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The Future is Female
Aisling Mooney
Founder, Fertally
Fertally connects biomarkers, wearable data and lived experience into one personalised algorithm, speeding up the route to diagnosis and pregnancy.
Alexandra Butmalai
Founder, amazive
amazive's AI agents read technical drawings and turn them into production-ready quotes for custom manufacturers in 30 minutes, not weeks.
Allison Huff
Founder, SweatLounge
SweatLounge is a London health optimisation studio using heat therapy as an affordable, accessible tool for longevity and chronic condition management.
Amy Hutchins
Founder, Maze
Maze is an AI-first outplacement platform that shows people leaving through redundancy where their skills can really take them.
Anekha Sokhal
Founder, Moshi
Moshi is a 24/7 AI analyst team that reads the market and tells each investor what matters to their positions, with a source behind every claim.
Aura Elena Murillo Pérez
Founder, Resting Reef
Resting Reef turns human and pet ashes into memorial reefs that restore marine life and create a living legacy.
Caroline Casey
Founder, GovernIQ
GovernIQ is AI intelligence for the boardroom, reading every board pack to surface red flags and raise the quality of governance.
Chantal Cox
Founder, Etta Health
Etta Health is reimagining women's healthcare with evidence-based care in a beautifully designed central London clinic.
Claudia Radu
Founder, Circe
Circe is the AI infrastructure for group therapy, helping therapists deliver affordable, evidence-based care to ten times as many people.
Emily Kucharski
Co-Founder, Wholesum
Wholesum is a statistical-AI company revealing the evidence and drivers behind complex decisions for government, pharma and enterprise.
Flinty Bane
Founder, SKIN
SKIN is the UK's beauty price comparison and discovery app, helping shoppers find the best price across top retailers in seconds.
Frankie Brady
Founder, Aira Labs
Aira Labs makes AI-powered functional jewellery that measures the air you breathe, the Oura for air.
Hannah Chappatte
Founder, Hybr
Hybr is the agentic operating system for residential lettings, automating the journey from enquiry to offer across WhatsApp, email and calls.
Hannah Porter-Jones
Founder, Darcy
Darcy is the engine that takes an in-person experience from idea to execution.
Jenny Dove
Founder, CitiPods
CitiPods builds modular rest hubs giving delivery drivers safe, dignified places to stop, charge and recharge across the city.
Kate Murray
Co-Founder, Ubrix
Ubrix uses AI to automate housebuilder aftercare, logging, assigning and escalating defects without anyone needing to chase.
Katrien Grobler
Founder, Twinnin
Twinnin is the verified-human registry that lets people control, license and get paid for how their face, voice and likeness are used in AI.
Katya Selvestru
Founder, Macha Care
Macha Care is an AI-driven, personalised pregnancy care app helping every woman know what's normal and when to get help.
Khyara Ranaweera
Founder, Voyan
Voyan is a body-intuitive travel companion. Oya reads your wearable each morning and shapes the day around you, so active travellers plan less, move more and recover well.
Nicole Brennan
Founder, LimbMatch
LimbMatch is the world's first platform for prosthetic users to share honest, peer-led device reviews, giving the industry the real-world data it lacks.
Sasha Nagarajah
Founder, Joey
Joey is the UK's only CQC-registered asynchronous paediatric service, giving parents an always-on line to a clinician when their child is unwell.
Shirley Collie
Founder, Leova
Leova turns clinical trial protocols into ready-to-run trial databases, dramatically speeding up study builds.
Sophia Jarvis, CFA
Founder, Mia
Mia makes it easy for parents, grandparents and friends to buy investments for children instead of more toys.
Sumeeta Ahluwalia
Co-Founder, Sync Cycle
Sync Cycle is a clinically informed performance intelligence platform built around female physiology, helping women train with their bodies.
Zoe Robson
Founder, Joyvié
Joyvié Health makes patent-pending incontinence underwear that keeps stool off the skin, restoring dignity and reducing caregiver burden.
The Future of Services
Anith Chacko
Founder, Radhiant Diagnostic Imaging
Radhiant Diagnostic Imaging runs South Africa's first fleet of mobile 3D mammography units, bringing breast screening to women where they are.
Anuscha Iqbal
Co-Founder, Qanooni AI
Qanooni AI is an intelligent virtual lawyer built around the languages, legal systems and workflows of the jurisdictions it serves.
Arnd Halbach
Founder, The Principals Group
The Principals Group is a new model for consulting, giving accomplished senior operators the infrastructure of a global advisory firm.
Brittany Atkins
Founder, The Biz Dev Coach
The Biz Dev Coach proves B2B doesn't have to be boring, challenging traditional sales with creative, community-led campaigns that turn target prospects into participants, relationships and revenue.
