Showing all 174 companies
| Name | Country | City | Category | Founded | Funding | What they do |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abantu AI | Kenya | Nairobi | NLP and language AI | 2021 | self-funded + Amazon grant | NLP translating world languages into indigenous African languages for healthcare |
| Addvocate.AI | Tunisia | n/a | AI services and consulting | 2024 | 216 Capital strategic investment, Sept 2025 | AI-native sales performance platform (Nudge AI CRM) |
| Aerobotics | South Africa | Cape Town | Agritech AI | 2014 | $17m Series B (2021, Naspers Foundry) | Drones plus computer vision for tree crops. Farmers get per-tree yield, pest and disease intelligence across SA, the US and Australia. |
| Afya Rekod | Kenya | Nairobi | Healthtech AI | n/a | $2M seed Feb 2022 | AI + blockchain consumer health data platform (EHR, diagnostics) |
| Agrix Tech | Cameroon | Yaounde | Agritech AI | 2018 | commercial launch Jan 2020 | AI mobile platform scanning crop photos to detect pests/diseases, local languages |
| AgroSmart | Morocco | n/a | Agritech AI | n/a | Series A $6.9M; headcount ~64 | Satellite imagery + IoT sensors for precision irrigation and crop management |
| AI Diagnostics | South Africa | Cape Town | Healthtech AI | 2020 | pre-Series A led by The Steele Foundation for Hope | Ostium AI-powered digital stethoscope; AI.TB detects TB from lung sounds in real time |
| AI Examiner | Nigeria | n/a | Edtech AI | n/a | n/a | AI study assistant converting study materials into tests, flashcards, exam prep |
| AI-Academia | DR Congo | Kinshasa | AI services and consulting | n/a | resource-constrained | AI research lab at University of Kinshasa; hospital record digitisation; led by Cyrille Kesiku |
| AirSmat | Nigeria | Lagos | Agritech AI | 2019 | $100K from Zetogon | AI precision-agriculture using drone + satellite data for crop growth/stress/yield |
| Amini | Kenya | Nairobi | Climate AI | n/a | $4m seed (Salesforce Ventures) | AI and satellite data closing Africa's environmental data gap, founded by ex-Nvidia Kate Kallot. |
| Apollo Agriculture | Kenya | Nairobi | Agritech AI | n/a | n/a | Satellite and ML credit scoring bundled with inputs for smallholder farmers. |
| Atlan Space | Morocco | Casablanca | Climate AI | n/a | n/a | AI autonomous drone constellations to combat illegal fishing |
| Atlas Invest | Morocco | n/a | Fintech AI | n/a | lower confidence single source | AI risk-profiling wealth/investing platform for middle-class Moroccans |
| AURA | South Africa | Johannesburg | GovTech AI | 2017 | $15.1m Series B (2025, Partech) | An AI-driven marketplace that dispatches the nearest armed responder or medic when you need one. Expanding into the US. |
| Autogon AI | Nigeria | Lagos | AI services and consulting | n/a | founder states less than 150k (upper bound) | No-code AI infrastructure to build/deploy custom ML |
| Awarri | Nigeria | Lagos | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Built N-ATLAS, Nigeria's government-backed open-source LLM for Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian-accented English. Launched at the UN General Assembly in 2025. |
| Baamtu | Senegal | Dakar | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Dakar data and AI services firm doing early Wolof NLP work. |
| Beqy.ai | South Africa | Johannesburg | Fintech AI | 2020 | n/a | Generative-AI bookkeeping/accounting platform (AI CFO) for African SMEs |
| BetaLife Health | Nigeria | Lagos | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | AI-optimised blood donation supply chains. |
| Botlhale AI | South Africa | Johannesburg | NLP and language AI | 2019 | Early stage | Speech recognition, text-to-speech and conversational AI in African languages, built for call centres. A UCT spinout. |
| Buddy Learning | South Africa | n/a | Edtech AI | 2022 | equity-free grant, Injini Mastercard Foundation | BuddyAI WhatsApp multilingual AI tutor (11 SA languages) + tutor marketplace |
