Cotton Loops is a high street fashion house designing and curating conscious black and white style sustainably sourced and ethically produced by women owned artisanal communities across southwestern Nigeria. As an ethical and conscious retail fashion brand, Cotton Loops trains low-income young women in an in-house initiative called 10,000 Girls, aimed to provide job skills training as part of the end-to-end circular production ecosystem. This is part of Cotton Loops’ larger vision to alleviate poverty in disadvantaged neighborhoods across Africa and grow a highly skilled artisanal manufacturing hub.  Cotton Loops serves retail, wholesale, and private labels.

A one-stop shop providing specialized R&D, production, compliance and content services, Crafting Kenya supports global design brands to produce their collections, leveraging Kenya’s craft and materials heritage. Crafting Kenya’s mission is to shift the value proposition of this heritage, and to catalyze unprecedented creative innovation, knowledge and technology transfers, and economic opportunity.

Dunia Payment has developed a mobile application that offers financial services to users in remote African communities. The venture’s application integrates with financial institution application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow users to transfer fiat currency for use in Dunia’s application. Users are then able to use funds held in their wallet to purchase crypto assets, make payments and access Dunia’s decentralized investment, credit and savings products.

GENLAB Solutions International Limited aims to provide natively developed digital health solutions with smart algorithmic driven features that leverage genomic data to harness genomics research, disease surveillance and individualized patient care in Africa. Our flagship product is enabled to do offline automated bioinformatics analysis for TB, HIV and SARS-CoV-2 genome data.

Ignitos Space is Zambia’s first space tech company, using space to save life on earth.

Ignitos Space’s vision is to bridge the gap between high-tech and the users who need it the most. Users, Farmers, NGOs, Institutions, and Governments can tackle challenges in agriculture, climate change, water resource, and multiple other applications by tapping into the power of satellites and remote sensing.

Ignitos Space is also building a unique product, that aggregates satellite and remote sensing data, to provide an AI-integrated data analytics platform that provides actionable insights to tackle challenges in agriculture and climate adaption challenges.

72 million displaced people are hosted in developing countries where economic opportunities are severely limited. Invicta is on a mission to change that. Invicta is an award-winning platform that connects skilled refugees with job-seeking companies to help them gain employment opportunities in their field while helping companies find hidden talent.

Mega Gas Alternative Energy is a clean energy start-up whose mission is to democratize access to Clean Energy. Through a patented process, they refine and recycle unsorted waste plastics into clean and affordable cooking gas for people living in low-income areas. Through their innovation, they mitigate indoor pollution, and fight climate change by reducing carbon emissions and tackling the plastic menace.

Shambapro enables smallholder farmers and farm owners to improve farm management through accurate business insights derived from real farm data, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence. Shambapro improves efficiency and transparency of farm operations and reliability of financial projections which enables better access to suitable financing and other value chain services.

Solar Freeze is pioneering portable cold storage units powered by solar energy for off-grid communities for both the preservation of temperature sensitive vaccines as well as agricultural produce.

Vinsighte is a digital health company that uses artificial intelligence technology to help visually impaired people live better and more conveniently. They are driving digital inclusion and convenience for the visually impaired by helping them to read printed books, identify objects, colors, and their environment independently and conveniently.