4 Kenyan technology startups, Comana, Duck, ReportsAI and VunaPay, have been selected to join the 10th cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa.
Chosen from an exceptionally competitive pool of nearly 2,600 applications, these innovators are part of a final pan-African group of 15 companies. With an acceptance rate of less than 1%, their selection highlights the immense technical talent and resilience emerging from Kenya’s digital ecosystem.
The selected Kenyan startups are utilizing Artificial Intelligence to address critical local and regional challenges:
- Coamana: Builds technology that helps governments and market associations digitize informal food markets.
- Duck: A real-time data intelligence platform giving consumer brands instant shop floor visibility to prevent stockouts.
- ReportsAI: Helps impact organizations turn raw data into institutional knowledge and compliance-ready reporting through an AI-first platform.
- VunaPay: Builds fintech and data infrastructure for cooperatives, enabling instant payments and financial services for smallholder farmers.
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African tech founders are actively solving fundamental infrastructural challenges, bridging gaps in financial inclusion, healthcare, and supply chains with complex AI. The continent’s venture ecosystem showed remarkable resilience by raising $3.9 billion in 2025.
However, scaling deep-tech solutions requires specialized technical infrastructure, advanced cloud capabilities, and strategic mentorship to complement this capital. Accelerator programs provide these exact tools, ensuring local innovations can sustainably grow into businesses that power the continent’s digital economy.
Hafsah Jumare, CEO of Kenyan based-Coamana, noted: “Most food trade across Africa happens in traditional markets, but these markets remain largely invisible and unsupported. With MarketView, we’re building infrastructure to make them visible, using AI to interpret real-time data so businesses and governments can actually see what’s happening and act on it.
Through the accelerator, we’re focused on scaling this across more markets and strengthening the underlying data systems and integrations that make this intelligence usable at scale. Even in the first week, the technical mentorship and network provided have already been valuable in sharpening how we approach this.”
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“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome these exceptional founders into Class 10,” said Folarin Aiyegbusi, Head of Startup Ecosystem, Africa. “African startups are driving essential economic growth and social development. Our role is to serve as a supportive partner, providing these developers and founders with the technical infrastructure, mentorship, and global network they need to scale their solutions and amplify their real-world impact.”
Running from April 13th to June 19th, 2026, the hybrid program will provide the 15 startups with dedicated guidance from experienced mentors and industry experts, alongside hands-on technical workshops focused on AI and machine learning.
Since launching in 2018, the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program has supported 106 startups from 17 African countries, empowering them to collectively raise over $263 million and create more than 2,800 jobs.
For more information on the full list of 15 startups participating in Class 10, please visit the Google Africa Blog.
