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Series F

Series D

Series C

Series B

Others

Pre-Series A

Grant

Debt Financing

PE Round

Rest of World

Africa

Asia (ex. GCC & Levant)

Levant

California

Garry Tan

Dalton Caldwell

Gustaf Alströmer

Nicolas Dessaigne

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Series G

Zepto

E-Commerce

Mobile Apps

Apps

Delivery Services

Delivery

Grocery

Zepto offers a 10-minute grocery delivery service with an e-grocery app that revolutionizes the grocery buying experience. It consistently delivers 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. The company’s vision is to become the go-to platform for consumers seeking quick and reliable grocery delivery, while also creating a robust supply chain andoperational model that can be scaled across various markets.

Bangalore

Meesho

Fashion

Meesho is a rapidly growing e-commerce company, dedicated to making online commerce accessible to everyone by connecting millions of sellers, consumers, and entrepreneurs.

Razorpay

Payment

A full-stack financial solutions company, Razorpay helps businesses of all sizes accept and disburse payments, raise capital, and manage money movement seamlessly.

San Francisco

Flutterwave

Fintech

Finance

Flutterwave is a fintech company that provides payment solutions for businesses.

Balance

Dakar

Wave Mobile Money

Mobile Payments

Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.

Guesty

Rental

Yassir

Oakland

Mighty Buildings

Construction

Real Estate

Sustainable

Our 3D printing technology, advanced materials, and robotic automation make beautiful and sustainable homes a reality for all.

Nairobi

MarketForce

Financial Services

MarketForce bridges the gap in retail distribution by delivering an end-to-end platform that enables consumer brands to deliver essential goods and digital financial services to retailers and consumers in Africa.

Cairo

Trella

Logistics & Storage

Transportation

Shipping

Marketplace

Trella is a b2b technology platform and trucking marketplace that connects shippers with carriers in the highly fragmented freight industry.

Dubai

Abhi

Lending

Abhi is a financial wellness platform that provides employees with salary advances based on their accrued wages.

Instabug

Mobile

Mobile App

Software

Instabug is a computer software company that offers services for mobile app developers to help them in testing their applications. It delivers real-time contextual throughout the application's life cycle that helps mobile application developers to detect bugs and errors on their application.

The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in California, United States.

D-ID

AI/IoT

Tenderd

Tenderd's innovative platform integrates AI to convert data from any equipment into actionable insights which reduce cost, increase utilization and lower emissions.

Lagos

Bamboo

IT & Communication

Stock Exchanges

Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.

Ziina

Insurance

Ziina is the UAE's first peer-to-peer payment app, allowing you to send and receive payments with just a phone number —no IBAN or swift code required. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.

Baraka

Breadfast

Food and Beverage

Food Delivery

Breadfast delivers household essentials, bakeries, groceries, fruits, veggies, and more than 3,000 items in minutes.

Darrow

Database

Thndr

Thndr is a  company that operates an app-based investment platform

Giza

Pylon

Energy

Water

Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for managing their customers and infrastructure

Lahore

Tajir

Tajir is a B2B marketplace for mom and pop stores.

Noble

Credit

Remedial Health

Pharmaceuticals

Health Care

Remedial Health aims to enhance healthcare services by streamlining pharmacy operations and bridging the gap between pharmacies and patients with a focus on Nigeria, where the WHO estimates 100,000 deaths annually are linked to counterfeit drugs.

Karachi

Krave Mart

Consumer Goods

Elevate

Digital Banking

Elevate (YC W22) is a USD accounts financial platform for global remote workers and freelancers.

Kaso (Elkaso)

Kaso (formerly ElKaso) is an online B2B platform that facilitates order processing and communication between restaurants and suppliers.

Workpay

An HR, Payroll and Benefits Platform for the most progressive organisations - like yours.

Simple. Compliant. Affordable.

Waza

Who are we? We're Waza. We make it easy for African businesses with limited access to Hard Currencies (USD, EUR and GBP) to easily pay their global vendors and suppliers.

Bouskoura

Chari

Retail Technology

Retail

A one stop shop for traditional proximity stores allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free while benefiting from financial services

Diversion Company

Alaan

Alaan is a financial technology company that aims to help businesses issue unlimited corporate cards in multiple currencies, track and manage employee spend efficiently, and automate invoice payments.

Amenli

Insurance Technology

Amenli is a pioneering digital insurance brokerage in Egypt, dedicated to providing accessible insurance products that prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization.

Duplo

Ballerine

Identity Management

Casablanca

Freterium

Logistics

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain

Freterium is a leading provider of cloud-based Transportation Management System (TMS) solutions, enabling businesses of all sizes to optimize their logistics operations and improve supply chain efficiency. Our TMS platform offers end-to-end features, including planning automation, route optimization, real-time visibility, and freight invoicing, among others.

Accra

Yemaachi Biotechnology

Biotech

Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Yemaachi Biotechnology uses cutting-edge immunogenomics, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of cancer detection and cure strategies for lowering the economic burden of cancer.

Fingo Africa

Financing Platform

Fingo is a fintech startup that provides digital banking services for youth. Fingo's services include current accounts, money transfers, bill payments, and more. It also features link-based payments, saving goals, and real-time transactions.

Zywa

Cercli

Business Development

Enterprise Software

The single modern platform for MENA to run your entire workforce.

NowPay

NowPay improves the financial-wellness of corporate employees.

Flextock

Tel Aviv

Keep

Open Source

Keep, the open-source AIOps and alert management platform, seamlessly integrates with your existing monitoring, incident response, ticketing, source control, change management, and CMDB systems. Our bi-directional providers enable automated alert correlation into high-level incidents and offer robust workflow automation to reduce noise and alert fatigue, significantly lowering your MTTx.

WaystoCap

WaystoCap takes the pain out of working internationally for businesses all over the African continent, improving their ability to trade. We help them find partners internationally, and regionally; sourcing the most competitive prices; offering better payment terms; and supporting the entire trade.

WaystoCap is a technology driven trading platform focused on Africa. We are backed by some of the best early stage US and international investors including Battery Ventures (investors in Google), 4DX Ventures (investors in Flutterwave) and Y Combinator (Airbnb and Dropbox).

Dayra

Dayra empowers companies to offer  to their unbanked gig-workers and customers.

ShipBlu

Platform that redefines the e-commerce shipping and fulfillment experience providing 24-hour delivery with live tracking.

erad

Proof

Advertising Services

Marketing

Proof Experiences enables your marketing team to personalize your website for each visitor without writing a single line of code.The company enables your marketing team to personalize text, images, and CTAs no matter what platform your site is built on.

Apply Design

Jeddah

Levers

Sendbox

Erbil

Lezzoo

Lezzoo wants to build the “super-app of the Middle East,” starting with an on-demand delivery service in Iraq. The company currently delivers food, beverages, groceries and pharmaceuticals to users in Iraq.

MDalgorithms

Abu Dhabi

FinFlx

Sakneen

Sakneen is building an online real estate platform that will make it easier for developers, agents, and individuals to buy and sell properties mainly homes.

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