Startups

Ylomi

Ylomi is a Beninese on-demand labor marketplace (web and mobile) connecting households and SMEs with verified domestic workers and skilled artisans � housekeepers, cooks, caregivers, security guards, nannies, mechanics � across Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi, Porto-Novo, and other Benin cities.

Sewema

Sewema is an all-in-one LMS platform built for African content creators, educators, and organizations to author, publish, and monetize online training courses, with mobile-money and card payments and learner-community management adapted to African market realities.

Iwaria

Iwaria is a Beninese stock-photo platform offering free, royalty-free African photography (CC0). Its library of 15,000+ images aims to shift the visual narrative of Africa by giving creators authentic, high-quality visuals across people, food, lifestyle, landscapes, work, education and health.

Happierco

Happierco is a SaaS platform that helps growing companies solve employee engagement and performance issues, handling objectives management, 360 feedback, collaborative goal-setting and OKRs, to build their ideal company culture.

Fedapay

FedaPay is a Cotonou-based fintech, licensed by BCEAO, providing online payment collection for businesses across French-speaking West Africa, aggregating mobile money, bank cards (Visa/Mastercard), USSD and e-wallets through a single API, with offices in Abidjan, Dakar and Yaound�.

Bidofi

Bidofi is a Beninese data-visualization and analysis SaaS that lets organizations turn their data into interactive maps and dashboards, embeddable into websites or shareable on social, with low expertise required. Early clients include the Ouagadougou Partnership and UNFPA Benin.

Atilebart

Atileb'art is a Cotonou-based marketplace, online media and artistic agency promoting contemporary African art, selling artwork from emerging African artists, running online exhibitions and developing artists' careers.

z.systems

Digital infrastructure for digitizing traditional Moroccan retail commerce; has raised $2.7M to date.

Peach Payments

Peach Payments provides payment solutions to online and mobile businesses, enabling them to accept payments from consumers globally, with a specific focus on Africa and the BRIC countries.

Cell C

Cell C is a mobile provider in South Africa offering a range of services and mobile and data deals.

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