6 Nigerian Startups, Others Make Google Startups Accelerator Africa Class 9
Google has announced the selection of 15 innovative startups for its Google for Startups Accelerator: Africa Class 9 program, representing countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. These startups are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle pressing issues across sectors such as fintech, agritech, healthtech, and professional services.
Among the Nigerian startups chosen are:
– E-doc Online: Simplifies compliance and credit assessments by analyzing real-time banking data, facilitating quicker onboarding and smarter lending decisions.
– GoNomad: Enables businesses and solopreneurs to establish and manage global entities, invoice, and receive payments seamlessly across borders.
– Middleman: An intelligent sourcing and payment platform that streamlines importing goods from China, making transactions faster, safer, and more affordable.
– Myltura: An AI-powered digital health platform offering remote care, testing access, and efficient health data management.
– Pastel: Provides AI-based enterprise solutions, including fraud detection and anti-money laundering tools tailored for African financial institutions.
– Scandium: An AI Quality Assurance suite that accelerates software development by automating testing processes.
Other startups are:
AFRIKABAL (Rwanda): A blockchain and AI-powered platform helping farmers, buyers, and logistics firms trade crops securely and transparently.
Apexloads (Kenya): A logistics SaaS platform helping African freight brokers, forwarders, and transporters move cargo faster with verified partners.
Rapid Human AI (South Africa): An end-to-end AI design-thinking platform that turns ideas into code in days, cutting development time by 80%.
Regulon (Ghana): An AI-powered compliance and onboarding platform designed to simplify regulatory processes for businesses across Africa and the EMEA region.
Shamba Records (Kenya): An AI-powered platform that empowers 50,000+ African farmers with smart credit, market access, and climate-resilient, data-driven agriculture.
Smartel Agri Tech (Rwanda): Helps smallholder farmers in the Global South get ahead of crop pests and diseases early using AI-powered, solar-driven devices and SMS alerts.
These startups were selected from nearly 1,500 applications after a competitive process that began in April 2025, highlighting Google’s commitment to nurturing Africa’s tech ecosystem. Over the next three months, from June 23rd to August 22nd, 2025, the cohort will participate in a hybrid acceleration program offering mentorship from Google engineers, up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits, and strategic support to scale their solutions. Additionally, they will connect with a global network of investors and partners to expand their impact.
Since its launch in 2018, the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa has supported 153 startups across 17 countries, collectively raising over $300 million and creating more than 3,500 jobs. Google has invested $5 million in equity-free funding and product credits to empower these entrepreneurs.