Sabi – Nominated for Startup of the Year at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Sabi is building Africa’s commerce infrastructure for the informal economy. Founded in Lagos, the company connects small merchants to a trusted network of suppliers, logistics, and embedded financing, making it easier to source inventory, move goods, and grow sustainably. Its mobile-first tools digitise ordering, payments, and fulfilment, while data insights help entrepreneurs improve margins and
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Renmoney- Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Renmoney is a leading Nigerian fintech and microfinance institution focused on providing access to credit, savings, and financial empowerment for individuals and small businesses. Founded in 2012, the company has built a reputation for making personal and business loans easy, fast, and accessible, helping people achieve goals that traditional banks often overlook. Through its technology-driven
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Cardtonic – Nominated for Start up of the Year at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Cardtonic has become a household name in Nigeria’s fast-growing fintech space. The platform allows users to buy and sell gift cards, pay bills, purchase gadgets, and get virtual dollar cards, all in one place. But behind its sleek app and social media presence lies a story of innovation, risk, and resilience. Founded in 2019 by
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Roqqu – Nominated for Start Up of the Year at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Roqqu is one of Nigeria’s most talked-about cryptocurrency platforms, built to connect Africans to the global digital economy. Since it launched in 2019, the platform has grown fast, offering users an easy way to buy, sell, send, receive, and swap cryptocurrencies in local currencies. Founded in Lagos, Roqqu’s vision is simple, to make crypto accessible
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Cleva – Nominated for Start up of the Year at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Cleva is an emerging fintech platform helping African freelancers, creators, and businesses access, hold, and manage USD payments with ease. It empowers users to open virtual USD accounts, receive payments from abroad, and convert foreign earnings to local currency without the delays that often plague traditional systems. In 2025, Cleva gained widespread attention for securing
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Redtech – Nominated for Start up of the Year at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Redtech is a Nigerian technology and payment solutions company redefining how digital transactions are executed across industries. With expertise in software engineering, financial systems, and infrastructure, Redtech builds enterprise-grade tools for payments, energy management, and financial inclusion. In 2025, Redtech became a major industry talking point after announcing it had processed over ₦12 trillion in
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Fincra – Nominated for Start-up of the Year at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Fincra is a fast-growing payments infrastructure company simplifying how businesses collect, hold, and move money across Africa and beyond. Founded to solve the challenges of fragmented financial systems, Fincra provides seamless APIs, virtual accounts, and instant payouts that power local and cross-border transactions for fintechs, marketplaces, and global enterprises. In 2025, Fincra has stood out
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Bmoni – Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Bmoni is a Nigerian fintech platform designed to give individuals and small businesses easier access to fast, reliable digital financial services. Focused on inclusion, Bmoni provides users with tools to send and receive money, pay bills, buy airtime, and manage everyday transactions directly from their mobile devices, without the need for traditional banking hurdles. Built
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Vesicash – Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Vesicash is a Nigerian fintech platform designed to build trust in online transactions through secure escrow and payment solutions. It was created to solve a major challenge in Africa’s digital economy, fear and fraud in buying, selling, and service delivery. By acting as a neutral third party, Vesicash holds payments securely until both parties are
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Raenest – Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Raenest is a Nigerian-born financial platform designed to help African freelancers, remote workers, startups and global teams manage international payments with ease. Built to solve one of the biggest challenges faced by African talent, getting paid globally, Raenest offers virtual USD, GBP and EUR accounts, enabling users to receive money from clients and employers abroad
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Busha – Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Monday, 20 October 2025
Busha is a Nigerian-founded digital asset platform built to make cryptocurrency simple, safe and accessible for everyday users across Africa. Launched with a mission to promote financial freedom through technology, Busha allows individuals to buy, sell, save and spend cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and USDT with ease, all within a secure and intuitive mobile app. Unlike
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Payaza Africa- Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Wednesday, 03 September 2025
Payaza Africa is a leading Nigerian fintech company dedicated to transforming digital payment solutions across the African continent. Headquartered in Lagos, the company provides businesses with secure, reliable, and scalable payment infrastructure tailored to the unique demands of the region. Its payment gateway supports multiple channels, including card payments, bank transfers, and mobile money, ensuring
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Grey – Nominated for Start-Up of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
In today’s digital economy, cross-border payments have become the lifeline of global trade, freelancing, and remote work. Yet, for many Africans, receiving international payments remains a frustrating process riddled with high fees, delays, and limited access. Grey was built to solve this exact challenge by providing Africans with seamless access to foreign bank accounts and
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Salubata – Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Award
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Salubata is a forward-looking fashion startup that converts plastic waste into modular, customizable footwear using proprietary, carbon-sequestering technology. Founded in 2020 by Fela Buyi Akinse and Yewande Akinse, the company designs shoes whose soles and uppers can be detached and replaced, reducing waste and prolonging product life. With headquarters spanning Nigeria, France, and the US,
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Miva Open University – Nominated for Start-Up of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Education in Africa has long been challenged by accessibility, affordability, and relevance to today’s rapidly changing economy. Miva Open University, Nigeria’s first accredited private open university, is rewriting this narrative by bringing world-class learning directly to the fingertips of students, no matter where they are. Founded with the vision of making higher education more inclusive,
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Kippa Africa – Nominated for Start-Up of The Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
With Kippa, entrepreneurs can effortlessly track sales, manage expenses, generate invoices, and gain insights into their cash flow all from a simple mobile app. This empowers business owners to make informed decisions, improve efficiency, and grow their enterprises without needing complex accounting knowledge or expensive software. The platform has quickly become an indispensable tool for
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Tix.Africa — Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Tix. Africa is a Lagos-based ticketing startup offering a self-service, mobile-first platform for event creators, festivals, and promoters across Africa. It enables users to build ticketing pages, sell tickets, manage admissions, collect payments, and scan digital tickets via QR-coded check-ins, all without coding. With features like a box-office website builder and streamlined guest admission, Tix
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Itana – Nominated for Start-Up of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Itana has emerged as a game-changer, connecting brands, retailers, and consumers in a seamless digital ecosystem. By leveraging technology to streamline product distribution and customer engagement, Itana enables businesses both big and small to scale efficiently while reaching new markets with speed and accuracy. Founded with a vision to modernize retail operations, Itana provides solutions
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Palmpay – Nominated for Start-Up of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
PalmPay is leading the charge as a mobile-first payments platform. PalmPay provides users with a simple, secure, and convenient way to send money, pay bills, shop, and access financial services all from their smartphones. The startup’s mission is clear: to make digital finance accessible to everyone, from urban professionals to rural communities often excluded from
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Moniepoint- Nominated for Startup of the Year Award at the MOI Awards
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Founded as TeamApt in 2015 by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, Moniepoint has matured into one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintechs, offering an integrated banking, credit, and payment ecosystem for SMEs. The company powers digital payments, business banking, and credit, operating under a CBN-regulated microfinance bank that serves over 10 million individuals and businesses. In October
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