Entreprises IA & Tech en Afrique francophone

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)

Abidjan neobank (Y Combinator alum); raised record $17M in 2025 led by Janngo; first Ivorian fintech with BCEAO microfinance license

National AI conference (first edition Feb 2025, Sofitel Abidjan) organized with the Ministry of Digital Transition, CONIIA and Human AI, anchoring CI's national AI strategy

1,200 m² Abidjan hub (opened 2021 with GIZ & AWS): coding school, FabLab, Orange Fab accelerator, Orange Ventures; 3,500+ trained, 92 startups supported

Ivorian incubator (2016) for agricultural value-chain entrepreneurs; 82 projects incubated, 120+ structures supported

Coworking, incubator and accelerator; network of 1,000+ entrepreneurs in the Ivorian ecosystem

Abidjan–Paris data science/engineering firm (EDF Pulse Africa prize winner); acquired Aug 2025 by Ivorian AI company SaH Analytics International

Abidjan AI startup building sovereign, multilingual AI for African languages (products: Griot, Baobab); founders Lamine Azinakou & Fawaz Adisa

Abidjan payment gateway (2016) aggregating mobile money, cards and wallets; 30M+ transactions across 8 countries; backed by 4DX Ventures & Flutterwave

B2B bulk-payments platform with offices in Abidjan and Dakar; BCEAO payment-establishment license EP.CI.004/2025; $5M extension round

Congolese community of AI experts and enthusiasts (AI, data science, big data, STEM) founded by young Congolese researchers to democratize AI, with webinars and events

Pioneer incubator, coworking and events venue in downtown Kinshasa; trains entrepreneurial skills and connects DRC ecosystem actors

Kinshasa innovation/entrepreneurship hub (founded 2020 by Texaf) with 200+ coworking stations, startup programs incl. xELLE for women entrepreneurs

Kinshasa digital-transformation and dev-staffing company (100+ projects for 60+ clients in DRC and Europe since 2018); domain kinshasadigital.com now branded Kadea

Benin government's international city of innovation and knowledge (est. 2017): higher education, research and entrepreneurship campuses in Cotonou/Ouidah

Beninese AI/data-science association (launched Aug 2022) promoting AI in Francophone Africa; built GPT BJ chatbot with gov agency ASIN and runs local-language LLM data collection

Tech hub/accelerator in Cotonou (plus Parakou and Dakar); has supported 1,000+ entrepreneurs incl. fintech FedaPay and healthtech Rema

First FabLab in Benin (Cotonou): digital fabrication, coworking, incubation and the École 229 digital school

Francophone Africa "super app" (transport, delivery, vehicle financing, Gozem Money digital banking) active in Togo, Benin, Gabon, Cameroon; raised $30M Series B in 2025

Bamako center for robotics/AI training founded 2017; released open-source Bambara speech-recognition models and AI-generated Bambara schoolbooks with the education ministry

First Impact Hub in Francophone Africa; startup/SME incubator-accelerator covering 5+ Malian cities

Bamako incubator/coworking/FabLab focused on ICT, health and social innovation; ~298 companies incubated, hubs in Mopti, Sikasso, Ségou

Bamako software company building open-source health information systems and SMS/data tools (e.g. Mali's national health information system work)

Orange/GIZ digital center in Bamako (1,557 m2): coding school "Orange Digital Kalanso", FabLab Solidaire, Orange Fab accelerator and Orange Ventures Africa

Burkina Faso's FabLab/digital innovation third-place (founded 2012, Ouagadougou): prototyping, coworking, free-software training, ~50 members nationwide

Ouagadougou impact accelerator (est. 2014) for social entrepreneurs: incubation, training, financing and studies in Burkina Faso and West Africa

Association that organized the first Forum on Artificial Intelligence in Ouagadougou (FIAO), gathering AI experts, researchers and decision-makers

Open innovation hub and startup incubator (est. 2010) with spaces in Buea and Douala; 60+ startups incubated

Community-driven tech ecosystem around Buea/Mt. Fako (since ~2006); annual Silicon Mountain Conference; origin of startups like Njorku and GiftedMom/Healthlane

Open-science/DIY-bio community lab in Yaoundé (opened 2017); local production of bioreagents and open biotech tools with Open Bioeconomy Lab

Yaoundé startup (2018) whose app uses CNN-based computer vision plus local-language voice UI to diagnose crop pests/diseases and recommend treatment

Douala e-health platform (2020): instant video consultations and home lab sampling; $5.2M seed total, 100k+ patients in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire

Healthtech (ex-GiftedMom, founder Alain Nteff) combining remote and in-person care; raised $2.4M from investors incl. Sequoia-linked funds

Douala-based crypto/savings investment app with non-custodial wallets; $8M Series A (Anthemis, Dragonfly), 70k+ users across nine Francophone countries

Google Developer Group chapter in Douala (since 2012), organizer of DevFest Douala (2025 edition listed)

Google Developer Group chapter in Kinshasa

Cameroonian fintech startup; raised $3.5M

Orange Cameroon and German development cooperation's Orange Digital Center in Douala — the 6th Orange Digital Center in Africa

UM6P's international AI center of excellence in Rabat; first UNESCO Category II AI center in Africa, led by Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

Multilingual voice AI / CX analytics ("HolistiCX") for African languages; $1M pre-seed (Feb 2025) led by Launch Africa

AI fetal-ultrasound analysis; FDA 510(k)-cleared, backed by UM6P Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, AAIC

Rabat AI studio/venture builder; parent of ToumAI, DeepEcho, Talaty; co-created DarijaBERT

UM6P precision-agriculture unit using satellite/drone data + AI for irrigation/fertilization

Non-profit AI community of Moroccan researchers home + diaspora; annual conference, hackathons

Morocco's first tech incubator (since 2001); ~350 startups across Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Agadir

Free peer-to-peer coding school (42 network); campuses Khouribga, Benguerir, Tetouan, Rabat

Early-stage VC arm of UM6P; deeptech + digital funds, 27+ startups, $100k–500k tickets

CDG Invest incubation-to-Series-A program (up to ~$1M per startup); 135+ startups incl. AI

YC-backed B2B e-commerce + fintech super-app; first VC-backed startup licensed by Bank Al-Maghrib; $12M Series A

Rabat applied-research foundation under UM6P (materials, biotech, microelectronics); 180+ patents

Enterprise AI founded in Tunis 2014; acquired by BioNTech ~$680M (largest African tech exit), keeps Tunis office

Tunisian NLP startup (2019) for Arabic dialects; co-created TunBERT

Sousse maker of autonomous security robots (PGuard) with AI navigation; sells into Europe/N. America

Tunis IoT + AI energy-management platform; $10M+ raised, subsidiary in France

Tunis tech-skills school (data science, GenAI tracks); $8M Series A, accredited university, across Africa/MENA

Seed accelerator + Anava Seed Fund (TND 30M); ~90 early-stage Tunisian startups since 2016

State-mandated operator of the Startup Act label and Startup Tunisia initiative

First ODC in Africa/MENA: coding school, FabLab, Orange Fab, Orange Ventures

Tunis digital innovation hub (opened 2021); coworking, startup hosting, diaspora program "Dot Landing"

Network of Tunisian AI academics/practitioners incl. diaspora at Google/Amazon/Meta; runs TAIS NextGen

Tunisian AI association founded 2005 (Prof. Khaled Ghedira); organizes IEEE AMCAI conference

Maghreb super-app (ride-hailing, delivery, payments) operating in Morocco and Tunisia; AI via Google Cloud partnership