Charnelle Merritt
Founder, Build & Bloom Management
Build & Bloom Management is a boutique talent agency representing DIY, home-improvement and lifestyle creators.
Dale Shephard
Founder, TrinityHawk
TrinityHawk is embedded revenue leadership for founder-led B2B service businesses, building a commercial engine that works without the founder.
Danielle Cyrus
Founder, Magna
Magna is a tech-enabled consultancy helping businesses navigate complex tax regulation and adopt the right technology.
David Langley
Founder, Opticks
Opticks is an operations consultancy helping growing businesses become easier to run, so growth doesn't depend on the founder holding everything together.
Don Khabana
Founder, BikoToday
BikoToday is an AI-driven Workforce-as-a-Service platform giving young people real work experience and businesses access to work-ready talent.
Frankie Cornelissen
Founder, MawHub
MawHub is an AI-native talent agency helping startups and scale-ups build the Middle East's new economy.
Gaurab Patra
Founder, Niyamic
Niyamic is an AI-native implementation partner helping legacy services businesses launch AI-native products in days.
James Farnfield
Founder, Shake Content
Shake Content is a specialist LinkedIn agency helping CEOs and leaders turn their expertise into content that builds trust.
Kassandra Voudouri
Founder, Proppa
Proppa helps small blocks of flats run themselves, bringing service charges, repairs and compliance into one transparent platform.
Kevin Monserrat
Founder, Execution Capital
Execution Capital lets portfolio companies pay senior operators in cash and venture interests settled on delivery, giving every fund the power of a platform team.
Lerato Semenya
Founder, Lumin Logistics
Lumin Logistics is a Contract Logistics business at the intersect of industry, innovation and heart: serious about operations, smart about how we do them, and human in how we show up.
Mark ONeill
Founder, Trade Harmonizer
Trade Harmonizer combines AI and 28+ years of customs expertise to recover overpaid import duty and keep every future shipment compliant.
Nellie McQuinn
Founder, LORE
LORE is a digital legacy platform where people record their memories in their own voice, to be shared with loved ones after they're gone.
Patricia Wing
Founder, SuLe
SuLe is the legal operating system for founders and the law firms that advise them, from cap tables to fundraising in one live record.
Peter Heneghan
Founder, Albie
Albie is an AI platform built for communications professionals.
Ralitsa Nampijja
Founder, Trippa
Trippa helps businesses across Africa manage, track and simplify last-mile delivery.
Sara Simeone
Founder, NoCodeLab
NoCodeLab is an AI innovation lab that teaches leaders to build with AI, lead its adoption and turn it into measurable results.
Theo Bromfield
Founder, Fola Sustainability
Fola Sustainability is the specialist nature consultancy helping businesses and financial institutions put nature's true value at the heart of strategy.
Tina Saul
Founder, KINTAL
KINTAL is an AI service giving small and medium-sized businesses a clear diagnosis and a practical 90-day plan, without the consultancy price tag.
Tom Kelly
Founder, Foundera
Foundera is pioneering Founder Capital, backing exceptional founders as individuals across their entire entrepreneurial career.
Tom Hewitson
Founder, General Purpose
General Purpose is the UK's leading AI enablement and training company, helping teams embed AI in their everyday work.
The Future of AI
Aaron Block
Founder, Supertest
Supertest runs AI-moderated user interviews at scale, turning weeks of user research into insights in under an hour.
Alex Noe
Founder, Anya
Anya helps sales teams prepare for, run and follow up on every customer meeting, with all the context captured in the CRM.
Arouba Zubair
Founder, PromptGuard
PromptGuard is the AI security platform that lets enterprises see and govern every prompt and response across their organisation in real time.
Chris Stears
Founder, Bastion
Bastion is the AI command layer that helps financial firms spot compliance risks as they happen, not after the fines arrive.
Daniil Gudkov
Founder, DoDocs
DoDocs is the AI-native accounting OS that chases, extracts and reconciles financial documents end to end with 99%+ accuracy.
Emma Finding
Founder, PIXI
PIXI is building the AI-powered content platform to make hotel and travel imagery discoverable by meaning, across every channel and AI agent.
Fergus Hay
Founder, The Hacking Games
The Hacking Games turns Gen Z gamers into ethical hackers, matching overlooked talent to cybersecurity careers through AI.
Jacky Chu
Founder, WPark
WPark is building an AI Neuro Brain that makes autonomous fleets faster and safer to deploy across factories, airports and logistics hubs.
James Marks
Founder, Canopy
Canopy is building a futures market for compute.
Jen Lothian
Founder, Onteric
Onteric is the company brain that turns everything a business knows into the context its AI needs to actually work.
Jeremie Vaislic
Founder, Ledger Rocket
Ledger Rocket is the real-time core banking ledger and reconciliation engine that keeps regulated financial institutions' books in perfect sync.
