Organisers of the 2025 Africa Tech Summit Awards on Tuesday announced a list of winners. The summit, which took place in Nairobi on February 12 and 13, 2025, honoured innovators and businesses influencing the continent’s tech sector.
The event, powered by Raenest, brought together more than 1,600 tech leaders from over 65 countries to promote investment and business in the African tech ecosystem.
Lauren Adair, Director of Africa Tech Summit, said: “The Awards were created to celebrate tech companies driving business and growth across a range of sectors and it was fantastic to host so many finalists doing this, all in one room.”
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2025 Africa Tech Summit Award winners and categories
The Africa Tech Summit Awards honour accomplishments in two individual categories and eleven sector categories. Here is the list of the winners, featuring their originating countries, the services they offer and categories they won.
Africa Tech Summit 2025 individual winners
Chinwe Udo-Davis (Nigeria): Chinwe wins the Female Tech Innovator award. She is the CEO and co-founder of Instollar, a green energy marketplace that aims to solve Africa’s lack of access to dependable, clean energy, especially in underserved and rural areas. By teaching women how to install solar panels, InstallHer gives them the skills they need to succeed in the green economy.
Maxwell Opondo (Kenya): Maxwell wins the Young Tech Innovator award. Students with hearing impairments can now connect and communicate in real time thanks to Maxwell Opondo’s creation of Zerobionic, a robotic arm that can respond to sign language.
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Africa Tech Summit 2025 sector winners
Mazao AgClimate Limited (Tanzania): Mazao wins the Agritech Award. In order to maintain ecological balance and food security, MazaoHub seeks to improve soil health, lessen reliance on fertilisers, and stop environmental degradation, as over 50 million smallholder farmers face the loss of arable land as a result of excessive use of synthetic fertilisers and deforestation.
Cassava Technologies (South Africa): Cassava Technologies wins the AI Award for leading the way in AI-powered infrastructure to improve cloud services, cybersecurity, and connectivity. Their inventions support Africa’s digital economy by guaranteeing that people and companies can obtain safe, scalable, and reasonably priced digital solutions.
Sabi (Nigeria) – Climate Tech Award: With the help of blockchain technology, Sabi’s Technology Rails for African Commodity Exchange (TRACE) platform provides real-time traceability, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance, and carbon tracking for commodities like as copper, lithium, and cocoa.
Flutterwave (Nigeria) – Cross Border Payments Award: With the help of Flutterwave’s Send App, people and companies can send money quickly and easily across more than 35 nations, including the US, UK, Canada, Nigeria, and Kenya.
OmniRetail (Nigeria): OmniRetail wins the Digital Commerce Award for digitising the retail sector by streamlining distribution and enabling improved access to vital items. Retail commerce in Africa is severely fragmented, with approximately 90 per cent of shops dependent on the conventional distribution system.
Ikusasa Technology Solutions (South Africa): Ikusasa wins the EdTech Award for promoting inclusive education and digitising vocational training through its SMART Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) project.
Smile ID (Nigeria) – Enterprise Award: With more than 400 million people in Africa lacking valid identification, identity verification is extremely difficult. Smile ID fills this gap by offering cutting-edge technologies that enable safe transactions, lower the risk of fraud, and instantly verify identities.
My Pregnancy Journey (South Africa) – FemTech Award: The first maternal digital health app with an African focus, My Pregnancy Journey wins this award for providing culturally appropriate pregnancy tracking, connections to local health professionals, and a digital ecosystem that helps women from conception to the postpartum period.
HUB2 (Mauritius) – FinTech Award: In Francophone Africa, cross-border payments are still complicated because there are more than 100 independent banks and mobile money providers. It is difficult for firms to integrate and navigate payment systems because of this fragmentation. By offering a single API that combines bitcoin, bank transfers, card payments, and mobile money, HUB2 solves this problem and streamlines the transaction process.
Zuri Health (Kenya) – Health Tech Award: Zuri Health is a cutting-edge digital healthcare platform that guarantees accessible and reasonably priced healthcare throughout Africa. Through websites, WhatsApp, SMS, and mobile apps, Zuri Health provides patients with chronic care management, pharmacy delivery, AI-powered diagnostics, and virtual consultations.
MiniPay (Nigeria) – Web3 Award: In emerging nations, millions of individuals lack access to basic financial services, and many people are intimidated by blockchain technology and cryptocurrency products. MiniPay is an Opera Mini integration that facilitates quick and inexpensive peer-to-peer transactions with USD Coin (USDC), Tether (USDT), and Celo Dollar (cUSD).
