Built In Africa

Vendease is a digital marketplace streamlining the food supply chain by connecting food vendors directly to farms and manufacturers, providing an endless resource of quality products at unmatched prices and helping them cut back on procurement stress. The company also partners with African smallholder farmers by offering credit to help them grow, signing supply deals, and selling their produce at a specific rate to food vendors. Source: Reuters Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/vendease-nigeria

Donate-ng is an online fundraising and crowdfunding portal where Nigerians with causes and projects can easily access financial support from donors locally and abroad. It’s first fundraising project was for a little girl battling cancer, where they successfully raised about eighty percent of the funds needed for her treatment. The platform’s crowdfunding model is donation-based, focusing mainly on social good, life events, and personal causes ranging from medical bills to community projects, tuition fees, or capital projects by charity organizations. Source: africaxproject Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/donate-ng-nigeria

The Bus Software is a real-time solution to the several problems directly impacting the quality of urban transport services for millions of Tunisian and African travelers. To offer optimal and reliable transport services to users, the Bus Software uses AI to address incumbent issues such as manual ticketing, lack of real-time statistics and user information, and lack of dynamic planning and management in Tunisia’s public transport sector. The startup plans to extend operations across several African countries in the coming years, kickstarting a revolution in Africa’s transport sector. Source: adnen.chaouachi Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/the-bus-software

Boost Ghana enables business owners to thrive in the digital economy by offering convenient stock ordering and delivery services. Cofounded by Joseph Kuvor, Boost Ghana targets retail MSEs, providing shopkeepers with a range of fairly priced inventory and doorstep delivery which removes the hassle of going to the market to purchase supplies. Understanding that the vast majority of its target market is not tech-savvy, the Boost Ghana app was developed leveraging digital tools that merchants are already familiar with, providing merchants with a great user experience and smooth purchase processes. Also, Boost Ghana’s order and payment records provide the entrepreneurs with a documented ledger consisting of a compilation of their order and payment history that could serve as formal accounts when dealing with regulators and lenders. Source: bfaglobal Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/boost-ghana

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria (RAIN) started in the mind of Olusola Ayoola, the robotics engineer who had a dream of an African country that would be able to compete with China in providing technical solutions. Most African countries, however, still have a deficit of experts in the Robotics and AI field as the traditional university curricula are yet to be widely reviewed and caught up with the recent growth. Holding on to his dream and passion for knowledge transfer, Olusola returned to Nigeria to kickstart the RAIN project in 2020. RAIN is a world-class tech hub and research center committed to building intelligent machines, training and certifying youths in automation, robotics, AI, 3D printing, CNC machining, and machine learning. The RAIN project aims to fill the knowledge gap and develop the African workforce needed to export next-generation solutions to the world. Source: channelsforum Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/olusola-ayoola

Bookings Africa is a pan-African marketplace leveraging technology to revolutionize how talents across various industries are sourced. The company’s mission is to unlock the earning potential of young African entrepreneurs and monetize their latent skillset while enabling clients to save on time and cost incurred in sourcing talent. Through its online marketplace, for the first time, African creatives can easily connect with potential clients, promote their services and get value for their work. On the other hand, clients can seamlessly hire creative freelancers across several industries and pay securely for services across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. Source: bookingsafrica.co Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/bookings-africa

Mipango app is an AI-enabled personal finance app developed by Mipango fintech limited that enables users to manage their finances, achieve their financial goals, and access relevant financial advice and investment opportunities. Cofounders Agness Mollel and Lilian Makoi came together to develop a local solution that would help Tanzanians keep track of their expenses. The app is built in the local Kiswahili language, giving it an edge over other similar financial apps. Mipango focuses majorly on youths aged 18-35 who own a smartphone and a source of income owing to the general belief that such people are mostly spenders rather than savers. Source: MediaConvergency Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/mipango-tanzania

CoverApp is an insurtech solution enabling users to access insurance and emergency services on the go via their mobile phones, addressing the specific barriers in the sector and simplifying the sourcing, purchase, and management of insurance. Anne Wambui Kamau founded CoverApp to empower low-income households and informal sector workers with the same risk mitigation solutions available to the higher end of the economy through affordable and accessible insurance cover. CoverApp removes the need for paperwork, trips to offices, and long queues, creating a convenient way for the entire population to build their resilience against risks and always have insurance services at their fingertips. Source: MESTAfrica Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/coverapp-kenya