Joshua Firima
Founder, KrosAI
KrosAI gives AI voice agents the identity, compliance and fraud infrastructure to operate reliably on phone networks in emerging markets.
Juan Luis Garcia Valdecasas Vicci
Founder, Haily Health
Haily Health gives clinics a 24/7 AI care team that keeps patients on track with their care plans between visits.
Maksim Mershiev
Founder, Avare Biotech
Avare Biotech turns a smartphone and microscope into a field lab, giving livestock breeders AI semen analysis in under a minute.
Michael Houghton
Founder, Community Wolf
Community Wolf connects people, communities and security teams with the intelligence to understand and manage physical risk.
Michael McCreadie
Founder, Keepr
Keepr is the AI-native platform making it simple to book, manage and move belongings through a trusted storage and removals network.
Mohamed Al Owais
Founder, Avano AI
Avano AI turns vehicle data into clear decisions on a car's operations, condition and risk, starting with rental fleets across the GCC.
Nana Afriyie
Founder, Vane
Vane automates ship compliance workflows straight from the inbox, linking every message to vessel history and drafting ready-to-send replies.
Osama Shawky
Founder, estaie
estaie is the global operating system for extended stays, offering one honest all-in price for stays of 15 to 365 nights.
Pratik Shah
Founder, Staple & Code
Staple & Code is the AI-native legal team for startups.
Rob Pegram
Founder, NeuroPath Biosciences
NeuroPath Biosciences is developing a point-of-care diagnostic that brings objective biology to mental health assessment in primary care.
Savannah Price
Founder, Serene
Serene turns transaction data into behavioural intelligence, helping banks spot financial difficulty and fraud weeks before harm occurs.
Urav Shah
Founder, Evos
Evos is the agentic operations platform that captures the expertise of a business's best people and delivers it on every job, every day.
Viren Samani
Founder, Convu
Convu turns in-person conversations into clients, capturing every meeting and drafting the follow-up before you leave the room.
Yatin Badal
Founder, Lorraine
Lorraine builds the infrastructure for medical learning, practice and billing that reduces the cognitive load on doctors across Africa.
The Future of Finance
Adam Amos
Founder, Sencillo
Sencillo is an AI-powered family finance platform helping parents plan, fund and manage their children's education from birth to 21.
Ali Adam
Founder, Chest
Chest is the pension app that gets Millennials and Gen Z saving for retirement through cashback on everyday spending.
Christabel Ojuok
Founder, nesti
nesti turns rent payments into a RentScore, a trusted financial identity that unlocks fairer credit and homeownership for Africa's informal workforce.
Dan Afan-Jones
Founder, Bonsai
Bonsai Smart Wealth is an AI-native personal money management app, solving the global financial advice crisis.
Daniel Fraai
Founder, Ylookup
Ylookup is building the first agentic AI fund administrator, cutting the manual work in fund accounting and investor reporting.
Dave John
Founder, Dryp
Dryp is a consumer wallet offering an alternative to cards at checkout, with lower costs for merchants and debt-free rewards for shoppers.
David Lancer
Founder, SmartSettle AI
SmartSettle AI is a post-trade platform that helps investment firms predict and resolve settlement exceptions before they become costly fails.
Finn Hefferon
Founder, Sora Wealth
Sora Wealth pairs expert advisers with specialised AI to deliver sophisticated, personalised financial advice to modern professionals.
Harold Benji
Founder, Night Market
Night Market uses food delivery to help Ghana's local vendors reach more customers and build the credit identity they need to access capital.
Idan Jaan
Co-Founder, Mobillis
Mobillis is prepaid transaction infrastructure for vehicle access, like airtime but for mobility.
James Symes
Founder, Ninopay
Ninopay gives UK families a more flexible way to pay nursery fees, building the financial layer for parenthood.
Jean-Paul Efang Mbome
Founder, GaimControl
GaimControl is building behavioural underwriting infrastructure that helps lenders support recovery from gambling harm and responsibly requalify customers for credit.
Jimmy Fong
Founder, ripper
ripper is the AI-native payment operations stack, with agents that onboard merchants, fight chargebacks and recover failed payments in minutes.
Joe Kinvi
Founder, Borderless
Borderless connects asset producers with global pools of capital, managing investors from discovery to completed transaction.
Jonathan Moore
Founder, Autograff
Autograff is the AI-native operating system for vehicle repair, connecting independent repair shops and fleet operators in one platform.
Kingsley Ibe
Founder, CreditChek
CreditChek is AI-powered credit data infrastructure that lets lenders verify the creditworthiness of African consumers in 90 seconds.
Kwame Afranie Nyantakyi
Founder, Vorim
Vorim is the trust and safety layer for AI agents in regulated industries.
Kwezi Kondile
Co-Founder, Knit
Knit is the AI finance operating system for schools, helping South African schools assess affordability and collect fees.
