Past incubatees

DFTR simplifies financial management for small businesses that rely on manual bookkeeping. DFTR provides a user-friendly platform designed for ease of use, even for those with limited digital experience. By digitizing financial records, DFTR automates bookkeeping, saving time and effort, and allowing business owners to focus on growth. It helps keep personal, business, and group finances distinct, improving organization, financial transparency, and empowering better financial decisions.

Founders: Leah Kanyi, Frank Rweye (MS ECE '22)
Geographical focus: Tanzania/Kenya/Rwanda

HOVA AI provides SMEs with real-time data analytics and insights that will enable business optimization, better decision-making, and ultimately drive growth in the retail industry. In essence, HOVA is providing the tools SMEs need to survive and thrive in a dynamic, complex business landscape.

Founders: Arsene Muhire, Xavier Ncuti
Geographical focus: Rwanda

Nora provides a convenient and accessible platform to users, offering a secure way to conduct financial transactions while leveraging data to enhance the overall customer experience. Nora allows users to send and receive money, pay bills, purchase goods and services, manage their finances, know their customers, broaden businesses' customers, and access credit and insurance services on their mobile phones.

Founders: Bereket Habteslasie
Geographical focus: Rwanda

WeEducate offers personalized tutoring services for primary and secondary students in Rwanda. Aimed to provide customized learning materials to every student, tailored to their specific needs and delivered by expert tutors and industry professionals. Also provides real-time monitoring tools to assess students' progress and performance.

Founders: Elizabeth Ujeneza, Rose Mary Happiness, Gladys Inabeza, Joselyne
Dusabe
Geographical focus: Rwanda

SLS Energy transforms battery waste into reliable, affordable power. Their repurposed EV and e-waste batteries deliver 100 percent uptime at a fraction of the cost—cutting emissions by up to 65 percent while keeping your operations running 24/7.

Founders: Léandre Berwa, Chris Karera and Patrick Ntwari
Geographical focus: Rwanda

Hepta Analytics was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda with an office in Nairobi, Kenya. They specialize in various practice areas under data science and analytics to transform raw data into information and insights that empower businesses to make informed decisions. Regardless of data volume, variety or velocity, they help their customers discover hidden patterns in their data. Hepta Analytics is home to Africa’s best data engineers skills in data analytics, data visualization, machine learning and infrastructure and security.

Founders: Sylvia Makario, Emmanuel Chebukati, and Victoria Munguti
Geographical focus: East Africa, with core operations and corporate footprints incorporated in Kigali, Rwanda and Nairobi, Kenya

Inter Connect Point LLC. provides innovative solutions that leverage leading market technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), advanced data models, and artificial intelligence, leading research and development for people and machine-to-machine connections. Their founding experience is agri-tech and agri-industry processing automation, rare earth mineral exploration, smart city solution designs, development, and implementation.

Founders: Abraham Natukunda
Geographical focus: East Africa: Active regional deployment across Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda