88mph is a venture capital firm and accelerator founded in 2011, with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and an additional office in Cape Town, South Africa. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily targeting the mobile-web sector. It focuses on English-speaking African countries, particularly Nigeria and South Africa, and typically invests up to $100,000 in startups. In addition to funding, 88mph offers a three-month accelerator program that provides startups with essential resources, including mentorship on product development, market strategies, company structure, and scalability. The firm aims to enhance the growth prospects of early-stage technology companies by leveraging its network of founders, investors, and industry professionals.
PawaPay is a payments company that specializes in mobile payment solutions for African consumers and businesses. Established in 2020, the company streamlines the mobile money infrastructure by consolidating technical integrations from various telecommunications operators, such as AirtelTigo, Econet, MTN, Safaricom, Orange, and Vodafone, into a single API. This approach addresses the challenges posed by the fragmented and opaque nature of mobile money services across different countries and telecom providers. By offering a simple API, PawaPay enables merchants to access over 300 million customers across more than ten markets, facilitating seamless, transparent, and reliable payment processing. The platform allows organizations to efficiently collect payments and automate payout workflows, ensuring that businesses can make instant and secure payouts.
Ahoy
Seed Round in 2017
When standard travel tools don't work, or are too slow, its usually when you need them the most. We are on a mission to empower assistants and travellers to effortlessly and enjoyably book & manage crazy amounts of travel on the fly. Especially appreciated by the last minuters, the opportunists, the jugglers, the hustlers, the wheeler dealers, the fixers, traders, and makers. The ones that get things done.
DavtonLearn
Pre Seed Round in 2015
DavtonLearn specializes in providing a learning and engagement management platform designed to facilitate modern DIY learning for corporate organizations. By offering a proprietary e-learning solution, DavtonLearn aims to reduce barriers to adopting technology-based learning, including high costs of development and maintenance. The platform allows enterprises to create customized learning management systems (LMS) and curate relevant content swiftly, often in under 30 minutes. Additionally, DavtonLearn provides video-based training programs and online courses for professional certifications, supporting employees in their continuous learning journey and helping them stay updated with technological advancements. This comprehensive approach ensures that organizations can effectively manage workplace learning and skills development.
Weaver Social Club
Seed Round in 2015
Weaver is a social club that brings together two groups of three friends over a drink!
Diarize Me
Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Diarize Me is a cloud-based online appointment management platform that simplifies the scheduling process for businesses and professionals. It allows users to manage appointments, clients, and inventory efficiently. The platform features a user-friendly calendar, facilitates instant online bookings, and sends automated reminders, enabling businesses to streamline their operations and enhance client engagement. By providing tools that help maintain control over appointments and access client records, Diarize Me empowers users to optimize their time and improve overall efficiency in managing their services.
Ekaya.com
Angel Round in 2014
Ekaya is a renting platform where users can list, find properties, and collect rent on the same website. Ekaya was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.
BookNow
Seed Round in 2014
BookNow Limited is an online travel agency based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializing in the sale of bus tickets across East Africa. The platform allows travelers to search for various travel options, view schedules, and book tickets conveniently via the internet, mobile phones, or SMS. It serves as a bus aggregator, providing users with information about different bus companies and their offerings. Additionally, BookNow facilitates payment through mobile money, making the ticket purchasing process seamless for customers.
Diarize Me
Pre Seed Round in 2014
Diarize Me is a cloud-based online appointment management platform that simplifies the scheduling process for businesses and professionals. It allows users to manage appointments, clients, and inventory efficiently. The platform features a user-friendly calendar, facilitates instant online bookings, and sends automated reminders, enabling businesses to streamline their operations and enhance client engagement. By providing tools that help maintain control over appointments and access client records, Diarize Me empowers users to optimize their time and improve overall efficiency in managing their services.
Ekaya.com
Pre Seed Round in 2014
Ekaya is a renting platform where users can list, find properties, and collect rent on the same website. Ekaya was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.
Byte Money
Seed Round in 2014
Byte Money specializes in the funeral parlor market in South Africa by providing cash receipting and auditing services through a mobile point of sale (POS) terminal and a pay your premium (PYP) platform. Established in 2008 and based in Johannesburg, the company focuses on the efficient receipting and allocation of funeral policies, ensuring diligent premium management under service level agreements. Byte Money's platform integrates seamlessly with various policy administration systems, offering users continuous updates and improvements. Additionally, the company supplies quality German thermal paper suitable for rural environments and offers maintenance services for POS terminals. By automating processes that typically involve handwritten receipts, Byte Money helps reduce administrative costs, minimize human error, and enhance regulatory compliance for funeral parlors, administrators, underwriters, software providers, and policyholders.
