About Akha
Making African SMEs
investable.
African SMEs generate 80% of the continent's employment but receive less than 20% of formal credit. We're building the infrastructure to close that gap.
R1.7T
SME financing gap
70%
Rejected for poor docs
80%
Of African employment
<20%
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The Problem
Funding readiness
is broken.
SMEs don't know what funders want. Funders can't find qualified deal flow. Consultants lack tools to demonstrate impact. The result: a R1.7 trillion financing gap that grows every year.
No standardised readiness benchmark
Manual, opaque due diligence processes
Document chaos across email and drives
Zero visibility into why applications fail
Our Solution
A data-driven path
from readiness to funding.
Readiness Scoring
A standardised 0–500 score across six dimensions that funders trust. No more subjective assessments.
Document Verification
AI validates documents against CIPC, SARS, and regulatory registries. Automated, auditable, instant.
AI Matching
Connects verified SMEs with funders whose mandates match their profile. Both sides save time.
Virtual Data Room
Bank-grade encrypted document storage with granular access controls and immutable audit trails.
Remediation Roadmaps
AI-generated action plans that tell you exactly what to fix, in what order, to improve your score.
Impact Analytics
Track readiness improvements over time. Demonstrate measurable progress to all stakeholders.
Mission
To make every viable African SME visible, verified, and investable.
We believe capital should flow to where it creates the most impact. Akha builds the trust infrastructure that makes this possible, replacing guesswork with data, opacity with transparency, and exclusion with access.
Values
Transparency
Every score, every match, every access is explained and auditable.
Data Sovereignty
Your data is yours. We never share without explicit consent.
Rigour
We apply the same standards institutional funders use.
Inclusion
Built for the 80% of SMEs that formal finance overlooks.
Regulatory Framework
Built on compliance.
POPIA
Compliant
FICA
Compliant
CIPC
Compliant
SARS
Compliant
B-BBEE
Compliant
NCA
Compliant