The builders, labs, and operators shaping Africa's deep tech frontier.

AI Saturdays Lagos

🇳🇬NigeriaCommunity, Education

An active learning community which promotes Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Lagos. We organize structured study groups around core AI fields like Machine Learning, Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Algorine

🇺🇸USAAI NLP

They have developed Machine Translation (MT) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Apps on Web and Mobile, and APIs for languages typically not covered by such tools in Africa

Alliance 4 AI

🇿🇦South AfricaAI, Government , Policy

Organization working with governments, startups, informal and formal education centres and foreign OEMs to ensure Africa stays ready to adopt and contribute to ground-breaking technologies of the future

Pre-Seed

Amazethu

🇺🇸USAAfrican Languages AI

Transform your language learning journey with our listen-and-speak interactive audio programs. You'll learn languages naturally and be able to speak with confidence in no time!

Amini uses artificial intelligence and satellite technology to bridge Africa's environmental data gap

Arnegy

🇳🇬NigeriaSolar, Cleantech

clean tech startup that deals in distributed renewable energy products and solutions,

Atarec

🇲🇦MoroccoRenewable Energy

Moroccan startup that wants to position itself as a leader in innovative third-generation renewable energy solutions and its applications, with the aim of ensuring its partners' autonomy in green energy

Bio RAMP

🇺🇸USAHealth AI

global multidisciplinary research community at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence.

Black Rhino VR

🇰🇪KenyaEducation (XR)

XR Studio accelerating the adoption of immersive technologies in Africa by empowering the youth to be the XR innovators and inventors of the future

Cerenyi AI

CanadaAI Productivity

Natural language interaction for enterprise systems

Cleverlytics

🇲🇦MoroccoAI, Data Science

Cleverlytics is a Data Science and AI company, University Mohamed 6 Polytechnic spin-off, based in Morocco, that helps organizations to solve complex problems through Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics

Clintonell Innovation Center

🇳🇬NigeriaHardware, Mechanical Engineering

Nigeria's 1st Makerspace, Clintonel Innovation Centre (CIC) builds capacity for innovation and products development.

Data Science Africa

🇰🇪KenyaCommunity, Education

Creating a hub in the network of data science researchers across Africa, by: - Providing an index of researchers and practitioners in the field of Data Science in Africa - Developing a set of lecture and notes resources - Links and sources of information and potential data sources - In the future a discussion forum to discuss Data Science questions - An online presence for data science conferences and workshops

Datawise Africa

🇰🇪KenyaAI / Data

Datawise Africa specialises in AI/ML consultation, data-centric growth strategies, and business automation

Deep Echo

🇲🇦MoroccoAI, Healthcare

Deepecho is a healthtech using advanced explainable AI on ultrasound dynamic imagery to prevent avoidable fetal mortality

Deepstack

🇳🇬NigeriaAI, Computing

The World's Leading Cross Platform AI Engine for Edge Devices, with over 10 million installs on Docker Hub. DeepStack is an AI API engine that serves pre-built models and custom models on multiple edge devices locally or on your private cloud.

Drogo

🇳🇬NigeriaProductivity, AI Assistants

Drogo is a performance-based project management system that leverages AI to both measure and predict Staff performance

DSN AI

🇳🇬NigeriaAI

building hyperlocal, augmented, and context-rich text and audio datasets, models, and applications to unlock generative AI for the next billion local speakers in Africa.

Pre-Seed

Fedha

🇺🇸USAFinTech

Borderless Money Transfer

Fimio

🇺🇸USAAI, Big Data

Building version control over data-centric workflows.

Gearbox

🇰🇪KenyaHardware, Mechanical Engineering

Provides a space around which a supportive ecosystem for hardware innovators and entrepreneurs has been built. This includes a prototyping facility providing SMEs, startups and innovators access to tools that would typically be beyond their reach.

Hair Robotics is building a next-generation machine for braiding hair. For women who want salon-grade braids, the only option is an extremely time consuming and expensive treatment that can occur once per month. In a world where our time is increasingly highly valuable, we’re building a robot to automate extremely high-quality braiding.

HawKar is providing an adapted, accessible and sustainable smart car for anyone having a physical disability, wishing to have a car and need to move every day!