Catch
Seed Round in 2014
Catch is a mobile concession ordering platform designed for stadiums, allowing fans to order food and beverages for pickup and delivery directly to their seats. The platform enhances the event experience by streamlining the concession process, making it more convenient for attendees to enjoy refreshments without missing any action. Additionally, Catch facilitates social interaction by enabling users to see who else is attending an event, allowing them to select individuals they would like to meet if there is mutual interest. This dual functionality aims to improve both the convenience of ordering and the social experience at events.
Pet Heaven
Venture Round in 2014
Pet Heaven is an online pet supplies store based in Cape Town, South Africa, specializing in the sale of dog food, cat food, and various pet accessories. Established in 2010, the company offers medication and breeding products for pets and operates a subscription-based delivery service. This service allows customers to schedule recurring deliveries of pet food and supplies at their convenience, ensuring a reliable and efficient shopping experience for pet owners.
8bit
Seed Round in 2014
8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
MoVas
Seed Round in 2014
MoVAS Group is a computer software company based out of Calle Laguna del Marquesado Nª 19, Nave 16 Edificio Adriana 1ª Planta, Polígono Industrial La Resina (Villaverde), Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.
MBet Uganda
Pre Seed Round in 2013
MBet Uganda is a Ugandan sports betting business that sells football bets via retail and internet sales channels.
Wabona
Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Wabona (Sotho for You See & pronounced Waa-Bo-Nah) is an online subscription video streaming service. Wabona delivers African and international video content to markets in the African Diaspora (Diaspora referring to Africans living outside of their home countries in Africa) and Pan-Africa. Wabona is currently a division of Afrikan Dust Media Group (ADMG), which is a privately held Media Company incorporated in South Africa.
Near A Builder South Africa
Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Near A Builder South Africa, is an online tool allowing home owners to post their home improvements, fix ups, repairs, renovations, etc on line and allow it to go to tender. NO FEES PAYABLE! This service is free for the general public and they are able to post all their requirements on our platform.
Adrenaline Hunter
Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Adrenaline Hunter offers an online marketplace that makes it super simple for users to search, compare and book adrenaline sports and unique adventure travel experiences around the world.
Touristlink
Seed Round in 2013
Touristlink.com is the social platform for travel. Travel is all about new experiences. No matter where you're going, Touristlink gives you opportunity to get a real feel of the culture. Meet up with a local for a coffee or beer, find travel companions to share the journey, or if you want arrange a tour with an independent guide.
ApexPeak
Seed Round in 2013
ApexPeak is a new capital provider to small and medium size enterprises directly and those transacting on electronic invoicing networks. Their simple and innovative solution helps ease the cash flow problems faced by most SME owners today by offering them early payments on their invoices. By offering a fast, flexible and affordable service, ApexPeak removes the lengthy, manual and restrictive processes required by banks. As a result, their customers no longer need to worry about cash flow problems and can instead focus on growing their businesses.
Kutuma Kenya
Pre Seed Round in 2013
Yum Kenya is an online food ordering service based in Kenya. It enables users to browse through the menus of a wide range of Nairobi restaurants, place an order, and pay online. Yum Kenya was founded in 2012 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
MyDoorHandle
Non Equity Assistance in 2013
MyDoorHandle uses GPS technology in mobile devices to allow individuals and businesses to create unique location-based DoorHandles that are easily shareable across any platform or device. DoorHandles thus allow people and businesses to easily find each other.
easy2map
Seed Round in 2013
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, easy2map is an online technology company obsessively passionate about providing simple, code-free solutions for creating and sharing online maps for web and mobile platforms. easy2map was founded after the realization that most mapping APIs, whilst being incredibly feature-rich and powerful, tend to be fairly daunting for any individual who does not have development or technical knowledge. With this in mind, they saw an opportunity to provide a simple online interface that allows any user, regardless of development experience, to create and manage feature-rich, fully customizable, multi-point maps, which are focused on the ease-of-use for the end-user. Put simply - anyone can now create and embed comprehensive and detailed Google maps on their own webpages. easy2map believes that such a map making tool will allow individuals and businesses to enhance their online presence with maps that captivate the look and feel of their brand with incredibly useful functionality to ultimately make it easier for their customers to interact with them.
Peach Payments
Seed Round in 2013
Peach Payments provides payment solutions to online and mobile businesses enabling them to easily accept payments from consumers across the globe and especially from those in the emerging markets. Our specific focus is on Africa and the BRIC countries where the local infrastructure requires a unique and tailored approach to online payments.
