- April 21 2023
TechCabal Daily – Musk’s equipment malfunctions
Lire en français Read this email in French. 21 APRIL, 2023 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Eid Mubarak A couple of weeks ago, a coalition of African fintechs banded together to fight fraud. This isn’t a new phenomenon. Previous attempts at Justice League-styled posses have—much like Elon Musk’s standup comedy career—failed to take off. The reason: the head honchos don’t trust each other. Here’s what we think fintechs can do differently this time. P.S We’ll be in your inboxes all through the long weekend. Elon Musk’s Twitter fingers may work hard, but we work harder. In today’s edition Musk’s starship explodes prematurely Facebook aiding child trafficking in SA Funding tracker The World Wide Web3 Event: The State of Tech in Africa Opportunities MUSK’S STARSHIP EXPLODES PREMATURELY Yesterday, a test flight at Elon Musk’s space exploration company, SpaceX, led to the explosion of what is perhaps the company’s most important test till date. A Mars landing: Since 2012, SpaceX has been developing Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket with twice the firepower of any known rocket. Starship is over 120 metres long, and Musk’s long-term vision is to help human colonisation of Mars. After waiting years, SpaceX finally received approval from the government to kick off its tests earlier in April. It was originally scheduled to launch on Monday, April 17, but that launch was cancelled after a pressurisation valve was reported frozen—they couldn’t let it go. What went wrong this time? The launch was successful. A live streaming of the launch shows that Starship took off at 8:33 AM BST. A few minutes after take-off, though, it blew up. SpaceX, in a tweet, reports that Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after two sections of its rocket pulled a Bonnie-and-Clyde—they were inseparable. Congratulations to SpaceX: It might appear that the company lost a rocket and potentially millions of dollars with this test, but so far, everyone—even Musk—considers it a success. That’s why it’s a test! SpaceX itself was sceptical about the success of the test, and will now learn from its mistakes. Musk also took to Twitter to congratulate his team, and urge them towards learning from the test. WORK WITH MONIEPOINT At Moniepoint, we’re creating the best workplace for global talent using the 4M framework- Meaning, Membership, Mastery and Money. This isn’t an ad designed to convince you to join us, but it has all the reasons why you should. Watch it here. This is partner content. FACEBOOK AIDING CHILD TRAFFICKING IN SA According to South Africa’s minister of police, Bheki Cele, children in the country are being sold online through social media platforms such as Facebook. Cele stated that in November last year, police were made aware of incidents of parents advertising children on social media platforms. Nothing the police can do about it Despite the police being aware of the cases, Cele says that the country’s crime intelligence did not have the resources to address the issue but that it is in the process of acquiring social media monitoring solutions. One ministry which seems to be trying to deal with the issue is that of social development. According to Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, some of the measures being employed to address child trafficking via social media include monitoring of such platforms and training relevant stakeholders in combating the issue. Zoom out: According to a 2022 US Department of State human trafficking report, the South African government identified 83 trafficking victims over the reporting period, which ran from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. This is far more than the 16 victims identified in the previous reporting period. Additionally, the report also places South Africa in the second-worst tier of countries failing to have sufficient anti-human trafficking standards in place. TC INSIGHTS: FUNDING TRACKER This week, Charger, a Senegalese logistics company, raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Logos Ventures; other participating investors include Ventures Platform, Foundation Botnar, DFS Labs, and Seedstars. Here are the other deals this week: Tunisian gaming platform CoaChess secured $191,000 in pre-seed funding from Omicron. Nigerian anti-counterfeiting company Chekkit received an undisclosed amount in funding from Adaverse, a Cardano ecosystem accelerator. That’s it for this week! