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Baobab Zone Co

Baobab.Zone Co is building an Africa-first economic infrastructure platform designed for low-income, mobile-first users with low digital literacy.

The platform combines a lightweight marketplace, embedded financial services, and an AI-powered Demand Radar that transforms everyday transactions into predictive market intelligence.

Baobab enables users to participate in the digital economy without technical knowledge, while SMEs gain access to financial tools and digital infrastructure.

Our model is based on participation-driven trust, allowing users to build reputation, access financial services

The Land Bank Handed Founders the Funder’s Scorecard. Here Are the 10 Things You’re Really Judged On.

In Part 1, we learned that funders can’t back a business they can’t see. In Part 2, the Land Bank’s Litha Kutta showed exactly what they read once they can. The session was about agriculture — the lesson belongs to every founder. (Part 2 of the Innovation Bridge Portal’s series covering the SME...

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IQ4EV

IQ4EV (Pty) Ltd is a Johannesburg-based electric vehicle (EV) data analytics and consulting company focused on optimising the performance, reliability, and commercial viability of EV charging infrastructure. The company was founded to address a critical gap in the African EV ecosystem: the lack of accessible, actionable intelligence from charging station data.

At the core of IQ4EV’s offering is its proprietary platform, Pulse360. Pulse360 ingests and processes EV charger data (including OCPP messages such as MeterValues, StatusNotifications, and BootNotifications) to generate real-time and