Extended Reality (XR) creation lab focused on building the XR ecosystem in Africa. We are dedicated to growing a community of African AR/VR creators, creating solutions using AR/VR, and providing educational and engagement experiences with AR/VR.

Acquired

Instadeep

🇹🇳TunisiaAI

InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise.

Intron Health

NIgeria, USAGeneral Deep Tech

research led team (ex AWS) that is using AI to facilitate transcription (tuned to African accents) to digitise medical records faster and save time for doctors - In research papers, they’ve shown that their African-accent models outperforms popular speech recognition models.

Izifin

UKAI, Data Science

IziFin is a configurable and affordable Embedded Intelligence Operating System, enabling a range of easy to integrate Artificial Intelligent (A.I.) Apps

Kera Health Platforms Inc.

🇸🇳SenegalAI

AI-powered platform connecting & augmenting healthcare providers and communities for healthier lives in Africa.

Koniku.com

🇺🇸USA Biotech Reserach

Biotech Research Company

Lanfrica

GermanyAI NLP

Lanfrica catalogues and links African language resources in order to mitigate the difficulty encountered in discovering African works.

Lelapa

🇿🇦South AfricaAI NLP

Lelapa plans to train models on languages from southern Africa that are not high on Silicon Valley priority lists, to power translation and other forms of automated text processing. That would have applications in communications, education, and business.

Loistify

General Deep Tech

Build solutions to optimise warehouses and use AI in several ways such as inventory identification and plate number recognition, they are one of the earliest users of Vision Transformers,

Masakhane

🇰🇪KenyaAI

grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.

Masteryhive

General Deep Tech

Transforming the insurance industry with purpose-built AI agents

Specialized in the Research, Design, and Development of Embedded System Hardware and Software

Myai.life

🇳🇬 🇺🇸Nigeria / USA Web3

My AI is the tech company behind the ingenious Me Protocol rewards infrastructure and Me Marketplace. The platform allows bands of any size to create rewards that can be instantly redeemed across loyalty programs from around the world. We call these Frictionless Open Rewards™, and they give brands all the control of a closed program with all the retention and new customer acquisition benefits of an open program, with one simple API integration.

Ndebe

🇺🇸USALanguages, Computing

Ńdébé is a modern writing system for the Ìgbò language.

Observability for Web3 and GenAI

SunbirdAI

🇺🇬UgandaResearch

An African technology initiative to create open, practical AI systems for community benefit.

SwiftXR

🇳🇬NigeriaXR

All You Need to Design, Build, and Share 3D, AR and VR Immersive Web Content in One Place

Talk & Comment

🇲🇦MoroccoLanguages, Utility

Talk&Comment lets you create voice notes inside any service on the web, including Google Classroom, Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook comments, Gmail, YouTube, Reddit, Slack, and more! Simply record your voice from the widget inside your browser, and paste the generated voice link anywhere you want.

TD 4 PAI IOT Hub

🇳🇬NigeriaHardware, IOT

Technology Development for Poverty Alleviation Initiative – TD4PAI is an NGO, IoT Hub, Innovation Charity and a space for invention and creation that enables innovative entrepreneurs and startups to build smart city and loT-based solutions. We are creators and developers, designers, creative techies and mentors building local capacity for connected systems enabled by Internet-of-Things, RFID, ar­tificial intelligence, embedded systems, and big data science.

We build low-cost, robotic systems for core industries.

Virtual Human Computer Interaction (VHCI) Lab

🇳🇬NigeriaResearch, Education

The Virtual Human Computer Interaction (VHCI) Lab is an immersive reality lab at the Lagos Business School, Nigeria. We do research at the intersection of psychology and technology. One of our project's aim is to teach empathy and compassion using VR.

Wicrypt

🇳🇬NigeriaBlockchain, Crypto, Computing

Wicrypt is a service that allows its users to get paid while sharing their WiFi. Wifi can be shared via Wicrypt routers or via your mobile phone. With Wicrypt, users can have access to more affordable internet data while also giving them the power to make money from it.

YATEOU

🇺🇸USARobotics, Fashion

A sustainable clean beauty and wellness robotics brand

Yoruba Voice

🇳🇬NigeriaAI, Language

A collection of 50 hours of crowdsourced speech data for the Yorùbá language, the third most spoken language in Africa with over 40 million people.