Google for Startups

Google for Startups is an initiative designed to support and empower startups globally. Established in 2011 and based in San Francisco, the program offers access to Google's products, resources, and best practices through a vast network of partners and six dedicated Google for Startups Campuses located in major cities such as London, Tel Aviv, and São Paulo. Its mission is to foster entrepreneurial success and create a positive impact on the future. By collaborating with over fifty leading startup organizations, Google for Startups enhances local tech ecosystems and supports startups across more than 135 countries. The program provides financial assistance, exclusive programming, and mentorship opportunities. The Google for Startups Campuses serve as collaborative spaces where startup founders can engage with their peers, access educational resources, and receive training from both Google and local experts. These Campuses offer free workspaces, events, and a vibrant community, enabling entrepreneurs to thrive in their respective industries.

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google

Past deals in COMESA

Charis Unmanned Aerial Solutions

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
CHARISUAS is the first ever unmanned Aerial vehicles leading company in Rwanda. We provide diversified services in UAV industries. These include UAS consulting, UAV building and system integration, pilot and safety training, maintenance of UAVs and much more. Our reputation and professionalism has helped to obtain hard to get exclusive permits to fly in restricted areas.

EzyAgric

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
EzyAgric is an ag-tech company focused on enhancing agricultural productivity and efficiency in Uganda. It operates a digital platform that serves as a marketplace for agricultural products and services, offering farmers access to genuine agro-inputs and valuable resources. Through the EzyAgric mobile and web app, users can obtain infographic extension advisory content, GPS garden mapping, and farm records management. The platform also facilitates connections to profitable markets and provides financial services. By digitizing the agricultural value chain, EzyAgric empowers farmers and agribusinesses to make informed decisions, optimize resource mobilization, and improve overall crop yield.

Zydii

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Zydii Limited is an online learning and teaching platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2016. The company focuses on delivering localized digital training solutions tailored for the African workforce, offering a range of affordable and relevant personal development courses, digital courses, and virtual programs. Zydii's platform is designed to be engaging and accessible, providing users with opportunities to acquire new skills and enhance their career prospects. The company's innovative approach includes both online and offline access through USSD and SMS, ensuring that its educational resources reach a broad audience and contribute to transformative growth for businesses across the region.

Jumba

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Jumba is a construction technology platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2022. The company focuses on streamlining B2B construction material purchases and financing, facilitating transactions between manufacturers and retailers. Jumba's platform enables businesses to order a variety of construction materials, including cement, steel, paint, tiles, plumbing supplies, electrical components, glass, and kitchen and bathroom finishes, with the option to pay later. By connecting small hardware stores with medium-sized retailers in their vicinity, Jumba helps enhance inventory management and negotiates pricing to simplify the supply chain for construction materials across Africa.

Zydii

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Zydii Limited is an online learning and teaching platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2016. The company focuses on delivering localized digital training solutions tailored for the African workforce, offering a range of affordable and relevant personal development courses, digital courses, and virtual programs. Zydii's platform is designed to be engaging and accessible, providing users with opportunities to acquire new skills and enhance their career prospects. The company's innovative approach includes both online and offline access through USSD and SMS, ensuring that its educational resources reach a broad audience and contribute to transformative growth for businesses across the region.

BuuPass

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BuuPass is a digital transport solutions provider in Kenya, focusing on simplifying the movement of commuters. As the country's first marketplace for bus, shuttle, and train bookings, BuuPass offers a user-friendly platform that allows individuals to conveniently reserve seats and make payments for their travel needs. The service is designed to enhance the booking experience for urban commuters by enabling online ticket purchases through both smartphone apps and SMS-based options. Founded by young entrepreneurs passionate about addressing everyday transportation challenges, BuuPass aims to empower users with choices that cater to their time and financial preferences. The company envisions a world where seamless travel connects people to opportunities and fosters a borderless lifestyle.

BuuPass

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
BuuPass is a digital transport solutions provider in Kenya, focusing on simplifying the movement of commuters. As the country's first marketplace for bus, shuttle, and train bookings, BuuPass offers a user-friendly platform that allows individuals to conveniently reserve seats and make payments for their travel needs. The service is designed to enhance the booking experience for urban commuters by enabling online ticket purchases through both smartphone apps and SMS-based options. Founded by young entrepreneurs passionate about addressing everyday transportation challenges, BuuPass aims to empower users with choices that cater to their time and financial preferences. The company envisions a world where seamless travel connects people to opportunities and fosters a borderless lifestyle.

Garri Logistics

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Garri Logistics is a digital logistics coordination platform, it is the most reliable way to move cargo in Ethiopia.

Exuus

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Exuus Limited is a financial technology company based in Kigali, Rwanda, focused on developing web-based software services that enhance operational performance and decision-making for organizations. Its primary products include Cartix, a platform designed to optimize strategic investments, and Save, which empowers savings groups by providing a user-friendly ledger system for managing finances. Additionally, Exuus offers digital data collection, mining, and visualization services to support its clients. The company aims to inspire resilience within communities by providing micro-loans and micro-insurance products, thereby facilitating access to credit for unbanked individuals and smallholder farmers. Founded in 2014, Exuus is dedicated to fostering financial inclusion and sustainability within informal social saving groups.