| Bytefuse | South Africa | Stellenbosch | Edtech AI | 2021 | R55m (Novus Holdings) | Applied AI company behind Maski, the WhatsApp AI tutor built with Maskew Miller Longman. CAPS-aligned, grades 1 to 12. |
| Cape AI | South Africa | Cape Town | AI services and consulting | 2019 | Acquired (2022) | AI and data science solutions firm, acquired by Spatialedge in 2022 to scale enterprise AI delivery. |
| CDIAL AI | Nigeria | Lagos | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | NLP for low-resource African languages. |
| Cerebrium | South Africa | Cape Town-founded | Data and infrastructure | 2021 | $8.5m seed (2025, Gradient Ventures) | Serverless infrastructure for real-time AI applications like voice agents and vision. Founded in Cape Town, now headquartered in New York. |
| Charis UAS | Rwanda | Kigali | Climate AI | n/a | n/a | Drone geospatial AI for land-use mapping and malaria surveillance. |
| ChatATP | Nigeria | Port Harcourt | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | AI agent platform turning websites into interactive action spaces |
| ChipMango | Nigeria | n/a | Data and infrastructure | n/a | $1.9m seed led by Atlantica Ventures (Sept 2026) | AI-native semiconductor engineering: commercial chip-design projects plus workforce development for African chip engineers. |
| Chromancy | South Africa | n/a | Generative and creative AI | 2026 | n/a | One-tap AI app turning photos/videos into professional-quality visuals |
| CircuitNotion | Rwanda | Kigali | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | Developer API routing across AI model providers + Incuti AI chat for African languages |
| Clevva | South Africa | Cape Town | AI services and consulting | 2011 | Undisclosed | No-code virtual advisors that walk staff and customers through regulated sales and service decisions. |
| ClusterLab | Tunisia | Tunis | NLP and language AI | n/a | Pre-seed led by InstaDeep's CEO | Arabic-language AI models. |
| Congo Institute of Artificial Intelligence | DR Congo | Goma | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Locally-adapted AI for DRC: assistants for NGOs, digital health, AI training, consulting |
| Converged Technology Networks | Malawi | n/a | Data and infrastructure | n/a | partnering Africa GPU Hub; CEO Brian Longwe | Malawi first AI-focused micro data centre (NVIDIA A100) on GPU-as-a-service |
| Cortex AI Group | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 2016 | Undisclosed | AI-as-a-service for finance, telecoms and healthcare, led by Dr Jacques Ludik, founder of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa. |
| Cue | South Africa | Cape Town | NLP and language AI | 2015 | $5m (July 2026, Knife Capital, FAM) | AI agents that run customer service across WhatsApp, email, voice and webchat for 500+ businesses in SA and the UK. |
| Curacel | Nigeria | Lagos | Fintech AI | n/a | $3m seed | Claims automation and fraud detection for African insurers. |
| Curation AI | Nigeria | n/a | AI services and consulting | n/a | by MYai Robotics | Real-time content authentication detecting misinformation, deepfakes, AI-generated content |
| Curely AI | Uganda | Kampala | Healthtech AI | 2023 | n/a | Hospital OS + clinical AI suite (imaging triage, risk, copilots, auto-documentation) |
| Cybervergent | Nigeria | Lagos | Data and infrastructure | n/a | $3m seed co-led by Ventures Platform and Atlantica Ventures (per Atlantica portfolio, Sept 2026) | An AI-native governance, risk and security-posture platform for compliance monitoring, used by more than 150 organisations across Africa. |
| DataEQ | South Africa | Cape Town | NLP and language AI | 2007 | Undisclosed | AI plus human-in-the-loop sentiment analysis on customer conversations. Banks, telcos and insurers use it to fix service at scale. |
| DataLens Africa | Nigeria | n/a | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | Human-in-the-loop data annotation + AI training-data across 40+ African languages |
