The Monetary Occasions, and analysis firm, Statista have launched a report on Africa’s fastest growing companies 2023. The record highlights how the highest 100 African companies from throughout completely different sectors—fintech, renewable vitality, healthcare, commodities and agriculture—stored their companies afloat whereas a lot of the world’s companies shut down.

The report ranks the highest 100 firms in accordance with the best compound annual development (CAGR) in revenues between 2018 and 2021.

Topping the record is Nigerian-based startup Afex Commodities Exchange and Moniepoint. Afex Commodities Alternate, which offers brokerage and commerce finance providers for commodities similar to maize, sorghum, cocoa, and rice, is available in first place whereas Moniepoint, an organization that provides banking providers for small companies, got here in  second. 

Kenya’s Wasoko, which headed the record the earlier 12 months, is available in third. The e-commerce firm helps small merchants entry stock by means of extra environment friendly provide chains in seven African international locations. 

Althoughfintech and IT/software program sectors had been extremely represented within the record, an intensive variety of company exercise was additionally current on the record. The fastest-growing firms embrace a  Namibian vineyard—Silverland Vineyards, a Kenyan fish farm—Victory Farms, a South African firm that conducts distant listening to assessments—Hearx and renewable vitality firms, Altech and Easy Solar within the Democratic Republic of Congo and one other firm in Sierra Leone.

The standards for being adjudged on the record of Africa’s Quickest Rising Corporations is for firms to have generated “revenues of a minimum of $100,000 in 2018 and income of a minimum of US $1.5mn generated in 2021”. Additionally, listed firms should be “impartial (the corporate shouldn’t be a subsidiary or department workplace of any variety) and the corporate’s operational headquarters are situated in one of many African international locations.” Corporations’ income between the watch interval (2018-2021) must be “internally stimulated” and purely natural.