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for more funding announcements. You can also visit DealFlow, our real-time funding tracker. EXPLORE FINTECH WITH TEMPLARS Join African law firm TEMPLARS and international law firm Clifford Chance for their tech roundtable Perspectives on Fintech in Ghana. Explore the latest fintech trends with global investors, policymakers, and leaders. Register now for insightful discussions and networking. This is partner content. EVENT: THE STATE OF TECH IN AFRICA We are excited to announce the launch of our State Of Tech (Q1) Report. The State Of Tech Report is our flagship report that analyses quarterly data on acquisitions, expansions, product launches, and funding in Africa’s tech ecosystem. This edition looks at (Q1) 2023 in retrospect and contains interesting patterns and trends to look out for this year. Join us on a special edition of TechCabal Live on Friday, May 5. At this event, we’ll discuss actionable insights and findings from the report with you and share our perspectives on the outlook of Africa’s tech landscape. Register here to join the event. THE WORLD WIDE WEB3 Bitcoin $28,142 – 3.84% Ether $1,928 – 2.61% BNB $317 – 2.52% Cardano $0.39 – 4.68% Name of the coin Price of the coin 24-hour percentage change Source: CoinMarketCap * Data as of 21:00 PM WAT, April 20, 2023. The European Parliament has approved the world’s first comprehensive crypto regulation framework. CoinDesk reports that lawmakers voted in favour of Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) and Transfer of Fund rules. The regulations will see crypto wallet providers and exchanges to seek licences to operate across the bloc. It will require issuers of stablecoins tied to the value of other assets to maintain sufficient reserves. Bankrupt crypto platform Voyager has signed a billion-dollar deal to be acquired by Binance. Decrypt reports that the company reached a resolution with the US government that will allow the US arm of Binance
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- April 20 2023
Meet the insurtech startup which wants to revolutionise SA’s insurance industry
YuLife, a UK-based insurtech startup, has launched its operations in South Africa. YuLife’s product offerings include a wellbeing app which harnesses the latest trends in behavioural science and game mechanics to encourage employees to make proactive lifestyle changes, while prioritising prevention by de-risking individuals through healthy activities. The YuLife app enables employees to complete everyday wellness activities such as walking, meditation, and cycling, in order to earn YuCoin, YuLife’s virtual wellbeing currency. Members can then use their YuCoin to buy vouchers for groceries, data, fuel, clothing and more from leading brands, or to improve the world through donating meals, planting trees, or cleaning the ocean. By incentivising healthy living, YuLife claims to provide employers with a way to simultaneously boost retention rates, improve employees’ standard of living, and safeguard their financial future. TechCabal caught up with the co-founders of YuLife, Josh Hart and Jaco Oosthuizen, to talk about the insurtech startup’s arrival in South Africa, their $120 million fundraising, how they plan to traverse the competitive SA insurance landscape, and much more. TechCabal: Please tell us more about YuLife and the problem you are trying to solve with your product offering. Jaco Oosthuizen: Before I joined YuLife, I worked for a South African insurance company for 20 years. I think one of the big issues with insurance is that it is not a product that people want to buy. You don’t wake up in the morning and say, “I would love to buy insurance” and I think that is one of the things that we want to change with YuLife because you really want people to love their insurance company. Our mission is to inspire life into life insurance because normally life insurance companies only really engage with the client when there’s something bad happening. We want to change that and actually make insurance a product that people engage with on a day-to-day basis. The other big thing we want to address is the issue of protection gap. There’s a lot of people that need life insurance, but they don’t have life insurance, because they don’t really understand it, and they don’t really engage their insurance company. South Africa has the second highest insurance penetration globally, making it a perfect market for YuLife to expand into and showcase its innovative approach to insurance. Josh Hart: So we are trying to solve all these issues through our app. We’ve been very successful in the UK. Over the last five years, we have sold insurance protection to large corporations together with our app. We have managed to reach over 650,000 lives in the UK. Our 2,000 employer groups include the likes of Tesco and Co Op, which are very large companies in the UK. Last year, we raised $120 million and on the back of that, we decided to also expand out to other countries. We launched in the US last quarter and now we are coming to South Africa. The YuLife app (Image source: Provided) TC: There is currently a significant amount of competition in the insurance space in South Africa. How does YuLife plan on setting itself apart? JO: I’d say SA has a lot of insurance companies and a lot of those companies offer a bit of a commoditized product. Some of the companies are really looking at how to make you engage with your health every day, to mitigate the risk of you needing to claim because then that’s a win-win, right? You don’t need to claim because you’re healthier. Everyone wins. The challenge with some of these apps is that they’re quite elitist and not for everyone. They’re basically for the wealthy. YuLife, on the other hand, is about changing the lives of everybody. Everybody gets rewarded. Everybody is unlocking their potential every day when it comes to their health either mentally, physically and financially. And I think that’s what makes us truly unique. JH: I think just to add