Four Nigerian firms have been selected to join the 10th Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Cohort, which began on April 13 and will end on June 19, 2026.
Fifteen companies are participating in the hybrid programme, which will receive dedicated guidance from experienced mentors and industry experts, alongside hands-on technical workshops focused on AI and machine learning.
The four Nigerian startups chosen for this scheme include Bani, MasteryHive AI, Regxta, and Termii.
They were picked from an exceptionally competitive pool of nearly 2,600 applications. The beneficiaries are utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address critical local and regional challenges.
As for Bani, it is a cross-border payments infrastructure platform eliminating settlement delays for African businesses trading globally, while MasteryHive AI is an AI-native platform automating transaction reconciliation, fraud detection, and AML monitoring.
On its part, Regxta combines alternative data-driven credit scoring with a hybrid digital-agent distribution model to deliver financial products to unbanked micro businesses, while Termii uses its AI-native communications infrastructure platform to ensure 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 specialised technical infrastructure, advanced cloud capabilities, and strategic mentorship to complement this capital.
Accelerator initiatives provide these exact tools, ensuring local innovations can sustainably grow into businesses that power the continent’s digital economy.
“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,” the chief executive of Termii, Mr Gbolade Emmanuel, stated.
“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome these exceptional founders into Class 10. 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,” the Head of Startup Ecosystem for Google Africa, Mr Folarin Aiyegbusi, disclosed.
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.
