Sidney and Phelix, who met 10 years ago at a leadership program by Mastercard and Equity Bank, are technical founders with 5+ years experience working together to build payments platforms that processed $10M monthly GTV across Kenya, Uganda & Nigeria.

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

Paystack is a small and vibrant family working across Lagos and San Francisco. We enable businesses to accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money, directly from their website or mobile app.

Pideaky helps offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash flow through inventory-based financing and payments/collection/reconciliation solutions. We focus on the massively underserved $70B/year customer segment as our wedge — Mexican corner shops and corner shop providers:

Pigeon is a relationship based technology platform that facilitates the creation and management of loans between friends, family, loved ones, and anyone who trusts one another. By providing smarter ways for people to mix money with their relationships, Pigeon seeks to empower individuals to borrow and lend money with the people they trust.

Players’ Lounge enables gamers of all skill levels to bet on the outcome of their video game matches and win money. Our mission at Players’ Lounge is to give gamers a monetary return on their gaming time, while adding a new layer of fun and entertainment. We have raised $15m in funding. Investors include: ycombinator, Samsung, Griffin Gaming Partners, Strauss Zelnick, Drake and Myles Garrett.

We're providing payment rails to help African merchants and consumers easily pay their suppliers abroad.

PocketSuite is a YC-backed mobile platform for service businesses, ranging from fitness trainers, photographers, and home cleaners to dog trainers, hairstylists, therapists, and life coaches. Businesses use PocketSuite to get booked, paid, and message their clients. We make the work of running your own business simple for solo operators and small teams. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service professionals generating $800 billion in sales with a mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 500,000 clients book and pay their Pros on PocketSuite today and we're growing fast.

Lawyers have to manually track all their client work in 6-minute increments. PointOne uses AI to completely automate time tracking and bill review, helping law firms collect more revenue and saving lawyers hours each week.

We are making it possible for digital businesses to easily verify individuals and businesses within seconds across Emerging Markets.

Promise modernizes and humanizes government payments. We are a comprehensive payments platform that increases revenue and efficiency for government agencies. We help residents navigate payments with dignity and ease to avoid the negative consequences of non-payment. Promise’s win-win services strengthen the bond between government agencies and the communities which they serve.

Propexo lets engineers build, test, and launch CRE software integrations in days, not months. We modernize the developer experience for our customers, providing clear documentation and robust infrastructure to support the needs of property owners, property managers, & proptechs.

PropRise is a next-generation data and analytics provider transforming the commercial real estate (CRE) sector through AI-driven automation. We specialize in sourcing alternative and hard-to-find data, converting unstructured formats—ranging from documents to images to audio—into structured, actionable insights. Our platform gives brokers and investors near real-time access to critical data such as sales comparables, rental history, and market trends, significantly enhancing the acquisitions process. Our mission is to be the catalyst for growth and innovation in the CRE market. We offer an unparalleled competitive advantage by delivering 10x the data at 1/100th the cost of traditional providers. Powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms, PropRise is redefining data collection and analytics in commercial real estate.

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

Pyxai helps organizations evaluate, identify and source top talent by focusing on the best indicators of long-term job success, soft skills. Our proprietary, AI driven assessment tool helps organizations increase retention by at least 30% all while reducing the time to hire by more than 50%.

Web3 developer platform to build, test, and scale blockchain applications. Lightning fast access to 44+ chains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Near, Stacks, Flow, Tron, zkSync and more. Elastic APIs, advanced ETL, storage (IPFS), powerful tools, analytics, and a 3rd-party marketplace -- all at your command through a simple control panel. Build your next big thing on-chain! Build it with QuickNode.

An app for salespeople to track inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions. Cofounders: African. Ex-Salesforce PM, Stanford CS, Capgemini

XR + AI are the most fundamental computing shifts of the past century. We're using XR and AI to build products that empower creators of online games and virtual worlds. Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world. ‍ We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.

