OpenMarket Global is building the missing market layer for Africa and the Global South: a verified marketplace for skincare & health products, crop & plant inputs, a careful health & crop advisor, and a live voice translator that speaks the languages people actually use.
We are not here to be another “app”. We are here to connect real producers, real clinics, real NGOs and real families to products, answers and language support they can trust.
Chief Designer & Developer – OpenMarket Global
“OpenMarket Global started as a simple frustration: too many good people, products and ideas in Africa were invisible when serious buyers and partners were actually looking. At the same time, families, farmers and clinics were scrolling through confusing feeds when they just needed a clear, careful answer in their own language.
We are building tools that respect time and reality: a marketplace where verified suppliers can stand next to global brands, a health and crop advisor that explains things in plain language, and a live translator that lets people talk across borders without waiting for a conference or a consultant.
If you are an investor, NGO, company or government unit that is serious about long-term local supply, safety and dignity, we should be in the same room. This is not about another app launch; it is about building the rails that African products, voices and decisions can run on – with you, not around you.”
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Across the continent, three needs keep repeating:
We respond with three connected tools:
Across Africa and emerging markets, the problem is not a lack of innovation. It is a lack of visibility, trust and simple tools that fit real conditions: low data, high WhatsApp, busy clinics, crowded WhatsApp groups and scattered pilots.
Thousands of pilots and grants prove local products and models every year. Then the projects end, and the innovators slide back into the informal shadows. Buyers cannot see them. Doctors and nurses cannot find them. NGOs keep training “beneficiaries” without turning them into visible suppliers.
OpenMarket Global exists to make those efforts count for longer:
If you make or distribute skincare, health or crop inputs, or you run a clinic or lab, you can:
Action: List your product / institution
We help you move from “50 women trained” to “50 suppliers visible and contacted” by:
Action: Talk to Partnerships
Your capital and partnerships can turn OpenMarket Global into a stable layer for entire ecosystems:
Action: email us with “Investment / Partnership” in the subject and we will respond with a short, concrete proposal.
We are a small, focused team. We build, test, ship and adjust in real conditions with users – not in theory. We prioritise:
These articles dive deeper into the patterns we see every day – from pilot projects and “beneficiaries” to cross-border trade frictions and global days that affect real markets.
Thousands of pilots across Africa prove that local solutions work – then disappear when grants end. This article unpacks the “pilot trap” and shows how OpenMarket Global keeps pilots alive by turning them into suppliers buyers can actually find and message.
Most programmes still report “50 women trained” instead of “50 suppliers created”. This piece follows a women’s cooperative and shows how listing them on OpenMarket Global flips the script – from being counted in a PDF to being contacted by hotels, clinics and shops.
Africa is branded the “next growth frontier”, but capital still clusters in a few tech hubs and business models. This article shows how a verified marketplace of real suppliers – not just pitch decks – can help investors see and support the full stack of businesses that keep clinics, farms and shops running.
A Liberian brand ready for Ghana, a Kenyan supplier ready for Uganda – and a maze of forms, standards and trust gaps in between. This article maps those frictions and explains how shared discovery and verification can help African products move as easily as imports.
Through the story of Ama, a nurse, and Kofi, a local distributor, this article explores how the HIV response still leans heavily on imports and how community-based suppliers can remain part of HIV-related supply chains when they are visible on platforms like OpenMarket Global.
Following Sifa’s attempt to win a hospital hygiene contract, this piece shows what corruption and opacity feel like from an SME’s perspective – and how a broader, verified pool of suppliers on OpenMarket Global can make procurement feel more open and honest.
Human Rights Day is usually discussed in legal terms. This article follows Mariama, a graduate of a women’s programme, and asks what the rights to health and work look like when measured in actual orders, clinic partnerships and repeat customers.
OpenMarket Global handles data in a way that supports discovery and impact without turning our users into a product. Our principles:
If you have specific data or privacy questions, please contact us via the email listed on our Contact page and mention “Data protection” in the subject line.