there, the UK market is as competitive if not more than South Africa and we found that we landed extremely well there. Within a three-year period, we got over 1,000 employee groups buying into our proposition because there hadn’t been innovation in the Employee Benefits space in a long time and people were ready to embrace the innovation. We’ve been talking to a lot of brokers and clients in South Africa and people are extremely excited and interested in our proposition. TC: What challenges do you foresee in your operations in South Africa and how do you intend to traverse those unique challenges? JO: One of the challenges we’ve been asked about is mobile phone penetration in the country because people need a smartphone to use our app. Over the last few years, that has improved significantly and smartphone penetration is now above 90%, which is amazing, actually in this country. The other challenge is the cost of data in the country particularly in the lower and middle income groups. To address that, we have a currency called YuCoin. As customers earn more YuCoin, they will be able to buy data with that as well. So I think we will be helping everyone to engage with our app as well as giving them data to use the app. TC: YuLife raised $120 million in funding last year. To start with, do you believe that the fact that you guys were able to raise that much in a downturn is a stamp of approval on the viability of your model? Additionally, to what extent do you think the funding will help YuLife establish a presence in the South African insurance industry? JO: The venture capital market has definitely changed. I’ve personally seen quite a lot of good ideas and businesses that just can’t raise capital in this market. We were very, very fortunate to be able to raise what we did. I think we succeeded because YuLife is a great idea which addresses a global problem. The capital has been incredibly useful in our expansion to South
Read More- April 20 2023
Meet the insurtech startup which wants to revolutionise SA’s insurance industry
YuLife, a UK-based insurtech startup, has launched its operations in South Africa. YuLife’s product offerings include a wellbeing app which harnesses the latest trends in behavioural science and game mechanics to encourage employees to make proactive lifestyle changes, while prioritising prevention by de-risking individuals through healthy activities. The YuLife app enables employees to complete everyday wellness activities such as walking, meditation, and cycling, in order to earn YuCoin, YuLife’s virtual wellbeing currency. Members can then use their YuCoin to buy vouchers for groceries, data, fuel, clothing and more from leading brands, or to improve the world through donating meals, planting trees, or cleaning the ocean. By incentivising healthy living, YuLife claims to provide employers with a way to simultaneously boost retention rates, improve employees’ standard of living, and safeguard their financial future. TechCabal caught up with the co-founders of YuLife, Josh Hart and Jaco Oosthuizen, to talk about the insurtech startup’s arrival in South Africa, their $120 million fundraising, how they plan to traverse the competitive SA insurance landscape, and much more. TechCabal: Please tell us more about YuLife and the problem you are trying to solve with your product offering. Jaco Oosthuizen: Before I joined YuLife, I worked for a South African insurance company for 20 years. I think one of the big issues with insurance is that it is not a product that people want to buy. You don’t wake up in the morning and say, “I would love to buy insurance” and I think that is one of the things that we want to change with YuLife because you really want people to love their insurance company. Our mission is to inspire life into life insurance because normally life insurance companies only really engage with the client when there’s something bad happening. We want to change that and actually make insurance a product that people engage with on a day-to-day basis. The other big thing we want to address is the issue of protection gap. There’s a lot of people that need life insurance, but they don’t have life insurance, because they don’t really understand it, and they don’t really engage their insurance company. South Africa has the second highest insurance penetration globally, making it a perfect market for YuLife to expand into and showcase its innovative approach to insurance. Josh Hart: So we are trying to solve all these issues through our app. We’ve been very successful in the UK. Over the last five years, we have sold insurance protection to large corporations together with our app. We have managed to reach over 650,000 lives in the UK. Our 2,000 employer groups include the likes of Tesco and Co Op, which are very large companies in the UK. Last year, we raised $120 million and on the back of that, we decided to also expand out to other countries. We launched in the US last quarter and now we are coming to South Africa. The YuLife app (Image source: Provided) TC: There is currently a significant amount of competition in the insurance space in South Africa. How does YuLife plan on setting itself apart? JO: I’d say SA has a lot of insurance companies and a lot of those companies offer a bit of a