BabyGroup
Seed Round in 2013
BabyGroup is an e-commerce company based in Cape Town, South Africa, that specializes in providing a comprehensive range of products and services for parents-to-be and parents. Founded in 2012, the company operates an online platform where customers can purchase various baby-related items, including clothing, carriers, toys, and baby-care products. By centralizing these offerings, BabyGroup aims to simplify the shopping experience for parents, enabling them to find all their baby needs in one convenient location.
Wabona
Seed Round in 2013
Wabona (Sotho for You See & pronounced Waa-Bo-Nah) is an online subscription video streaming service. Wabona delivers African and international video content to markets in the African Diaspora (Diaspora referring to Africans living outside of their home countries in Africa) and Pan-Africa. Wabona is currently a division of Afrikan Dust Media Group (ADMG), which is a privately held Media Company incorporated in South Africa.
Mdundo
Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Mdundo is an online music service that provides users in sub-Saharan Africa with easy and affordable access to a diverse catalog of music. The platform allows customers to legally download and stream music through its mobile website and Android app, offering both a free service and a subscription-based premium option. Mdundo taps into Africa's growing digital advertisement market as its primary source of revenue, utilizing display banners and audio ads embedded in music tracks. With a significant portion of Africa's smartphone users engaging with music on their devices, Mdundo positions itself to meet the increasing demand for accessible music in the region.
M-PEPEA
Non Equity Assistance in 2012
M-PEPEA credit is a fully automated credit system dedicated to providing small emergency loans via Safaricom M-PESA instantly, 24hours a day 7 days a week. M-pepea provides emergency micro loans when you need them most. The service uses Safaricom's M-pesa system to get cash instantly in your hand wherever you have mobile service.
Manyatta rent
Seed Round in 2012
Manyatta Rent is a modern property management for landlords, property managers, and renters By automating third the manual processes like Tenancy Agreement issuance, Receipt issuance , Posting vacant properties .e.t.c
Gamsole
Seed Round in 2012
Gamsole is an African based mobile game production company. Our goal is to make games that are fun to play; plain and simple. Each game offers a widely imaginative and irresistibly fun gameplay experience that appeals to gamers of all age groups.
Closet49
Pre Seed Round in 2012
Closet49 Ltd. is an online fashion marketplace based in Nairobi, Kenya, that caters to both women and men. Founded in 2009, the platform provides a diverse range of products, including dresses, tops, bottoms, outerwear, shoes, accessories, jewelry, and beauty care items for women, as well as similar offerings for men. Closet49 enables fashion designers and boutiques to showcase and sell their products, promoting unique and trendy items from emerging designers and individual consumers. The marketplace aims to enhance the fashion landscape in the African market by connecting consumers with eclectic and fashionable choices.
Pesatalk
Seed Round in 2012
Pesatalk is a financial website whose goal is to help its readers understand what’s happening in the world of local finance.
Ghafla!
Seed Round in 2011
Ghafla an African entertainment website with news from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
Tusqee Systems
Seed Round in 2011
Tusquee Systems is a platform that facilitates the daily communication and transfer of documents and payments between schools,teachers,and parents. They have developed Sematime which is an SMS service that lets parents and teachers monitor their students' performances and school fees payments. Sematime is available in three packages: Starter, which is free and ideal for individuals with an address book of only 1,000 contacts. Pro, at KSh5999 per month (approx US$71) with unlimited contacts, free SMS branding, support for long SMS of up to 480 characters, and more.
HiviSasa.com
Pre Seed Round in 2011
At Hivisasa, we believe that societies function best when information flows freely among people. This is why we've created Africa’s first crowdsourced news site. Our innovative platform allows you not just to discover untold stories but also to write your own. Born five years ago, Hivisasa now reaches over two million Kenyan readers a month, whose engagement helps support 1,500+ pioneering local writers. And we are just getting started. As a Kenyan company, community is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to fostering understanding, championing accountability and supporting collective action through local news. All Hivisasa editors are local and proud to collaborate with writers from all walks of life to bring you the news you need to stay ahead.
Drugs.co.ke
Seed Round in 2011
Drugs.co.ke is the premier online pharmacy in Kenya established as a response to our client need for convenient, personalised pharmaceutical care within a client safe environment. We are a one stop e-Pharmacy portal for all your pharmaceutical needs providing high quality generic and branded products registered in Kenya. Our agenda is to redefine pharmaceutical care within Kenya and beyond her boundaries.
Futaa.com
Seed Round in 2011
Futaa.com operates an online football news portal focused on the East and West African regions, particularly Kenya and Nigeria. Based in Nairobi, the platform delivers a wide array of content related to football, including match updates, local news, and information on various leagues and tournaments. It also covers news concerning Kenyan players and football teams, making it a comprehensive resource for football enthusiasts in Africa.
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