TechnesstivityForbes Lists Top 20 Startups In Africa [FULL LIST]
Forbes Africa’s February 2012 edition highlights the tTop 20 Startups in Africa according to the company. A large number of them are South African, followed by Kenyan and then Ghanaian startups. Nigeria, Tanzania and Cameroon are represented with one startup each.
1. Mxit. South-African based Mxit was founded in 2003 and was early to the mobile Instant Messaging game. Mxit currently has a userbase of 45 million. The service also allows users to Shop for music, videos and wallpapers on almost 3000 mobile handsets, including Java, Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia, and Windows Mobile.
2. Yola. Also from South Africa, Yola is a website building and hosting service, allowing newbies and small businesses without web development skills create and manage professional looking websites.
3. Dropifi Ghana-based Dropifi helps businesses respond to messages from customers. Dropifi also provides analytic services for webmasters.
4. Cobi Interactive Founded in 2009, South African based Cobi Interactive is a company that develops mobile software for its clients. Cobi Interactive’s clients include News 24, Mail & Guardian and BusinessDay
5. FloCash Based in the UK and founded in 2010, FloCash enables money transfers via email and mobile phones. FloCash charges 2.9% and an additional 20 cents per transaction.
6. Obami Obami is an educational social network and learning management system for educational institutions, teachers and students. Obami was voted Top 10 most innovative technologies, worldwide, in 2011 by Netexplorateur.
7. Bandeka Launched last year, Bandeka is an invite-only social network that aims to build relationships among well educated Africans around the world. Bandeka was coined from ‘Bandika’ which is Swahili for connect.
8. Jobberman Founded in 2009, Nigerian-based Jobberman bridges the gap between employers and prospective employees with its job placement and search service.
9. Motribe South African Motribe enables users build mobile social communities on its platform. Communities range from sports communities to music and places.
10. PesaPal Kenya’s PesaPal leads in mobile money transfers enabling its users buy and sell goods/services on the web via the M-Pesa, Zap mobile-platform, a host of other mobile money platforms or Credit and Debit cards. PesaPal recently introduced purchasing of tickets, enabling users buy event tickets at their convenience.
