Kepple Africa Ventures

Developer of a business-to-business marketplace designed to connect retailers with suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. The company's marketplace leverages advanced technology, data, and supply chain innovation to offer easy price comparison, offers, and a seamless ordering and fulfillment experience, enabling the business ecosystem to transform traditional retail into a digitally connected network.

Kashier is a payment management platform for commerce and retail businesses that provide tools used for running a business. The toolkit covers subscriptions to invoices and online payments and is built with the capability to meet the rapidly evolving needs of today’s fast-growing businesses, from small startups to large enterprises. Mohamed Mohsen founded it in Gîza, Al Jiza in 2017.

Kuunda operates a B2B advisory platform that focuses on providing financial services tailored for developing economies. The company offers a range of tools, including liquidity management and data insight solutions, which help clients meet their financial requirements through a digital interface. By enabling users to access liquidity, Kuunda supports underserved agents, merchants, and consumers, facilitating their ability to maintain their standard of living, grow their businesses, and enhance economic resilience. Additionally, Kuunda's platform promotes increased network productivity and expands the distribution of products, yielding tangible and measurable results for its clients.

ILLA is a logistics company based in El Dokki, Egypt, specializing in the middle mile delivery of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). Founded in 2017, ILLA provides a range of trucking services tailored for both modern and traditional trade. The company employs an asset-light model, leveraging a network of trucks with various capacities to optimize the delivery process. By digitizing each step, ILLA enhances visibility and control over logistics activities, enabling clients to navigate market challenges effectively. Its platform is designed to streamline the fulfillment and delivery processes, ultimately driving sales growth for FMCG companies by offering customized and efficient logistics solutions.

Developer of a business-to-business marketplace designed to connect retailers with suppliers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. The company's marketplace leverages advanced technology, data, and supply chain innovation to offer easy price comparison, offers, and a seamless ordering and fulfillment experience, enabling the business ecosystem to transform traditional retail into a digitally connected network.

Wapi Pay is a financial technology company that provides a payments gateway facilitating digital transactions between Africa and Asia through mobile money and bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with additional offices in Africa, Singapore, and Beijing, Wapi Pay offers platform-to-platform integrations, global accounts, and virtual wallets. The company enables organizations to process bulk payments across multiple mobile platforms, catering to needs such as salary disbursement and business purchases. Wapi Pay's services are designed to be faster and more cost-effective than traditional telegraphic transfers, allowing customers to choose various payment methods, including bank-to-bank and wallet-to-wallet transfers. Its proprietary infrastructure ensures instant liquidity and compliance, with transaction completion guaranteed within 24 hours. The platform supports mass payments for corporate clients, merchant transactions for small and medium-sized enterprises, and peer-to-peer payments, positioning itself as a leading financial solution for cross-border payments.

TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.

Numida Technologies is a fintech company based in Kampala, Uganda, founded in 2015. It focuses on providing application software tailored for micro, small, and medium enterprises in Africa. The company's primary product, a mobile app known as TrackApp, aids small businesses in maintaining accurate digital financial records, enabling them to assess their performance effectively. By building financial track records, businesses can make informed decisions and demonstrate their creditworthiness to potential lenders. Numida aims to unlock financing for the 22 million African small businesses in need, facilitating access to unsecured digital loans and improving lending terms through reduced risk and costs for lending institutions. Ultimately, Numida seeks to foster a thriving small business sector that enhances employment opportunities, increases local tax revenues, and elevates living standards for entrepreneurs and their communities.

NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform aimed at enhancing the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform provides personal finance management services, enabling users to manage savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Through a mobile application, employees can access detailed information about their salaries, account balances, and eligible loan amounts. NowPay collaborates with employers to offer advance salary payments, allowing employees to receive part of their salaries at any point during the month and repay over multiple months without incurring liabilities. This service not only supports employees in times of financial need but also aims to enhance overall employee satisfaction, productivity, and loyalty within organizations.

Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, which can directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.

Sanergy is a waste recycling company based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2010. The company aims to improve sanitation in urban slums by establishing a network of low-cost sanitation centers that provide essential facilities like toilets and showers. Sanergy franchises these centers to local entrepreneurs, supported by financing from microfinance institutions. The company collects organic waste, including food and sanitary waste, and processes it at a central facility. This waste is transformed into valuable byproducts, such as organic fertilizers and insect-based animal feed, while also generating biogas through anaerobic digestion. The biogas is used to produce renewable energy, which is sold to the national grid. By promoting affordable and hygienic sanitation solutions, Sanergy seeks to address the sanitation crisis in Nairobi while fostering a sustainable waste management cycle.

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WorkPay Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses in Africa. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, WorkPay's solutions include features such as time and attendance tracking, HR and payroll processing, and employee self-service management. The software also facilitates payment and loans processing, enabling businesses to manage and pay employees efficiently. By offering bulk salary payments directly to employees' bank accounts or mobile wallets, WorkPay helps clients streamline their payroll processes and enhance talent retention.

Mobius Motors Ltd. is a Kenyan company established in 2011, focused on designing, manufacturing, and selling vehicles tailored for the African mass market. The company specializes in producing affordable vehicles that cater to the unique needs of developing world consumers, particularly for transporting heavy cargo and facilitating public transport across rough and degraded terrains. By providing practical transportation solutions, Mobius Motors aims to enhance mobility in rural Africa, contributing to improved connectivity and prosperity in the region. The company is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

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UTU Technologies Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializes in providing personalized recommendations for trusted service providers on sharing platforms. The company focuses on developing trust infrastructure that enhances user interactions by making them safer and more reliable. Its platform tokenizes data, allowing users to securely store and manage access to their information while creating monetary incentives for endorsing service providers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, UTU enables its clients to access curated trust signals, facilitating confident connections in Web3 and DeFi applications for activities such as sending, swapping, staking, and borrowing.

PayGo Energy is a company based in Kenya that specializes in developing metering systems for pre-paid cooking gas. Founded in 2014, the company aims to provide clean cooking fuel through a pay-as-you-go model, which allows customers to purchase gas gradually using mobile money. Its patented device connects a gas cylinder to a cloud service, enabling real-time monitoring of gas consumption and predicting when refills are needed. This innovative approach addresses the challenges associated with traditional cooking fuels, which often have detrimental environmental and health impacts, particularly in underserved communities. By offering an accessible and efficient energy solution, PayGo Energy seeks to improve the quality of life for millions who rely on inefficient biomass fuels.