Category: Startups

Tunisian startup turns olive waste into clean energy

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Photos credit AFP In a northern Tunisian olive grove, Yassine Khelifi’s small workshop hums as a large machine turns olive waste into a valuable energy source in a country heavily reliant on imported fuel. For generations, rural households in Tunisia have burned olive waste for cooking and heating, or used it as animal feed. The International Olive Council estimated Tunisia will be the world’s third-largest olive oil producer in 2024-2025, with an expected yield of 340,000 tonnes. The waste generated by the oil extraction is staggering. Khelifi, an engineer who…

Tunisian legal-tech startup Juridoc secures funding round

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Photo credit disruptafrica Tunisian legal-tech startup Juridoc has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to help it accelerate the digitalisation of legal services in Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2021, Juridoc simplifies access to legal resources through a comprehensive database that includes legislation, case law, doctrine, and legal monitoring, disruptafrica reports. Its intelligent search engine, powered by generative AI, enables legal professionals, businesses, and institutions to optimise their work by quickly accessing reliable and up-to-date information. Already established in Tunisia and Senegal, Juridoc has over 252,000 documents available, 325,000 successful…

Tunisian Startup Flouci Among 50 Most Influential Fintechs in MENA in 2025

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Tunisian startup Flouci has been ranked among the 50 most influential fintech companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2025. This annual ranking, compiled by Forbes Middle East, highlights the region’s most impactful fintechs based on their growth, expansion, and influence between February 2024 and February 2025. Founded in 2020 by Anis Kallel and Nebras Jemel, Flouci offers a financial services application designed for individuals in Africa. The app enables users to open bank accounts with an international bank account number (IBAN) and savings accounts. It…

Tunisia injects $2.5 million to boost African technology startups

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Tunisia reinforces its commitment to technological innovation by investing $2.5 million in the pan-African venture capital fund “LoftyInc Alpha Fund I”. This initiative, led by the ANAVA fund of funds, financed by Tunisia’s Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and managed by Smart Capital, aims to support African technology startups in the seed phase, thereby strengthening the digital infrastructure across the continent. The ANAVA fund of funds is a key component of the national “Startup Tunisia” initiative, which aims to position Tunisia as an innovation hub at the intersection of…

A spiritual journey that only Liberta can offer

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Liberta Travel and Tourism, a pioneer in the field of organizing Hajj and Umrah trips, has managed to win the trust of Tunisians, thanks to its great efforts in organizing, good management and the ability to work under all conditions, in addition to its very reasonable prices for the high-end services it provides. It is not easy for a Hajj and Umrah company to gain the trust of all segments of society and all categories, as it won the bet after it was able to be the number one in…

1,146 startups have been accredited

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Nejia Gharbi, CEO of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations CDC, announced that 1,146 startups had so far been accredited under the national “Startup Tunisia” program, with remarkable regional variations in the number of accreditations. She added: “The regional roadshow for the Startups and Innovative SMEs Project revealed two main findings This announcement was made at the closing event of a regional tour of the Startups and Innovative SMEs Project, organized on Tuesday in Tunis by the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC). TunisianMonitorOnline (NejiMed)

Dabchy, Tunisia’s fashion e-commerce company, raises seven-figure pre-Series A funding round

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Tunisian circular fashion marketplace Dabchy has raised a seven-figure USD pre-Series A round of funding led by Janngo Capital, with participation from Renew Capital, Village Capital, and angel investors including Karim Beguir, the founder of InstaDeep. While the exact amount was not disclosed, the funding marks a significant milestone for the growing secondhand fashion platform. Founded in 2016 by Ameni Mansouri, Ghazi Ketata, and Oussama Mahjoub, Dabchy has built a community of more than 1.3 million users across Tunisia and Egypt, and currently serves more than 10 percent of the…

U.S.-funded initiative to strengthen Tunisia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

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The Promise Project, a U.S.-funded initiative to strengthen Tunisia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, is bringing Tunisian innovation talent and startups to CES 2025, the most powerful tech event in the world, for the first time, aiming to connect Tunisian entrepreneurs with the U.S. and global startup communities. Organized by the Tunisian American Young Professionals (TAYP), the booth will feature cutting-edge innovations from Tunisian startups in sectors such as AgTech, Energy, Robotics, Smart Cities, and Food Tech. The exhibit will spotlight Tunisia’s dynamic startup ecosystem with special guests and live demonstrations throughout the CES event. Additionally, the program will…

Flouci: financial superapp for individuals, businesses to create free bank account, mobile wallet via smartphone

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Anis Kallel is the co-founder and CTO of Flouci (By Kaoun), a Tunisian-based fintech startup working to revolutionise digital banking in Francophone Africa by developing identification, payment and credit solutions tailored to the unbanked and underbanked. Flouci is a financial super-app that allows individuals and businesses to create a free bank account and mobile wallet via smartphone, while accessing a range of financial and government services. Inspired by the potential of technology to reduce barriers to entry for the underbanked and underserved, Flouci is addressing a critical need in a…

Five things to know about Tunisia’s tech and startup ecosystem

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Photo Credit The Condia Tunisia, is home to two of Africa’s high-profile exits, Instadeep and Expensya. Yet, not much is known about the country’s tech ecosystem. This article fixes that. Tunisia, Africa’s northernmost country, often flies under the radar in discussions about the continent’s tech and startup ecosystems. You might have heard of Tunisia through the historic exit of InstaDeep, which marked the largest M&A deal in Africa last year. In many ways, InstaDeep epitomises the typical archetype of a Tunisian startup: a deep-tech solution, born in Tunisia, headquartered in the…