Top-10 Artificial Intelligence Startups in Africa
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The paper also highlights existing structural challenges that hamper AI development including little broadband coverage, inflexible education systems, and a lack of big data. On the fintech side, Apollo Agriculture offers insurance and credit lines to farmers who can purchase high-quality seeds and fertilizer with flexible post-harvest repayment terms, all tailored to their GPS-tracked plot of land. The home of our next startup is the northernmost country in Africa and a place where Star Wars fans congregate to see famous set locations used during the earlier films. K” that also does credit scoring based on borrowers’ activity on the platform, financial behavior, and social media information (the type being collected by Utu mentioned earlier). The chatbots can understand all the different dialects of the Arabic language, and then segment users for targeted broadcasts, allow online payments through the chat window, and provide usage analytics.
