Africa
A three-month hybrid accelerator program for growth-stage technology startups. The Accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google's programs, products, people and technology to communities across Africa.
Africa
About the program
About the program
A global series of programs
Each cohort of 10-15 startups comes together to tackle technical challenges that can help grow their businesses through a mix of remote and in-person, 1-to-1, group learning sessions, and sprint projects.
Dedicated expert help
Founders outline the top technical challenges for their startup, and are paired with experts from Google and the industry to solve those challenges and grow their business.
Specialist deep dives
Accelerators include deep dives and workshops focused on product design, customer acquisition, and leadership development for founders.
Google product benefits
Early access to AI products: Eligible participants receive Early Access Program and Trusted Tester benefits for Google’s AI products.
Cloud credits: Startups interested in utilizing Cloud credits during the Accelerator may apply here, subject to eligibility review and approval.
Cloud TPUs: Participants are eligible to receive free Cloud TPU access to accelerate open source machine learning research. Find out more.
Key benefits
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Equity-free support
Equity-free support: For duration of program.
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Mentoring
Dedicated mentoring from Google teams.
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Training
Exclusive invitations to technical bootcamps hosted by Google where offered.
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Access to experts
Access to Google's network of industry experts.
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Early access to AI products
Access new Google AI products and tools as relevant through Trusted Tester and EAP benefits.
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Google product credits
Eligible startups receive product credits.
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Strategic support
Support on company and product strategy.
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Technical project partnership
Work hand in hand with experts from Google on your biggest tech challenges.
Entry criteria
Entry criteria
- Startups demonstrating traction, ideally growth-stage startups
- Building a scalable product or service with a significant total addressable market and defensible growth model
- Deeply technical, preferably leveraging technologies like machine learning and AI
- Commitment from CTO and/or technical roles to participate and engage in required program sessions
- We are committed to building accelerator classes with great startups, and encourage applications from all qualified startups
Key Dates
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April, 2026
Program Kick-off
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June, 2026
Graduation
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June, 2026
Demo Day
Accelerator Alumni
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A platform that provides services to the financially underserved/excluded.
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AfriWell Health connects patients in Congo with healthcare professionals around the globe in a quick and efficient way.
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Alajo is the digital piggybank for the under(un)banked and non-smart phone users in Africa; we are building an escrowed banking system between Agents and Users using USSD and SMS, to help people save money everyday.
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Amitruck is a digital platform that seeks to bring trust, transparency and efficiency to logistics by using technology to connect cargo owners and transporters.
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AppZone provides fintech software applications running off cloud infrastructure and blockchain technology that digitize, dis-intermediate, and automate core operations of Banks in Africa.
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Babymigo is a trusted social community for expecting mothers and young parents.
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Brandbook is a data and analytics business that collects, analyses and reports on consumer purchasing behaviour using Machine Learning to help brands and retailers understand their customers better.
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BuuPass works with transport operators to provide digital solutions that seamlessly facilitate convenient and reliable movement of commuters.
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Chalkboard Education created an inclusive mobile learning platform for organisations to make their training and educational programs available to all mobile users.
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A patented consumer intelligence, engagement & loyalty software-as-a-service for authentication, and tracking and tracing of consumer goods and pharmaceutical products.
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Clafiya is a digital primary healthcare service that connects individuals and businesses to health practitioners to provide convenient, quality, and affordable, on-demand primary care from their mobile phones.
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Cloud9xp is an online marketplace and booking service for leisure experiences.
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Crediation empowers tech startups to lend to their customers. We provide APIs and a dashboard to allow our partners to access funds for lending and process loans.
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CredPal develops consumer credit infrastructure to ease consumer credit purchase, and enable retail businesses to provide on-demand credit for consumers in Africa.
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Crop2Cash is an offline accessible platform for farmers making it possible for them to pay, get paid, access agricultural credit via USSD while assuring financial institutions of their lending capital.
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Curacel is a Claims & Fraud Detection Platform for African Insurers.
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Our solution digitizes and automates payments and the resources that makeup the payment proceses for SME's.
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EdTech startup focused on delivering quality and relevant education on demand using AI.
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A toolkit for establishing scalable high-quality training programs within existing education- or professional institutions.
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We are building the largest network of First Responders and verified Emergency-Ready hospitals across Nigeria who are connected to emergency victims using our application.
