Google has announced the 15 AI-driven startups joining the 10th cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, chosen from nearly 2,600 applicants. These innovators are leveraging AI to tackle critical challenges in fintech, agritech, and health tech. It is a milestone moment for African entrepreneurship, and the names on this list deserve your attention.
What Is the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa?
The Google for Startups Accelerator Africa is a three-month hybrid programme that equips high-potential African startups with the tools, mentorship, and technical resources they need to scale. Since Google introduced the programme in 2018, it has supported 106 startups from 17 African countries. To date, alumni have collectively raised over $263 million and created more than 2,800 jobs.
The numbers speak clearly: this programme does not just inspire founders — it builds them into serious, investable businesses.
Why This Cohort Stands Out
Class 10 runs from April 13th to June 19th, 2026, providing founders with mentorship from experienced industry experts, as well as access to technical workshops and resources focused on AI and cloud technologies — equipping them to scale their impact and prepare for follow-on funding.
What makes this cohort particularly exciting is the depth and diversity of problems these startups are tackling. They span fintech, agritech, health tech, mobility, and SaaS — and every single one of them applies artificial intelligence to solve real, pressing problems that affect millions of Africans daily.
Meet the 15 Startups Joining Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 10
- Anda Africa (Angola): A mobility and fintech platform formalizing, financing, and electrifying Angola’s informal moto-taxi workforce through proprietary AI-powered credit scoring.
- Bani (Nigeria): A cross-border payments infrastructure platform eliminating settlement delays for African businesses trading globally.
- Coamana (Kenya): Builds technology that helps governments and market associations digitize informal food markets.
- Duck (Kenya): A real-time data intelligence platform giving consumer brands instant shop floor visibility to prevent stockouts.
- Emaisha Pay (Uganda): Enables agro-traders to manage produce, collect multi-currency payments, and access embedded trade financing.
- Loop (South Africa): Digitizes mobility and payments in Africa, helping people, businesses and communities access simpler, more connected transport and payment solutions.
- Maad (Senegal): A full-stack omnichannel market expansion platform helping consumer brands grow sales across Africa through AI-powered market intelligence.
- MasteryHive AI (Nigeria): An AI-native platform automating transaction reconciliation, fraud detection, and AML monitoring.
- Meditect (Ivory Coast): Digitizes African pharmacies with cloud software and real-time data to improve medicine access and optimize inventory.
- Regxta (Nigeria): Combines alternative data-driven credit scoring with a hybrid digital-agent distribution model to deliver financial products to unbanked micro businesses.
- ReportsAI (Kenya): Helps impact organizations turn raw data into institutional knowledge and compliance-ready reporting through an AI-first platform.
- Safiri (Tanzania): Building the digital infrastructure powering reliable transportation of people and goods across Africa.
The Bigger Picture for Africa
In Uganda, 16 women die every day from pregnancy complications — many of which early ultrasound detection could prevent. M-Scan, a Google for Startups Accelerator alumni, developed a low-cost portable device that pairs with mobile phones to produce life-saving ultrasound scans for women in rural areas. That is the kind of transformation this programme unlocks — and Class 10 carries that same spirit forward.
Investing in this ecosystem benefits everyone. As these startups grow, they advance local economies, which ultimately benefits the entire continent.
From Angola to Tanzania, these 15 startups prove that Africa is not waiting for the future. It is actively building it — one AI-powered solution at a time.
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