| DataProphet | South Africa | Cape Town | Manufacturing AI | 2014 | R166m Series A (2022, Knife Capital) | Machine learning that tunes factory processes before defects happen. Their PRESCRIBE and DETECT products run in foundries and automotive plants worldwide. |
| Dataseka | South Africa | n/a | Data and infrastructure | 2026 | n/a | Consolidates business data from spreadsheets, CRMs and financial systems into one governed platform, with an AI co-worker called Seeka that answers questions in plain language. |
| Decide AI | Nigeria | n/a | AI services and consulting | 2025 | no external funding as of mid-2026 | AI agent that reads spreadsheet structure and executes changes in plain English; 4th on SpreadsheetBench |
| DeepEcho | Morocco | Rabat | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | AI fetal ultrasound analysis targeting maternal mortality. Partnered with the Moroccan government on prenatal diagnosis. |
| DevisionX | Egypt | Cairo | Manufacturing AI | 2017 | dual HQ London/Cairo | Tuba AI no-code computer vision + multimodal RAG for enterprise vision |
| Diagnosoft | Kenya | Nairobi | Healthtech AI | n/a | Villgro-incubated; NVIDIA/AWS credits | AI models + radiology system detecting TB/tumours/trauma from X-rays in seconds |
| Digital Umuganda | Rwanda | Kigali | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Open voice datasets and speech recognition for Kinyarwanda, with Mozilla Common Voice. |
| Digitata | South Africa | Johannesburg | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | AI/ML Vaitom platform for mobile operators: real-time dynamic pricing + segmentation |
| DoctorAI | Rwanda | Kigali | Healthtech AI | 2019 | friends & family + grants | Mobile AI diagnostics: breast + chest X-ray analysers to reduce diagnostic errors |
| DXwand | Egypt | Cairo | NLP and language AI | n/a | $4m Series A (2024) | Enterprise conversational AI and knowledge mining across Arabic dialects. |
| Dyner.ai | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 2024 | acquired by Yoco June 2026 (undisclosed) | AI-native OS for restaurants/independent businesses |
| EduNation | Morocco | n/a | Edtech AI | n/a | lower confidence single source | EdTech using ML to adapt content to each learner |
| Egrobots | Egypt | Cairo | Agritech AI | n/a | n/a | Autonomous crop-scouting robots. An NVIDIA Inception member. |
| Ejo Labs | Rwanda | Kigali | NLP and language AI | 2026 | n/a | AI conversational assistant (Ejochat) trained for Kinyarwanda |
| Enlabeler | South Africa | Cape Town | Data and infrastructure | 2019 | E4E Africa (2020) | Data annotation and African-language data operations with an impact-sourcing model. The labelling layer under many AI projects. |
| Enova Robotics | Tunisia | Sousse | Manufacturing AI | n/a | n/a | Security and telepresence robots, including the PGuard patrol robot. |
| Envisionit Deep AI | South Africa | Johannesburg | Healthtech AI | 2019 | $1.65m (2023, New GX, GIIG Africa) | Medical imaging AI. The RADIFY suite triages and reads X-rays, built by radiologist Dr Jaishree Naidoo. |
| EqualyzAI | Nigeria | Lagos | NLP and language AI | 2016 | n/a | Voice-first agentic AI across more than 75 African languages, built for low-connectivity and low-cost markets. |
| EyeSense | Egypt | n/a | Healthtech AI | 2016 | unfunded per Tracxn; lower confidence | AI mobile app to assist blind and visually impaired people |
| Farmerline | Ghana | Accra | Agritech AI | n/a | $1.5m (2025, Oikocredit) | Darli AI, a voice and chat assistant for farmers in 20+ languages. |
| Fastagger | Kenya | Nairobi | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | TinyML and edge AI models that run on low-cost devices without cloud dependency. |
| FinChatBot | South Africa | Cape Town | NLP and language AI | 2016 | €1.3m (2021) | Conversational AI that acquires and retains customers for financial services companies. |
