Y Combinator

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked.

Amenli is the first licensed online insurance broker in Egypt. Egypt has one of the lowest insurance penetrations in the world with a 100m population and a $2B GWP market growing 20+% YoY and a potential TAM of $10B. Over the past few months, Amenli issued 500+ policies in less than 10 mins compared to the minimum of 3 weeks industry standard. Amenli co-founders, Shady & Adham were founding team m

Anchor provides APIs, dashboard and tools that help developers easily embed and build banking products. This includes APIs for creating bank accounts, funds transfers, savings products, issuing cards and offering loans.

Online brokerage giving access to local and US stocks, dollar investments, savings and treasury bills.

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending.

App-based supermarket delivering groceries, fresh bakery goods and household essentials within minutes.

BuyPower is the modern bill payment platform for Africans. We make it easy for individuals to pay their energy bills, businesses to pay international vendors, and lenders to make smarter lending decisions using our proprietary Energy Data Service. Our mission is to simplify bill payment and empower African SMBs to prioritize their financial health.

B2B ordering and delivery app for neighbourhood grocery shops, expanding into a merchant super app with payments and banking-as-a-service.

Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes.

Digital wealth management and investment savings platform targeting young, tech-savvy African professionals.

Buy-now-pay-later and consumer credit platform letting shoppers pay for purchases in instalments.

Dayra makes it easy for Egyptian businesses offer Loans and virtual bank accounts to their unbanked workers and customers through their App.

Mobile financial app offering accounts, Visa cards, savings, investments and instant credit to consumers.

Identity verification and anti-fraud infrastructure offering KYC, AML and biometric checks via API.

Venmo for B2B in Africa

Digital health insurer offering group health plans and a wellness app for SMEs and corporates.

Digital banking app for young people offering accounts, payments, savings and financial education.

Egyptian fulfilment platform providing warehousing, last-mile delivery, cross-border ecommerce logistics and marketplace access for merchants across Egypt and the Gulf.

Employee benefits platform giving workers earned wage access and financial wellness tools through their employers.

Payments technology company enabling businesses to accept, send and manage payments across markets.