09/10/2026
Everyone is talking about AI models. African startups are struggling with something far more basic : DATA.
Between July 2024 and March 2026, our AI 4 Startups program, run with Expertise france under the Data Governance in Africa initiative, worked side by side with 60+ agritech startups in 8 African markets : Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa and Botswana.
🎯 30+ co-design workshops. 8 hackathons. 24 open-source AI models.
Our main finding : startups struggle less with model design than with collecting, structuring, accessing, validating and deploying data.
Swipe through, then dive into the full report : 9 use cases, the startups behind them and 24 open-source models.