AI companies, startups, labs, and market entry professionals across francophone Africa's nine anchor countries.
16 companies found
Senegalese AI/data-science/IoT community founded 2018; runs learning, datasets in local languages, jobs newsletter; ~10.7k LinkedIn followers
Community of 2,500+ Senegalese developers (since 2018); maintains open-source projects Galsen UI and Galsen DEV Map
Senegal's leading ICT incubator (created 2011); pre-incubation (BuntuTEKI), incubation, and regional acceleration (Jambar Tech Lab)
Dakar-headquartered mobile money company; largest provider in Senegal, first non-bank/non-telecom e-money license across multiple WAEMU markets, ~11 countries
Founded 2014 by Omar Cissé; pan-African payment aggregation platform in 26 countries; backed by TotalEnergies, Worldline, CFAO
AI-powered e-health platform co-founded by Moustapha Cissé (ex-Google AI); raised $10M from IFC to build integrated health data infrastructure
Dakar healthtech (founded 2015) digitizing patient records ("Dossier Patient Unique"); raised ~$3M from Oyass Capital, deployed in 60+ institutions in 6 countries
Cloud-communication aggregator (SMS/USSD/voice/TTS incl. African languages, AI); first licensed mobile-services aggregator in Senegal; $7M+ Series A
Dakar company specialized in software engineering, big data and AI; sponsored Zindi's Wolof automatic-speech-recognition challenge
First West African school dedicated exclusively to AI and Big Data (founded 2019); state-recognized Master's in AI
Opened Africa's first coworking space in Dakar (2010); "action tank" network with hubs in 7 countries incl. two in Abidjan
Coworking + startup incubation programs, launched 2017; part of global Impact Hub network
Sonatel/Orange 2,000 m² Dakar hub combining free coding school, FabLab, Orange Fab startup accelerator
Uses AI, satellite imagery and IoT for precision agriculture and carbon credits; Digital Africa (Fuzé) portfolio company
State entrepreneurship delegation; launched $50M "Catalyst DER/FJ" pre-seed/seed fund for startups (June 2026); previously backed Paps, Socium, etc.
€6.5M seed vehicle co-investing in Orange Digital Center startups; Senegalese beneficiaries incl. Tolbi (agritech) and Proboutik (fintech)