Some of Africa's best startup ideas never become products because the person who had them can't write code. A nurse in Kisumu knows exactly why clinic appointments get missed. A market trader in Lagos ...

Nigerian startup Lumora is building a multi-app digital ecosystem that brings chat, cloud storage, an AI assistant and study tools together under a single login.

African technologists and entrepreneurs are applying blockchain in innovative ways, creating a new financial infrastructure for the continent with wide-ranging benefits, including for the humanitarian ...

Ghanaian startup TrustCheck has built a review and trust platform that allows consumers to check out businesses, especially social media sellers, before they part with their money.

Ugandan startup School Monitor Technologies operates a cloud-based school management platform designed specifically for how schools in Uganda and East Africa actually function.

Madica, a structured pre-seed investment programme for African startups, has secured US$6 million in additional capital from Flourish Ventures to extend its investment pilot by three years.

Kenyan ed-tech startup StudyLabAI has built an AI-powered study platform that turns students’ own slides, lecture recordings and notes into interactive study tools, and has signed up more than 90,000 ...

African startups working at the intersection of food, technology and sustainability are invited to apply for the 2026 edition of the FoodTech 500.