| FlowBrave | Morocco | Marrakech | AI services and consulting | n/a | Propeller Kernel Camp 2026; dual HQ SF + Marrakech | Converts static business processes into dynamic AI-guided workflows |
| Flowt | Kenya | Nairobi | Fintech AI | n/a | Undisclosed pre-seed (Aug 2026, Delta40, Impacc, Argidius Foundation) | Turns messy financial records into lender-ready data so climate-smart SMEs can raise working capital against verified transaction history. |
| FoondaMate | South Africa | Cape Town | Edtech AI | 2020 | $2m seed (2022, LocalGlobe) | An AI study companion on WhatsApp and Messenger for learners who have data constraints but exams anyway. |
| Ghana NLP | Ghana | Accra | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Open-source translation and speech recognition for Twi, Ewe, Ga and more, via the Khaya app and API. |
| hearX Group | South Africa | Pretoria | Healthtech AI | 2015 | Series A + US merger | AI-driven hearing health, from clinical screening (hearScreen) to consumer hearing aids (Lexie Hearing). |
| Hello Tractor | Nigeria | Nairobi + Lagos | Agritech AI | n/a | n/a | IoT and ML that match tractor fleets to smallholder demand. The Uber-for-tractors that actually worked. |
| Howzit AI | South Africa | Cape Town | NLP and language AI | 2025 | bootstrapped | ChatGPT-style assistant for SA users, all 11 official languages, SA legal/tax tools |
| Hypeo AI | Morocco | Casablanca | Generative and creative AI | n/a | n/a | AI influencer-marketing platform. |
| HyperDev | South Africa | South Africa | Generative and creative AI | 2025 | $1m pre-seed (2026, Loom Ventures) | A generative AI software development platform pairing guided vibe-coding with a developer marketplace. |
| iCog Labs | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Ethiopia's pioneer AI lab since 2013. Contributed to Hanson Robotics' Sophia and trains the next generation. |
| iCompass | Tunisia | Tunis | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Tunisian-dialect NLP. Co-released the open-source TunBERT model with InstaDeep. |
| iiDENTIFii | South Africa | Cape Town | Fintech AI | 2018 | $15m (2022, Arise) | Facial biometrics and liveness detection that big banks use to stop identity fraud during onboarding. |
| Indicina | Nigeria | Lagos | Fintech AI | n/a | n/a | Credit decisioning trained on African financial data. Lending-as-a-service for banks and fintechs. |
| InfiniLink | Egypt | Cairo | Data and infrastructure | n/a | $10m seed, acquired by GlobalFoundries (2025) | Silicon photonics for AI data centres. |
| Insight Terra | South Africa | Cape Town | Climate AI | n/a | Series A extension: E3 Capital, Fireball Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Globalive, JLR Star | AI-driven greenhouse-gas + environmental risk platform using satellite + sensors |
| InstaDeep | South Africa | Cape Town (research hub) | AI services and consulting | 2014 | Acquired by BioNTech for ~$680m (2023) | Decision-making AI for biology, logistics and chip design. Tunis-founded, with Cape Town as a core research and engineering hub. |
| Intella | Egypt | Cairo | NLP and language AI | n/a | $12.5m Series A (2025, Prosus) | Speech recognition and analytics across 25+ Arabic dialects. |
| Intron Health | Nigeria | Lagos | Healthtech AI | n/a | $1.6m pre-seed (2024) | Speech-to-text for clinicians, tuned to more than 200 African accents. Doctors talk, records write themselves. |
| iPF Softwares | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | AI services and consulting | 2013 | ISO 27001; 150+ solutions | Enterprise AI/ML systems for businesses across 25+ African countries |
| IRRI Vision | Egypt | Cairo | Healthtech AI | 2024 | acquired by Edafa Venture Capital (2026) | AI diagnostic tools for ophthalmology/eye care |
| Isazi | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 2014 | Undisclosed | AI and optimisation for demand forecasting, routing and healthcare logistics. |
