AI for Africa by Africans
Location: South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg
Employees: 1-10
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Mozilla Ve... | mozilla.vc |
| 10.01.2024 | Atlantica ... | atlanticav... |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.10.2025 | TCS | Why Altron is building an AI factory in Johannesburg | Altron earlier this month announced that it has deployed an “AI factory” in one of Teraco’s new Johannesburg data centres. Powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure and software, the factory has already gone live with half a dozen customers. In t... |
| 23.10.2025 | Rwanda: New Initiative Targets African Languages for Next-Gen AI | A coalition of African and global partners has launched a collaborative initiative aimed at developing inclusive African large language models (LLMs) to strengthen the continent's artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. The initiative was u... |
| 16.10.2025 | African Languages for AI - the Project That's Gathering a Huge New Dataset | Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the inter... |
| 04.09.2025 | Wits professor named in Time’s list of 100 most influential people in AI | Benjamin Rosman Benjamin Rosman, founding director of the Wits University Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (Mind) Institute, has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential thinkers in AI for 2025. Time said on R... |
| 14.08.2025 | What do investors want to see in African AI startups? | Every Thursday, Delve Into AI will provide nuanced insights on how the continent’s AI trajectory is shaping up. In this column, we examine how AI influences culture, policy, businesses, and vice versa. Read to get smarter about the people, ... |
| 20.09.2024 | Navigating the AI Frontier: Nigeria's Digital Evolution | Nigeria stands at a crossroads. The nation, Africa's largest economy, is shifting gears from traditional industries to a knowledge-based economy. The engine driving this transformation? Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recently, the Nigeria In... |
| 19.09.2024 | Nigeria: Nitra - Stakeholders Give Imperatives for Ai Adoption in Nigeria | Nigeria, Africa's largest economy, is rapidly transitioning into a knowledge-based economy with the prospects of adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is an enabler of growth, innovation, and increased productivity. This was the f... |
| 18.04.2024 | Corporate South Africa dips its toes into the AI waters | Microsoft South Africa MD Kalane Rampai Early adopters of generative AI in South Africa are seeing the benefits of using the technology in their organisations, according to Microsoft South Africa MD Kalane Rampai. Speaking to TechCentral in... |
| 03.04.2024 | Haibo! AI language models for Zulu and Sotho in the works | Jade Abbott New language tools are being built that allow speakers of indigenous African languages to interact with the latest artificial intelligence applications. Lelapa AI is a local AI research and product lab that is building “language... |
| 21.11.2023 | Mozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc, Global Leader in Email and Domain Security | The investment will help Sendmarc provide essential DMARC protection to thousands of customers around the world (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023) – Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Sendmarc, an industry leader in email and ... |