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African’s top 20 Tech Startups
Forbes Africa magazine (a licensed affiliate of FORBES Magazine) published its list of Africa’s top 20 tech startups.
Each of the startups included in the list had to meet up to the following criteria: They must have been in operation for less than 10 years; provide solutions to some of the continent’s most pressing socio-economic and communication problems, have a robust social media presence and must be Pan-African in scope and service offering.
Here are the 20 African tech startups that made the list:
Dropifi Founded in 2011, Dropifi is a Ghanaian web messaging platform which helps companies better analyze, visualize and respond to incoming messages from contacts.
Jobberman Founded in 2009, Jobberman.com is West Africa’s most popular job search engine and aggregator. (More information about Jobberman here).
Yola Founded by South African-born internet entrepreneur Vinny Lingham in 2007, Yola (formerly known as Synthasite) is a website builder which lets you create your own website with easy-to-use drag and drop multimedia features.
PesaPal is a payment platform that enables Kenyans to buy and sell on the Internet using M-Pesa, Zap and Credit Cards.
