Founders, communities, and partners — in their own words.
Stories from our programs, our newsroom, and our partner institutions. Evidence of progress, written in the voices of the people closest to the work.
Rural hubs as the new innovation frontier
A coalition of secondary-city hubs in Uganda, Ghana, and Togo is redrawing where African innovation gets built.
Closing the capital gap for women-led ventures
Fewer than 3% of Africa’s disclosed startup funding reached all-women teams in 2024. Our cohort work aims to shift that number.
What the next billion Africans online will need
Data, identity, and livelihoods — a three-part brief for policy-makers shaping the next phase of the continent’s digital transition.
From lab bench to startup: research commercialisation in Lagos
How a tech-transfer fellowship at three Nigerian universities turned into six live ventures in eighteen months.
A decade of documenting African innovation
What our newsroom has learned from 8,400 founder profiles, and what those archives tell us about the continent’s next chapter.
Patient capital, practically applied
The first cohort of our capital-readiness program closed rounds totalling $14.2M — without relocating a single HQ.