City Edition · Volume One

Kigali, capital of the next decade.

Our first dedicated city dispatch — 60 pages of reporting from Rwanda's startup capital. Policy, founders, capital, design.

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Annual Index · 2026

The Africa
Startup 40

Our definitive annual ranking of the forty high-growth companies reshaping the continent's digital economy — ordered by capital raised, market expansion and strategic moat.

RwandaAI StartupsFounders Under 30Women Building AfricaFuture 100
01

Zaphire Pay

Fintech · Nairobi

$180M

Capital raised

02

Mara AI

Artificial Intelligence · Kigali

$120M

Capital raised

03

SwiftLogix

Logistics · Lagos

$92M

Capital raised

04

Helios Health

Healthtech · Accra

$76M

Capital raised

05

Kente Core

Enterprise SaaS · Lagos

$54M

Capital raised

06

SolarFlow

Energy · Nairobi

$48M

Capital raised

07

Bloom Capital

Fintech · Cape Town

$41M

Capital raised

08

AgriCore AI

Agritech · Cairo

$36M

Capital raised

09

Terrafirma

Climate · Kigali

$28M

Capital raised

10

Studio234

Creator Economy · Lagos

$22M

Capital raised

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