Migo is a credit-as-a-service platform enabling companies to extend credit to consumers and small businesses within their apps. It works with merchants, telecom companies, and banks, allowing them to offer loans to their customers via a co-branded cloud-based product. Using its proprietary machine learning algorithms, Migo assesses credit risk using the company’s data and then automates credit facilities, simplifying the complex lending structure with a simple API. By enabling credit for populations overlooked by traditional credit bureaus, Migo expands economic access and provides life-changing opportunities to low-income customers. Migo’s recent expansion into Brazil reflects its intentionality about growth as well as its intention to expand beyond its shores. Source: businessdayng Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/migo-nigeria

Founded in 2019, Ghana-based BezoMoney is a digital savings platform that builds and provides social financial solutions to unbanked communities and young people. The platform digitizes savings groups for low-income earners, addressing issues peculiar to traditional savings groups and making the group saving culture more attractive to African youths. By providing a wallet for individual and group savings, BezoMoney promotes effective individual savings, access to bulk capital through group savings, and boosts users' creditworthiness, allowing them access to loans and other financial services. The platform ensures transparency of transactions, security of savings, and accountability of members. BezoMoney also runs a financial literacy platform that provides practical information enabling users to grow and effectively manage their finances. Source: africaxproject Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/bezomoney-ghana

In 2015, Grayson Julius, alongside two of his colleagues, Nelson Malekela and Jackson Twalipo, founded iPF Softwares, a full-fledged software developing house focused on designing and developing digital solutions for impact-oriented businesses and initiatives that link Africans with socio-economic opportunities. iPF Softwares aims to ensure Africans have access to world-class digital tools and solutions by partnering with various businesses and organizations and equipping them with innovative tech solutions to enable them drive the impact intended. Source: MediaConvergency Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/ipf-software

Ashanti AI is a South African data science specialist company with aims to make data science accessible to every business. Serving businesses across several industries, including education, finance, and mining, Ashanti AI provides data-driven solutions that optimize decision making, boost business revenue and efficiency. Currently, Ashanti AI has three bespoke AI products: The Predictive Maintenance tool, which combines IoT and predictive analytics in predicting when a machine or vehicle will break down. The Warehouse Labor Management tool, which analyses business processes, helps fulfill orders on time and curbs unnecessary costs through smart allocation of warehouse labor. And the Vernacular Sentiment Analysis tool with which businesses can find out general sentiment about their products or services in local languages. Source: AshantiAI Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/ashanti-ai

CreditFins is a Cairo-based credit card management platform that helps users repay their credit card debt while saving money. Founded in 2020 by Sherif Radi, Norhan El Sakkout, and Gamal Eldin, CreditFins aims to break the debt cycle by providing customers with automated hands-on debt management and settlement, financial advisory information to help them achieve financial wellness through improved budgeting and spending skills. The platform alleviates bank customers’ struggles by offering a convenient and affordable solution for debt repayment via fixed, low monthly installments that help customers save 20-50% on normal bank interest. Source: Flat6Labs Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/creditfins-egypt

Seeking to bridge the information gap between farmers and buyers, Marcio Castro and Arão Guerreiro co-founded Kepya, an online marketing platform that collects information on the availability and need for farm products and promotes more efficient transactions. With Kepya, farmers can predict their harvest and sell in advance at normal market prices. The platform constantly matches produce put up for sale (both present and future) with buyer needs in real-time. This helps farmers sell their produce at higher prices and farm with increased predictability. Asides being a marketing tool, Kepya also provides a perfect ecosystem for farmers to swiftly purchase all their agricultural inputs, including seeds, fertilizers, insurance, and other products and services. Source: africaxproject Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/kepya-angola

Founded in 2018 by Neema Magimba and five other co-founders, Sheria Kiganjani is Tanzania’s first legal digital platform bridging the justice gap by remotely connecting citizens with legal services and information. The platform is built in Swahili and aims to ensure that no Tanzanians are deprived of their rights due to a lack of knowledge of the country’s laws. Sheria Kiganjani targets low- and middle-income earners who are believed to be unable to afford legal services or easily access the service providers. Through the platform, users can talk and chat with qualified lawyers 24/7 and access informative content about different provisions of the law via the internet and mobile phones. Source: MediaConvergency Continue Watching: https://www.builtinafrica.io/videos/sheria-kiganjani