Alibaba Business School and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) partnered to promote global youth entrepreneurship by hosting 29 Africa-based business owners at Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters. The 11-day programme has now ended and here are the African startups that featured:
Cameroon
Cedric Atangana of Wecashup, a Pan-African payment platform that enables online merchants to accept all the 155 mobile payment channels available in Africa through a single platform.
Chad
Andreas Koumato of Mossosouk, an e-commerce platform that connects buyers and sellers with a fast home delivery service and innovative local payment methods.
Egypt
Hany Girgis, founder of Masry Market, an online platform helping consumers find local alternatives to everyday products at competitive prices while supporting local small businesses.
Hatem Ayoub of travel agency marketplace Tripdizer.
Kenya: Nancy Amunga, founder of Dana Communication, a logistics platform offering courier services for e-commerce platforms in Africa.
Caroline Wanjiku, founder of Daproim Africa, a social enterprise that offers affordable volume data management services to research firms, governments and companies.
Fintech founders Gladys King’ori of ZOA Tech, Mwai Mworia of M-Paya, as well as Caroline Kariuki of Sarai Afrique Fashion House, Alloys Meshack of delivery platform Sendy, and Daniel Yu of Sokowatch.
Nigeria:
Tochukwu Uwakeme, founder of KemResource, an e-commerce company that connects rural farmers to buyers around the world.
Chijioke Dozie, founder of OneFi, a fintech company that offers underbanked and unbanked customers in West Africa access to loans and payments through an android app that uses machine-learning to assess the credit-worthiness of customers in real time.
Malik Babalola of e-commerce site Gloo, and Olugbenga Agboola of payments startup Flutterwave.
Rwanda
Leah Uwihoreye, founder of Golden Thoughts, an e-commerce platform for local manufacturers, primarily female artisans, to sell their products.
Muhirwa Clement, founder of Uplus Mutual Partners, a fintech company specialising in peer-to-peer mobile payments.
South Africa
Arnaud Blanchet, founder of Shopit, an e-commerce company that enables South African mom-and-pop store owners in townships and rural areas to compare prices at wholesalers and buy at the best price.
Roy Borole, founder of Thanga, an artificial intelligence studio which develops AI tools to help brands target consumers by helping them tell more compelling stories for use on social media.
Basson Engelbrecht of Hoorah Online Shops.
Tunisia
Sadok Ghanouchi of E-Taxi, a taxi platform that provides service to customers through a digital transportation marketplace.
Sami Tounsi of Monresto, a last-mile logistics platform connecting customers with local vendors and independent drivers in a one-stop shop marketplace for on-demand services.
Uganda
David Gonahasa, founder of Roundbob, an online travel and experience booking platform which seeks to help Africa’s growing middle class find affordable travel options.
Nielsimms Sangho of logistics startup Intership and Francis Nkurunungi of e-commerce and payments company Xente.
Zambia
Bright Chinyundu, founder of Broadpay, a fintech company which includes Broadpay, a payment system offering money transfers, bill payments and currently developing agent banking services.
Chinedu Koggu of ProBASE and Njavwa Mutambo of logistics startup Musanga.
Algeria
Taoufik Mousselmal of Maisonmaligne, an e-commerce platform using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to feed and optimise its catalogue into different marketplaces (like Amazon and Cdiscount), and is looking to establish partnerships with manufacturers based in North Africa.
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