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South African precision-agriculture company that analyses imagery to give fruit growers counts, sizes and health data for individual trees.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Multilingual conversational AI suite offering natural language bots in African languages for automated customer interactions.
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
South African industrial AI company that helps manufacturers cut scrap and stabilise production lines with machine learning models over plant data.
Cape Town, South Africa
Advanced clinical speech-to-text platform optimized for African accents to help doctors transcribe clinical notes and records in seconds.
Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Specialized language processing models and APIs built specifically for African communication channels, including Zulu, Xhosa, and Sesotho.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
We review five accessible, low-bandwidth AI applications optimised to support lesson planning, student assessments, and language translation — tested specifically for African classroom conditions.
Johannesburg and Cape Town innovators are tailoring open-source LLMs to localise language barriers and boost business productivity — but building for African languages is harder than it looks.
Google for Startups Accelerator Africa helps AI startups across the continent grow with mentorship from Google engineers, equity-free funding, and Google Cloud credits worth up to $200,000.
MEST Africa trains aspiring African tech entrepreneurs in software development, business, and communications, then provides seed funding to launch AI startups.
The Deep Learning Indaba Startup Track gives African AI startups a platform to showcase their technology to investors, researchers, and industry partners from around the world.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation provides $5,000 non-refundable seed capital, mentorship, and business training to African entrepreneurs, including those building AI-powered solutions.
Village Capital runs peer-selected investment programmes for African startups, where founders evaluate each other and the top-ranked companies receive direct investment.
The Baobab Network is an East Africa-based tech accelerator and venture fund that invests in early-stage African startups, including AI and machine learning companies.
AfriLabs supports over 400 technology and innovation hubs across 52 African countries. Their programmes help hubs build capacity to support AI startups in their communities.
The Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) Africa programme provides research grants to African scientists and engineers working on responsible AI solutions for the continent.
The UNICEF Venture Fund provides up to $100,000 in equity-free seed funding to startups in developing countries that use AI, blockchain, and data science to benefit children and young people.
Orange Corners is a Dutch government-supported programme that incubates young entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East, providing business training, mentorship, and seed funding.
AfriGrant is a curated directory of grants, fellowships, scholarships, and funding opportunities available to African entrepreneurs, researchers, and organisations.
Dazzle Africa aggregates grants, accelerators, fellowships, and competitions for African innovators and entrepreneurs across all sectors including artificial intelligence.
Startup Map Africa tracks African startup ecosystems, funding rounds, and investment opportunities across the continent.
The African Union runs innovation programmes such as AU InnoFest and the Presidential African Youth in AI and Robotics Competition, rewarding African scientists and engineers who develop solutions addressing continental challenges with technology including AI.
NVIDIA Inception is a free global programme that helps AI startups grow with access to GPU computing credits, technical training, co-marketing support, and investor introductions.
Fully-funded master's places at AIMS South Africa's AI for Science programme, supported by Google DeepMind — training African students in machine learning and its applications to scientific research.
The African Development Bank backs youth-led innovation and invests in African venture funds — including the YouthADAPT Challenge (with the Global Center on Adaptation), which funds young entrepreneurs building climate-resilient, technology-driven businesses.
AI Expo Africa is the largest artificial intelligence exhibition and conference in Africa. It brings together AI practitioners, business leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore how AI is transforming industries across the continent.
The Deep Learning Indaba is the premier gathering of AI researchers and students in Africa. It combines world-class tutorials, research presentations, and networking to strengthen machine learning across the continent.
AI Conference Africa brings together technology leaders, researchers, and entrepreneurs in Ghana to discuss the future of artificial intelligence on the continent.
The Pan African AI Summit explores how artificial intelligence governance, policy, and responsible development can serve the diverse needs of all 54 African nations.
The Africa AI & Agentic Summit focuses on agentic AI systems, autonomous workflows, and how African businesses can adopt the next wave of AI automation technology.
Africa Tech Festival is a major annual technology event held in Cape Town that covers AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, fintech, and digital transformation across the continent.
Data Science Africa is a community-driven event combining a summer school and a workshop that brings together data scientists and AI researchers from across the African continent.
The Ghana AI Summit explores how artificial intelligence is being adopted across West Africa, with a focus on education, healthcare, and financial inclusion.
This summit examines how AI is changing education and the future of work in Africa, covering skills training, curriculum reform, and workforce automation.
Moonshot is TechCabal's flagship conference bringing together Africa's top technology founders, investors, and innovators to discuss startups, AI, and the digital economy.
GITEX Nigeria is the West African edition of the global GITEX technology conference, featuring AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and digital transformation exhibits.
Seamless Africa covers payments, fintech, e-commerce, and retail technology across the continent, with a growing focus on AI-powered fraud detection and personalisation.
A series of workshops held across multiple African countries focusing on responsible AI development, bias testing, data governance, and ethical frameworks for the continent.
Activate South Africa brings together social entrepreneurs, AI technologists, and civil society to explore how technology can drive positive social change across the country.
The premier annual gathering of African AI researchers, engineers, and students — bringing together over 700 participants for a week of technical talks, workshops, and community building.
A practical 90-minute online session for African business owners and managers on using AI tools to automate customer support, manage inventory, and improve marketing — without a technical team.
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