Built alongside the institutions shaping Africa’s innovation economy.
Our work is delivered in coalition. Here are the partners we are actively building with across journalism, research, ecosystem support, innovation, and capital — and how to join them.
Six kinds of partner, one shared mandate.
Every program we run is designed with institutions that bring local expertise, reach, and accountability. These are the partner profiles we work alongside, and what a good-fit collaboration looks like with each.
Foundations underwriting independent journalism as a public good, policy research on the digital economy, or ecosystem-support programs for hubs and founder communities.
Ministries of digital economy, innovation agencies, and regulators looking to engage Africa’s innovators with evidence — from data protection and AI policy to MSME programs.
Continental and multilateral bodies working on innovation, digital transformation, or economic inclusion and seeking on-the-ground insight into what African founders actually build.
Universities, innovation offices, and research groups building tech-transfer capacity and moving frontier research toward commercial venture with African IP.
Hub operators, accelerators, and community leaders delivering founder support on the ground — our Operator Network convenes peers and shares playbooks across markets.
Angels, VCs, family offices, corporate vehicles, and development finance partners deploying capital into Africa — or designing first-loss and patient-capital vehicles that widen access.
How we partner.
Published up front so founders, funders, and governments can hold us to them.
Read the transparency statementEvery partnership starts with a conversation. We map our priorities to yours, agree on scope and success criteria up front, and sign a letter of intent before any financial commitment.
Funders, programs, and deliverables appear in our annual report. What we keep private is confidential beneficiary data or anything a partner has asked us to keep out of the record in writing.
We do not accept funds from sources whose interests conflict with our mandate. Our refusal policy is published and reviewed annually by our board.
Our programs submit to external review. Learnings — including the uncomfortable ones — are published alongside the headline results.
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