4 Nigerian technology startups – Bani, MasteryHive AI, Regxta, Termii – 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 Nigeria’s digital ecosystem.
The selected Nigerian startups are utilizing Artificial Intelligence to address critical local and regional challenges:
- Bani: A cross-border payments infrastructure platform eliminating settlement delays for African businesses trading globally.
- MasteryHive AI: An AI-native platform automating transaction reconciliation, fraud detection, and AML monitoring.
- Regxta: Combines alternative data-driven credit scoring with a hybrid digital-agent distribution model to deliver financial products to unbanked micro businesses.
- Termii: An AI-native communications infrastructure platform ensuring reliable financial messaging for banks and fintechs.
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.
Startups Gain Global Boost Through Google Accelerator Program
Gbolade Emmanuel, CEO of Nigeria-based Termii, noted: “At Termii, we’re building AI-powered infrastructure that ensures financial transactions don’t fail, from login PINs to payment OTPs and fraud alerts. The Google Startup Accelerator is helping us accelerate our AI roadmap and scale globally, and even in the first week, access to technical support and insights has been incredibly valuable for our next phase of growth.”
“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, readers are advised visit the Google Africa Blog at https://blog.google/intl/en-
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