AI Companies in Nigeria

Flutterwave AI

Lagos

Flutterwave AI is a Nigerian fintech company providing a comprehensive payment infrastructure for businesses and individuals across emerging markets, particularly in Africa. Their core offering leverages AI-powered fraud detection and optimization algorithms integrated within a platform supporting online checkout, international transfers, and financial product development. Flutterwave targets a broad market including enterprises, startups, and small businesses seeking to facilitate and secure payment processing for domestic and global transactions.

Andela

Lagos

Andela is a talent marketplace connecting North American and European companies with pre-vetted software engineering talent primarily located in Africa. Their core offering is powered by the “Talent Decision Engine,” a proprietary AI system that rigorously assesses and matches engineers based on skills and experience. This enables companies to quickly scale engineering teams with qualified professionals while offloading the complexities of international hiring and compliance.

Kuda Bank

Lagos

Kuda Bank is a Nigerian neobank providing fully digital banking services, primarily targeting financially underserved populations. Their core offering is a mobile application leveraging AI-powered credit risk assessment and fraud detection to deliver accessible and affordable financial products. Kuda differentiates itself through fee-free banking, automated savings features, and a focus on providing financial tools tailored to the needs of African consumers.

54gene

Lagos

54gene builds a pan-African genomic database to improve drug discovery and development for diseases disproportionately impacting African populations. Utilizing AI-powered analysis of this data, they identify genetic factors relevant to disease and accelerate the creation of targeted therapeutics. Their unique value proposition lies in addressing the significant underrepresentation of African genomes in existing biomedical research, enabling more effective and equitable healthcare solutions.

Kobo360 operates a digital logistics platform connecting shippers with a vetted network of trucking companies and drivers across Africa, utilizing real-time tracking and automated dispatch. Their AI-powered "Predict" and "Optimize" features leverage machine learning to forecast demand, optimize delivery routes based on factors like traffic and road conditions, and dynamically price freight rates. Since launching in 2017, Kobo360 has facilitated the movement of over $60 million worth of freight and expanded operations to over 30 African countries, becoming a key enabler of cross-border trade.

Paystack

Lagos

Paystack is a fintech company that builds payment infrastructure for businesses across Africa. Their core product utilizes machine learning algorithms to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions, increasing payment authorization rates and reducing risk for merchants. Paystack primarily serves online businesses, particularly those operating in rapidly growing African e-commerce markets, by offering a reliable and secure payment processing solution tailored to the region’s unique challenges.

Cowrywise

Lagos

Cowrywise is a Nigerian fintech platform delivering automated wealth management solutions through its mobile app. The platform utilizes algorithms to offer personalized investment portfolio recommendations, primarily through access to diversified mutual funds and equity investments in Nigerian companies. Serving both retail investors and high-net-worth individuals, Cowrywise is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulated robo-advisor focused on increasing financial inclusion and accessibility to investment opportunities within Nigeria.

Curacel

Lagos

Curacel is a Lagos-based insurtech that embeds AI into Africa's insurance sector through automated claims processing and fraud detection. Its API-driven platform vets claims to detect fraud, waste and abuse, and has processed over $100M in claims across several African countries. It is Y Combinator-backed and raised a $3M seed round in 2023.

Helium Health

Lagos

Helium Health digitizes African healthcare with a SaaS suite—electronic medical records, hospital management, revenue-cycle and telemedicine (HeliumOS)—plus the HeliumCredit financing product. Founded in 2016 in Lagos by Adegoke Olubusi, Dimeji Sofowora and Tito Ovia; raised a $30M Series B in 2023.

Intron Health

Lagos

Intron Health built Africa's first clinical speech-recognition platform, Sahara, trained on millions of audio clips to transcribe accented African speech with high accuracy. Originally for medical documentation, it now powers voice recognition across healthcare, legal, financial, and government use cases.

Awarri

Lagos

Awarri is a Nigerian AI company behind the country's first government-backed multilingual large language model, trained in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ibibio, Pidgin, and accented English. It operates a data-annotation lab and the LangEasy crowdsourcing platform for low-resource language data.

RxAll

Lagos

RxAll is a healthcare deep-tech startup founded by Yale graduates that builds AI-powered tools to authenticate medicines and fight counterfeit drugs. Its handheld RxScanner uses spectral analysis and machine learning to verify a drug's chemical fingerprint in seconds. It operates digital pharmacy infrastructure across Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas.

Spitch

Lagos

Spitch is a Nigerian voice-AI company that builds speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs tuned for African languages and accents, starting with Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian-accented English. Its tools let developers add local-language voice capabilities to call centers, media and learning platforms without machine-learning expertise.