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Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp
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Top Startups in Africa
This list has 80 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 4 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: Lagos (38), Nairobi (9), and London (5). Largest teams: Wave, Flutterwave, and MarketForce.
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Group Financing for small businesses across Africa.
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B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa
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Operating system for travel businesses in Africa with embedded finance
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Developers of ChitChat, an integrated messaging and payments wallet…
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HQ: Lusaka, Zambia
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Diversifying precision cancer diagnostics and treatments
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HQ: Accra, Ghana
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Africa's Preventative Health System
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Online school for K12 education in Africa
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On-demand wage access service built for the African market
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HQ: Cape Town, South Africa
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Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital
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HQ: Accra, Ghana
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Bamboo ― the first online brokerage service for Africans and their…
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Venmo for B2B in Africa
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HQ: Nigeria
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Financial tools for cross-border trade
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Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours
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All in one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa
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Flexport for Africa - Digital Freight forwarder and Customs Broker.
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We enable FMCG distributors in Africa buy inventory on credit
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Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa
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Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and…
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Webhooks Gateway for outgoing and incoming webhooks.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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We deliver toll-free internet apps
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Embedded finance platform for African businesses
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Automate the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for
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2 sided Marketplace for accelerating medical research
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Content discovery platform for Africa
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HQ: Accra, Ghana
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Digital banking platform for the 30 million smartphone users in DRC.
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HQ: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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ISP for Africa
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YC W17Growth stage
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Investing in innovation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Asset Light Chipotle for Africa
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YC S23Early stage
Paystack
Acquired
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Modern payments infrastructure for Africa
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Oolu
Acquired
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Oolu is one of the fastest growing off-grid solar firms in West Africa
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HQ: Dakar, Senegal
CrowdForce
Acquired
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Crowdforce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa,…
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HQ: Abuja, Nigeria
Mono
Acquired
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Plaid for Africa, but better.
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Fingo Africa
Acquired
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A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth
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