Rastro is a personal shopper for home decor. Our AI agents find you products from any retailer on the internet: we aim to build Perplexity for shopping. Built by ex-Shopify AI engineers, we're doing $25k monthly GMV with 15% margins. Decorating your home can cost tens of thousands for an interior designer, or involve hours of scrolling retailer sites. Tell Rastro about your vision, and send our agents to source for you. Receive dozens of products in minutes. Our agents understand your taste, and their picks convert 10 times better than classic e-commerce search. Under the hood, we're building general purpose agents capable of sourcing products matching your taste and constraints from any retailer on the internet. Our algorithms consider images and descriptions, as well as product style, materials, brand and location.

Releaf develops novel industrial processing technology for African crops. Our pre-processing technology allows us to improve the quality and scale of raw materials provided to African food factories (>$200B market), 90% of which run under 50% of their installed capacity, primarily due to scarce quality raw materials. We target domestic demand in industries where we can develop pre-processing technology to increase the amount of addressable, quality raw material we can source directly from farmers, giving us a leg-up on competitors who rely on inconsistent traders with variable quality. The goal is to catalyze agro-based industrialization across the continent - no phenomena in the history of the world has moved more people out of extreme poverty and into shared prosperity than industrialization.

Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare delightful, affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Through an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities, Reliance Health offers innovative healthcare solutions that meet the needs of emerging markets including Nigeria, Egypt and growing

Remedial Health sells medicine wholesale to the 1 million pharmacies and hospitals in Africa. Today in Africa, pharmacies shop in open-air medicine markets where they pay higher prices for counterfeits medicines. We offer a managed marketplace with all the stock they'll need, deliver within 24 hours and offer credit to help them grow.

Remix’s mission is to help build more livable cities. Our software helps city planners understand their communities and design transportation systems that serve them. We’ve partnered with over 325 cities across 20 countries on 4 continents — and were continually seeking to grow our impact around the world. Urban planning impacts everything from economic mobility to CO2 emissions, and our platform empowers local governments to transform their transportation systems, design safer streets, and implement new mobility options to better serve their communities.

REZI is a leading real estate technology company founded in 2016 and the only fully remote and automated marketplace for long-term apartment rentals. REZI empowers landlords to lease their vacant apartments using their state-of-the-art platform — guaranteeing the monthly rent, paying up to 12 months of rent upfront, reducing leasing costs, and simplifying the leasing process for several to hundreds of units in a single transaction. Renters on REZI are then able to find, tour, apply for, and lease their next home without any fees and in as little as five minutes — right from their phone — through pre-screened listings, contactless tours, and automated application decisions.

We build fraud detection models to prevent account takeovers and voice phishing for fintechs, banks and contact centres. We also run voice phishing simulations to train employees against bad actors.

Ryse is the only marketplace where investors who want to buy leases can trade with real estate operators who want to sell leases.

Safer Management sells attendance software to public school districts and colleges. Public schools receive federal funding based on their average daily attendance, and our software ensures they get the money they need. We started Safer Mgmt. 12 months ago after I dropped off my twin boys and experienced inefficiencies with the sign-in process. We are now in 75 public schools and two colleges with annual reoccurring revenue of $621,000. We have 82% margins and are profitable. At scale, we will charge $15 per student per year. There are 70 million public school students in America which is a $1.4 billion dollar market opportunity.

Salesform qualifies, routes, and converts inbound leads while 2-way syncing with your sales stack. Now, you can meet more target customers faster and leverage Salesform’s native enrichment to enhance routing rules and auto-replies for demo requests etc.

We are a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the state of pre-tertiary education in Africa. By paying school fees for parents upfront with a flexible monthly repayment plan, building fees savings culture among parents, This way, schools get up to 80% of all their expected fees 2weeks into resumption and also enabling schools to access to loan facility and availability of various vendors and service providers at discounted rates.

SEND is a digital freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa. We manage the entire process of shipping cargo by air or by sea, including the documentation, customs process, delivery to the warehouse and trade financing.

