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What Africa is building.

A curated repository of 269 outstanding companies across the continent, plus founder stories. Updated daily.

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AmpersandLogistics & Mobility · Growth · Kigali, Rwanda
Friday, Aug 14, 2026
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Qubo Finlabs
Qubo is a deep tech company building AI and quantum enhanced financial intelligence systems that transform complex, fragmented data into actionable predictive insights, we combine quantitative modelli
Finance·Pre-seed·Nairobi
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Consile
All-in-one people ops platform for growing teams, HR, payroll, tasks, and attendance.
Enterprise & Software·Pre-seed·Nairobi
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Rethink Organic Network
We transform organic waste into animal feed, fertiliser, and farm intelligence using Black
Agriculture·Pre-seed·Nairobi
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Growth
Chipper Cash
Cross-border payments and financial services platform for African consumers and diaspora.
Finance·Growth·Pan-African
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Afriex
Fast, low-cost remittances between the US, UK, and African countries using stablecoins.
Finance·Seed·Lagos, Pan-African
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Fonbnk
Converts airtime credit into digital cash, enabling mobile-money access for the unbanked.
Finance·Seed·Nairobi, Pan-African
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Growth
Gebeya
Pan-African talent marketplace connecting companies with vetted African tech professionals.
TalentTech & Jobs·Growth·Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Codar
Trains people in digital and AI skills across Africa via hands-on, employer-relevant courses, raised $1.5M July 2026.
Education·Seed·Pan-African
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ChipChip
Social buying platform connecting customers directly to local farmers for fresh produce at group-discounted prices.
Commerce & Retail·Seed·Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Founder stories

One founder profiled every week — why they started, what they've figured out, what they need next.

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The Story of Nala
Benjamin Fernandes left every US job offer on the table, returned to Tanzania with an MBA and no technical background, and built Nala into a Forbes Fintech 50 company processing over a billion dollars in payments. This is how.
AdminAug 13
5 min read
From a notebook of frustrations to a focused product
How Consile actually started — two people, two laptops, one frustration with disconnected tools.
AdminAug 12
6 min read
He watched countries plant more seed than the US and still harvest less. That gap became Apollo Agriculture.
Eli Pollak left a billion-dollar agtech exit to ask why African farmers plant more and harvest less — Apollo Agriculture now reaches 350,000 of them.
Nick KiokoAug 5
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