Africa Deep Tech Directory
Africa Deep Tech Directory
Discover innovative deep tech companies and projects across Africa
Founder(s): Babatunde Oladimeji
Location: πΊπΈ 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!
βBuild models that will make it possible to one day have an Alexa for African languagesβ
Founder(s): Judith Okonkwo
Location: π³π¬ 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.
βEnsure that Africa plays a role in building the future of XRβ
Founder(s): Khadija Jallouli
Location: πΉπ³ 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!
Founder(s): Maxwell Maduka
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Robotics, Drones
We build low-cost, robotic systems for core industries.
βHome grown roboticsβ
Founder(s): Brian Afande MICHAEL ILAKO
Location: π°πͺ 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
Founder(s): Tochukwu Clinton Chukwueke
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Hardware, Mechanical Engineering
Nigeria's 1st Makerspace, Clintonel Innovation Centre (CIC) builds capacity for innovation and products development.
βScale industrial design educationβ
Founder(s): Ugochukwu Aronu
Location: π³π¬ 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.
βNetworking and computing reimagined for Africaβ
Founder(s): Moses Olafenwa John Olafenwa
Location: π³π¬ 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.
βWorks online or offline. Can solve our local compute challengesβ
Founder(s): Lotanna Igwe-Odunze
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: Languages, Computing
ΕdΓ©bΓ© is a modern writing system for the ΓgbΓ² language.
βMake it easier to bring indigenous languages like Igbo into the internet ageβ
Founder(s): Zak El Fassi
Location: π²π¦ 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.
βBring African voices to the internet. You do not need to be literate to join the conversation on the internetβ
Founder(s): Kamau Gachigi
Location: π°πͺ 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.
βScale industrial design educationβ
Founder(s): Dayo McIntosh
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: Robotics, Fashion
A sustainable clean beauty and wellness robotics brand
βBeauty and Fashion for Africaβ
Founder(s): Mah Kadidia KonatΓ©
Location: πΊπΈ 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, weβre building a robot to automate extremely high-quality braiding.
βBeauty and Fashion for Africaβ
Founder(s): Collins Agu
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Hardware, IOT
Technology Development for Poverty Alleviation Initiative β 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.
Founder(s): Hammed Arowosegbe
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: XR
All You Need to Design, Build, and Share 3D, AR and VR Immersive Web Content in One Place
Founder(s): Femi Adeyemo Kunle Odebunmi
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Solar, Cleantech
clean tech startup that deals in distributed renewable energy products and solutions,
βReliable , Affordable , Accessible , Clean energy for the regionβ
Founder(s): Paul Oamen Robert Wesley
Location: π³π¬ πΊπΈ 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.
Founder(s): Bayo Adekanmbi
Location: π³π¬ 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.
Founder(s): Kat Siminyu Jade Abott David Adelani
Location: π°πͺ Kenya
Focus: AI
grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.
Founder(s): Dr. Albert Kahira Paul Njoroge Brian Odhiambo
Location: π°πͺ Kenya
Focus: AI / Data
Datawise Africa specialises in AI/ML consultation, data-centric growth strategies, and business automation
Founder(s): Ola Muse Karthik Kalyanaraman
Location: πΊπΈ π³π¬ USA / Nigeria
Focus: AI / Web3
Observability for Web3 and GenAI
Founder(s): Osh Agabi
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: Biotech Reserach
Biotech Research Company
Founder(s): Karim Beguir
Location: πΉπ³ Tunisia
Focus: AI
InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise.
Founder(s): Babatunde Fashola
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: FinTech
Borderless Money Transfer
Founder(s): Tobi Olatunji
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: Health AI
global multidisciplinary research community at the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence.
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.
Founder(s): PELONOMI MOILOA
Location: πΏπ¦ 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.
Founder(s): Kate Kallot
Location: π°πͺ Kenya
Amini uses artificial intelligence and satellite technology to bridge Africa's environmental data gap
Founder(s): Paul Azunre
Location: πΊπΈ 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
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, theyβve shown that their African-accent models outperforms popular speech recognition models.
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,
Founder(s): Moustapha Cisse
Location: πΈπ³ Senegal
Focus: AI
AI-powered platform connecting & augmenting healthcare providers and communities for healthier lives in Africa.
Founder(s): Omoju Miller
Location: πΊπΈ USA
Focus: AI, Big Data
Building version control over data-centric workflows.
Founder(s): Tolulope Ogunremi Kola Tubosun Anuoluwapo Aremu Iroro Orife David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: AI, Language
A collection of 50 hours of crowdsourced speech data for the YoruΜbaΜ language, the third most spoken language in Africa with over 40 million people.
Founder(s): Arinze Izukanne Chike Nwogu
Location: Canada
Focus: AI Productivity
Natural language interaction for enterprise systems
Founder(s): Alex Tsado
Location: πΏπ¦ 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
Founder(s): Tejumade Afonja Femi Azeez
Location: π³π¬ 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).
Location: π°πͺ 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
Founder(s): Engineer Bainomugisha Ernest Mwebaze
Location: πΊπ¬ Uganda
Focus: Research
An African technology initiative to create open, practical AI systems for community benefit.
Founder(s): Magnus Emenuga
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Hardware and embedded systems
Specialized in the Research, Design, and Development of Embedded System Hardware and Software
Location: π³π¬ 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.
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
Transforming the insurance industry with purpose-built AI agents
Founder(s): Innocent Amadi
Location: π³π¬ Nigeria
Focus: Productivity, AI Assistants
Drogo is a performance-based project management system that leverages AI to both measure and predict Staff performance
Founder(s): Youssef Bouyakhf, Abdelhak MAHMOUDI, Saad Slimani
Location: π²π¦ Morocco
Focus: AI, Healthcare
Deepecho is a healthtech using advanced explainable AI on ultrasound dynamic imagery to prevent avoidable fetal mortality
Founder(s): Mohamed Taha El Ouaryachi , Oussama Nour
Location: π²π¦ 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
Founder(s): Walid Daou
Location: π²π¦ 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
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