Zuri Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Zuri Health is a telemedicine company based in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2020. It offers affordable and accessible healthcare solutions through a mobile app, website, and SMS services, catering to patients without smartphones and those in rural areas. Users can schedule lab and diagnostic tests, consult with doctors, purchase medications from pharmacies, and arrange home visits with qualified medical professionals. The platform also features an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to enhance user experience and provide first-level medical consultations. Zuri Health aims to create a universally accessible healthcare experience for all individuals, regardless of their location or resources.

Eden Life

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Eden Life, Inc. is a technology-enabled service provider based in Lagos, Nigeria, that specializes in housekeeping and related services for busy individuals. The company simplifies household management by offering a variety of services, including laundry, meal preparation, cleaning, equipment maintenance, and beauty services. Eden Life operates through an online platform and a mobile application, allowing users to conveniently book and access these services. Additionally, the company creates a diverse marketplace by partnering with various vendors, ensuring that customers can meet their household needs efficiently in both Nigeria and Kenya.

AC Group

Grant in 2021
AC Group Ltd is a Hi-tech & ICT company registered under the Rwandan registrar of companies. As a “Technology enabler”, they are a leading Solution Provider of Intelligent and Interactive Solutions in Rwanda, expanding to regional markets with an aim of being part of building a regional ICT hub. In December 2015, They launched Tap&Go card for passengers under the “One card one City campaign” on the biggest bus operator in Kigali - Kigali Bus Services (KBS) in partnership with the Government of Rwanda.

Angaza Elimu

Grant in 2021
Angaza Elimu is primed to transform education across Kenya and the entire African continent by addressing the problem of inefficient classrooms and inadequate educational material. At Angaza Elimu, we enhance the classroom experience and strengthen the student-teacher bond. By combining a comprehensive e-Learning platform with a simple classroom setup, Angaza Elimu eases the administrative burden of teachers and frees them to spend more time teaching substantive material. Additionally, Angaza Elimu encourages children to further engage with technology with a Student Portal that challenges them to think critically. We also offer supplemental training on STEM to plant the seed of innovativeness in the young African learner.

Amitruck

Grant in 2021
Amitruck is a logistics platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, that connects cargo owners with trucking professionals through a mobile and web application. Founded in 2018, the platform allows customers to easily book deliveries and access a network of available trucks. It features a driver application that facilitates communication between clients and transporters, ensuring timely updates on shipments. Amitruck's user-friendly interface enables clients to receive instant quotes and track their deliveries in real-time, offering complete visibility throughout the delivery process.

Pezesha

Grant in 2021
Pezesha is a digital financial marketplace based in Nairobi, Kenya, that connects small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to various financing options, including working capital, float financing, and LPO financing. Founded in 2016, Pezesha aims to enhance access to affordable credit for micro-businesses by leveraging credit and data analytics to link lenders with low-income borrowers. The platform facilitates a shared economy by converging lending and other financial services, thereby enabling underserved SMBs to participate in the formal financial system. Through its innovative approach, Pezesha seeks to empower businesses and improve their growth potential by providing essential financial resources.

Taskmoby

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Taskmoby is a home services application working In Ethiopia that aims to connect a service provider with clients seeking their services. The application works such that a person in need of a service eg. a locks smith, a cleaner, a plumber etc, requests the service through the application or calling 8191 customer care number, and the service provider nearest to them, sees the request notification through their application, receives it and attends to it.

Scoodle

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Scoodle connects people who want to learn, with people that can teach. Students can ask questions on any subject, get answers from tutors and follow up by booking lessons or joining classes. The best tutors are not always accessible. They are changing that. They are building a world where an Arabic expert living in Egypt can create a class with students from around the world. The content that their tutors create on Scoodle lives forever. This will continue to benefit other students, long after the classes have ended.

Angaza Elimu

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Angaza Elimu is primed to transform education across Kenya and the entire African continent by addressing the problem of inefficient classrooms and inadequate educational material. At Angaza Elimu, we enhance the classroom experience and strengthen the student-teacher bond. By combining a comprehensive e-Learning platform with a simple classroom setup, Angaza Elimu eases the administrative burden of teachers and frees them to spend more time teaching substantive material. Additionally, Angaza Elimu encourages children to further engage with technology with a Student Portal that challenges them to think critically. We also offer supplemental training on STEM to plant the seed of innovativeness in the young African learner.

PayWay Ethiopia

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
PayWay Ethiopia is an online bill payments platform that offers solutions to streamline payment processes for users. The company develops independent payment software compatible with various platforms, facilitating easy and efficient transactions. By acting as an intermediary between service providers, dealers, and end-users, PayWay Ethiopia enables businesses to process payments conveniently. Additionally, it designs and develops payment applications and devices, ensuring that users have accessible tools for everyday payments. Through its services, PayWay Ethiopia addresses a wide range of payment-related needs, enhancing the overall convenience of financial transactions.

Tabiri Analytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Tabiri Analytics primarily offers local solutions to global security threats. It provides cybersecurity monitoring and remediation using machine learning in a global sourcing model from East Africa. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda.

Scoodle

Seed Round in 2021
Scoodle connects people who want to learn, with people that can teach. Students can ask questions on any subject, get answers from tutors and follow up by booking lessons or joining classes. The best tutors are not always accessible. They are changing that. They are building a world where an Arabic expert living in Egypt can create a class with students from around the world. The content that their tutors create on Scoodle lives forever. This will continue to benefit other students, long after the classes have ended.
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