Top Tech Startups in Earth in 2024

Small businesses in South Africa need a little help... there is a massive payment acceptance gap. Over 75% of the adult population have cards, yet only 6% of the country's 4 million sellers can accept cards. Yoco was founded by 4 friends who set out to build Africa's first merchant payment aggregator to enable the smaller enterprise segments of the market to transact. Yoco offers merchants a choice of 2 mobile card readers that connect to their smart phone / tablet allowing them to accept payments quickly and simply. The solution goes beyond payment processing in that it includes a free point-of-sale app and a free business intelligence portal, enabling business owners to monitor store performance. Today, Yoco is the fastest growing payments company in South Africa (38% revenue growth in Nov). Being the only merchant aggregator in the market, the Yoco team is using technology and data to innovate on risk management and cost to serve, opening up new segments and growing the market.

Drip is the world’s first ecommerce CRM (ECRM) that enables retailers to build personal and profitable relationships with their customers at scale. We believe the world needs specialty retail and Drip is the platform that enables competition with the impersonal ecommerce giants. We are well-funded, growing super fast, and building a beautiful product. We have offices in Minneapolis and Greater Salt Lake City. drip.com/about Want to positively impact tens of thousands of passionate users and marketing professionals around the globe? Join Drip!

Thunder is a tech-enabled investment bank that is transforming what it's like to raise capital for your company or fund. Thunder uses AI to identify relevant opportunities for capital raisers and capital allocators to connect with a high success ratio. Thunder saves both sides time, money, and headache by getting to the goal post faster with more transparent and relevant information to close deals faster. Investors get access to great deals while there is still allocation to be had. Founders get warm intros to VCs that are statistically more likely to invest in their venture. At Thunder, we believe fundraising should be more about the value you're creating at your company/firm and less about who is in your network, let Thunder solve that problem for you. It's completely free for investors and founders to create a free account and see what opportunities exist that are relevant to you.

We are proud to provide better loan servicing for everyone. machine-learning-based algorithms are trained to continuously improve repayment rate while keeping you compliant. all-in-one saas servicing solution is built on modern infrastructure with a scale and efficiency designed to lower servicing costs. proprietary compliance guard software conducts monitoring and real-time checks on federal and state regulations to ensure you stay compliant. a white-label website and communications that complement your brand's visuals and voice, with customer care experts ready to assist at any time. robust loan modeling platform allows you to launch innovative credit instruments-so you can reward customers for good behavior.

At Hokodo, we are modernising the way businesses buy from each other by making it easier and safer to sell to business customers! Our “Trade credit as a service” technology empowers B2B merchants to offer credit terms to their business customers instantly, even on their first purchase. In turn, customers benefit from additional payment terms through a frictionless checkout experience. Over 30% of B2B trade takes place on credit terms, with trade credit representing the largest source of business financing in advanced economies. Yet current processes for offering trade credit are outdated and not fit for the digital age. Hokodo’s digital platform solves these issues by offering merchants a powerful set of solutions to manage trade credit and scale with confidence. Merchants that integrate with Hokodo see on average a 40% increase in revenues. Gone are the days of paper-based trading account applications, manual credit decisions and cumbersome sales journeys. Our easy-to-integrate digital platform streamlines the entire order-to-cash process, allowing merchants to make credit decisions in real-time, be protected against bad debt and get access to working capital finance options. We also protect merchants by insuring against the credit risk with Lloyd’s of London, and arrange the financing with our partners so our sellers can get paid upfront if they choose. We’ve believed for a long time that the design and distribution of financial products has been broken, and we’ve been on a journey to fix it since. Our team cuts across geographical barriers and brings together financial services practitioners, engineers, data scientists and designers… all working together to create a better way of doing business! Want to join us on our journey? Drop us an email at [email protected] Hokodo’s solutions are underwritten by SCOR Syndicate 2015, SCOR SE’s corporate syndicate at Lloyd’s of London.

CLIP is a clean-mobility company. We build portable electric propulsion devices for all bicycles. Our first product, CLIP - friction drive instantly motorizes a bicycle without the use of tools. Packs 15 mph of ride-assist power, can be carried in a backpack and charged from a desk. Our mission is to reinvent the e-bike experience to make it affordable for everyone. To empower a growing urban population with a viable path to switch to bicycles by providing e-bike tech at a fraction of cost and complexity.

Before i got my actual name 'Journey' the actual journey of how my name evolved and how i developed an identity is an interesting story.   I was going to be named Uplift, Mutually, United, Together and what not. But when my actual mission was being ideated upon, Journey was something which resonated the most. Because i'm all about that; About connecting people who are on this life's journey together, trying out new things, exploring themselves. While i was growing up, many people questioned how was i different than others. And my answer was always the same - that i was about the process. The goal is the outcome of the process, and while my fellow friends (Facebook and Instagram) were about sharing your achievements, showcase your life at best - i was about showcasing your life as it goes through, with the people who could understand. I was more real. I was about the journey, and my mission was to bring people in this journey together, give them an environment which motivates them to pursue their interests and move forward. I am on a mission to bring this connected but still disconnected world closer. Because i believe that when people collaborate & connect, it gives birth to new ideas and innovation. I aim to create journeys for us humans to advance forward faster, while bringing out the best in all.

Eli is a women's health company on a mission to improve lifelong health through continuous hormone monitoring. Hormones impact physical and mental health every day and at every stage of life. Eli offers real-time insights from hormones in saliva that can be tracked continuously over time, unlike traditional testing methods or send-out tests that only provide a single snapshot. With just three simple steps, Eli's at-home technology provides women with personalized hormone profiles to make informed decisions about their health. Eli is filling a data gap to transform how women manage their hormonal health in key areas like menopause, fertility, contraception, and endocrine conditions. Eli has raised a total of $9 million so women can have the information they need to optimize their overall health from puberty to beyond menopause.

Reposite is the all-in-one workspace built for travel and events professionals – Manage relationships, track proposals, discover new suppliers & grow your business.

Puck creates short audio clips for companies to promote their open roles. We help companies create a better experience for candidates by talking to their open roles.