Sendbox helps small e-commerce merchants who sell directly to customers through their own online channels or social media platforms with fulfillment. We now handle local and international fulfillment for over 7,500 merchants within Nigeria.

SendHub makes business communication fast, simple, and effective. Our complete online business SMS messaging solution helps thousands of companies communicate more effectively with on-the-go workforces, customers, and more. SendHub is a Y-Combinator graduate, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, Kapor Capital, 500 startups, the Seraph Group, Paul Buchheit, Eric Ries, Jawed Karim and Jeb Bush.

Sendme is an on-demand provider of clean meat to individuals and food businesses. We built a chatbot that lets customers place orders for meat on WhatsApp and they get it within 3hours.

Our platform helps car dealers find, finance and sell more cars in the $30B African used Car market. We are building the largest auto dealership ecosystem ; powering $10Bn transactions annually

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

Shoobs offers event organisers with a convenient and powerful platform to sell tickets to their events. A couple of years ago we got thinking that selling tickets should be QUICK & EASY! So, we decided to create Shoobs to help event organisers sell out their events efficiently! Shoobs is the leading destination to discover and book great urban culture events in the UK, such as Hip Hop concerts and RnB club nights.

SilkChart analyzes sales calls and measures how well playbooks are executed. It proactively surfaces coaching opportunities to managers, and provides reps with actionable feedback to close more deals.

Simplifyd enables businesses deliver their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) data-free, similar to toll-free telephone lines. We do this through our Zerodata app Founded in August of 2021 and based in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya, Simplifyd through its Zerodata platform is a trusted marketplace for data-free internet apps. Businesses list their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) on the Zerodata platform so end users can access them data-free! End users simply need to download the Zerodata app, available for both mobile and desktop, toggle on and enjoy access to listed apps data-free! We are on a mission to make apps accessible to over ~2B people in emerging economies who simply cannot afford the costs of internet data subscriptions.

We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are paper-thin, flexible, and can be easily custom printed in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing hardware designers to use displays and indicators on curved surfaces and in new ways.

SIRUM uses technology to connect, prioritize and simplify various sources of medicine. We help safety-net clinics access this medicine for their patients. SIRUM is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations. Incubated at Stanford University, SIRUM draws from the academic and technology expertise of faculty and alumni to strengthen its impact and efficiency. SIRUM has become a leader in prescription drug donations, providing consulting and technical assistance to county governments, community clinics and multiple drug donor groups to establish redistribution programs

SnapTrade is an API to connect retail brokerage accounts to any fintech app. We enable API access to real-time account data, historical transactions, and trading. This makes it possible to build new investing experiences with existing brokerage accounts, so users don't need to transfer and it's easier to get started.

Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

Sphere Secure Workspace For a product demonstration, or for any other enquiries please contact at info@sphere.works

Backing innovation, building financial technology. Focused on emerging markets and leveraging people finesse with capital.

Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

SRE.ai is an AI-powered automation platform for DevOps teams. We are currently focused on helping development teams building on Salesforce Clouds.

Stairs helps young Americans buy their first home. Our home search identifies homes based on their finances, and connects them to government grants, loans and tax breaks.

Substrate's AI agents automate the click-work & data entry in revenue cycle management. Our agents perform repetitive and time-consuming tasks on behalf of medical billers, significantly increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

Our Mission: "One Human, One Doctor". Why? Because access to a doctor is a basic human right. Customer: Healthcare Organizations Product: All-in-one solution to save doctors time. Problem: Doctors spend 50% of their time on things other than patient care, and the other 50% is inefficient. Solution: All-in-one solution for doctors that saves time from pre, post, and during-visit. Opportunity: Over 1 Billion visits patient care visits occur in the US annually, and the current average cost per visit is $300. When future visits are done by an ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) doctor at a 10x cheaper cost ($29 per visit), it’s $3.9B in revenue in the US only and $25B+ globally.