| Jacaranda Health | Kenya | Nairobi | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | PROMPTS, an AI-triaged SMS service guiding millions of mothers through pregnancy safely. |
| Jimvio | Rwanda | Kigali | Generative and creative AI | n/a | bootstrapped | AI creator-commerce platform: sell products, affiliate programmes, AI marketing tools |
| JomeTech Africa | Zimbabwe | Harare | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | AI/ML analytics + software, cloud, cybersecurity |
| JUMO | South Africa | Cape Town | Fintech AI | 2015 | $120m (2021, Fidelity, Visa, Kingsway) | Banking infrastructure with ML credit scoring built in. Powers lending for partners like MTN and Airtel across emerging markets. |
| Kenshi.AI | Rwanda | Kigali | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Data analytics + AI dev + training; flagship RadiAIx medical-imaging triage |
| Kera Health | Senegal | Dakar | Healthtech AI | n/a | $10m (2025, IFC) | An AI-powered e-health operating system for Africa: records, e-prescriptions, payments. |
| Kngine | Egypt | Cairo | NLP and language AI | 2009 | acquired by Samsung for Bixby; $275k prior funding | Egyptian semantic search engine acquired by Samsung |
| Kuadra | Egypt | Cairo | Manufacturing AI | 2025 | backed by Edafa Venture, six-figure (Feb 2026) | AI platform for construction contractors: tender analysis, spec extraction, procurement |
| LARCAI | South Africa | Centurion | Manufacturing AI | 2018 | Undisclosed | Computer vision and intelligent automation for enterprises that want fewer humans staring at screens. |
| Lelapa AI | South Africa | Johannesburg | NLP and language AI | 2022 | Seed (Mozilla Ventures among backers) | The Vulavula speech and NLP API plus InkubaLM, a small open language model for isiZulu, isiXhosa, Swahili, Yoruba and Hausa. |
| Lengo AI | Senegal | Dakar | AI services and consulting | 2022 | seven-figure pre-seed co-led Acasia + Ventures Platform, Oct 2023 | AI data OS for informal retail connecting FMCG with corner shops |
| Lesan AI | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Machine translation and speech for Amharic and Tigrinya. |
| Leta | Kenya | Nairobi | AI services and consulting | n/a | $5m seed (2025, Google's Africa Investment Fund) | AI route optimisation across African supply chains. |
| LifeQ | South Africa | Stellenbosch | Healthtech AI | 2014 | $47m+ lifetime | Computational models of human physiology that turn wearable sensor data into health intelligence for device makers. |
| Lula | South Africa | Cape Town | Fintech AI | 2014 | $35m Series B (2023, Lightrock, IFC) | AI-scored lending and banking for SMEs. Formerly Lulalend. |
| M-KOPA | Kenya | Nairobi | Fintech AI | n/a | n/a | Pay-as-you-go asset financing with ML credit models. 5 million customers, $1.5bn in credit unlocked. |
| M-Scan | Uganda | Kampala | Healthtech AI | n/a | won TechCrunch Battlefield Africa 2018 | Portable AI-assisted mobile ultrasound for maternal health |
| Map Maven | Kenya | Nairobi | NLP and language AI | 2025 | self-funded | 70B-param Llama-based LLM (Kaya) + voice agent (Sauti) for low-resource Kenyan dialects |
| MarketingBlocks AI | Nigeria | n/a | Generative and creative AI | n/a | reported $740K ARR, $3M+ lifetime revenue | AI growth engine automating marketing content + distribution |
| Matibabu | Uganda | Kampala | Healthtech AI | n/a | Brian Gitta won 2018 Africa Prize | AI-aided needle-free malaria diagnostic scanner (smartphone clip-on) |
| MazaoHub | Tanzania | n/a | Agritech AI | n/a | $2M pre-seed 2025, Catalyst Fund | Soil sensors + AI + Farmer Excellence Centres for climate-smart farming |
| minoHealth AI Labs | Ghana | Accra | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | AI radiology for chest X-ray diagnostics in African clinical settings. |
| mPharma | Ghana | Accra | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | Pharmacy supply chains and diagnostics, layering AI into medicine access. |
