African Tech Innovators
Meet the builders, founders, and visionaries driving Africa’s technology revolution. From AI researchers at global institutions to fintech founders disrupting billion-dollar industries, we profile the African innovators reshaping how the world works — and what the West is only beginning to notice.
Waleed Sadek is the Co-founder and CEO of PaySky. Since its inception in 2017, PaySky has worked at democratizing digital financial services for more than half a billion citizens and over two million businesses. He shifted to the technology and…
Mounir Nakhla is the co-founder and CEO of one of Egypt’s most important fintech firms, MNT-Halan. His leadership has powered MNT-Halan as it became the first unicorn in Africa this year and the first private tech firm in Egypt to…
Omar Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Khazna in 2020 with a mission to improve the financial well-being of 35M+ underbanked Egyptians, who have little access to formal financial services by providing access to convenient, customer-centric, and technology-driven services.…
Jonathan Smit is an entrepreneur, investor, engineer and the co-founder and Managing Director of PayFast an online payment processing service for South African websites used by thousands of businesses, individuals and charities. Known as the best online payment processors in…
Saul Kornik is the CEO and Founder of Kena Health, a South Africa-based company that provides affordable access to health via a smartphone app. The app allows patients to consult with nurses, doctors, and mental health specialists by text, voice,…
Matthieu De Gaudemar is the Co-founder of Kudoti a company that offers a platform that empowers anybody to buy and sell recovered waste resources by integrating its global digital network of collectors, aggregators, recyclers and brands. Kudoti utilizes hardware and…
Ken Njoroge is the co-founder of Cellulant making him one of the most successful businesspeople in fintech across Africa. His co-founder Bolan Akinboro a Nigerian served as co-CEOs of the company at inception, before he left the CEO position in…
Uzoma Dozie is the founder and chief executive officer of Sparkle, a digital microfinance bank licenced by the Central Bank of Nigeria- CBN, and the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation- NDIC. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank until…
Hilda Moraa is currently Founder & CEO of Pezesha, a digital financial infrastructure enabling SMEs and institutions in Africa. She previously founded WezaTele, a Fintech startup in Kenya that was later acquired in 2015. She also led Pezesha to be…
Jesse Moore is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of M-KOPA, a leading provider of connected financing to underbanked customers. Since its commercial launch in 2012, M-KOPA has financed over 3 million customers across Africa with affordable solar home power…
Katlego Maphai is the co-founder and CEO of Yoco, a South Africa-based fintech company that develops tools and services, including the company’s mobile point-of-sale platform and card reader, to enable small businesses to accept card payments. This has revolutionized how…
Andrew Takyi-Appiah is the founder of Zeepay, a payment infrastructure company operating in more than 20 countries of the world. Zeepay is an indigenous African brand that has proved true indeed that technology has democratized the world and quickened the…
Francis Obirikorang is an enthusiastic Ghanaian entrepreneur and Co-founder/Chief Executive Officer at AgroCenta Technologies, a Pan-African Fintech company dealing in rural communities’ financial inclusion. Founded in 2015, AgroCenta Technologies was founded by Obirikorang and his friend Michael Ocansey, driven by…
Tunde Kehinde co-founded and has served as the chief executive officer at Lidya, a digital fintech lender operating in Africa and Europe, offering financing and the ability to build credit scores for SMEs in fast-growing economies within a record 24…
Fehintolu Olaogun is the CEO & Co-founder of CredPal-a consumer credit platform that gives buyers the power of choice in how and when to pay, while at the same time assisting merchants in acquiring more customers to increase their sales. Fehintolu…