Zimbabwean entrepreneurs Michael Moyo and Louis Murerwa have raised $2 million in pre-seed funding for Ocular AI — a company…
Browsing: African AI Startups
We’re all about the dreamers and doers! Get the lowdown on Africa’s hottest AI startups—new launches, big funding, and game-changing products. These stories spotlight founders’ journeys and clever tech, serving up inspiration with a side of hustle.
South African startup Vambo AI has released MORENA, an open-weight 1.5-billion-parameter language model trained from scratch for 12 African languages…
Egyptian AI company Synapse Analytics has raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Partech, in one of the…
Ugandan artificial intelligence startup SANDI AI Technologies has secured a major milestone after emerging as the Grand Prize Winner of…
Lelapa AI is adding text-to-speech to its product line and preparing to take its language technology outside Africa, chief executive…
Tunisian agritech startup RoboCare has secured an undisclosed six-figure investment from venture capital firm 216 Capital, funding it will use…
Nigerian AI cloud infrastructure company Cencori and African voice AI startup Spitch have partnered to make text-to-speech and speech-to-text models…
Nigerian fintech Nearpays has become the first African startup to win the AI for Good Innovation Factory grand finale —…
American cloud platform Vercel has acquired Stakpak, the Egyptian-founded startup behind one of the first open-source autonomous DevOps agents, for…
Egyptian startup ecosystem builders RiseUp, A15 and BitRoot have partnered with NVIDIA to launch NVIDIA SIGNALS, an accelerator programme aimed…