Ten Senses Africa is using blockchain and cold chain technologies to unlock operational inefficiencies, reduce post-harvest losses and increase revenues and incomes in the macadamia and avocado supply chains. To-date the firm is working with over 20,000 macadamia and avocado farmers whose farm income margins have improved by over 30% as a result of enhanced market access and a reduction in post-harvest losses.

Hello Tractor is creating access to affordable tractor use for mechanized ploughing by smallholder farmers through an Uber-like tractor-hailing app.

To-date, they have expanded tractor access and use for over 23, 000 smallholder farmers through a marketplace for tractor owners and local farmers.

ZUMI has developed an e-commerce platform that eliminates transactional barriers for small scale women informal apparel retailers, enabling them to place and receive orders from the comfort of their stalls, increasing their revenues and growing their businesses.

To-date, the platform is serving over 4,000 women informal retailers who have registered increased trade and income due to the enhanced efficiencies in transactions.

Africa AI Labs is expanding opportunities for youth employment through business process outsourcing as data labellers for a variety of technology companies like Tesla.

To-date, over 1,000 young people from the slums around Nairobi and Nakuru have secured decent jobs through this initiative.

TWIVA has built a social e-commerce platform that links SMEs and their products with social influencers and creates an avenue to larger and sustainable markets for the products developed by the SMEs.

The company is targeting over 3,000 SMEs and some 7,000 local social influencers.

Somo Africa is using a USSD-based platform called digikua to help SMEs digitise their inventories and financial records, improve on their business management and financial modelling, access increased external funds and grow.

To-date the firm is working with over 1,500 SMEs who are enjoying the services provided via the digikua platform.

Arifu Ltd is using a digital-enabled business management module to enable MSMEs to learn and digitise their transactions in order to better adapt to e-commerce and stay resilient to economic shocks.

Duka Technologies Ltd (MarketForce) is working with MSMEs to diversify revenue streams through digital payment services To–date over 25,000 MSMEs have been via the digiduka solution.