| MTANDAO Afrika | Cameroon | n/a | Fintech AI | 2024 | pre-seed, raising | Pan-African SME business OS: commerce, mobile-money, logistics + AI management (Francophone) |
| Naked | South Africa | Johannesburg | Fintech AI | 2018 | $17m Series B (2023, IFC) + follow-on | Fully digital insurance with AI running the process end to end, including Rose, the claims chatbot. |
| Neural Labs Africa | Kenya | Nairobi + Dakar | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | NeuralSight reads chest X-rays for respiratory disease, trained on African imaging. |
| Nexbyt Technology | Cameroon | Yaounde | AI services and consulting | n/a | site states 100+ strong | AI/ML services, cloud infrastructure, digital transformation + NexLab mentorship |
| Nokwary Technologies | Ghana | Accra | NLP and language AI | n/a | won 2020 Ecobank Fintech Challenge; Lacuna Fund grant | AI/NLP WhatsApp banking assistant in Twi for financial inclusion |
| NOSIBLE | South Africa | Durban | Fintech AI | 2020 | $1m pre-seed (2025, Atlantica Ventures) | An AI search engine API and agents built for asset managers who need to read the whole internet before the market does. |
| Npontu Technologies | Ghana | Accra | Data and infrastructure | 2016 | n/a | AI/big-data + intelligent automation; World Bank, MTN Ghana, Standard Chartered, Ecobank |
| Numida | Uganda | Kampala | Fintech AI | n/a | $2.3M seed 2021 + $12.3M 2022; YC W22 | Digital lender using ML credit models on mobile-money data for SME loans |
| Omari Digital | Namibia | Windhoek | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | AI-powered business systems (HR, payroll, CRM, inventory) for Namibian organisations |
| Omnisient | South Africa | Cape Town | Data and infrastructure | 2019 | $7.5m (Arise) | Privacy-preserving data collaboration. Lets banks and retailers mine shared consumer insight without exposing personal data. |
| Pindo | Rwanda | Kigali | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Kinyarwanda voice AI. Launched Rwanda's first Kinyarwanda voice banking agent with I&M Bank in 2026. |
| Pineapple | South Africa | Johannesburg | Fintech AI | 2017 | $21.3m Series B (2023) | Digital short-term insurance that uses AI to quote from a photo and keep premiums honest. |
| PlayAI | Egypt | Cairo-founded | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Voice AI co-founded by Egyptian Mahmoud Felfel. Acquired by Meta in July 2025. |
| PlotWeaver | Nigeria | Lagos | Generative and creative AI | n/a | London/Rio presence too | AI voice/content platform: scripts to films, books to audiobooks, 60+ languages; Nigerian Film Corp partner |
| Praelexis | South Africa | Stellenbosch | AI services and consulting | 2013 | Undisclosed | Machine learning solutions for financial services and industry, with deep Stellenbosch academic roots. |
| Qme | Egypt | Cairo | AI services and consulting | n/a | $3m seed (2025) | AI queueing, appointments and customer-flow optimisation. |
| RapidDeploy | South Africa | Cape Town-founded | GovTech AI | 2013 | US venture-backed | Cloud-native emergency dispatch with AI analytics, now running 911 systems from Austin, Texas. |
| Refiant AI | South Africa | South Africa | Data and infrastructure | 2025 | $5m seed (VoLo Earth Ventures) | Compresses large AI models to run on small devices with far less power. Squeezed a 120B-parameter model onto a MacBook Pro. |
| RoboCare | Tunisia | Sfax | Agritech AI | 2020 | 216 Capital six-figure (June 2026); founder Imen Hbiri | AI precision-agriculture fusing satellite/drone/IoT/weather; up to 35% water savings |
| Rology | Egypt | Cairo | Healthtech AI | n/a | Growth round (2025) | AI-assisted teleradiology matching scans to remote radiologists across MEA. |
| RxAll | Nigeria | Lagos | Healthtech AI | n/a | ~$6.8m lifetime | A handheld spectrometer plus deep learning that spots counterfeit medicines on the street, not in a lab. |
