Start-Ups

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://www.farmerlifeline.co.ke/
Country	Kenya

Farmer Lifeline has a revolutionary solar powered- digital technology that places smallholder farmers ahead of crop pests and diseases by enabling the timely detection of crop pests and diseases.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	Southern & West Africa
Website	https://www.brastorne.com/
Country	Botswana

Brastorne Enterprises offers farmers access to timely agricultural information ranging from farming tips to improve yields, market-prices and most importantly weather alerts and a market place with a chat platform that facilitate trade/marketing and knowledge sharing amongst farmers.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	Southern Africa
Website	https://sfsmw.org/
Country	Malawi

SFS provide small-holder farmers with extension services, ready markets, and profitable and customized and sustainable interventions for natural resources management that give way to regenerative or restorative farming systems.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	http://www.agritech.co.ke/
Country	Kenya

AgriTech Analytics provides solution to farmers using digital technology for detecting crop pests, diseases and conducts soil health analysis to determine precise soil inputs like fertilisers.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://demasko-farms.business.site/
Country	Ghana

Demasko Farms leverage on abandoned and old refrigerators, waste eggshells and sawdust to raise snails. They recycle waste eggshells into feed supplement and supply people with feed supplement, train people into snail farming business and empower trainees with recycled waste fridges as snail pen. They have targeted people with health problems, individuals’ consumers, Export contracts, snail’s farmers, cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and trainees.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://irri-hub.com/
Country	Kenya

Irri-Hub Ke Ltd has created an irrigation platform that helps farmers access affordable irrigation input, affordable credit, and personalized farming advice to make data-driven decisions on smart adaptation irrigation systems.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	North Africa
Website	https://palmotek.com/
Country	Tunisia

Palmotek is a startup specialized in the development of innovative solutions for the agricultural world and has great added value. As an industrial company, we deliver equipment at affordable prices to farmers.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://linkedin.com/company/eco-genius
Country	Kenya

EcoGenius Innovative Environmental Solutions startup seeks to provide ECO Toilets that address waste management, sanitation access and aimed at job creation at refugee camps. The Eco toilets built using plastic waste and incorporate waste re-use and energy generation components.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://schrodingertechs.com/
Country	Nigeria

Schrödinger Energy is a company that manufacture REINLIGHT, a portable water disinfection system that reduces numerous health risks and works in areas lacking electricity and provides access to safe drinking water to individuals and household that lack access to safe drinking water especially in rural communities.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://geotek.com.ng/
Country	Nigeria

Geotek is a water company leveraging innovation to improve access to clean and safe water in communities within sub-Saharan Africa.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	Southern Africa
Website	https://facebook.com/BioGreenTechnology
Country	Zambia

Biogreen Technology offers an innovative digital solution for general fish farm records keeping, production management, basic fish farm health, and remote water quality monitoring for timely decision making.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website
Country	Nigeria

Ripples Water startup provides an alternative to use of conventional water bottles through providing an alternative to traditional plastic bottles which do not contribute to pollution.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	North Africa
Website	https://www.dosybikes.com/
Country	Egypt

A tech-based scooter and bicycle riding platform for Egypt which aims to encourage women and girls to ride scooters and bicycles through provision nearest instructors and at a suitable schedule.They create  jobs for women ,reduce traffic congestion and pollution.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://www.karaa.africa/
Country	Uganda

Karaa is an energy startup that is revolutionizing transportation and energy access in Africa. Our electric bicycles are designed for maximum durability and efficiency, with a range of up to 100 kilometers on a single charge and the ability to function as a portable power station. This makes them perfect for food delivery and ecommerce, and the possibilities don’t stop there. With the addition of portable energy storage, our bikes can also be used for commuting, leisure, and powering small appliances and electronic devices in off-grid areas. Join us in creating a better Africa with empowered youth and accessible energy and mobility.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://www.ecopesa.com/
Country	Tanzania

Ecopesa is the first green digital financial inclusion system which uses green data analytics to connect local green entrepreneurs with financial credits enabling green ecosystem to flourish.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://ynakenya.eride.co.ke/
Country	Kenya

YNA Kenya provides for women inclusion in the automotive industry, through targeting women only and solving the climate change by using electric motorcycles in the delivery services.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	North Africa
Website	https://ecotashira.com/
Country	Algeria