Nirav Karia
Co-Founder, Curation
Curation is the retail investor relations operating system for listed companies.
Oliver Butcher
Founder, Riff
Riff is the UK's first savings agent, automatically moving your money to where it earns the most while you stay in control.
Reuben John
Founder, True Aim
True Aim decides insurance claims with agentic AI and a deterministic policy engine, delivering consistent, explainable, auditable outcomes.
Sam Mudie
Founder, Savea
Savea is white-label fintech infrastructure that lets asset managers launch digital investment products backed by real-world assets.
Ser Cappelle
Founder, Peaky
Peaky is an AI-powered financial planning platform that helps finance teams see what's changing before it hits the numbers.
Uneesa Zaman
Founder, Ayda Invest
Ayda Invest provides on-demand, AI-powered financial literacy for women.
Varun Aggarwal
Founder, Know Your Dosh
Know Your Dosh is a secure, family-first wealth platform giving households one shared view of their entire financial picture.
The Future of Our Planet
Abby Seneor
Founder, Treelyon
Treelyon is building the ground-truth data layer for the natural world, using LiDAR and AI to turn forests into measurable digital assets.
Adrian Fürstenburg
Founder, CULT Leather
CULT Leather grows cultivated exotic leather in the lab, giving luxury brands a cruelty-free alternative to exotic skins.
Akshay Makar
Founder, NetOlink AI
NetOlink AI is building the intelligence layer for cooling, turning existing plant data into measurable energy savings.
Carina Evans
Founder, Marine Kind
Marine Kind is replacing plastic in the pet industry with seaweed, one toy at a time.
Charles Reed
Founder, MycoSure
MycoSure uses mycelium fermentation to produce high-quality alternative protein ingredients for future generations.
Christian Fink
Founder, Astracite
Astracite makes high-performance, carbon-negative battery materials from captured CO₂ and silicon.
Dalma Szabo
Co-Founder, OH, A POTATO!
OH, A POTATO! is a climate-tech app that helps households cook what they already have before it goes to waste.
David Brown
Founder, Helix Carbon
Helix Carbon turns captured CO₂ into carbon-neutral industrial chemicals.
Diana Virgovicova
Founder, Xatoms
Xatoms uses AI and quantum chemistry to discover materials that destroy water contaminants, including PFAS, using only visible light.
Dr KARTHIKA Gopi
Founder, Carbelim
Carbelim develops microalgae-based technology for carbon capture, air purification and carbon utilisation.
Elinor Wakefield
Founder, Climate-i
Climate-i captures leaks of SF6, the world's most potent greenhouse gas, from high-voltage substation equipment.
Esther Akinsulu
Founder, JutiFresh
JutiFresh builds solar-powered cold rooms that bring refrigeration to fishing communities in Nigeria's Niger Delta, cutting food waste and doubling incomes.
Goonja Shrestha
Founder, Phoolbatti
Phoolbatti transforms waste into resources, creating sustainable livelihoods and environmentally responsible communities.
Greta Colombo Dugoni
Founder, ReVita
ReVita turns agri-food by-products like rice husks into cellulose fibres that replace virgin wood in paper and packaging.
Joseph Koduah
Founder, EcoSmart Power Solutions
EcoSmart Power Solutions is developing an intelligent modular power system that cuts energy costs and diesel dependence for businesses.
Kristin Veriga
Founder, Karmic Global
Karmic Global turns shrimp shell waste into food preservation technology that cuts spoilage and grows margins for food companies.
Leanne Elliott-Young
Founder, Patina
Patina is the post-purchase operating system for fashion brands, turning Digital Product Passports into live channels for care, resale and loyalty.
Melian Dott
Founder, BAOM
BAOM makes 100% compostable, bio-based films that replace conventional plastics in agriculture.
Natasha Jones
Founder, Metris
Metris is the AI-native operating system for renewables, giving asset owners a single source of truth to monitor and bill their assets in real time.
Nishit Agrawal
Founder, SkoneLabs
SkoneLabs uses IoT and AI to monitor fresh produce quality across the supply chain, extending shelf life and cutting food loss.
Nyaniso Burris
Founder, OneThread Africa
OneThread Africa is a sustainability intelligence platform helping African fashion brands measure, document and prove their sustainability.
Ofir Meir
Founder, QuberTech
QuberTech is a biomaterials company using dandelions to produce natural rubber, inulin and other high-value materials.
Toni Finnimore
Founder, The Social Society
People & Place is building a network of nature-first, off-grid community spaces where ecological restoration and human reconnection happen together.
William Wood
Founder, AltoVolo
AltoVolo designs electric and hybrid-electric vertical flight aircraft for safer, quieter and more efficient urban and regional travel.
Willie Ng
Founder, Global Cerah
Global Cerah transforms agricultural and food by-products into sustainable livestock feed, pet food ingredients and organic fertilisers.