commoditized product. Some of the companies are really looking at how to make you engage with your health every day, to mitigate the risk of you needing to claim because then that’s a win-win, right? You don’t need to claim because you’re healthier. Everyone wins. The challenge with some of these apps is that they’re quite elitist and not for everyone. They’re basically for the wealthy. YuLife, on the other hand, is about changing the lives of everybody. Everybody gets rewarded. Everybody is unlocking their potential every day when it comes to their health either mentally, physically and financially. And I think that’s what makes us truly unique. JH: I think just to add there, the UK market is as competitive if not more than South Africa and we found that we landed extremely well there. Within a three-year period, we got over 1,000 employee groups buying into our proposition because there hadn’t been innovation in the Employee Benefits space in a long time and people were ready to embrace the innovation. We’ve been talking to a lot of brokers and clients in South Africa and people are extremely excited and interested in our proposition. TC: What challenges do you foresee in your operations in South Africa and how do you intend to traverse those unique challenges? JO: One of the challenges we’ve been asked about is mobile phone penetration in the country because people need a smartphone to use our app. Over the last few years, that has improved significantly and smartphone penetration is now above 90%, which is amazing, actually in this country. The other challenge is the cost of data in the country particularly in the lower and middle income groups. To address that, we have a currency called YuCoin. As customers earn more YuCoin, they will be able to buy data with that as well. So I think we will be helping everyone to engage with our app as well as giving them data to use the app. TC: YuLife raised $120 million in funding last year. To start with, do you believe that the fact that you guys were able to raise that much in a downturn is a stamp of approval on the viability of your model? Additionally, to what extent do you think the funding will help YuLife establish a presence in the South African insurance industry? JO: The venture capital market has definitely changed. I’ve personally seen quite a lot of good ideas and businesses that just can’t raise capital in this market. We were very, very fortunate to be able to raise what we did. I think we succeeded because YuLife is a great idea which addresses a global problem. The capital has been incredibly useful in our expansion to South
Read More- April 20 2023
Meet the insurtech startup which wants to revolutionise SA’s insurance industry
YuLife, a UK-based insurtech startup, has launched its operations in South Africa. YuLife’s product offerings include a wellbeing app which harnesses the latest trends in behavioural science and game mechanics to encourage employees to make proactive lifestyle changes, while prioritising prevention by de-risking individuals through healthy activities. The YuLife app enables employees to complete everyday wellness activities such as walking, meditation, and cycling, in order to earn YuCoin, YuLife’s virtual wellbeing currency. Members can then use their YuCoin to buy vouchers for groceries, data, fuel, clothing and more from leading brands, or to improve the world through donating meals, planting trees, or cleaning the ocean. By incentivising healthy living, YuLife claims to provide employers with a way to simultaneously boost retention rates, improve employees’ standard of living, and safeguard their financial future. TechCabal caught up with the co-founders of YuLife, Josh Hart and Jaco Oosthuizen, to talk about the insurtech startup’s arrival in South Africa, their $120 million fundraising, how they plan to traverse the competitive SA insurance landscape, and much more. TechCabal: Please tell us more about YuLife and the problem you are trying to solve with your product offering. Jaco Oosthuizen: Before I joined YuLife, I worked for a South African insurance company for 20 years. I think one of the big issues with insurance is that it is not a product that people want to buy. You don’t wake up in the morning and say, “I would love to buy insurance” and I think that is one of the things that we want to change with YuLife because you really want people to love their insurance company. Our mission is to inspire life into life insurance because normally life insurance companies only really engage with the client when there’s something bad happening. We want to change that and actually make insurance a product that people engage with on a day-to-day basis. The other big thing we want to address is the issue of protection gap. There’s a lot of people that need life insurance, but they don’t have life insurance, because they don’t really understand it, and they don’t really engage their insurance company. South Africa has the second highest insurance penetration globally, making it a perfect market for YuLife to expand into and showcase its innovative approach to insurance. Josh Hart: So we are trying to solve all these issues through our app. We’ve been very successful in the UK. Over the last five years, we have sold insurance