Eco Tashira Company is a manufacturer of “Ecodalle” green slab and provides eco-friendly, sustainable solutions for green walls to promote healthy and vibrant living spaces.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://www.pap.earth/
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People and Planet Technologies provides an approach to invest in both natural and especially underfunded or unfunded man-made project, which are a quicker means to drive us to sustainability, thus, a call for everyone’s participation with PAP earth.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://www.instagram.com/armeria_kenya/
Country	Kenya

Armeria Bagwear Co is a pioneering and innovative upcycling startup that is leveraging e-commerce and on-demand technology to tackle the problem of waste, un-used clothing in homes. With use of cutting-edge ecommerce platform, on-demand upcycling service, decentralized logistics personnel, and cloud-based AI technology, Armeria provides a convenient and sustainable way for Kenyan homes to transform their unused jeans into modern bags.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://www.linkedin.com/company/verdewaste/
Country	Ghana

Verde Waste Services is a circular economy-based waste management company that leverages digital platforms to ethically source waste and enhance the supply and value chain of all recyclable waste.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	http://doe.com.ng/
Country	Nigeria

D-Olivette produces domestic and user-friendly digestion technology that processes organic and biodegradable waste into more food and energy. The products are affordable, comes with 5 years warranty and are fused with IoT cloud-based remote system to monitor in real time biogas-to-heat-energy and electricity plus OW to fertilizer ratio.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website
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Don’t-trash-it engages reformed street youths to segregate organic fruit and vegetables waste from Nakuru city mass market and transport the waste to their facility as feed material, with 80% of preselected fresh fruit waste crushed and fed to our black soldier fly farm which we use to produce protein substitute for chicken feeds in our farms and local community, these process also gives us organic fertilizer which we use for farming. While the remaining 20% which rises to 60% during rain fed harvesting season fed community biogas system for sustainable energy.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	http://www.arenatz.co.tz/
Country	Tanzania

Arena Recycling offers affordable building materials in the form of Eco-bricks made from plastic waste. Arena Recycling unique value proposition lies in our product’s simple design, which translates to time and cost savings in the production process and lower prices for consumers.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://clozetsales.com/
Country	Nigeria

Clozetsale Marketplace is a start-up addressing the pressing issue of environmental pollution caused by fashion waste in Nigeria through offering an online platform for buying and selling affordable and high-quality preloved clothing thereby reducing the demand for new clothing production and contributing to the reduction of fashion waste. In turn, this helps to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon footprint of the fashion industry.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	Central Africa
Website	https://www.mvutu.com/
Country	DR Congo

A fast-growing agricultural technology company passionate about food safety, that empowers, smallholder farmers, leveraging technology to access finance, and improve productivity and sales to promote food security. With hundreds of unique agricultural input stores and a fleet of trucks and bicycles, we can deliver no matter how far the customer is.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	East Africa
Website	https://agrotekplus.com/
Country	Kenya

Agrotech Plus is a social enterprise with a modular, solar-powered walk-in cold rooms that provides 24/7 off-grid storage and preservation for fresh fruits and vegetables, which are in markets and farms within the reach of farmers and retailers. Agrotech Plus integrates cold storage, Digital market linkage and value-add processing activities into smallholder farmer value chains through an as-a-service proposition.

Leadership	Male-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://www.coldalivehub.com
Country	Nigeria

Cold-Alive offers a modular solar-powered walk-in cold rooms for the storage and preservation of perishables, agricultural produce or fresh fish and mobile application that connects farmers to food aggregators to help reduce post-harvest losses.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://smokelessbriqsenergy.wordpress.com/
Country	Nigeria

Smokeless Briqs provides clean energy technologies, namely Eco-friendly SMOKELESS Stoves powered by our proprietary built-in IoT technology, which enable 5x faster cooking than any traditional stove.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	Southern Africa
Website	https://www.otgsolars.com/
Country	Zimbabwe

OTG offers a zero fuel, zero grid low carbon mobile power generation system unit that generates electricity using freely accessible energy. It will connect users with clean energy equipment and services that improve food production, productivity, processing, and preservation in Agriculture, Productive Energy use, and Value Addition activities.

Leadership	Female-led
Market coverage	West Africa
Website	https://www.womeninenergysl.com/
Country	Sierra Leone

Women in Energy Sierra Leone Limited offers an improved cook stove product called the Smart Green Stove of varying sizes and functionalities. They also provide solar photo-voltaic system installation for different utilities (e.g., prisons, offices, household solar systems, bore-hole solar pumps, etc.).