A total of 25 companies have been selected for the 2024 Tech Nation Libra Programme (a curating community and education for under-represented tech founders to support scale and growth).
The 25 shortlisted visionary founders and their ground-breaking companies joining Libra in 2024 are:
🚚 aTrace – seamless control over your supply chain
🛒 Bakkali – making grocery shopping for cultural communities easier
🌸 Brarista – AI-enabled bra expert
🤖 Bot Theory – the first Web 3.0 Learning Metaverse for children
📊 Deep Loop – generative AI supercharged analytics
📈🏗 Ecolens – supply chain data to measure construction emissions
📅 Elifa – digital vault for legacy planning and preservation
🏙️ FueGo. – AI powered curator of travel and cultural experiences
🚗 Finalrentals – sky-rocketing eCommerce sales of car rental companies
💰Genzaar – Gamified money management and education
🏡 Greenworkx – delivering a workforce to solve the green skills emergency
💸 meCash – seamlessly send and receive money across borders
🎓 Microfon – tailored education financing platform
🚇 Nowii – Gamifying sustainable public transport
👨👩👧👦 playroom – reducing the mental load of parenting through connection
✨Tech1M (Techstars ‘23) – a powerful platform to attract and hire talent
💻 TEVR – customisable and immersive virtual art galleries
✈️Travel Creators – Trips curated by a community of travel creators
🏙️TRC – The one-stop-shop to launch smart city services
👩⚕️UNNDOO – platform for experienced and vetted facial aesthetic procedures
🛡️Unyte Africa – enables business to seamlessly integrate insurance offerings
📋Vendoir – one-stop-shop for seamless and sustainable event planning
👩🎨Vieunite – a platform for artists to sell art in a digital format globally
🩸WUKA – comfortable, reusable, sustainable period pants
💳Zido – end-to-end supplier sourcing, invoicing and payment solutions
Says Chantelle Young (Libra lead at Tech Nation)): “With Libra, we’re not just launching a programme; we’re contributing to real change in the tech industry. Our mission is to spotlight exceptional founders from underrepresented backgrounds and pave the way for a more inclusive ecosystem. Libra exists because the tech industry hasn’t quite figured out how to recognise and nurture diverse talent. These founders are part of the solution because they exist, thrive, and excel despite the systemic issues in the industry”.