Suplias helps FMCG manufacturers in Africa receive payments and finance inventory purchases of their distributors using a mobile app called Obtainly. We launched in Nigeria, where we have been growing revenue by 32% month over month for the last 11 months Our founding team has a combined 25+ years of experience in supply chain and ecommerce having worked for Procter & Gamble, Pepsi Co, Gap and Jumia, the #1 ecommerce company in Africa.

Swipe is building modern modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools for businesses. We own and operate Float, a global b2b payments platform and Accounteer - a cloud accounting and bookkeeping platform for businesses and freelancers.

Syrona is a solution tackling diversity and Inclusion, for 45% of the workforce that go through women's health events from Endometriosis through to Menopause. We do this though our virtual clinic which provides personalised diagnostic, telemedicine and evidence based self-management tools. The areas we cover are Endometriosis, PCOS, Fertility, Parenthood, Cancer or Menopause.

Tendo enables anyone in Africa to sell online with zero upfront inventory - our mobile app connects dropshippers to local wholesalers. The sellers on the platform are able to source products through Tendo and resell items using social commerce tools, such as WhatsApp, arrange delivery, and get paid, all through the Tendo mobile app. At the moment, people who want to sell online need to save money, visit hundreds of suppliers to find a trusted one, and risk losing their capital by stocking up inventory. Beyond this, they need to incur costs for logistics and warehousing. We eliminate all that.

Tennr is a first-of-its-kind automations platform built to handle the nuances of human-decision making within healthcare operations.

tEQuitable helps companies get in front of and prevent harassment. We are an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. For employees, we provide a sounding board they can consult without fear of retribution on issues ranging from subtle, insidious slights and invalidations to overt discrimination and harassment. For companies, we provide data and insights to identify systemic issues, track behavioral trends, and develop actionable recommendations. tEQuitable is using technology to make workplaces more equitable.

Termii is a communications platform that allows businesses to make calls, access data on the go and send messages to anyone across sms, email, voice and instant messaging channels. With Termii businesses can; 1. Verify customer identity & transactions 2. Send product notifications to customers 3. Make calls and offer dedicated call support to customers 4. Purchase dedicated phone numbers 5. Purchase eSims to make wifi calls and access data connectivity globally 6. Generate personality and engagement insights from customer transactions

Terrace is the best way to trade crypto. We're the degen platform for institutions and the institutional platform for degens. Terrace is a multi-wallet, non-custodial crypto trading terminal and broker. We offer best price routing, advanced order types, synthetic pairs, token screening, and portfolio management on 12 chains. You can use Terrace for DeFi-only (no-KYC) or get access to the world's top CEX, OTC, and MM via our KYC-ed platform. Think DeBank, 1inch/Matcha, DEX Screener, and more rolled into one.

Terrakotta is a power-dialer that lets sales reps leave AI-generated voicemails. Our first customers are Commercial Real Estate brokerages that use Terrakotta to clone their brokers voices, dial prospects and when no one answers, leave an A/B tested, personalized voicemail that gets a callback.

Therify is an inclusive mental health benefit for companies. Through our web platform, employees access culturally responsive therapists, live community sessions, and self-guided content to support their emotional well-being.

Thread simplifies the business processes for manufacturing companies. Upload your company documents to our secure platform, collaborate seamlessly across your organization to respond to vendor questionnaires.

We have created a market place that enables the sales of agro-commodities locally and internationally while providing rural farmers with all the resources they will need to grow crops like loans to but inputs and the needed extension services for better insights.

We're aiming to build the default wealth advisor for our generation, one akin to the brands that McKinsey and CAA have established in their domains. And with over 1 billion in assets under management and notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Kevin Durant, Odell Beckham Jr., and Will Smith, we’re building a team to win. We want you to come here and do the best work of your life with us.

With the mission of improving people's lives in LATAM by enabling pre-made food access to millions of people, TodosComemos is pushing forward the actual barriers of the industry in LATAM by: 1. Developing pre-made and ready-to-eat healthy food above-edge technologies for the region, 2. Enabling established products and brands of prepared food to go from 1 to 1000, offering them a competitive distribution one-stop solution to reach millions of new customers in a multichannel strategy 3. Building the first pre-made food subscription service including both pre-made and ready-to-eat meals for all needs.

