Convening the builders of Africa's next decade.
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How we work
Here to make Africa's next decade arrive sooner.
We help governments, leaders, and builders move from ambition to action, advising on strategy, policy, and delivery, with technology as the connective thread. We choose the hardest contexts and the most transformative missions, because what gets built here shapes what's possible next, and where the world's capital, talent, and ideas converge to scale it. We bring our full expertise to anyone ready to make ideas real, and investable, for the people they serve.
The Continental Agenda
A continent that advances on its own terms.
Builders
Capital
State
2026
This year, in Nairobi
Convened at the Kenya Cultural Center, under the high patronage of H.E. President William Ruto.
Co-convened with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya and the French-African Foundation. Fifteen founders. Twenty-two countries. One room where the conditions Africa's next decade needs were named, and put on the agenda.
11 May 2026
Nairobi
Class of 2026
Fig. 01 · The High-Level Address
“The room Africa needed.”
Kenya Cultural Center · Nairobi · 11 May 2026
Moments · Nova Garage 2026
From the room.
Lara Chapaz
French Ambassador for Digital Affairs & AI · République Française
Recognised by
100 Most Influential People in AI
Portfolio
Ventures in the Class of 2026.
Fifteen founders. Twenty-two countries. Building across fintech, climate, agriculture, AI, mobility, health, and the infrastructure underneath.
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Blok
Kenya
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Daba Finance
Senegal
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DareDare
Morocco
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Flot
Kenya
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Intella
Egypt
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Keverd AI
Tunisia
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Kodu Technology
Kenya
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Neural Labs Africa
Kenya
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NIMA AI
Kenya
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Nucleon Security
Tunisia
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Panacea
Nigeria
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Provision Sight Africa
Kenya
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Sikili
Kenya
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Skaletek
Rwanda
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Zeeh Africa
Nigeria
About AAI
The Autonomous Advancement Initiative is a youth-led cooperation framework that researches, develops, and operationalises frontier-technology solutions for public benefit. We are being institutionalised through formal agreements with foreign ministries, foundations, and institutional capital, positioning African states as credible actors in ethical innovation and inclusive technology governance. Nova Garage is one of the instruments we run to do that work.
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Kenya, anchor of a continental moment.
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs willing to bring founders alongside state and capital. A regulatory posture that produced M-Pesa and the ventures that followed it. A generation of builders defining what Silicon Savannah means next.
#1
VC destination in Africa · 2024
$638M
Raised by Kenyan startups · 2024
30M+
Active mobile-money users · M-Pesa
85%
Internet penetration · CA Kenya, 2024
What comes next
The next chapter is already being written.
Cohort 2027. The next class will be opened in due course. Register interest to be the first to know.
The Continental Paper, Q3 2026. A peer-reviewed examination of the conditions that produced the Class of 2026, and how the continent builds more of them.
Replication, 2027. Engagement underway with foreign ministries across the regions to make the conditions Kenya assembled in 2026 standard practice.
Journal
Field notes from the work.
Partners
Backed by the institutions building this continent.
The convening stands on the shoulders of partners who put their balance sheets, networks, and operating credibility behind the founders in the room.
The thesis
African Builders. African Capital.
African Decade.
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