Our story
Helping African-owned businesses be seen, trusted, and grow
Across Europe, brilliant businesses go unseen — not for lack of quality, but for lack of a place built to help them be found. We're here to change that.
Our story
Across Europe, brilliant businesses go unseen — not for lack of quality, but for lack of a place built to help them be found. We're here to change that.
What we saw
The work was never the problem. Being found was.
Across Europe, there are restaurants serving food people would travel for, salons doing work clients rave about, and professionals quietly excellent at what they do. And yet so many of them stay hidden — hard to find, hard to verify, easy to overlook. Not because they aren’t good enough, but because no platform was built to help them be seen, trusted, and chosen. Customers miss out on businesses they’d love. Owners miss out on customers who are looking for exactly them.
What we believe
A great business should be enough to be found.
Customers deserve to know, at a glance, who they can trust.
Businesses rise faster together than they ever do alone.
What we’re building
Afro-Europe is a business growth platform. We don’t just help a business appear somewhere — we help it become more visible, more credible, easier to find, and better positioned to grow. The listing is only where it starts. The goal is what comes after: customers, credibility, and momentum.
Built for both sides
Discover trusted African-owned restaurants, shops, salons, and professionals across Europe — ✓ verified, reviewed, and easy to reach. Find businesses you'll love, with the confidence that they're real and recommended.
Get found by new customers, build credibility with a verified profile, and grow with tools designed to turn visibility into business — no website required.
Built on purpose
The founder
Designer, developer & founder · Switzerland
I’m Beti. I design brands and build websites for a living — and for years I kept meeting the same person: talented, building something valuable, and still almost impossible to find online.
I’m also one of the people Afro-Europe is built for.
I’m Ethiopian. Finding a restaurant that tastes like home, or a salon that actually knows my hair, was never simple. With professionals, the gap is wider still. Try finding an African consultant, accountant, or coach in your city. They’re there — finding them is the hard part.
And building my own business here in Switzerland, I know the other side of it: you can work incredibly hard and still stay invisible.
This isn’t a problem I read about. It’s one I live.
So I built Afro-Europe. One place where African-owned businesses can be found — restaurants, shops and salons, and the professionals who have always been hardest to find. Somewhere people can discover them, trust them, and choose them.
And it was never meant to be just a listing. We help businesses present themselves better, promote what they do, and stay visible as they grow.
Because visibility isn’t a one-off. It’s something you build.
From the very beginning, Afro-Europe has been shaped by the businesses who believed in it first — our Founding Partners.
Where we’re going
We’re starting in Switzerland, and we’re not stopping there. The vision is a trusted, connected ecosystem of African-owned businesses across Europe — where customers discover businesses they can rely on, and businesses discover customers, partners, and each other.
GENEVA → SWITZERLAND → EUROPE
Afro-Europe is built for both. Find your place in it.