The Future of Consumer
Ben Beavers
Founder, SmartyPlants
SmartyPlants uses smart sensors and an app to tell plant parents exactly what each of their plants needs to thrive.
Christian Heath
Founder, Sunnyside Drinks
Sunnyside Drinks crafts award-winning, all-natural Aussie-style alcoholic ginger beer.
David Hodgson
Founder, Vinolo
Vinolo makes ZENO, award-winning alcohol-free wines from a single organic Spanish estate, stocked by Waitrose and Majestic.
Divya Rai
Founder, ASWRA
ASWRA is democratising access to safety and preventative care through smart rings.
Eliza Twist
Founder, Zebble
Zebble's screen-free pebbles keep you reachable by loved ones while helping you switch off, sleep better and reclaim your peace.
Gaynor Thomasson
Founder, Heelz & Toez
Heelz & Toez is a patented children's footwear brand whose adjustable gliding straps give every child a tailored, healthy fit.
Honey Arun
Founder, The Third Body
The Third Body is a nutrition companion purpose-built for people on GLP-1 medication and the body they're becoming.
Joe Jones
Co-Founder, Nura Teethcare
Nura is the world's first enamel health company, creating advanced toothpaste that helps teeth stay healthy for longer.
Jonathan Andrew
Founder, THKR
THKR is a premium men's haircare brand with a clinically backed thickening system that fits into the routine men already have.
Jonathan Gilman
Founder, BUCÏ
BUCÏ is the UK's first mainstream hard kombucha, a better-for-you alcoholic spritz made with live cultures and natural ingredients.
Kamara Davis
Founder, Zizoza
Zizoza is redesigning the nursery cot around the needs of parents, with a patented, adaptable design for comfort and mobility.
Kara Penfold
Founder, Pearly Bites
Pearly Bites makes fun, effective oral care products that take the struggle out of brushing children's teeth.
Kenneth Hoellmann
Founder, MÄNN Skincare
MÄNN Skincare is an award-winning brand pioneering neurocosmetics for men, combining advanced science with natural ingredients.
Louisa Macari
Founder, She's Thick
She's Thick makes the first hair growth oil formulated for blonde hair, repairing damage without fading colour.
Marija Skobe-Pilley
Founder, sorbè
sorbè is the personal care brand made for active kids who train multiple times a week.
Marley Finn
Founder, OMOSS
OMOSS is the UK's first ready-to-drink sea moss beverage, bringing the ocean's nourishment to everyday wellness.
Marta Zanotti
Founder, Lyfta
Lyfta makes facial taping simple with pre-cut kinesiology tapes designed specifically for the face.
Matt Palfrey
Founder, Comfa
Comfa makes sensory-friendly clothing for neurodivergent people, including the Fidget-T, the first patented T-shirt with built-in fidgets.
Natasha Orumbie
Founder, The Vegan Patty Lady
The Vegan Patty Lady makes Jamaican-inspired, plant-based patties that taste like home, now stocked nationwide on Ocado.
Olly Joshi
Founder, PURE FILTH
Pure Filth makes properly dosed, evidence-backed functional mushroom extracts for sharper focus, steadier energy and better sleep.
Princess Ebi
Founder, Main Squeeze
Main Squeeze is the modern consumer brand for compression, bringing great design to a proven medical product.
Tim Barber
Founder, Looped
Looped is the screen-free home phone that lets children call friends and family on their own, building real conversation skills safely.
Victoria Chasiokova
Founder, Mata Mate
Mata Mate is a social energy soda brewed from real yerba maté, made for evenings out with no hangover.
Viviane Paxinos
Founder, INVI
INVI is a personal care brand built with and for teenage boys, starting with a next-generation body spray.
Will Flindall
Founder, SPRYY Cocktails
SPRYY is the UK's first cocktail brand designed to help people drink less, with cocktails served in atomisers and enjoyed slowly.
The Future of Enterprise
Aditya Jaiswal
Founder, Nimbyl
Nimbyl is an AI platform that helps manufacturers, importers and exporters manage cross-border orders in one live trade record.
Atlas Baudelaire Maharaj
Founder, Daedalis
Daedalis is building the AI foundation layer for African enterprise: a platform that unifies, verifies and maintains the data powering procurement, finance and operations.
Bhavin Shah
Founder, Sherlocq
Sherlocq is an AI regulatory intelligence platform turning global regulations into source-cited answers across 100+ jurisdictions in minutes.
Brendan Pretorius
Founder, Green Pages
Green Pages is building Paige, the Lovable of WhatsApp, letting anyone build on WhatsApp using natural language.
Burak Tayyip Çevik
Founder, Forg3t
Forg3t is the enterprise control layer for what AI remembers, enabling targeted deletion and audit-ready proof across AI systems.
