Weekly intelligence on African tech — new companies, funding rounds, and partnership opportunities.
Intelligence · Sectors & Capabilities
What African tech companies build, and what they can deliver
Sector mix from the verified record, how each has grown since 2019, and the service capabilities available by market for buyers looking for a partner.
Sectors
SaaS is the largest sector, covering 60% of verified companies
Companies per sector from ATM records, with Partech's 2025 disclosed funding for the sectors its report breaks out. A company can sit in more than one sector.
SaaS and Mobile & Telecom added the most companies since 2019
Verified companies per sector by founding year, 2019 to 2025, counted cumulatively. Companies founded earlier are not counted, and all panels share one scale.
SaaS86companies
20192025
Mobile & Telecom52companies
20192025
Fintech38companies
20192025
E-commerce38companies
20192025
Cloud Computing35companies
20192025
AI & Machine Learning27companies
20192025
Companies by founding year · ATM verified
Capabilities
Software is the deepest capability everywhere, offered by 35% to 72% of each market's service companies
Share of a market's service companies offering each capability. Read down a column to find the markets to shortlist for that service.
Service capabilities · ATM verified, 414 service companies in these marketsDeclared services grouped by keyword
Partner readiness
No company is a verified partner yet, but 54% of service companies are open to partnerships, the most in Madagascar
Service companies per market split by trust signal. Verified partners have been checked by us; open to partnerships is self-declared; the rest are listed only.