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RADIFY is the AI product developed by Envisionit Deep AI that detects and highlight abnormalities across medical diagnostic images improving access to diagnostic healthcare.
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A financial hub for Africans, anywhere in the world.
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eWAKA Mobility is a ridesharing platform that offers on-demand electric micro-mobility for personal use and end-to-end sustainable logistics for delivery businesses.
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EzyAgric, a one stop centre creating endless farming possibilities by enabling farmers and agribusinesses to efficiently access genuine agricultural production, marketing and financial services.
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Farmer Lifeline is a technological solution that places smallholder farmers ahead of crop pests and crop diseases thereby increasing crop yield.
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Fleetsimplify is a fleet management platform for shared mobility.
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FlexPay is an automated and secured layaway e-commerce system.
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Formplus is a multi-channel data collection Software-as-a-Service, helping businesses reach their online & offline customers simultaneously.
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Franc.app is a mobile money management platform.
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GeroCare cloud based hospital enables Africans to provide regular home doctor visits and home medical care for their parents and elderly loved ones in their home country via the GeroCare App.
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Digital retail platform for distributing bulky household essentials.
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Hepta Pay is a product that interfaces card payments with mobile money accounts, thereby easing diaspora inflows and enabling new payment possibilities for banked customers paying via debit/credit card to interact with unbanked merchants directly on their mobile money wallets.
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HydroIQ is a virtual water network that gives consumers and utilities a single, transparent platform to manage their water consumption and management.
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Ilara Health brings essential diagnostic support and impactful software products to patients and providers across peri-urban Sub-Saharan Africa who currently are unable to access these basic life-saving tools.
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A marketplace for dietitians and patients allowing users to browse, select, communicate to and follow up with pre-verified top dietitians online.
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Iverify.ng is a digital identity onboarding platform.
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The smart, comprehensive database of African case law and legislation.
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Kaoun enables unbanked and underbanked individuals and businesses access to financial services through identification, payment and credit solutions.
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Khula is an ecosystem of digital platforms (mobile and web) that exist to make the agri value chain more efficient & fair.
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A full-stack B2B e-Commerce platform providing Guaranteed Sales, Smart Inventory Recommendations and Product Financing to SMEs in Africa, leveraging machine learning and data science methods.
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Payment for Africa through Messaging.
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We provide a digital banking platform for cooperative financial institutions.
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Inclusive apps that simplify care delivery and improve patient access to preventive services.
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LyRise is a platform providing global companies easier, faster work with vetted AI talents.
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Maxibuy is a cooperative inventory procurement and financial services platform serving bulk buying merchants of consumer goods in Nigeria, enabling them to scale their businesses, gain the benefits of economics of scale with others in their community.
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MDaas is building Africa's largest network of physical and virtual diagnostic and primary care facilities to provide convenient, high-quality, and affordable healthcare for the continent's next billion.
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Curated medication marketplace for hospitals and pharmacies with inventory management, financial services and tech enabled logistics.
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Mintrics is a social video intelligence platform that helps brands and their agencies achieve the highest ROI on their social videos.
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A personal Finance app that provides credit scoring to the Unbanked population giving them access to financial services.
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Mosmos provides save-to-buy platform for Africa.
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Personalised and data-driven media at scale.
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Ndovu is a micro-investment platform that provides smart, simple, and affordable access to global financial markets that build your wealth.
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Preventive and Corrective Tech for mental illnesses.
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Nulitics is a specialist in Mixed Reality (XR) software development and system integrator with a focus on XR wearable technology.
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OkadaBooks is a social platform that allows users easily create, spread and sell their stories/books/documents in a matter of minutes.
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OkHi is a physical addressing platform for emerging markets.
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OMG Digital a media platform that produces hyper-local, engaging and entertaining content African millennials love to consume and share.
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OneHealth is your digital-first Pharmacy and healthcare platform, leveraging technology to provide access to medicines, information and healthcare providers.
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OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era, equipping their owners to make data-driven decisions to improve their performance and access capital.
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Logistics service focused on last mile & domestic market.
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PayGo Energy connects gas cylinder fleets to a single digital platform which accelerates market adoption and improves asset utilization.
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Digitizing payments in Ethiopia.
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Pezesha is a scalable Peer to Peer micro lending marketplace that allows Kenyans to loan to Kenyans securely via mobile money using big data and credit analytics.