Debora Rosati
Founder, Vibbe
Vibbe is the Founder OS, an all-in-one back office for early-stage startups covering finance, legal, compliance and growth.
Deinde Alubankudi
Founder, Discentra
Discentra is an AI voice coaching platform that calls traders within seconds of risky behaviour, helping trading firms keep their customers.
Eliezer Moukouboungou Gomat
Founder, VeriAfrica
VeriAfrica is the one-stop platform for verified African opportunities and matchmaking.
Josh Ockenden
Founder, Rapport
Rapport is a personal BD agent for lawyers and professional services firms, unlocking the relationship intelligence trapped in silos.
Kanishk Gaur
Founder, Athenian Tech
Athenian Tech is an AI-powered threat hunting company protecting organisations and executives from deepfakes, disinformation and impersonation.
Kenzo Onumonu
Founder, Correm
Correm gives independent lawyers the AI-native back end of a modern firm, from intake and drafting to billing, all in one place.
Mariam Chaduneli
Founder, Lawformer
Lawformer turns a company's precedents and playbooks into AI agents that draft, review and negotiate contracts the way its lawyers do.
Matthew Wilson
Founder, Berth
Berth is the operating and transaction platform for marinas and ports, connecting everything from booking and payments to berth allocation.
Mishanth Ardithpersad
Co-Founder, Rapidhuman AI
Rapidhuman AI does the work of a forward-deployed engineer, modelling how legacy businesses really operate and generating the specs and code to modernise them.
Muhammad Furqan Karim Kidwai
Co-Founder, Plouton AI
Plouton AI builds autonomous AI agents that automate the finance back office for mid-market businesses, from reconciliation to month-end close.
Nicola Bond
Founder, Merchmix
merchmix is the merchandising and inventory system for mid-market retailers, live in weeks at a fraction of the cost of enterprise suites.
Rohan Murti
Founder, Neurist AI
Neurist AI is a research copilot that gives founders and product teams fast, affordable market research.
Runbin Dong
Founder, Scale Social AI
Scale Social AI helps enterprise brands turn real customer experiences into rights-cleared content and intelligence.
Scott Walker
Founder, ArvorX
ArvorX analyses customer and employee interactions to show businesses exactly where to invest in AI, and what it's worth.
Sebastian Dyantyi
Founder, Tradeflow
Tradeflow is the AI-native procurement-to-payment layer helping restaurants, bars and cafés order, receive and pay suppliers digitally.
Stacey Van Den Aardweg
Founder, Fluxo
Fluxo is an AI-native cash management platform that traces every order from shipment to payment and stops cash leaking from B2B supply chains.
Tue Søttrup
Founder, Smart Role
Smart Role uses realistic AI simulations to make sure customer support agents are fully proficient before they speak to a live customer.
Tumi Siwoku
Founder, The CPO Circle
The CPO Circle is product development software that helps consumer brands create, develop and scale new ideas with ease.
Vuyani Mofolo
Founder, Buya
Buya gives African merchants a branded loyalty and ordering app, WhatsApp campaigns, payments and delivery in one AI-powered engine.
Wadah Salim
Founder, Manzilo
Manzilo is the AI property intelligence platform that helps landlords and property managers resolve tenant requests and maximise rental returns.
The Future of Creative
Akinbola Asalu
Founder, Aktivate
Aktivate connects 50,000+ African nano and micro creators with brands, turning creativity into a career.
Alex Saunders
Founder, Flywheel
Flywheel runs B2B social with AI agents that post in each team member's real voice and turn engagement into ranked sales leads.
Ando Eniwumide
Founder, Happaning
Happaning is an AI-driven platform that lets live event audiences switch between multiple camera angles for immersive, branded video.
Benjamin Woollams
Founder, TrueRights
TrueRights is the rights and licensing platform giving creators the infrastructure to own, price and license their digital identity and IP.
Chiyedza Chinake
Founder, Fashion Labs
Fashion Labs builds and licenses digital twins of real creators, letting brands produce fully licensed campaigns in hours, not weeks.
Daniel Sofoluke
Founder, UndaRated
UndaRated is a free-to-play football stock market that turns fans into scouts by letting them back emerging players and prove their eye for talent.
Fai Derick
Founder, FOUND
FOUND creates premium interactive comic biographies that teach African children the legends of their own continent.
Frankie Thorogood
Founder, Pott’d
Pott'd makes pottery and creativity accessible from home, and has already helped over a million people unlock their creative side.
Ian Roper
Founder, Fribbler
Fribbler helps creators prove, protect and monetise their work in the AI era.
Joe Mabija
Founder, Hektik
Hektik is Africa's first vertical short-form streaming platform, bringing micro-dramas, comedy and reality shows made by Africans, for Africans.
