The #YASR30 List

Founders: Asnake Amelo, Ali Nengo

CO-LAB is a health-tech platform transforming diagnostic access across Africa by connecting patients, hospitals, and laboratories into one integrated marketplace. Through CO-LAB, users can find, compare, and access tests seamlessly, enabling faster diagnoses, improved care continuity, and better utilization of existing healthcare infrastructure.

Founders: Wing Hang Mathieu TSE, Brice MBA, Stephane MENG, Richard HOMSI

REasy simplifies cross-border trade for African SMEs by combining seamless international payments and freight forwarding into one digital platform. Built by operators who know the corridors firsthand, REasy helps thousands of traders move money and goods faster, cheaper, and with full transparency, unlocking Africa's fastest-growing trade routes.

Founders: Felix Sifuna, Philip Amwata, Priya Maharaj, Lilian Kariba

PEMiG is a credit intelligence platform using causal AI, social and behavioral data to help lenders assess risk beyond traditional financial records. By building dynamic borrower profiles, PEMiG enables better underwriting, reduces defaults, and expands access to credit for underserved individuals and SMEs across emerging markets.

Founders: Sogo Ogundowole, Erioluwa Asiru, Iyanu Falaye

CircleFunds is a digital platform that enables trusted group savings across Africa, combining traditional thrift systems with automation and risk-based matching. We help individuals and communities access larger sums of money in a structured, transparent, and reliable way.

Founders: Shina Arogundade, Adeoluwa Ogunye

MyItura is building the financial and care infrastructure for healthcare access in Africa. By combining telemedicine, diagnostics, and embedded financing, we enable patients to receive care immediately while providers receive guaranteed payments, unlocking access, affordability, and growth across the healthcare ecosystem.

Founders: Rama Afullo

Satlyt is a space infrastructure company building a software-only platform that turns satellites into virtual AI data centers. By enabling in-orbit compute and intersatellite connectivity, Satlyt reduces latency, lowers costs, and improves data access globally, with a focus on empowering emerging markets and accelerating the space economy.

Founders: Alexander Zanders, Andrea Kamara, Segun Fagbami, Dean Iwuchukwu

UfarmX is building AI-powered credit infrastructure for African smallholder farmers. We transform farm data into credit scores, enabling collateral-free financing through retail partners. Operating across Nigeria, Senegal, and Liberia, we've served 9,600+ farmers with $6.8M+ financed and sub-10% default rates.

Founders: Daniel Komolafe

First Electric delivers reliable, affordable power to underserved communities and businesses through solar mesh grids, microgrids, and smart metering. Our Energy-as-a-Service model replaces diesel with clean energy, enabling economic growth while reducing costs and emissions.

Founders: Walter aan de Wiel, Bartel Verkruijssen

Sevi enables small Kenyan retailers to access inventory on credit, paying suppliers upfront while shops repay after sales. Its fully digital platform uses AI-driven credit scoring to keep fees low and defaults minimal, unlocking working capital and improving supply chain efficiency for underserved businesses.

Founders: Gerhard van Wyk, Nico Schlebusch, Annette van Heerden

Apace Systems is delivering patented, real-time healthcare transaction infrastructure across 10 countries in Africa. We enable claims processing, eligibility verification, and authorisations in real-time through a secured transaction layer — reducing reliance on intermediaries, improving efficiency, and enabling better patient outcomes.

Founders: Parfait Touré

YODAN is Africa's first workplace mental health management platform, built from the ground up for African organizations. Our 4-step approach — Measure, Assist, Pilot and Transform — turns psychosocial risk into tangible performance gains. Based in Côte d'Ivoire, designed for African scale, built for lasting impact.

Founders: Anis Fekih, Wafa Dhifi

Pixii Motors builds a vertically integrated electric mobility platform combining smart scooters, AI fleet software, and battery swapping to reduce costs, improve safety, and accelerate clean mobility adoption across Africa.

Founders: Charles Nweke, Obinna Nnabuihe

AlumUnite is building the intelligence layer for education financing in Africa, connecting school needs, funding, and outcomes. Through data and alumni networks, it enables transparent, scalable interventions that improve learning environments and unlock youth and climate-related opportunities.

Founders: Achraf Aouadi, Rym Bourguiba

WildyNess is a Tunisian travel-tech startup revolutionizing sustainable tourism in North Africa. We connect conscious travelers with authentic, off-the-beaten-path experiences. By digitizing local tourism micro-businesses, we ensure cultural immersion for travelers while driving tourism revenue directly to host communities.

