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Google has announced the 15 AI-driven startups selected for Class 10 of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme. Chosen from a competitive pool of nearly 2,600 applications, the cohort includes AI innovators tackling challenges across a wide variety of sectors, including FinTech, AgriTech, HealthTech, mobility, and SaaS.
Since its launch in 2018, the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme has supported 106 startups from 17 African countries. The search giant says alumni of the programme have collectively raised $263 million and created more than 2,800 jobs. As Africa moves towards tech sovereignty, homegrown innovation is central, and the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme will help that innovation to scale to create human, economic, and social impact across the region.
This year, the three-month hybrid programme will run from 13 April 2026 to 19 June 2026 and provide founders with mentorship from experienced mentors and industry experts. They will also gain access to technical workshops and resources focused on AI and cloud technologies, preparing them for follow-on funding and equipping them to scale their impact.
The common thread among the 15 startups selected for Class 10 is their innovative use of AI to address critical challenges in their respective countries. The 15 startups for Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 10 are:
Founded: 2022
HQ: Luanda, Angola
The fast-growing mobility and FinTech platform is formalising, financing, and electrifying Angola’s informal moto-taxi workforce through AI-powered credit scoring. Riders book trips via a mobile app, WhatsApp, or walk-up taxi stops, with all journeys tracked by GPS and covered by passenger insurance, while drivers are certified through Anda Academy.
Founded: 2022
HQ: Nigeria
Bani is a cross-border payments infrastructure platform built for African businesses trading globally. It enables companies to pay suppliers across Africa and Asia using local currency rails and eliminates settlement delays, with most completed in under 15 minutes. The platform also offers real-time transaction tracking and reconciliation, removing the operational headaches that typically slow international trade.
Founded: 2018
HQ: Kenya
Coamana builds technology that helps governments and market associations digitise informal food markets across Africa. Its platform, which includes Amana Market and Amana Insights, strengthens trade, data exchange, financing, and climate resilience within African market hubs and uses AI to make real-time market data actionable for both businesses and policymakers.
Founded: 2024
HQ: Kenya
Duck is a real-time data intelligence platform that gives consumer brands instant visibility into what is happening on the shop floor at supermarkets and other formal retailers. By pulling live point-of-sale data directly from checkout systems, the platform alerts brands when products are running low or close to expiry, before it costs them a sale.
Founded: 2021
HQ: Kampala, Uganda
Emaisha Pay is a digital trade finance platform built for agro-traders and small agricultural businesses across East Africa. Its app allows agro-traders to pay hundreds of farmers instantly via mobile money or prepaid cards, track produce from farm to buyer, and access short-term trade financing processed within 48 hours. The platform is powered by AI-driven credit scoring that uses transaction and supply chain data rather than traditional collateral.
Founded: 2021
HQ: Cape Town, South Africa
Loop is a last-mile delivery management platform that empowers businesses to optimise their delivery operations through route planning, real-time driver tracking, and data analytics. Its software suite includes a management system, a driver app, a customer-facing tracking page, and reporting tools. The startup positions itself as an all-in-one solution for any business running on-demand or logistics-heavy operations across Africa.
Founded: 2020
HQ: Dakar, Senegal
Maad is Francophone Africa’s fastest-growing B2B e-commerce marketplace, connecting informal retailers directly with manufacturers and suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods. It currently serves over 6,500 active retailers across Senegal and has partnerships with more than 80 suppliers offering a catalogue of over 1,000 SKUs.
Founded: 2023
HQ: Nigeria
MasteryHive AI is building an AI-native transaction intelligence platform specifically designed for the complexity of African financial markets. Its two core products — transaction reconciliation and fraud and AML monitoring — sit on a single integration, enabling financial institutions to close their books in minutes, detect fraud in real time, and meet regulatory compliance obligations without adding operational headcount.
Founded: 2018
HQ: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Meditect is a digital health company that is digitising the pharmacy supply chain across Francophone Africa, with operations in 17 sub-Saharan countries. Its cloud-based pharmacy management software helps pharmacists track inventory, connect with reliable suppliers, and ensure medicines are authentic and available at fair prices.
Founded: 2018
HQ: Lagos, Nigeria
Regxta is a fintech platform that uses alternative data and AI-driven credit scoring to instantly underwrite loans for unbanked individuals and micro-businesses in rural and peri-urban communities, without requiring formal documentation.
Founded: 2025
HQ: Kenya
ReportsAI is an AI-first collaborative platform that helps impact-driven organisations automate the process of turning raw project data into structured, donor-ready reports. Built with GDPR compliance and data privacy in mind, the platform helps reduce the reporting burden that keeps impact organisations from focusing on their core work.
Founded: 2020
HQ: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Safiri is a mobile-first ticketing and transport marketplace that allows users to compare, book, and pay for bus tickets, boat rides, trains, and flights across multiple African countries, including Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa, from a single app. It provides real-time journey updates and enables users to send and track parcels via registered transport companies on the platform.
Founded: 2017
HQ: Nigeria
Termii is an AI-native communications reliability platform processing over 3 billion transactions annually, ensuring that critical financial messages are delivered reliably even across unstable telecom networks. Its AI routing engine learns from every transaction, predicts delivery failure before it happens, and switches carriers in real time to guarantee message success.
Founded: 2023
HQ: Johannesburg, South Africa
Vambo AI is building the multilingual AI infrastructure powering translation, speech, and generative AI across African languages. Its platform offers real-time translation, speech recognition, text-to-speech, and generative AI capabilities across 60+ African and global languages.
Founded: 2023
HQ: Nairobi, Kenya
VunaPay is building fintech and data infrastructure for cooperatives, enabling instant payments and financial services for smallholder farmers. The platform automates produce collection through IoT device integration, enables instant bulk payments to hundreds of farmers via mobile money, and provides transparent, real-time inventory and record management.
