One directory. Three audiences.
Founders need visibility. Investors need deal flow. Corporates need vendors. We're putting all three in the same room.
Get discovered. Earn the badge.
List your product alongside the wider African SaaS ecosystem, claim a founder profile, and earn the "Built in Africa" mark — a small signal that says you're part of something bigger than your own landing page.
- check_smallFree founding listings while we build
- check_smallFounder profile with photo, bio, LinkedIn
- check_smallEmbeddable "Built in Africa" badge for your site
A one-line description of what you do. Searchable by category, country, and pricing tier.
Curated deal flow.
A private dashboard of African SaaS founders, filtered by stage, country and category — with contact details and growth signals.
Source African vendors.
A clean place to find vendor-ready African SaaS for procurement, partnerships and supplier-diversity programmes.
One African SaaS company you should know — every Friday.
A short, curated profile of a founder building from the continent. Delivered to investors, operators and operators-in-waiting. We write it. Founders share it. The directory grows.
Built across the continent.
Filter by country, category, or pricing tier. Find the products and people behind African software, without scrolling LinkedIn for an hour.
The "Built in Africa" badge.
A small, embeddable mark for the founders building from the continent. Drop it on your landing page, your footer, or your pitch deck — every badge is a node in a network we're growing together.
- codeOne-line embed. Lightweight SVG.
- linkLinks back to your founder profile.
- verifiedFree for every listed founder.
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</a>A directory, then a profile, then a community.
We're building this in public, in three phases. Here's where we are and what's next.
The directory.
A clean, searchable database of African SaaS products. Filter by country, category and pricing tier. Free founding listings.
- check_smallSubmit your product
- check_smallCountry & category filters
- check_smallPublic launch at 80+ listings
Founder profiles & the badge.
From a product directory to a people directory. Photo, bio, LinkedIn, product cards — and the embeddable "Built in Africa" mark.
- circleClaimable founder profiles
- circle"Built in Africa" badge
- circleInvestor view (private beta)
Spotlight & community.
A weekly founder spotlight, a newsletter, and lightweight community surfaces — so listings turn into connections.
- circleFounder spotlight (weekly)
- circleNewsletter
- circleAccelerator partnerships
Help shape what gets built.
We're talking to founders, investors, and corporates one at a time before launch. If you're building, funding, or buying African software, we'd love to hear from you.