Cynoia

Cynoia is a cloud-based, all-in-one workspace for African businesses and organisations that want to manage projects, communication, and meetings in one place.

Key capabilities include:

• Project and task management with status tracking (for example to-do, in progress, done), clear task ownership, workload visibility, and budget tracking inside projects.
• Team chat and collaboration with organised channels, mentions, and built-in file sharing to keep discussions and documents tied to day-to-day work.
• Video and audio calls for instant and scheduled meetings, including screen sharing and participant management, built to work reliably even on slower internet connections.
• Calendar and notes with reminders, multiple calendars, Google Calendar integration, real-time collaborative notes, rich text editing, and voice-to-text capture.
• Hannibal AI to generate, edit, summarise, translate, and re-tone text in 20+ languages, embedded into team workflows.
• Automation workflows with conditional triggers, automatic notifications, intelligent assignment rules, and a visual drag-and-drop editor.
• Security controls including two-factor authentication (2FA) and active session management.

Available on Web.

It targets startups, SMEs, NGOs, educational institutions, and larger enterprises across Africa that want to centralise collaboration, reduce tool sprawl, and coordinate work across distributed teams.

Notable for its explicit focus on African work realities, including low-bandwidth optimisation, pricing positioned for local budgets (including Wave Mobile Money payments), a 14-day free trial without a card, and recognition as “best SaaS startup” at AfricArena Grand Summit 2024. The company also states it is pursuing ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and SOC 2 certifications.