Founders: Kevin Wingi, Filipe Savela

Simulador Bancário is a fintech platform enabling users to compare loans and savings products across banks. By combining simulations, data insights, and financial education, it drives transparency and smarter financial decisions, positioning itself as a scalable financial marketplace in emerging African markets.

Founders: Abiola Jimoh, Mohammed Ismail, Salim Alhassan

XChangeBOX provides AI-driven credit and data infrastructure making agri-trade financeable through its Farm4Factory/PayRep platform. We score merchants in real time, digitise trade flows, and de-risk supply chain financing turning rural markets into bankable opportunities.

Founders: Bonface Nyalwal, Winfred Gathigia

High cost of last mile lending and high defaults that can rise as high as 22% prohibits agricultural lending, creating a $180B financing gap. Farmsky provides an end-to-end AI lending infrastructure with embedded insurance making credit and insurance universally accessible to small commercial farmers and Agri-SMEs in Africa.

Founders: Vivian Arinaitwe, Joseph Okileng, Saajan Patel, Sophia Singer

Che Innovations Uganda Ltd develops affordable medical technologies for resource-limited settings. Our flagship device, NeoNest, helps keep newborns warm during referral transport, reducing hypothermia risk and preventable deaths. We envision a future where every child has a chance at life, regardless of where they are born.

Founders: Ope Sonusi, Tosin Oladokun, Ariel Leachman, Damiloa Eyitayo

Bluum Finance builds infrastructure that enables any institution (financial or non-financial) to offer investment products to its customers. The mission is to enable Africans at home and abroad to build wealth where they live.

Founders: Mwansa Chalo

Duniya Healthcare is redefining how medicines move across Africa. By connecting fragmented suppliers with hospitals and pharmacies through smart technology, it ensures life-saving treatments reach every shelf — especially in underserved rural communities — reliably, efficiently, and at scale.

Founders: Kirubel Akalu

GlobeDock Academy is a digital platform delivering curriculum-aligned education to secondary students from Grades 7 to 12 in Ethiopia. Targeting out-of-school and under-taught learners, our offline-enabled system provides quality education with structured, localized educational content with competency-based progression across all examinable subjects.

Founders: Churchill Nanje, Manjong Kevin

Buyam is the Shopify of Francophone Africa — an all-in-one platform helping merchants sell 5x more using simple web and mobile tools.

Founders: Daniel Kagame Ndahiro

Ugandan fintech building an end-to-end supply chain platform for African importers. Provides trade financing, cross-border payments, and digital freight forwarding, primarily for Africa-China trade flows. Headquartered in Kampala.

Founders: George Kwadwo Appiah

Ghanaian e-mobility startup that designs, locally assembles, and distributes solar-powered electric vehicles including cars, motorcycles, and tricycles. Operates ride-hailing services and delivery fleets powered entirely by renewable energy through solar charging hubs across multiple Ghanaian cities.

Founders: Mallick Bolakale, Kelechi Oti, Charles Idem

Nigerian merchant-of-record platform enabling businesses to sell across African countries without setting up local offices. Handles cross-border payments, local currency collection, tax compliance, and regulatory requirements. Active in 15 African markets across aviation, gaming, and e-commerce sectors.

Founders: Omar ElGebali, Karim Elrouby, Mohamed Samir, Saif Elnewehy

Egyptian digital fitness hub offering flexible subscription plans for individuals and corporate clients. Combines personalized workout plans, nutrition guidance, and community features to help users achieve their health and fitness goals.

Founders: Agnes Kanjala

Nuru Solutions is a farm-level data intelligence platform powering insurers, lenders, and agribusinesses serving Africa's 200M+ smallholder farmers. Combining satellite imagery, ground-truth, and machine learning, Nuru delivers yield prediction, risk profiling, and remote farm boundary detection at 80–98%+ accuracy.

Founders: Charles Oduk

Kenyan IoT startup offering locally designed and manufactured smart electronic lockers for temporary storage, parcel delivery, and e-bike battery swapping. Serves daily commuters, e-commerce merchants, and electric motorbike riders across multiple locations in Nairobi.

Founders: Thomas Brennan, Sebastian Patle

South African robo-advisory investment app making saving and investing accessible to everyday users. Requires no minimum investment and offers regulated funds including money market and index ETFs. Users can start investing in under two minutes from their phones.

Founders: Jean Lobe Lobe

Cameroonian telehealth platform connecting patients with verified doctors via instant video consultations from their smartphones. Also offers mobile lab sample collection, medication delivery, and a health-focused social network. Operating in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and expanding into Senegal and Gabon.