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Colour key: ● company · ● person · ● category · ● country · ● big tech (yellow, dark ring). Node size scales with the number of connections.
Most connected entities
For readers without JavaScript, and for the record: the twenty most connected nodes in the graph, by relationship count.
- ZA (country, 55 connections).
- ai-services-consulting (category, 38 connections).
- nlp-llm (category, 29 connections).
- healthtech-ai (category, 26 connections).
- NG (country, 24 connections).
- fintech-ai (category, 20 connections).
- Apollo Agriculture (company, 19 connections). Satellite and ML credit scoring bundled with inputs for smallholder farmers.
- Cue (company, 16 connections). AI agents that run customer service across WhatsApp, email, voice and webchat for 500+ businesses in SA and the UK.
- iiDENTIFii (company, 16 connections). Facial biometrics and liveness detection that big banks use to stop identity fraud during onboarding.
- Omnisient (company, 16 connections). Privacy-preserving data collaboration. Lets banks and retailers mine shared consumer insight without exposing personal data.
- FinChatBot (company, 16 connections). Conversational AI that acquires and retains customers for financial services companies.
- Curacel (company, 16 connections). Claims automation and fraud detection for African insurers.
- Indicina (company, 16 connections). Credit decisioning trained on African financial data. Lending-as-a-service for banks and fintechs.
- KE (country, 16 connections).
- M-KOPA (company, 16 connections). Pay-as-you-go asset financing with ML credit models. 5 million customers, $1.5bn in credit unlocked.
- JUMO (company, 15 connections). Banking infrastructure with ML credit scoring built in. Powers lending for partners like MTN and Airtel across emerging markets.
- data-infra (category, 15 connections).
- Envisionit Deep AI (company, 15 connections). Medical imaging AI. The RADIFY suite triages and reads X-rays, built by radiologist Dr Jaishree Naidoo.
- Naked (company, 15 connections). Fully digital insurance with AI running the process end to end, including Rose, the claims chatbot.
- Pineapple (company, 15 connections). Digital short-term insurance that uses AI to quote from a photo and keep premiums honest.
What it shows
Why a graph, not just a list
A directory tells you who exists. A graph tells you who is connected to whom: which founders sit behind which companies, which big-tech labs have signed which governments, and which companies compete in the same category. That is where the commercial signal lives. Anthropic's edges all point at Rwanda and the Gates Foundation. The dense fintech and healthtech clusters show where the crowd already is.
Explore the underlying records on the company directory and the market analysis.