Top Tech Startups in Africa in 2024

RxAll™ is a digital infrastructure platform for healthcare. We enable on-demand access to high quality medicines at manufacturer/wholesale price to hospitals, pharmacies and patients from our curated network of high quality wholesalers and pharma companies. We solve $1.25T problem of access to affordable safe drugs. Our tech stack includes a proprietary instant drug testing platform- RxScanner™- that helps our sellers authenticate the medicines they sell. We also have the RxPOS™ that helps our sellers manage and sell inventory in store and online through our RxDelivered™ marketplace. Further, we have our embedded fintech RxPay™ that helps finance invoices for buyers on our platform ensuring availability and affordability of high quality medicines from our pharma company and wholesaler partners to our B2B2C customers. Our vision is to enable universal access to high quality medicines at the lowest prices to all humans across the world - starting with Africa.

We're Fireflies.ai, and we're on a mission to make all meetings more productive. You know those moments when you wish you could remember that key insight from an important conversation? That's the itch we're scratching. We created a smart meeting assistant that quietly joins your meetings, records conversations, transcribes them and summarizes everything. It then automatically organizes the information into a searchable archive. Fireflies is the super-powered note-taker you've always wanted! Our goal is simple - help teams cut down on redundant conversations and unlock more value from their meetings. We integrate tightly with tools you already use like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Salesforce, and more so it feels seamless. Excited yet?

We’re a tight-knit team with deep experience in K-12 education, childhood development, and artificial intelligence, who came together to support parents in creating the best learning environment for their child.

Appsmith is a fast growing, fully-remote team that loves to solve hard problems collaboratively. The Appsmith framework is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the world (used by teams in 150+ countries) because it collapses the time and effort required for companies to build critical dashboards, workflows and custom interfaces and applications. Our success stems from our commitments to our users and our team. As an open source project, listening and responding to the needs of our users drives everything we do from supporting the community to documentation, bug fixing and feature prioritization. For our fellow employees, we offer (and facilitate) ample & impactful PTO including 6 months of maternity or paternity leave, all the resources necessary for employees to work well from home and robust professional development opportunities.

Maven connects patients with vetted, highly-qualified healthcare practitioners via video, with appointments starting at less than the price of a co-pay. No more waiting rooms and no more self-diagnosis. Maven allows consumers to book an appointment with a doctor, nurse practitioner, nutritionist, mental health provider, or pregnancy expert from wherever they are, and get a prescription if needed.

We're hiring: flexport.com/careers. At Flexport, we believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global trade easy for everyone. Flexport is building the platform for global logistics, empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries every year. With offices on three continents, our team is as global as our client base. Wherever you are, whichever role you play, you’re guaranteed to share your day with passionate and resourceful team members who are in it together. Read more on our blog: flexport.com/blog.

Buck Mason is a modern American Brand founded in 2013 by Sasha Koehn and Erik Allen Ford, who were neighbors in Venice, California. At the heart of everything we do is the laid back California ethos of easy living, quality, and simplicity. We are classic. We look to past icons and interpret them with honesty and loyalty. We also look ahead and understand the modernity of future classics and the responsibility of our place amongst them. We champion anyone striving to be better and are honored when we can be a part of it. We claim simple truths and keep our promises. We truly have our customers’ best interests in mind, knowing damn well the value of a hard-earned dollar. We believe we will never be perfect but know that greatness lies in the search to be so. We make clothes. We love what we do. Initially, they set up shop in a 350 square foot garage off Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Sasha built the website and Erik created the brand’s first collection of jeans and tees. Obsessed with quality, they worked closely with a local family factory to create small batch production runs, crafting each piece using old school manufacturing techniques combined with modern technology. Buck Mason makes fashion less complicated, building each piece to last beyond a single season. Each design is a riff on an iconic American staple, combining to make a useful and effortless wardrobe. Consistency in fit, fabric and quality guide this hands on approach. Much of the product is made in the USA, where you can often find Sasha and Erik on the factory floor.

Founded in 2012, we are a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we're committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management. All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping computer vision teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like nuTonomy, Nuro, Voyage, Embark, Lyft, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data.

With Fella Health, patients meet a board-certified obesity doctor to prescribe FDA-approved medications, while they undertake personalized health coaching through our app. Obesity is the largest chronic disease in the US (>$100bn spent each year) and the traditional solution ("move more, eat less") only works long-term for ~10% of people. But obesity treatment is radically changing due to a new wave of medication options which are 2-3x more effective than previous options. In addition, only 10% of those using weight management services are men: all programs market to women, not tackling the stigma men feel around this. Fella's founders are Luke (linkedin.com/in/luke-harries) & Richie (linkedin.com/in/richard-cartwright). We studied together at Cambridge University. Luke studied medicine and developed a patented AI approach to detecting cancer at a YC bio company, before moving to Microsoft Research. He did a masters in Computer Science after Cambridge. Richie personally struggled with stress eating for 6 years. After Cambridge, he built and sold an AI company working with the UK government. He built a 10k-follower community around men's stress eating. You can read more about working at Fella here: fella.notion.site/Working-at-Fella-14a2ac8575d34d148d009bb410387af4 Fella Health is live in Texas, and we recently closed a Seed round to expand nationwide. We're backed by top health/consumer investors: - Y Combinator - BrandProject, Global Founders Capital - The founders of Indeed, Curative, Alan, Kaia Health, Not Boring, Vouch Insurance