Joshua Cantor-Fuller
Founder, GenMedia
GenMedia is a streaming platform for AI-made films and series, where fans can shape the story and earn a place in the credits.
Justice Asibe
Founder, SoundBridge
SoundBridge is the professional networking and monetisation platform for audio creators, like LinkedIn for musicians, producers and podcasters.
Kabelo Mofokeng
Founder, SnapScout
SnapScout is the discovery and hiring platform connecting clients with photographers, film crews, studios and kit in under three clicks.
Lima Farran
Founder, Vittoria Buzz App
Vittoria Buzz App is the premium-only influencer platform matching luxury brands with elite macro-influencers.
Marius Pasculea
Founder, Kulth
Kulth turns the stories behind artworks into personalised, interactive AI conversations that immerse every gallery visitor in the work.
Mohammed Aldhabaa
Founder, Kitabh
Kitabh is the Arabic-first creator platform helping writers publish, grow an audience and earn directly from their work.
Olusegun Adeyosoye
Founder, Film There
Film There is the marketplace connecting productions with film-ready locations, with direct host chat, secure bookings and payments.
Palash Bhuyan
Founder, AVEXII
AVEXII is the dedicated home for AI-generated video, with transparent attribution for every tool and a curated, quality-first feed.
Raluca Pop
Founder, Hive Social
Hive Social is a community-first social platform built around self-expression and direct relationships between users and creators.
Riyana Randall
Founder, Handal
Handal is a live booking platform for vetted freelance creatives, like Airbnb for creative talent, with no bidding and no back and forth.
Tim Grimes
Founder, PLOY
PLOY is the AI-native platform helping enterprise brands create and distribute authentic social content at scale through their employees and creators.
Vita Shafinska
Founder, GCreators
GCreators is building the AI operating system for creators.
Yazeed alhashim
Founder, LIVUALS
LIVUALS is an AI-powered creative studio that turns music and artistic direction into professional visual experiences for live shows.
Zara Lachlan
Founder, Long Range Labs
Long Range Labs is an adventure sports and creator-led media company founded by world record-holding endurance athletes, bringing extreme adventure to a mainstream audience.
Zoe Ramushu
Founder, Wrapped
Wrapped is building the digital infrastructure for Africa's gig economy, making gig work measurable, visible and investable.
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Alexandra Miszewski
Founder, Altera Biosciences
Altera Biosciences is pioneering Africa's first universal donor cell platform for next-generation cell and gene therapies.
David Anstee
Founder, Liveably
Liveably uses spatial intelligence and smartphone photos to help people live safely and independently at home for longer.
David Vioque
Founder, Unbound
Unbound is a preventive health platform for everyday athletes, combining clinician-led screening and performance testing into one clear assessment.
Emily Reign
Founder, Napp
Napp is a workplace recovery platform offering science-backed short rest sessions that help teams recharge and refocus.
Georg Panteleev
Founder, Pabel
Pabel uses an EEG foundation model to match the right brain therapies to the right patients, improving clinical trial success.
Ioannis Prattis
Founder, Senesys.Bio
Senesys.Bio is developing targeted medicines that clear aged cells, so that growing older no longer means growing ill.
Jacqueline Koay
Founder, SOFIAA Health
SOFIAA Health is a midlife women's health platform using AI assessment and community clinics to make menopause care more accessible.
Lola Omishore
Founder, TheraMotive
TheraMotive makes clinics portable, using an Uber-inspired model to deliver healthcare wherever demand exists.
Louis Allen
Founder, Youmi
Youmi equips parents and schools with the tools to support young people's mental health, including a personalised AI coach on WhatsApp.
Mari-Carmen Sanchez-Morris
Founder, Matresa
Matresa is a maternal health platform taking a preventative approach to postnatal depression through tracking and personalised support.
Matthew Rolls
Founder, PocketCare
PocketCare provides accessible, family-focused general and mental healthcare online, from the comfort of home.
Nate Notwell
Founder, Marley Health
Marley Health is the data and clinical intelligence layer for pet health, helping vets and owners extend pet longevity.
Neill Dunwoody
Founder, Spryt
SPRYT's AI medical receptionist, Asa, manages the patient journey through WhatsApp and SMS, cutting no-shows and admin with no app required.
Niharika Hans
Founder, asdflo
asdflo is an AI-powered neurodiversity platform connecting families, schools, clinics and employers with the services and support they need.
Nina Abide
Founder, FetalFirst
FetalFirst connects ultrasound, genomics and patient record data to reduce diagnostic uncertainty in fetal medicine in under five minutes.
Nina van Schaick
Founder, Peripear
Peripear is building a hands-free thermotherapy wearable that helps reduce perineal tears during childbirth.
Roscoe Kerby
Founder, Skinvest AI
Skinvest AI lets anyone photograph a skin concern and get instant AI triage, with referral pathways to dermatologists and clinics.
