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With a focus on sustainability and innovation, Mukuru Clean Stoves aims to reduce the negative impact of traditional stoves and charcoal on the environment and people’s health. Their solution? An efficient and affordable cookstove that uses up to 50% less charcoal and reduces carbon emissions and toxic fumes. But their impact does not end there. Mukuru Clean Stoves is scaling up a women-led clean cookstove value chain in Kenya, employing local women artisans and technicians to manufacture the cookstoves from recycled materials. To date, the startup has sold over 250,000 clean cookstoves in Kenya, enabling families to save over $20 Million in fuel costs and impacting the lives of over 1,200,000 people.Mukuru Clean Stoves was founded in 2017 by Charlot Magayi.

The state of B2B and end-to-end distribution in Africa is still in its early stages of development, but it is growing rapidly.

Payhippo is a Nigerian fintech startup that provides loans and other financial services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

SeamlessHR is a Nigerian startup that provides cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions for medium to large-sized companies in several African countries.