Africa Deep Tech Directory

Africa Deep Tech Directory

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Amazethu

Founder(s): Babatunde Oladimeji

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: African 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!

Pre-SeedEdtech (Languages)

β€œBuild models that will make it possible to one day have an Alexa for African languages”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

Imisi 3D

Founder(s): Judith Okonkwo

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Education (XR)

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.

Education

β€œEnsure that Africa plays a role in building the future of XR”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

Hawkar

Founder(s): Khadija Jallouli

Location: πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡³ Tunisia

Focus: Smart Electric Car

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!

Automotive
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

Terrahaptix

Founder(s): Maxwell Maduka

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Robotics, Drones

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

Pre-seedDefense and Space Manufacturing

β€œHome grown robotics”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Black Rhino VR

Founder(s): Brian Afande MICHAEL ILAKO

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

Focus: Education (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

Education
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Clintonell Innovation Center

Founder(s): Tochukwu Clinton Chukwueke

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Hardware, Mechanical Engineering

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

Manufacturing / Education

β€œScale industrial design education”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Wicrypt

Founder(s): Ugochukwu Aronu

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Blockchain, 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.

Telecoms, Blockchain

β€œNetworking and computing reimagined for Africa”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Deepstack

Founder(s): Moses Olafenwa John Olafenwa

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: AI, 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.

Computing

β€œWorks online or offline. Can solve our local compute challenges”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Ndebe

Founder(s): Lotanna Igwe-Odunze

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: Languages, Computing

ΕƒdΓ©bΓ© is a modern writing system for the ÌgbΓ² language.

Computing

β€œMake it easier to bring indigenous languages like Igbo into the internet age”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Talk & Comment

Founder(s): Zak El Fassi

Location: πŸ‡²πŸ‡¦ Morocco

Focus: Languages, 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.

Education

β€œBring African voices to the internet. You do not need to be literate to join the conversation on the internet”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Gearbox

Founder(s): Kamau Gachigi

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

Focus: Hardware, 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.

Education

β€œScale industrial design education”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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YATEOU

Founder(s): Dayo McIntosh

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: Robotics, Fashion

A sustainable clean beauty and wellness robotics brand

Fashion

β€œBeauty and Fashion for Africa”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

HairRobotics

Founder(s): Mah Kadidia KonatΓ©

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: Robotics, Fashion

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.

Fashion

β€œBeauty and Fashion for Africa”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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TD 4 PAI IOT Hub

Founder(s): Collins Agu

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Hardware, 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, arΒ­tificial intelligence, embedded systems, and big data science.

IOT
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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SwiftXR

Founder(s): Hammed Arowosegbe

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: XR

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

Utility
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Arnegy

Founder(s): Femi Adeyemo Kunle Odebunmi

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Solar, Cleantech

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

Energy

β€œReliable , Affordable , Accessible , Clean energy for the region”

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Myai.life

Founder(s): Paul Oamen Robert Wesley

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Nigeria / USA

Focus: 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 Rewardsβ„’, 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.

Finance / Commerce
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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DSN AI

Founder(s): Bayo Adekanmbi

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: AI

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.

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Masakhane

Founder(s): Kat Siminyu Jade Abott David Adelani

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

Focus: AI

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

Contributed by Baba Oladimeji
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Founder(s): Dr. Albert Kahira Paul Njoroge Brian Odhiambo

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

Focus: AI / Data

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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

Scale3

Founder(s): Ola Muse Karthik Kalyanaraman

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ USA / Nigeria

Focus: AI / Web3

Observability for Web3 and GenAI

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Koniku.com

Founder(s): Osh Agabi

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: Biotech Reserach

Biotech Research Company

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Instadeep

Founder(s): Karim Beguir

Location: πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡³ Tunisia

Focus: AI

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

AcquiredEnterprise
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Pastel

Founder(s): Olamide Oladeji

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Fedha

Founder(s): Babatunde Fashola

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: FinTech

Borderless Money Transfer

Pre-SeedFinance
Contributed by Baba Oladimeji
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Bio RAMP

Founder(s): Tobi Olatunji

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: Health AI

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

Research Community
Contributed by Baba Oladimeji
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Lanfrica

Founder(s): Chris Emezue

Location: Germany

Focus: AI NLP

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

Research Community
Contributed by Baba Oladimeji
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Lelapa

Founder(s): PELONOMI MOILOA

Location: πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ South Africa

Focus: AI 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.

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

Amini

Founder(s): Kate Kallot

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Algorine

Founder(s): Paul Azunre

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: AI 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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Intron Health

Founder(s): Tobi Olatunji

Location: NIgeria, USA

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.

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Loistify

Founder(s): Daniel Emasiit

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,

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Kera Health Platforms Inc.

Founder(s): Moustapha Cisse

Location: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡³ Senegal

Focus: AI

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

Healthcare
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Fimio

Founder(s): Omoju Miller

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Focus: AI, Big Data

Building version control over data-centric workflows.

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Yoruba Voice

Founder(s): Tolulope Ogunremi Kola Tubosun Anuoluwapo Aremu Iroro Orife David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: AI, Language

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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Cerenyi AI

Founder(s): Arinze Izukanne Chike Nwogu

Location: Canada

Focus: AI Productivity

Natural language interaction for enterprise systems

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Alliance 4 AI

Founder(s): Alex Tsado

Location: πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ South Africa

Focus: AI, 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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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AI Saturdays Lagos

Founder(s): Tejumade Afonja Femi Azeez

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Community, 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).

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Data Science Africa

Location: πŸ‡°πŸ‡ͺ Kenya

Focus: Community, 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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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SunbirdAI

Founder(s): Engineer Bainomugisha Ernest Mwebaze

Location: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬ Uganda

Focus: Research

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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

MEmbedded TechLab

Founder(s): Magnus Emenuga

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Hardware and embedded systems

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

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Research, 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.

Academia
Contributed by Judith Okonkwo
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Izifin

Founder(s): Dumebi Okwechime

Location: UK

Focus: AI, Data Science

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

Finance
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Masteryhive

Transforming the insurance industry with purpose-built AI agents

Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Drogo

Founder(s): Innocent Amadi

Location: πŸ‡³πŸ‡¬ Nigeria

Focus: Productivity, AI Assistants

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

Utility
Contributed by Innocent Amadi
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Deep Echo

Founder(s): Youssef Bouyakhf, Abdelhak MAHMOUDI, Saad Slimani

Location: πŸ‡²πŸ‡¦ Morocco

Focus: AI, Healthcare

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

Healthcare
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Atarec

Founder(s): Mohamed Taha El Ouaryachi , Oussama Nour

Location: πŸ‡²πŸ‡¦ Morocco

Focus: Renewable 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

Energy
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo
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Cleverlytics

Founder(s): Walid Daou

Location: πŸ‡²πŸ‡¦ Morocco

Focus: AI, 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

Data Science & AI
Contributed by Emeka Afigbo

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