Top 25 Enterprise Startup Investors in Senegal (October 2023)

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• Nuru — Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa.Nuru is arenewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma.Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.
• Sabesp — Sabesp is a Brazilian company that engages in providing basic sanitation services such as distribution of treated water, collection, and treatment of sewage. It is currently responsible for supplying water and collecting and treating sewage in the 367 municipalities of São Paulo state. It supplies 27.9 million people with water and provides sewagecollection services to 21.5 million people.Sabesp was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

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• Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
• Tajiri — Tajiri is a SaaS application that designs and improves restaurant management to get profits.
• Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
• Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.

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• Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
• EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
• Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• REEV — REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help millions of people affected by gait disorders to walk, stand, sit and climb stairs with greater ease every day.
• Greenscope — Greenscope is a company and investor-focused ESG management solution. Greenscope has enabled us to implement a new process for collecting and analyzing ESG data.
• Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.

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• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
• Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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• Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.
• Socium Job — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
• Golden Nuts and Grain — Golden Nuts and Grain is a producer of natural juices based in Senegal. The company specializes in food processing, specifically in the production of natural juices made with local products such as bouye, the bissap and ginger that help consumers maintain their health and well-being while enjoying authentic taste and flavors of a natural, healthyand delicious juice.

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• SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
• teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
• Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.

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• Duplo — We enable businesses across Africa to simplify their payment flows.
• Ndovu — Secure your investments in both local and global financial markets on ndovu - a secure, affordable, hassle-free online investment platform in Africa designed to work your money
• Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans

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• Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
• ProXalys — ProXalys is an african digital bank or neobank for the financial inclusion and empowerment of african women (entrepreneurs and self-employed entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, and startups).

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
• Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.

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• Fleeti — Smart fleet management & geotracking solutions
• Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
• Twende — Twende is a platform that offers reliable shared transport

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
• Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years

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• Circulor — Circulor is a leader in bringing traceability to complex industrial supply chains. We help customers to demonstrate responsible sourcing, to monitor inherited emissions from the supply chain and to underpin their circular economy ambitions. We help procurement and sustainability professionals see and manage what was previously invisible.
• Chargetrip — Chargetrip is the world's leading Smart EV Routing platform. We make EV-driving and -charging seamless, reduce operational costs, and unlock new business models. Our customers are CPOs (e.g. EnBW, Recharge, EDP, Iberdrola), Fleet Operators (e.g. Total), OEMs (e.g. Porsche), Telematics providers (e.g. Autosense), and Mobility ServiceProviders (e.g. Elbil, ANWB). They use our Routing-API to power solutions for individual EV-drivers and EV-fleets; owned, leased, rented, shared, and autonomous.Our routing engine uses over 15 different (dynamic) variables to calculate the real-time range of any EV (currently 260+ EV models). Proprietary algorithms then compute the best route from A, to B (to C, to D) with the optimal charge stations in between; specific to that vehicle, to that journey, business logic, and fleet specs. Build-in predictive models optimize for total travel-time and travel-costs. Chargetrip’s API is easy to integrate into existing charge-, navigation-, Fleet operating, and telematics applications. On average, over 175.000 EV drivers use our software every month; equal to 10% of all EV’s in Europe.
• H2 MOBILITY — H2 MOBILITY is a hydrogen filling station operator that offers consulting, planning, and construction services for hydrogen stations.

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• Piwi — Hi there, we are Piwi®. Like a broker, only easier. We didn’t create the company because we were in love with the market. It was exactly the opposite. With an easy to use and intuitive digital benefit managing platform we replaced the old school brokerage changing the way in which companies research, buy and manage their health plans and benefits.That’s evolution coming around!
• Inspirali — Inspirali is an education institute providing post graduate training in health sector.
• Sanar — 26K Followers, 709 Following, 489 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sanar (@sanar)

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Menthum — Saving Made Simple
• Precision Cardiovascular — Precision Cardiovascular is a unique sensor system for remote monitoring of patients with acute heart failure that provides unbiased data to improve long-term health outcomes and reduce the expenses of emergency situations.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Nkoloso — Nkoloso is a company that uses advanced AI and robotics for agriculture, forestry, and infrastructure industries.
• Kotani Pay — Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa.

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• Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
• Mburu — Mburu specializes in the production and marketing of bread, pastries, and pastries made from local raw materials (millet, corn, sorghum, seasonal fruits, etc.).

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• Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
• Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• Wowzi — Access influencer marketing and intelligence with Africa's most trusted software platform.
• Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

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• iProcure — iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-timeagent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.
• Trackbit — Trackbit is a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
• Afrikamart — Afrikamart is a west African distribution platform for fresh produce that offers its marketing services to producers - suppliers - and operates as a digital purchasing center for retailers, hotels and restaurants - customers.We combine extensive use of digital with its experience in the food value chain to: - Facilitate information exchangebetween suppliers and customers (purchase price, sale price, product availability, harvest and purchase forecasts) - Organize end-to-end logistics with a network of transporters - Optimize financial and product flows according to different purchase and payment termsOur team includes experienced technology driven individuals with a strong experience in food commodity trading. Afrikamart brings pragmatic solutions to solve food value chain inefficiencies in West Africa while empowering hundreds of underprivileged women and young people with economic opportunities.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016

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• Wassha — Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
• Skipperi — Skipper is a meeting place for boats and boaters. Private individuals and companies can announce their boat rent for free. The boat can hire everyone whose skills and experience are on the boat owner's behalf. The boat owner decides who to rent their boats.
• Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.