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Africa is innovating. i-Spark makes it visible. On one digital platform

Africa’s entrepreneurs are building solutions across every sector — but there is no single platform to view, understand, or support them at scale.

i-Spark is building Africa’s first live, continental map and database of AgriTech entrepreneurs and startups — covering all 54 countries.

  • Not a report
  • Not a snapshot
  • Infrastructure
 
The problem. Across Africa,:
  • Entrepreneurs are building quietly, locally, and invisibly
  • Innovation data is scattered across PDFs, reports, and disconnected databases
  • Investors struggle to find credible founders beyond a few hubs
  • Governments lack reliable, real-time ecosystem intelligence
  • Universities produce valuable research that rarely travels beyond campus 

Our mission is to make African innovation visible, searchable, and investable — at continental scale.

What we’re building – A continental innovation data engine.

  • A verified database of African AgriTech entrepreneurs and startups
  • An interactive, live Africa-wide innovation map
  • A powerful API for discovery, research, investor, and policy use
 

How i-Spark works – building in collaboration with AgriTech partners, coordinated at continental scale.

In every African country, i-Spark produces local research and verified data on their AgriTech startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem. 

As Africa coordinator, i-Spark then provides the platform that unifies and embeds the data from the 54 countroed into a digital  interactive startup map. i-Spark also provides API development and global visibility for the project.

Local knowledge.
Continental standards.
Global access.

i-SPARK will be the first cohesive, continent-wide chronicle of Africa’s AgriTech startup and entrepreneur scene, breaking the current narrative silos, and breaking away from the single story of Africa as a continent of problems (as opposed to massive potential).

Africa’s innovation ecosystem is vibrant — but fragmented. It does not need another innovation report. It needs shared infrastructure.

i-Spark will establish, amongst other indices, Africa’s First Entrepreneurial Resilience Index (ERI) because investors don’t just want ideas, they want survivors. 

And the ecosystem wants to reduce business mortality, not celebrate unicorn myths!  

 

OUR PEDIGREE
Numeris Media founder, Anne N. Agbakoba, is the Team lead for i-Spark. Anne has embarked on a similar research tour of all states across Nigeria. Tagged Solar4TheMasses – a 37-state road trip across every state in Nigeria to introduce basic (but functional) solar lighting to Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) operating in electricity-poor rural areas. The project was executed in 17 consecutive days of driving. In each state, the energy source of PHCs in each location was catalogued before presenting the facility with a sturdy, combined solar lamp & phone charging unit. The portable units enabled staff eliminate the use of dirty fossil fuels, and more importantly perform crucial medical procedures in rooms previously lit by candles, small kerosene contraptions, and mobile phone torches. Solar4TheMasses was captured by CNN as an exemplary project for widely spreading the benefits of Renewable Energy, and encouraging its adoption.  

PROJECT CONSULTANTS

Dr. Elizabeth Shaw is the Founder of 1000 Black Voices and serves as i-Spark’s Expert Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Drawing on her experience hosting startup accelerators and leading trade missions, she interprets entrepreneur and startup data through her proprietary Strategic Ecosystem Insights Framework model that uncovers patterns, opportunities, and structural gaps across Africa’s innovation landscapes.

She will apply a consistent analytical lens to develop:

  • Ecosystem Readiness Index
  • Startup Scalability & Market Access Index
  • Founder Enablement Index 
  • Cross-country pattern recognition 
  • Ecosystem maturity assessment
  • Opportunity and risk signal extraction
 

 Elizabeth will translate these insights into actionable ecosystem connections, investment narratives, thought leadership, and global dialogues.

Meekam K. Mgbenwelu is founder of Nzuko Labs, and our STEM & Innovation Systems Consultant

Meekam is a STEM expert with a systems lens on how national science, technology, and education pipelines shape real-world innovation.

On i-Spark, he examines entrepreneur and startup data to uncover the country-level STEM foundations, curriculum orientations, and applied learning environments that consistently produce exceptional innovators across Africa.

His work helps translate discovery data into strategic insight, foresight, and policy-relevant intelligence on Africa’s innovation future, and will delve into areas such as: .

  • STEM Talent Density Index 
  • University-to-Market Leakage Map
  • STEM-to-Entrepreneurship Conversion Ratio
  • Future Innovator Yield Forecast (Country-Level)
 

Amicky Carol Akiwumi MBE
Social Innovation & Inclusive Entrepreneurship Consultant

Amicky Carol Akiwumi MBE is a thought leader, serial entrepreneur, and Founder of The AVOCADO Foundation, the NGO behind the global #WorldChangers movement.

As an i-Spark Consultant, she interprets startup and entrepreneur data through a social impact and inclusion lens, developing insights on how access, capital readiness, and community-rooted innovation shape entrepreneurial success across Africa.

Carol leads the development of i-Spark’s Inclusive Entrepreneurship Index and Founder Readiness & Financial Empowerment Insights, ensuring that the continent’s innovators are not only discovered, but understood, amplified, and positioned for sustainable impact. 

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER

Any questions for team i-Spark? Email: iSpark-Africa@numeris-media.comÂ