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Piggyvest allows Africans put aside little amounts of money periodically till they reach a savings target.
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Pineapple is a decentralised insurance offering. Members can insure anything in a snap using AI and keep all unused premium. They can also build networks with people they trust to keep more of their premium.
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Preeva connects students with young educators who provide extra help at school and university.
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REACH recognizes, categorizes and interprets transaction data from SMS and other sources, making this data valuable as individual financial and market insights.
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Riby is a peer-to-peer banking platform for cooperatives and their members that allows them to save, borrow and invest, together.
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Ridelink is giving SMEs access to 1million trucks at the tap of a button; They are democratizing transport for SMEs in emerging markets by creating transport economies in the supply chain.
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ScholarX helps Students from low-income background access education funding opportunities.
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Digital Freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa.
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New skill-learning social networking app that lets Africa's 700M youths learn new skills from their peers online and can request top 1% tutors on-demand.
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Eliminating post-harvest loss for farmers and providing access to financial services digitally.
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Sortd aims to re-invent email with the world's first All-in-One productivity suite for Gmail and GSuite.
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Stears is a trusted provider of high-quality African information that improves decision making.
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SuiTch provides digital financial services to underbanked and non banked populations (especially women and young people) to foster their growth.
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swiftVEE is a platform for connecting livestock agencies to a network of buyers and sellers.
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Tabiri Analytics is developing an affordable, comprehensive and automated cyber security as a service for enterprises in the underserved markets.
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The Tambua App is a crossplatform app that utlizes spectral analysis, AI and machine learning to turn a normal smartphone into a powerful, non invasive diagnostic tool for Tuberculosis and Pneumonia, the Tambua App uses a cough sound acoustic signature, symptoms, risk factors and clinical information to come up with a diagnostic report.
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Teheca helps families and individuals find the right health care providers/workers in Uganda.
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Tendo enables anyone in Africa to sell online with zero capital investment.
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TERAWORK is an online-freelance marketplace that is plugging Africa talent into the global workforce, while equally helping local and global businesses thrive by connecting them with quality talent across the African continent.
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Connected Analytics (Thank U cash) is a multi merchant rewards and loyalty platform.
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A SaaS platform, to help design 3D immersive experiences for everyone easily.
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Thrive Agric crowdfunds investments for small holder farmers, and provide this to them in form of inputs, tech driven advisory and access to market.
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A next-generation logistics platform utilising data in order to optimise the logistics function for enterprises.
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Festival Coins is a suite of tools to help event organizations produce better events, with features including online ticketing, access control, cashless payments, and event reporting.
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The TradeBuza solution is a cloud-based web and mobile application which digitizes contract farming and trade.
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truQ connects businesses and individuals in Africa with logistics needs to the closest vehicle in real time, aside a portfolio of value added services.
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Tyms provides instant microcredit for micro enterprises in Africa, powered by ROSCA.
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UzaPoint is an enterprise resource planning tool that enhances the efficiency, profitability and business intelligence of small scale businesses in retail.
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Automated derisking credit assessment platform that brings transparency to the lending ecosystem.
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We help companies understand their customers by turning their customer interviews into customer personas and journey maps.
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We connect health care providers and payers efficiently to each other via financial services innovation and technology.
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Whip is building a web3 marketplace for music promotional services that gives artists access to a wide range of trustworthy music marketing solutions.
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We offer digital payment solutions for merchants and businesses looking at expanding their businesses online via web portal or mobile app.
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Make and receive payments, offline or online.
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Zayride provides reliable, timely, and safe cab services using technologically enabled dispatch systems and integrated mobile money systems for payment.
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Zydii is the premier localized digital training solution which is engaging and accessible, leading to transformative growth for businesses.
Frequently asked questions
The Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa will kick off in April 2026 and run until June 2026.
The Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa is best suited for growth-stage revenue generating tech startups. The founder and appropriate team members must be available to join all program elements of their cohort. In order to ensure Google can provide meaningful value, startups should aim to leverage AI/ML technology in their product, service or operations and/or show an interest in leveraging this technology in the future.
The Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa is equity-free for all participating startups. Please note that we do require all founders (CEO and CTO) and appropriate team members to be available to join all elements of the program.
Startups must meet specific criteria to be eligible for Google product credit offerings. To learn more about the Google Cloud credit eligibility requirements, please visit the Google Cloud startup page.
Yes. You can view our alumni on the directory page.