Our mission at Toolbox is to help construction, maintenance and repair contractors thrive by providing them with a simple, yet powerful financial operating system to grow their business. Today, contractors can access our best-in-class and construction-focused corporate charge card to facilitate mission-critical payments, including materials and equipment purchases. Contractors also get access to an app to manage their finances, make payments, issue new cards for themselves and their team members, and organize expenses based on current and completed projects.

Topship is the easiest way for African businesses to export/import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers. We are building Flexport for Africa. Our goal is to build a Global Distribution System that makes delivery of parcels, cargo and freight easy for African businesses.

Torch is a learning and development company that helps employers manage and measure employee growth at scale. Customers can draw from a pool of over 6000 mentors and coaches to pair with high performers and new managers at any layer of the organization. Torch was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping all professionals perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower managers to thrive in high growth, high-performance cultures by building the self-awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.

We process cash-based microtransactions across Africa's informal sector, an example of microtransaction is payment for bus rides today we help over 300k people make this payment.

We help companies build and scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp, reaching their customers anywhere in the world with engaging conversations. With our platform, businesses can create and send conversations massively to users and get analytics to improve their campaign performance over time, increasing conversion in every stage of the funnel.

Infrastructure for search teams building retrieval and RAG. Trieve combines search language models with tools for tuning ranking and relevance. Building excellent search is difficult and can take months to implement then even more time to maintain. Trieve offers production-ready infrastructure that works out of the box to help search teams build adjustable AI search and RAG into their products. With tools for custom models, relevancy weighting, date-recency biasing, semantic full-text hybrid search, recommendations, and more Trieve covers the full spectrum of what a team wants from their discovery infrastructure.

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

Truora provides safe and reliable background checks and fraud prevention services for Latin America, through APIs and web service solutions. We operate in 6 countries (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil and Chile) and are expanding rapidly. Our customers include Latam's top martketplaces (i.e. Didi, Rappi, Liftit), FinTech startups, large financial institutions and large HR firms as well. Our software allows for: background check verifications, continuous identity verification, digital identity solutions, OCR technologies and document authentication, KYC solutions and biometric validations. Our team is composed of 4 founders with expertise in the security and fraud prevention, as well as 60+ expert software engineers. We have offices across Latam, with our tech teams based in Colombia.

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

Union54 has developed a number of tools to propel African commerce forward. Our customers are financial technology companies across Africa. Together with our customers, we’ve issued millions of debit cards to African consumers from almost every country on the continent. Those cards have gone on to be used for hundreds of millions of dollars across different merchants from various industries and locations. In the process, we’ve helped our fintech customers earn revenue in the millions of dollars.

Usul helps companies win defense contracts with AI. Recent conflicts have forced the DoD to demand the next-generation of military technology. So we built software for US companies and our allies to collaborate and sell to the government.

Vaultpay is building a digital banking platform for 30 million smartphone users in DRC and the country's largest agent network. For example, a young Congolese entrepreneur who just won a subcontract with a major mining company can now easily open a personal and business account, receive payments, all from their smartphone, instead of spending hours at bank branches.

Vendease is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Now, instead of going through expensive - middlemen - vendors, or wasting productive man hours sending staff to open markets with hiked prices, restaurants can now get on our platform, click to order and get all their food supplies within 24hrs.

Vendoo is a software that was created to solve the daily pain points of the millions of sellers in the steadily growing reselling industry. Our goal is to save sellers time and help them make more money. The user friendly interface allows sellers to crosspost their items onto multiple marketplaces in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually. Users can currently list items onto 10 marketplaces, including eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and more. The software also provides other conveniences for sellers, like the ability to easily import their existing listings, delisting and relisting items with one click, and inventory management features like easy sorting and searching. Vendoo also provides sellers with business data and analytics to help them make calculated decisions to grow their business.