Ross Ducat
Founder, Lulu Light
The Lulu Light is an app that uses your phone's torch to guide you into deep, dream-like sleep in just 15 minutes.
Sandra Igwe MBE
Founder, Mumbrite
Mumbrite is a maternal wellbeing platform connecting Black and ethnically diverse mothers with culturally relevant support from home.
Sarah Chitongo
Founder, Vina
Vina Health is a clinical-grade digital health platform helping women with endometriosis and pelvic pain get diagnosed faster.
Sarah Spriggs
Founder, Aligned
Aligned is the AI-powered matching layer for private therapy, helping clients find the right therapist, in person or online.
Sofia Paschenti
Founder, Microvitality
Microvitality is developing a patented ingestible capsule that samples the small intestine directly, transforming how gut health is diagnosed.
Stacey Ward
Founder, Queenie
Queenie measures the system that runs half the planet.
Tima Fofana
Founder, OmsorgSync
OmsorgSync is a shared care hub helping families coordinate the care of a loved one with chronic illness, disability or age-related needs.
Viktor Bánczi
Founder, moonScan
moonScan turns any camera into a gateway to preventive health, starting with a 60-second face scan for heart rate, HRV and recovery.
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Amy Cameron
Founder, Sylvi
Sylvi is the language-learning app built around AI penpals that correct you as you chat by text or voice.
Bartek Ogonowski
Co-Founder, LEVRA
LEVRA is an AI human-skills coach that helps young people get hired, thrive at work and build sustainable careers.
Ben Holt
Founder, SENshine
SENshine's inclusion management software helps schools and councils improve outcomes for children with special educational needs.
Brent Davidoff
Co-Founder, GoFamily
GoFamily is the private digital home where families chat, plan, store what matters and get help from a kid-safe AI assistant.
Chanel Monteine
Founder, Glide AI
Glide AI is the Fitbit for human potential, an AI coach that builds personalised paths to help you reach your goals.
Christo Smit
Founder, Superworker
Superworker is the outcome layer for enterprise learning, turning existing content into a personal daily development path for every employee.
Claybourne Appies
Founder, Lindi
Lindi is an on-demand marketplace connecting Deaf people with verified sign language interpreters in minutes, like e-hailing for sign language.
Dror Levy
Founder, BarVox
BarVox develops personalised speech technology that translates the vocalisations of people with speech difficulties into natural language.
Fernando Arias van Oordt
Founder, Klickie
klickie lives inside communities, answering members' requests for recommendations with one trusted name and a warm introduction.
George Greenbury
Founder, inkling
Inkling builds AI tutors that teach through natural conversation, bringing one-to-one teaching to every student.
Giulia Mambrini
Founder, Kubri
Kubri is an AI-native job marketplace that makes frontline talent discoverable through a simple WhatsApp conversation.
Heather Lyons
Founder, Kita
Kita is the metacognition layer for AI in education, letting teachers set the rules for AI use and see exactly how work was made.
Jimmy McLoughlin
Founder, Boxlight
Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is a media company exploring how technology, business and policy are reshaping work and education.
JT Cronje
Founder, Fluent
Fluent helps corporate teams use AI fluently, safely and profitably through training, strategy and governance.
June Angelides
Founder, MyPholyo
MyPholyo is the AI-powered platform helping portfolio professionals map, benchmark and grow careers across multiple income streams.
Katy Murray
Founder, Rewired
Rewired helps employers identify the candidates most likely to perform and adapt, assessing everyone fairly beyond the CV.
Lorna Cobbett
Founder, Blue John
Blue John delivers human capital due diligence for M&A, make people’s reputation visible beyond the top 10% to reveal hidden risks and untapped potential.
Maggie Bolger
Founder, Otii
Otii helps independent nurseries meet government standards, keep children safe and prove the good work they do.
Mark Francis
Founder, Preferrd
Preferrd is an agentic recruitment platform transforming hiring through incentivised referrals.
Matthew Page
Founder, Proof of Position
Proof of Position automates professional credential verification and builds a trusted recruiting ecosystem on top of it.
Pierre Nwoke
Founder, Sproutly
Sproutly builds smart financial infrastructure for education in Africa.
Shreya Prakash
Founder, FlexiBees
FlexiBees is the AI-powered talent platform connecting growing businesses with skilled women professionals seeking flexible work.
Tshaamano Mabuba
Founder, Buddy Learning
Buddy Learning's BuddyAI is a multilingual, low-data AI tutor that brings personalised learning to African students via WhatsApp.
Vanessa Wachtmeister
Founder, NearFar
NearFar helps jobseekers land the right role faster, using AI coaching and smart matching across 30+ countries.
Will Spencer
Founder, Rest Easier
Rest Easier helps employers support their people's financial wellbeing, from estate planning to life-event protection.
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