Nigeria Dominates Google’s 2025 AI Accelerator Program with 6 Innovative Startups

It’s a no brainer that Nigeria leads the way in an era where startups are at the forefront of solving critical challenges across Africa, thanks to the youthful tech-driven and innovation populace.

With six domestic businesses selected for the 2025 Google for businesses Accelerator: Africa Class 9, more than any other nation in this year’s cohort, Nigeria has emerged as a major player in Africa’s tech industry. With these initiatives joining a select group of 15 AI-driven firms from around the continent, the announcement signifies Nigeria’s increasing importance in digital innovation and artificial intelligence.

Google’s Africa accelerator for 2025

With artificial intelligence at the core of their innovation, Google has chosen 15 startups from seven African nations for the ninth cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. The chosen firms are using AI to address practical issues in finance, agritech, healthtech, and logistics. They were chosen from among Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa.

The IT giant announced that the selected businesses were selected from a pool of about 1,500 applications from all over the continent.

Nigeria’s increasing relevance in Africa’s IT scene is highlighted by the fact that six of the chosen firms are headquartered there.

Meet the six standout Nigerian startups.

1. E-doc Online: A compliance and credit intelligence tool that expedites the loan and onboarding procedures by utilizing real-time banking data.
2. GoNomad: A firm which enables freelancers and African enterprises to establish worldwide operations and get paid internationally in the same way as local firms.
3. Midddleman: A platform for sourcing and payments that makes it easier for African companies to purchase from China.
4. Myltura: An AI-powered digital health platform that provides integrated health data services, testing access, and remote treatment.
5. Pastel: A setup that provides financial institutions with enterprise-grade AI technologies, such as anti-money laundering and fraud detection programs.
6. Scandium: Helps software teams expedite delivery and minimize problems with Scandium’s AI-powered quality assurance solutions.

Other members of the Class 9 cohort of the Google Startups Accelerator Africa are:

• AFRIKABAL (Rwanda): An AI-powered blockchain network that facilitates safe and transparent crop trading for farmers, buyers, and logistics companies.
• Apexloads (Kenya): Helps African freight brokers, forwarders, and carriers can move cargo more quickly with vetted partners, it is a logistics software as a service platform.
• Shamba Records (Kenya): An AI-driven platform that gives more than 50,000 African farmers access to markets, smart loans, and data-driven, climate-resilient farming.
• Smartel Agri Tech (Rwanda): Assists smallholder farmers in the Global South in preventing crop pests and illnesses early on, with the use of AI-powered, solar-powered devices and SMS warnings.
• TOLBI (Senegal): Provides accurate crop output projections by utilizing AI and satellite imagery to support sustainable agriculture throughout Africa.
• YeneHealth (Ethiopia): An AI-powered digital health website and smartphone application that simplifies access to reasonably priced, dependable, high-quality pharmaceuticals and medical services.
• Zerone Analytiqs (Ghana): Helps transform the way data is sourced, analyzed, and used for decision-making. A revolutionary two-pronged answer to Africa’s data shortage.
• Rapid Human AI (South Africa): An end-to-end AI design-thinking platform that reduces development time by 80% by converting concepts into code in a matter of days.
• Regulon (Ghana): A compliance and onboarding platform driven by AI that makes regulatory procedures easier for companies in Africa and the EMEA area.

Google’s Head of Startup Ecosystem, Africa, Folarin Aiyegbusi, stated, “African startups are using AI to solve real challenges, and this programme supports them with the resources to scale,”

“We are proud to support founders who are building inclusive solutions and shaping the future of AI on the continent,” he continued.

The three-month accelerator, which runs from June to August 22, will give participating firms access to up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits, technical mentorship from Google engineers and industry experts, and customized assistance with AI adoption, product development, and business scaling.

Additionally, participants will be connected to a global network of partners, investors, and collaborators.

The program has helped 153 entrepreneurs from 17 African nations since it began in 2018. Together, these companies have generated over 3,500 employment and over $300 million in capital. Google has made a $5 million contribution through product support and equity-free donations.