protection to large corporations together with our app. We have managed to reach over 650,000 lives in the UK. Our 2,000 employer groups include the likes of Tesco and Co Op, which are very large companies in the UK. Last year, we raised $120 million and on the back of that, we decided to also expand out to other countries. We launched in the US last quarter and now we are coming to South Africa. The YuLife app (Image source: Provided) TC: There is currently a significant amount of competition in the insurance space in South Africa. How does YuLife plan on setting itself apart? JO: I’d say SA has a lot of insurance companies and a lot of those companies offer a bit of a commoditized product. Some of the companies are really looking at how to make you engage with your health every day, to mitigate the risk of you needing to claim because then that’s a win-win, right? You don’t need to claim because you’re healthier. Everyone wins. The challenge with some of these apps is that they’re quite elitist and not for everyone. They’re basically for the wealthy. YuLife, on the other hand, is about changing the lives of everybody. Everybody gets rewarded. Everybody is unlocking their potential every day when it comes to their health either mentally, physically and financially. And I think that’s what makes us truly unique. JH: I think just to add there, the UK market is as competitive if not more than South Africa and we found that we landed extremely well there. Within a three-year period, we got over 1,000 employee groups buying into our proposition because there hadn’t been innovation in the Employee Benefits space in a long time and people were ready to embrace the innovation. We’ve been talking to a lot of brokers and clients in South Africa and people are extremely excited and interested in our proposition. TC: What challenges do you foresee in your operations in South Africa and how do you intend to traverse those unique challenges? JO: One of the challenges we’ve been asked about is mobile phone penetration in the country because people need a smartphone to use our app. Over the last few years, that has improved significantly and smartphone penetration is now above 90%, which is amazing, actually in this country. The other challenge is the cost of data in the country particularly in the lower and middle income groups. To address that, we have a currency called YuCoin. As customers earn more YuCoin, they will be able to buy data with that as well. So I think we will be helping everyone to engage with our app as well as giving them data to use the app. TC: YuLife raised $120 million in funding last year. To start with, do you believe that the fact that you guys were able to raise that much in a downturn is a stamp of approval on the viability of your model? Additionally, to what extent do you think the funding will help YuLife establish a presence in the South African insurance industry? JO: The venture capital market has definitely changed. I’ve personally seen quite a lot of good ideas and businesses that just can’t raise capital in this market. We were very, very fortunate to be able to raise what we did. I think we succeeded because YuLife is a great idea which addresses a global problem. The capital has been incredibly useful in our expansion to South
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- April 20 2023
15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
Read More- April 20 2023
15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
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15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
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15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
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15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
Read More- April 20 2023
15 founders building solutions to look out for in 2023
According to this report by the United Nations, Africa’s sustainable growth is heavily dependent on how well Africans can use tools like technology to fight multidimensional vulnerabilities. People all across the continent are taking their experience, skills, and network, and using them to build purpose-driven solutions for the continent. From Aisha Husseini, who is making digital tools more accessible, to Nomsa Makgabenyana, who is helping marketers better understand the African market. In the past years, the African startup scene has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of founders using technology to innovate and profer solutions to African problems. This list features fifteen founders creating impactful solutions across the continent that you should pay attention to. 1. Marie-Reine Seshie Marie is the CEO/co-founder of Kola Market. She has over a decade of experience on the continent, driving results for SMEs and startups. She has over five years of experience in the banking sector and has also worked as a management consultant for SMEs. Marie’s startup, Kola Market helps SMEs grow well. They are a B2B platform that leverages data science methods and other digital tools to provide consistent sales, smart inventory insights and blended finance to SMEs across Africa. Their goal is simple: help SMEs sell out their inventory and grow their income. For Marie, SMEs are the key to unlocking the immense potential of Africa. She sees an Africa where small businesses are growing rapidly and profitably, driving employment and growing the GDP of African economies. Instead of taking loans that end up killing their businesses, they’re able to grow sustainably, cost-effectively, and profitably. 