Top Tech Startups in Africa in 2024

Donorbox is a leading fundraising platform and donor management system for nonprofit organizations. Our mission is to positively impact the world by helping nonprofits become highly effective at raising donations and managing their supporter base. We serve more than 50,000 global organizations and process over $700 million dollars annually. Donorbox was founded in San Francisco in 2014. We are a small, motivated company that is profitable and bootstrapped with a healthy run-rate. Our diverse, growing team has 55 team members in 8 states and 14 countries. Learn more about our mission here: donorbox.org/about-us.

Bolt is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 100M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to LatAm to Africa. We’re building the future of logistics – one platform that connects you with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, or food delivery from your favourite restaurant. Fast, convenient and affordable service for everyone. Let’s build the future of transportation together! See Careers → bolt.eu/careers

Founded in 2013, Thistle is an early stage food-tech startup empowering our customers to get and stay healthy. We deliver delicious, organic, healthy, plant-forward meals, cold-pressed juices and snacks to customers in California who want to put their nutrition on auto-pilot. We don’t want to be just another food delivery startup or meal-kit company. Our focus is on the health and happiness of our customers, and we are revolutionizing how fresh, nutritious, high-quality food is purchased, manufactured, and delivered at scale. Thistle is headquartered in San Francisco and we are backed by some amazing investors in the Bay Area and beyond.

We have created a revolutionary silicon-based DNA synthesis platform, that offers precision at a scale otherwise unavailable to our customers. We provide an innovative silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform which enables production of high-quality synthetic DNA which is faster and more affordable than ever before. Our platform allows you to work with genes, oligo pools (with CRISPR), variant libraries, DNA data storage and NGS target enrichment.

Correlation One is a technology company whose mission is to make data science for all. We believe that data literacy is the most important skill for the future of work. We promote data literacy through global data science competitions, rigorous data skills assessments, and enterprise-grade data science education. We have built an expert community of 250,000+ data scientists and 500+ partnerships with leading universities and data science organizations in the US, China, UK, Canada, Ireland and Latin America. Our products and programs help data professionals develop and showcase their skills, and help enterprises attract and engage better data talent.

Legion has built an AI-powered Workforce Management platform that enables tight labor spend management and rapid time to value while ensuring great experiences for employees and customers alike. Using the latest in ML and AI, the platform automatically forecasts demand, computes precise labor needs, and staffs the right employees at the right times based on employee preferences and skills. Legion’s cloud and mobile-native solution brings cutting edge machine learning, artificial intelligence, and beautiful interfaces together to deliver over 10x return on investment. Legion was founded by Sanish Mondkar, the former Chief Product Officer of SAP, and serves many innovative customers including Racetrac Petroleum, Panda Express, Cinemark, Barry's Bootcamp, Soulcycle and Philz Coffee. Legion has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, and was recently included on JMP Securities’ Hot 100 List of the Best Privately Held Software Companies. Legion is backed by investors including Norwest, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, the Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company is based in Redwood City, California.

We are the internet platform for the greater Middle East region. A pioneer of the region's ride-hailing economy, we are expanding services across its platform to include mass transportation, delivery and payments to become the region's everyday SuperApp. We were established in July 2012, and acquired by Uber in 2019. We operates in 120 cities across 15 countries and have created more than one million employment opportunities in the region.

100x Group explores, incubates and pursues opportunities and investments, as part of its mission to reshape the modern digital financial system into one which is inclusive and empowering. It has been created by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo and Sam Reed, the founders of HDR Global Trading, the company behind the cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, BitMEX.

We offer a proprietary system which factually and directly assists universities, students and faculty to exit their intents with effectiveness. We are made up of a core group of people and a core group of tools which deploy to assist by providing tools for learning and study, for better management, for self learning, assessment, improvement and planning. Inclusive herein are live classes, tech tools, compliance assistance, compatibility programs and much more.

ForgeRock® is the digital identity management company transforming the way organizations interact securely with customers, employees, devices, and things. Organizations adopt the ForgeRock Identity Platform™ as their digital identity system of record to monetize customer relationships, address stringent regulations for privacy and consent (GDPR, HIPAA, FCC privacy, etc.), and leverage the internet of things. ForgeRock serves hundreds of brands, including Morningstar, Vodafone, GEICO, Toyota, TomTom, and Pearson, as well as governments like Norway, Canada, and Belgium, securing billions of identities worldwide. ForgeRock has offices across Europe, the USA, and Asia.