Top Tech Startups in Africa in 2024

Lokafy connects travellers with locals, providing an experience that's like having a friend show you around their home city. We are a Toronto-based startup that has organized tours in over 250 cities around the world. Our mission is to change travel, to make it more about the people we meet, not just the places we see.

Obinex is a pre-seed stage startup on a mission to develop a simple ecosystem to foster the adoption of centralized economic principles while ensuring enhanced security through a disruptive and holistic approach.

inBeat is a micro-influencer marketing agency that serves online brands to help them with their social media influencer marketing requirements. Our service is designed to help clients get the most out of working with influencers. The average cost per engagement for micro-influencers is much lower than for typical macro-influencers and celebrities. We take care of everything for you; discovery, negotiation, payments, agreements, and strategy.

SuperWorld is an augmented reality (AR) virtual world geographically mapped onto the real world allowing users to create, discover and monetize AR content. SuperWorld's AR real estate platform (Superworldapp.com) allows users to buy virtual plots of land anywhere in the world, share in revenue generated by users and become a key stakeholder on our platform. Purchase unique plot of Augmented Reality real estate (ERC721 AR real estate tokens) based on real world polygons of longitude and latitude. Each plot is approximately 100x100 meters. Resell later for an asking price, or keep and receive tokens for future revenue share of AR advertising, digital commerce, ecommerce and data/analytics revenue generated at that location. SuperWorld's mobile application allows users and brands to personalize the real world by adding anything anywhere in augmented reality with interactive 3D objects, photos, videos, audio, and texts, and share the AR experience with their followers. We are currently launched as a prototype on iPhone and Android phones.

Heetch is an urban mobility app providing the coolest ride experiences to enjoy in big cities. We launched Heetch in 2013 because we wanted to explore the rising alternative nightlife in Parisian suburbs. Since we needed a ride, we simply created a ride-sharing app full of good vibes, music, and candy… Pretty simple, don’t you think? Our goal was to enable a whole generation to express themselves through partying, socialising and exploring a town’s possibilities. We aimed to provide a mobility solution allowing people to move around the city in an affordable yet reliable way by turning a moment as simple as a ride into an unexpectedly positive experience. 6 years later, a few things have changed: we are now operating in 3 different countries and count more than 2 million users… Nevertheless, making each ride experience unique for passengers and fairer for drivers is still our daily challenge.

An app dedicated to promoting creators & growing their careers. In-app features: crowdfunding, collab contracts, posting music videos, film, written works, artwork & audio content, networking & educational workshops, including networking events. Allows fans the opportunity to comment on creative works in real-time and provides lucrative opportunities to corporate partners.

Bixal builds a strong digital presence—a key element in communicating with audiences, building relationships, and branding and promoting an organization. we help clients identify and understand their audiences, and design targeted campaigns to engage them, promote core missions, and drive real change. we offer a global perspective to help organizations identify their needs, and create systems that support business objectives with the end user in mind. our refined systematic process for web and mobile development services leverages agile methodologies that align with our commitment to ensure usability, accessibility, quality, and security.

All software contains security flaws, and there are more bad guys attacking the companies that depend on this software than there are good guys defending them. According to PBS, upwards of 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years. This number will rise dramatically over the next 10 years as technology trends like public clouds, enterprise mobility and IoT make our businesses and lives more vulnerable to attackers. So who will meet these security demands? Bugcrowd is the premier marketplace for security testing on web, mobile, source code and client-side applications. Taking the leads of Facebook, Paypal and Google's crowdsourced bug bounty programs, we've developed a platform and community that combines a proprietary vulnerability reporting platform with the largest crowd of security researchers on the planet.

We at Educate! tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs, and drive development in their communities. We directly implement our model in secondary schools and partner with governments to support national education systems. Among other benefits, Educate! leads to improved soft skills, increased secondary school completion rates, more youth selecting STEM and business majors, delayed fertility, reductions in risky behavior, and declines in intimate partner violence.

Zen Educate (zeneducate.com) is a fairer and better way to connect schools and teachers for supply work and long-term roles. We've built a marketplace that connects schools and teachers directly, cutting out the agency middlemen that have added a big layer of fees, bureaucracy, and a bad taste into the system for schools and teachers for too long. In the process, we're sucking out hundreds of thousands of pounds of waste from the education system that goes back to schools, teachers and ultimately pupils. With Zen, teachers don't get underpaid, spammed with endless calls and texts about irrelevant roles, and schools aren't ripped off and sent teachers and teaching assistants who don't pass the bar they need. We operate in London and Manchester and are growing quickly to provide a better service for schools and teachers than any traditional agency can provide.