Artificial Intelligence in Africa

11 artificial intelligence providers across Africa, publishing 3 APIs.

11 providers 3 published APIs 2 indexed documents

Artificial Intelligence across Africa — 11 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 3 indexed APIs.

2 of the 11 publish at least one machine-readable API; 9 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 6 minimal, 4 emerging, and 1 developing.

Leading by rating: AmunCore, Leta, Mophones, Gebeya, Efreshli, Proteinea, and 5 more.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (11)

Provider Description APIs Rating
AmunCore AmunCore turns a database into a secure REST API without writing a backend. You connect a database, pick tables, and endpoints go live with routing, authentication, validation, ... 2 developing
Leta Leta is a pan-African logistics technology company founded in 2022 and headquartered in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, with operations across Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Leta b... 0 emerging
Mophones Mophones (MoPhones) is a Nairobi, Kenya based fintech and recommerce company building accessible device-financing and re-commerce infrastructure for Africa, starting with premiu... 1 emerging
Gebeya Gebeya is an Ethiopian talent-cloud and marketplace technology company headquartered in Addis Ababa, founded in 2016 by Amadou Daffe and Hiruy Amanuel. It trains, vets, and conn... 0 emerging
Efreshli Efreshli is a Cairo, Egypt based online home-furnishing and interior-design commerce platform founded in 2018 by Heba El Gabaly. The company lets consumers design and shop their... 0 emerging
Proteinea Proteinea is an AI-driven biotechnology company engineering next-generation therapeutic antibodies. It integrates protein language models, computational biology and biological a... 0 minimal
Spatialedge Spatialedge is an enterprise AI and data solutions firm headquartered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with offices in London and Austin. The company builds and operationalizes an... 0 minimal
Awfar Market Awfar is a Cairo- and Riyadh-based digital solutions company (founded 2013) offering an integrated customer engagement and commerce platform. It combines an omnichannel Chat Cen... 0 minimal
Cultivaet Technologies Holding Ltd. Cultivaet Technologies Holding Ltd. is an AI-driven agricultural technology ("AgriTech for Humanity") startup based in Egypt serving smallholder farmers across the Middle East. ... 0 minimal
Terra Industries Terra Industries is a Nigeria-based defense-technology company, positioning itself as Africa's first defense prime, that designs, manufactures, and deploys autonomous multi-doma... 0 minimal
Jumo JUMO is a Cape Town-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, founded in 2015, that uses artificial intelligence to power digital credit and savings products for banks, mobile... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (2)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 3 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 2 documents.

AmunCore Dynamic API

Generated CRUD over a table or view exposed as an endpoint on a registered AmunCore application.

Mophones Agentic Commerce (UCP)

The Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) surface for the Mophones storefront — a published UCP merchant profile plus a UCP-ov...

Other industries in Africa

Financial Services 29 Banking & Open Banking 22 Supply Chain & Procurement 21 Mobility & Fleet 17 Logistics 16 Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 14 Retail 14 Venture Capital & Investing 10 Human Resources & Payroll 9 Cybersecurity & Identity 7 Digital Health & Telehealth 7 Healthcare 7 All of Africa →

Artificial Intelligence elsewhere

North America 577 Europe 268 United Kingdom & Ireland 94 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 76 Greater China 66 France & Iberia 58 Middle East 51 Japan & Korea 36 Latin America 32 India & South Asia 30 Southeast Asia 24 Nordics 19 All of Artificial Intelligence →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Africa and Artificial Intelligence. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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