Category: Startups
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Startup Spotlight: BuuPass
BuuPass is Kenya’s largest online platform for booking bus, train, and flight tickets. It has brought ease and convenience to millions of Kenyan travellers and transformed travel in the country. They collaborated with the country’s top bus, train, and flight operators to offer users the convenience of digital booking. BuuPass allows users to compare train,…
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Startup Spotlight: SendSprint
SendSprint, a fintech company founded by Damisi Busari, is an international remittance service for Africans in the diaspora. Founded in 2022, it has been a reliable and quickest way for African money transfers. Damisi Busari, who was also a former Flutterwave executive, has a clear vision. She founded this company to connect the African Diaspora…
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Startup Spotlight: Pocket Food
Pocket Food is a food delivery app that offers the luxury of a freshly made meal without users having to leave their office. Unlike other food delivery apps, it offers options to address the nutritional needs of the workforce. Pocket Food was inspired by the founder, Omalara Olarerin, who struggled to find healthy and satisfactory…
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Startup Spotlight: Bitmama
Bitmama is a fintech company that offers a secure platform for cryptocurrency transactions. They allow users to trade by converting their local currency to cryptocurrency. Founded by Ruth Iselema in 2017, the company initially operated as a peer-to-peer digital currency exchange before growing to a platform where people can trade, and manage cryptocurrencies, and digital…
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Startup Spotlight: Autogirl
Autogirl is a mobility startup company that aims to make mobility accessible and efficient in Nigeria. It was founded by Chinazom Arinze in 2017. Their vision is to revolutionize the mobility industry in Africa and empower people to move freely and comfortably while fostering economic development and sustainability. They are involved in peer-to-peer rentals, helping…
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Startup Spotlight: Taeillo
Taeillo, a Lagos startup founded by Jumoke Dada in 2018, is a furniture company that specialises in African-inspired designs. Unlike any other furniture company, they allow customers to access a 3D and AR view of the furniture they would like to purchase, in other to see how it will fit in the space they have…
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Startup Spotlight: Cleva Banking
Cleva Banking is user-friendly, and users can quickly open a Cleva USD account without any hassle.
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Startup Spotlight: Kola Market
They help small and medium-sized businesses to drive sales all year round, increase their profits and grow sustainably.
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Startup Spotlight: Flick
The company, backed by Techstars, wants Africans to make easier and faster payments from a single platform.
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Startup Spotlight: Lifebank
One of LifeBank’s initiatives is collaborating with the state government to organize blood drives and increase the national blood supply.