2. Aisha Husseini (Nigeria) Aisha Hussaini has over seven years of experience in consumer lending and trade in the African technology ecosystem. She is a 2x founder, having previously led the startup, Mobile Waiter, and worked at Cars45 and Autochek Africa. Aisha’s startup, Keza Africa is a smartphone financing platform that allows people to buy smartphones and pay in instalments. They want to make digital work tools more affordable for people, by enabling Africans to pay in monthly instalments for their devices. 3. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria) Olusola Amusan Olusola, who has a background in software engineering is the co-founder and CEO of Vesti. He is a two-time founder and has experience designing learning curriculums for top banks and universities. Vesti is a finance and legal software platform that provides financial payments and settlement of migration-related fees, enabling users to move from one place to another and transfer money. With Vesti, anyone who wants to migrate can find information & financial services like government payments, savings & health insurance. Users can also create virtual cards and pay hundreds of migration merchants. 4. Nomsa Makgabenyana (Botswana) Nomsa Makgabenyana is an MPhil (Inclusive Innovation) candidate at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town and founder of Seriti Insights. Seriti Insights is a marketing technology that addresses the fact that Africans don’t always express themselves in perfect English. They mix languages, create “sayings” thatare constantly changing, and share our experiences with brands, products, and services, especially on social media platforms. Their product: The Seipone.ai SaaS is able togive marketers, brand builders, and product owners, true insights and sentiments of theAfrican consumers in real-time, regardless of the language they express themselves in. Seriti is currently looking to raise a pre-seed round to enable them to scale into East Africa. 5. Chineye Ochem (Nigeria) Chineye is the co-founder and COO of Tyms Africa. She’s a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner, with over six years of experience in accounting and finance. Chineye’s startup, Tyms Africa, helps businesses with cash flow management and short-term cash flow financing. They have a product, Tyms Book, which is an automated bookkeeping and accounting platform that makes it easy and seamless for businesses to keep adequate financial records and generate financial reports. Chineye is passionate about using her skills and experience to solve financial problems for businesses because she believes this is a way to contribute towards improving the standard of living of Nigerians and Africans. 6. Naledi Magowe (Botswana) Naledi Magowe Naledi is the co-founder of Brastorne. She has an unwavering commitment to closing the digital divide for rural African communities and her startup Brastorne has transformed the lives of over two million Africans through mobile solutions that empower the rural poor in Africa with knowledge, resources, and connectivity. With extensive experience in T4D projects, strategy, and communications, Naledi has been recognised as a thought leader on the global stage, inspiring audiences and winning numerous awards for her remarkable achievements. Her startup, Brastorne, connect the unconnected to the world by providing the rural poor in Africa with equitable access to the internet, markets, information and community without smartphones or data bundles. 7. Ope Onaboye (Nigeria) Ope is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of Renda. He has 10 years of experience spanning different sectors and is also the founder of Incite Enterprises Group of companies. Renda is an online platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to operate and access logistics services. They don’t just help you find a dispatch rider, they focus on all of the other bulk logistics services like procurement, warehousing, inventory management, freight and so much more. They have built a network of over 300 drivers, and 90+ warehouses and are currently available in 10 cities. 8. Blandine Umuziranenge (Rwanda) Blandine Umuziranenge Blandine is the founder and CEO of Kosmotive, a social enterprise that focuses on improving menstrual, maternal and child health in Rwanda and throughout Africa. She has twelve years of experience combining IT, Social Entrepreneurship and Circular Business Modeling with an ambition to pave menstrual freedom for girls and women in Africa. Kosmotive provides access to menstrual, maternal and child health information through their eHealth platform and Helpline, as well as manufacturing and distributing women’s hygiene products, mainly KosmoPads reusable sanitary pads for investing in girls’ education, women’s health and the planet; one pad at a time. 9. Jennat El Guennouni (Morocco) Jennat is
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