| Salus Cloud | South Africa | Cape Town | Data and infrastructure | n/a | $3.7m seed (per Atlantica Ventures portfolio, Sept 2026) | An AI-native DevOps platform for running AI-built and citizen-built applications inside an enterprise's own cloud. |
| Sama | Kenya | Nairobi (major ops) | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | Data annotation and model evaluation for global AI labs, employing thousands in Nairobi. |
| Sand Technologies | South Africa | Cape Town + global | AI services and consulting | 2013 | Undisclosed | Enterprise AI solutions and talent at scale, built out of the ExploreAI and EXPLORE Data Science Academy lineage. |
| Seipone.ai | Botswana | Gaborone | NLP and language AI | 2018 | grant funding; 2023 investor talks | NLP/social-listening understanding Setswana, Swahili, slang for brand sentiment |
| Si-Ware Systems | Egypt | Cairo | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | MEMS AI spectrometry. Its NeoSpectra business was acquired by BUCHI Labortechnik in 2025. |
| Signvrse | Kenya | Nairobi | NLP and language AI | 2023 | founder won 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation | AI sign-language platform (Terp 360) converting English/Swahili to animated Kenyan Sign Language avatars |
| Simera Sense | South Africa | Somerset West | Climate AI | 2018 | growth round NewSpace Capital + Knife Capital; prior EUR1.2M seed 2018 | High-resolution satellite camera payloads with onboard AI for Earth observation |
| Smile ID | Nigeria | Lagos | Fintech AI | 2016 | VC-backed; cumulative total unverified | AI biometric identity verification + KYC; 50+ African countries; 200M checks by Nov 2024 |
| SokoJob | Ghana | Accra | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | AI job-matching + hiring platform with AI resume analysis for Ghana |
| Solve.AI | Nigeria | n/a | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | AI voice agent handling inbound calls, lead qualification, booking; ~10,000 call-minutes weekly |
| SovTech | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 2012 | Undisclosed | Custom software across Africa with ML services layered in. One of the continent's larger dev shops. |
| Spatialedge | South Africa | Stellenbosch | AI services and consulting | 2016 | Undisclosed | Production machine learning at enterprise scale for retail and financial services. Acquired Cape AI in 2022. |
| Stone Three | South Africa | Somerset West | Manufacturing AI | 2004 | Undisclosed | Computer vision and industrial AI for mining and minerals processing. Cameras on crushers, models on the metal. |
| stub | South Africa | n/a | Fintech AI | 2023 | bootstrapped + strategic angel; integrates iKhokha, Capitec, Yoco | AI-native accounting platform for micro-entrepreneurs |
| SupaChat Global | South Africa | Johannesburg | Generative and creative AI | 2025 | self-funded | Business-trained AI agents across WhatsApp/web/Facebook/Instagram; Unilever, MTN, Primedia |
| Supascale | South Africa | n/a | Data and infrastructure | n/a | n/a | Africa first GPU cloud marketplace; cheap AI compute, monetises idle GPUs |
| Synapse Analytics | Egypt | Cairo | Fintech AI | n/a | $2m (2024) | Konan, an MLOps deployment platform, plus AI credit decisioning. |
| Synthesis | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 1997 | Listed parent | Cloud, data and AI engineering for banks and financial services. Owned by JSE-listed Capital Appreciation. |
| Tala | Kenya | Nairobi (flagship market) | Fintech AI | n/a | n/a | Smartphone-data ML underwriting for borrowers banks never scored. |
| Talaty | Morocco | Rabat | Fintech AI | n/a | n/a | AI instant lending/credit decisioning using alternative data |
| Tennsa | South Africa | Cape Town | Data and infrastructure | n/a | pre-seed (ZAR1m) from Oakvale Invest | AI operational-intelligence platform (Tennsa OS) for SMEs |
| Teraflow.ai | South Africa | Cape Town | AI services and consulting | 2018 | Undisclosed | ML engineering and data ops. The unglamorous plumbing that decides whether your AI actually ships. |
