A comprehensive review of how jobtech platforms can make labour mobility from Africa ethical, scalable, and efficient, replacing exploitation with real pathways to global demand.
Every year, 12 million Africans start looking for work. But Africa’s formal economy only creates 3 million formal jobs. At the same time, countries in Europe and the Gulf desperately need tens of millions of workers. So the talent is there, yet the labour mobility systems meant to connect them are broken, messy, and often harmful.
That’s exactly what we tackled in this scan. It maps how a new wave of jobtech platforms is stepping in to fix this.
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
- Why labour mobility does more to fight poverty than almost any other intervention, and why this is the right moment to act
- Where demand is growing fastest: nurses heading to Europe, tradespeople to Germany, builders and hospitality staff to the Gulf, and farm workers to Southern Europe
- A first-of-its-kind map of 20+ platforms already working across these corridors
- How the best platforms are scrapping worker fees, automating paperwork, and turning one-off placements into repeat hiring pipelines
- What funders and founders should back in 2026: our investment thesis
This scan draws on years of hands-on work with over 100 platforms. It also includes investor and operator interviews, policy analysis, and lessons from our Cross-Border Jobs Startup Competition.
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