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Intelligence · Overview

Africa's tech economy, measured from the ground up

Built from 1,596 verified company records across 55 countries, read alongside the benchmarks the market already trusts. Five short sections below, one visual each.

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Coverage, Nov 2026

1,596Verified companiesATM · verified records

55Countries coveredATM · 52 with 10+ records

10Top-ranked startup hubsStartupBlink · map ring

$4.1BFunding raised, 2025Partech · external

FewerMore companies

22 countries hold 50% of verified records. Hatched countries have fewer than 5 records. That is a coverage gap on our side, not an absence of activity.

Open Markets

01 · Where

Coverage is evenly spread: the top 10 markets hold 34 to 53 verified companies each

Verified companies in the 10 best-covered markets, against each country's best StartupBlink hub rank. 2 of 10 markets also hold a StartupBlink hub rank, shown on the same row; the others have no hub among the cities we cite.

Markets

Companies · ATM verifiedGlobal hub rank · StartupBlink 2025

02 · What

SaaS has held the top rank every year since 2022

Each sector's rank by verified companies founded up to that year, 2022 to 2026. This tracks company formation, not market share.

Sectors

Sector rank by cumulative company formation · ATM verified

03 · Money

Equity fell in 12 of 15 markets; South Africa overtook Nigeria at the top

Disclosed equity per market, 2022 against 2025, USD, log scale. The four largest markets in 2025 took 86% of these 15 markets' equity, against 82% in 2022.

Investment

2022 equity · Partech 2022 report, p. 26 2025 equity · Partech 2025 report, p. 9Equity only; Partech counts debt separately

04 · People

Developer accounts grew in all six markets from 2020 to 2025, fastest in Nigeria, 6.6 times over

GitHub developer accounts per market at the end of each year, 2020 to 2025, indexed to 2020. GitHub counts every account located in a market, including inactive ones.

Talent

Developer accounts · GitHub Innovation Graph: developers by economyIndex, 2020 = 100

05 · How we know

Two kinds of number, two colours

Emerald marks records we verified ourselves; brass marks benchmarks we cite and link to. Coverage gaps are hatched, never hidden or filled in.

Methodology

ATM verified

1,596 records across 55 countries

Only published records count. Records we cannot confirm stay in review and never reach these charts.

External benchmark

11 sources, each dated and linked

Partech, Briter, GSMA Intelligence, StartupBlink, GitHub, World Bank, World Development Indicators, World Bank, AfriLabs, Press releases and reports, linked on each item. Used for what we do not measure ourselves, such as funding totals and developer counts.

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Every country clears the threshold

All 54 countries have at least 5 verified records. Any that fall below are hatched on the map, never estimated.