| Terra Industries | Nigeria | Abuja | GovTech AI | n/a | n/a | AI-powered drones for security and infrastructure, exporting to eight African countries. |
| The Marking App | South Africa | n/a | Edtech AI | 2020 | grant-funded (Trevor Noah Foundation, SAB, Injini, Tony Elumelu, Mastercard Foundation) | AI SaaS automating marking of handwritten test papers + analytics |
| TIBU Health | Kenya | Nairobi | Healthtech AI | 2020 | 2021 seed + 2023 pre-Series A; i3 programme | E-health platform decentralising primary outpatient care with automated triage |
| TNKR | Nigeria | n/a | Manufacturing AI | n/a | Innovate Africa Fund + follow-on angel | Robotics/hardware platform; AI assistant Leonardo generates build docs from videos/CAD |
| ToumAI Analytics | Morocco | Casablanca | NLP and language AI | n/a | $1m pre-seed (2025) | Voice-of-customer analytics in darija and African languages. |
| Treppan Technologies | Uganda | Kampala | AI services and consulting | 2023 | self-reported, weaker verification | AI consultancy/studio (chatbots, computer vision, generative AI, NLP) |
| Ubenwa Health | Nigeria | Lagos | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | AI that analyses infant cries to flag birth asphyxia and neurological injury early. |
| UMVA AI | Rwanda | Kigali | Generative and creative AI | n/a | part of Rwanda National AI Policy push | AI coding assistant within UMVA dev platform |
| Uniplexity AI | Zambia | Lusaka | AI services and consulting | 2023 | n/a | AI-powered ERP for SMEs; founder Kondwani Nyirenda |
| Vambo AI | South Africa | Cape Town | NLP and language AI | 2022 | Early stage | LLM platform for translation, speech and NLP across 11+ African languages. |
| Verascient | South Africa | Cape Town | Data and infrastructure | n/a | $1.2m pre-seed (Aug 2026, Founder Collective, Andrena Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise, Summit Ventures) | An operating system for AI-native companies. Turns scattered organisational knowledge into context, workflows and agents inside existing business systems. |
| Viebeg | Rwanda | Kigali | Healthtech AI | 2018 | $4M+ equity+debt: J&J Foundation, Sanofi, Founders Factory Africa, Global Ventures, Norrsken | AI B2B platform (VieProcure) optimising medical-equipment procurement + forecasting |
| Webymind | Mauritius | Grand-Baie | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Mauritius first full-stack AI agency; bespoke AI tools for SMEs, local data residency |
| Weza | Kenya | Nairobi | Fintech AI | 2016 | seed per CB Insights | ML/AI credit scoring + fraud mitigation on mobile-transaction data |
| WideBot | Egypt | Cairo | NLP and language AI | n/a | ~$3m pre-Series A | Arabic-first conversational AI, building toward an Arabic LLM. |
| Xara | Nigeria | n/a | Fintech AI | 2025 | n/a | WhatsApp conversational AI banking assistant; NDPC-certified |
| Xavier Africa | Botswana | Gaborone | AI services and consulting | n/a | n/a | Software agency with AI subsidiary: ML, conversational agents, process automation |
| Xineoh | South Africa | Johannesburg | AI services and consulting | 2015 | ~$3.65m lifetime | Machine learning that predicts consumer behaviour for retail and e-commerce: who buys what, when, at what price. |
| Yali Labs | Rwanda | Kigali | NLP and language AI | n/a | n/a | Builds AI models/tools for African languages, starting with Kinyarwanda |
| YarnGPT | Nigeria | Lagos | NLP and language AI | 2025 | acquired by Bluechip Technologies June 2026 | Text-to-speech AI in Nigerian-accented English + Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Pidgin |
| Yemaachi Biotech | Ghana | Accra | Healthtech AI | n/a | n/a | Cancer genomics and AI on the most genetically diverse datasets on earth: African ones. |
| Zindi | South Africa | Cape Town | AI services and consulting | 2018 | Seed | Africa's largest data science competition platform. 85,000 data scientists solve real problems for companies and governments. |