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp. We provide customized WhatsApp shops for sellers, allowing buyers to browse inventory, place orders with automated invoicing, and make payments, all within WhatsApp. No app download or sign-up required.

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefore, providing a constant liquidity flow cheaply.

VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!

At Village Labs, we help America's businesses become employee owned by helping them set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). ESOPs are a federal retirement plan that enable businesses to give their employees a stake in the company in exchange for significant tax benefits. With 2.9M Baby Boomer business owners set to retire in the coming years, there's a growing "Silver Tsunami" of businesses across the country in search of new ownership. For many of these owners, selling to their employees is a socially-minded yet financially pragmatic solution. By selling ownership of their business to an ESOP, owners get a fair price, tax benefits, and the satisfaction of knowing their employees and legacy will be taken care of — things not guaranteed with traditional buyers like private equity. In turn, employees retain their jobs and get shares in the business that can help them create life changing wealth by the time they retire — imagine an office secretary retiring as a millionaire. Thousands of businesses across America like Bob's Red Mill, Harpoon Brewery, and Recology already have an ESOP, benefiting over 14 million workers and creating 2.1 trillion in employee wealth. We're excited about the opportunity to massively grow these numbers by making it simple for every business to become employee owned.

We're a team of engineers, clinicians, and operators redesigning how healthcare fundamentally works for the 80 million uninsured and under-insured Americans. We started with a simple vertically integrated primary and urgent care health plan through a network of nurse practitioners that come directly to members virtually or through in-home visits. We designed our plan to make high-quality concierge care accessible to everyone - from the Grammy winners that have used us to our uninsured members. We're backed by world-class investors like First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Softbank along with incredible founders and operators with experience building and funding unicorns like Michael Seibel (YC, Twitch), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Allison Pickens (Gainsight), Jack Altman (Lattice), Dan Folkman (GoPuff) and others.

Vori offers a modern operating system designed for the grocery industry. VoriOS helps independent and regional grocers streamline their inventory management, ordering, and supplier coordination, allowing them to operate more efficiently and profitably. The platform integrates real-time data to optimize stock replenishment and improve pricing strategies. Founded in 2019, Vori empowers grocers with technology that levels the playing field against larger retailers.

Medication errors cost the healthcare industry $40 billion each year, the largest contributor being the manual processes employed by pharmacies. Wattson Health's automation platform integrates with pharmacies' existing systems and enables them to fill prescriptions error-free in a matter of seconds vs. hours or even days.

Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.

WeatherChecks application tells anyone when severe hail is about to strike and when it has in fact impacted a property. Using state of the science technologies we compute and analyze geo-weather data faster than every weather company globally. This allows companies, insurance companies specifically to gain dynamic insight into their overall exposure and enabling them to respond more quickly and efficiently to disaster.

Workpay provides businesses with tools to manage their employees better and more efficiently. Workpay’s products include time management tools, Payroll (Local & Remote), Statutory Compliance, Benefits, salary disbursements and core HR functions.

Yemaachi Biotech is diversifying and expanding access to precision cancer diagnostics and therapeutics by collecting and sequencing samples from all across Africa, which is the most genetically diverse population on the planet. We then use this data to either optimize existing diagnostic tests, or help other companies discover new ones. With our research activities based in Africa, we are able to leverage access to the most genetically diverse population on the planet to build a first-of-its-kind clinical and molecular knowledgebase on cancer among African people.

Zimi is a tech-enabled fulfillment provider that is bringing Amazon Prime-like delivery to exporters in emerging markets. We help merchants deliver to their international buyers in 2 days instead of 2 weeks, and at a fraction of the typical shipping cost (80% cheaper on average). Cross-border e-commerce is a $2 trillion opportunity by 2030, with 64% of that coming from emerging markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. However, merchants in these regions face major challenges like high shipping costs, lengthy delivery times, and complex logistics. Zimi solves these problems by localizing inventory, handling customs clearance and last-mile delivery, and streamlining the returns process. Our aim is to make selling internationally as easy as selling locally.