The February 2012 edition of Forbes Africa contains their list of Top 20 Start-ups in Africa:
Checkout the list below, do you agree with the listed companies, do you think some were missed out? Let us know in the comments.
1. MXit
- Founded: 2003
- Country: South Africa
- Description: MXit was one of the first Mobile Instant messaging services in the world and in Africa, and has a userbase of about 45m.
- Website: http://www.mxit.co.za
2. Yola
- Founded: 2007
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Yola is a simple website builder and hosting service, that allows anyone without any HTML skills to easily create websites.
- Website: http://www.yola.com
3. Dropifi (Ghana)
- Founded: 2011
- Country: Ghana
- Description: Dropifi assists businesses better respond to incoming messages via their website, and also includes analytics for website owners.
- Website: http://www.dropifi.com/
4. Cobi Interactive
- Founded: 2009
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Cobi interactive is a mobile software development company with clients
- Website: http://www.cobiinteractive.com/
5. FloCash
- Founded: 2010
- Country: UK
- Description: FloCash allows anyone with an email address and mobile number to send and receive money across Africa simply and easily.
- Website: https://www.flocash.com
6. Obami
- Founded: 2009
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Obami is a social network and learning management system for schools, teachers and students
- Website: http://www.obami.com
7. Bandeka
- Founded: 2011
- Country: Ghana/Nigeria
- Description: Bandeka is an exclusive social network, for building relationships/dating.
- Website: http://www.bandeka.com/
8. Jobberman
- Founded: 2009
- Country: Nigeria
- Description: Jobberman is west africa’s most popular job and placement website.
- Website: http://www.jobberman.com/
9. Motribe
- Founded: 2011
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Motribe is a mobile platform enabling users, brands, agencies and publishers across the world to build and manage their own mobile social communities.
- Website: http://www.motribe.co.za
10. PesaPal
- Founded: 2009
- Country: Kenya
- Description: PesaPal is a payment platform that enables Kenyans to buy and sell on the Internet using M-Pesa, Zap and Credit Cards.
- Website: https://www.pesapal.com/
11. Synaq
- Founded: 2004
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Synaq provides messaging and security products built around open source solutions.
- Website: http://www.synaq.com/
12. Rupu
- Founded: 2010
- Country: Kenya
- Description: Rupu is a daily deals website modeled on groupon.
- Website: https://www.rupu.co.ke
13. BongoLive
- Founded: 2010
- Country: Tanzania
- Description: BongoLive is a mobile and SMS services company.
- Website: http://www.bongolive.co.tz/
14. Skyrove
- Founded: 2006?
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Skyrove is South Africa’s largest independent Wi-Fi hotspot network with over 600 Wi-Fi hotspots in South Africa.
- Website: http://www.skyrove.com/
15. Njorku
- Founded: 2011
- Country: Cameroon
- Description: Njorku is a career and recruitment services platform focused on Africa.
- Website: http://www.njorku.com/
16. Ushahidi
- Founded: 2007
- Country: Kenya
- Description: The only non profit on this list, ushahidi develops software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
- Website: http://ushahidi.com/
17. SMSGH
- Founded: 2005
- Country: Ghana
- Description: SMSGh offers bulk SMS solutions, SMS Gateway solutions and mobile web solutions
- Website: http://smsgh.com/
18. Hummba
- Founded: 2011
- Country: South Africa
- Description: Hummba is a social and travel networking website that lets you download free audio travel guides and share travel experiences directly from your mobile phone.
- Website: http://www.hummba.com/
19. 10Layer
- Founded: 2011
- Country: South Africa
- Description: 10Layer is CMS system targeted specifically at news rooms.
- Website: http://10layer.com/
20. Sembuse (Kenya)
- Founded: 2009
- Country: Kenya
- Description: Sembuse is a mobile social network & instant messaging platform similar to Mxit
- Website: http://www.sembuse.com/