African-Startups.com (AFS), a new English-language media platform dedicated to covering startups, venture capital, and innovation across Africa, has officially launched during the EU-Startups Summit in Malta.
Launched as a sister publication to EU-Startups under the aegis of MeOut Group, African-Startups aims to spotlight, inform, connect, and elevate the continent’s startup ecosystem through factual, unbiased, practical, and relevant editorial coverage.
African-Startups.com has been created to be more than just another startup news website. It is positioned as a curated intelligence layer for Africa’s startup ecosystem. Alongside major developments, funding announcements, and ecosystem updates, the platform will focus on practical insights, case studies, founder journeys, structured market intelligence, investor profiles, venture capital landscape reports, policy and regulatory developments, cross-border collaborations, and flagship events.
Africa’s startup landscape is vibrant, fast-moving, and shaped by diverse regulatory frameworks, currencies, and geopolitical dynamics. Therefore, African-Startups approaches its coverage with an understanding of local context, regional differences, and the unique constraints and opportunities that shape entrepreneurship across Africa, rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all framework.
Although Africa’s startup ecosystem is attracting increasing regional and international attention, many startups, founders, ecosystem builders, and innovations emerging across the continent still do not receive the visibility they deserve.
According to Partech, African tech startups raised €3.4 billion ($4.1 billion) across 570 transactions in 2025, including €2 billion ($2.4 billion) in equity funding across 462 deals. By contrast, in Europe, PitchBook recorded €66.2 billion ($77.9 billion) in venture deal value across 10,206 deals over the same period.
African-Startups aims to bridge this gap by highlighting how African startups continue to adapt, build, and scale with remarkable resilience. Founders across the continent are developing practical solutions to real-world challenges while navigating fragmented operating environments, varying regulations, funding gaps, and infrastructure constraints. Through its coverage, the platform aims to spotlight this innovative spirit and ensure the world takes notice.
“MeOut Group has always believed that great innovation ecosystems are built on connection between founders and capital, between local ambition and global opportunity. We have spent over a decade doing exactly that across more than 150 countries, and through the Global Startup Awards we have already been deeply embedded in Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape. We have seen first-hand how the right infrastructure can transform a fragmented landscape into a thriving ecosystem.
“Africa has all the ingredients for a generational leap in tech and entrepreneurship, and African-Startups.com is our long-term commitment to making those connections happen at scale” says Attila Sándor, Founder, Chairman and CEO of MeOut Group.
By launching at the EU-Startups Summit, one of Europe’s premier tech and startup events that brings together nearly 2400 founders, investors, startup enthusiasts, corporates, thought leaders and media from across Europe, the platform also reflects the growing synergy between the African and European startup ecosystems.
African-Startups.com aims to help bridge these two vibrant innovation landscapes and to serve as a platform where entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem builders from both continents can foster partnerships, investment opportunities, market access, and shared learning.
Looking ahead, African-Startups.com also plans to launch its very own flagship event, the African-Startups Summit, in 2027. Inspired by the EU-Startups Summit, the event is expected to bring together founders, investors, operators, and ecosystem builders from across the continent and beyond.
The annual event will feature keynote sessions from leading African founders, thought leaders and ecosystem stakeholders, fireside chats, and panel discussions focused on opportunities, challenges, and the future of innovation across African markets.
The highlight of the summit would be the startup pitch competition, where some of the most promising African early-stage startups will pitch in front of the audience and a jury of well-known investors.
“When I started EU-Startups in 2010, Europe was still highly fragmented when it came to startup and innovation coverage. That was one of the key reasons why I founded EU-Startups: to help bridge that fragmentation and shape a stronger, shared European innovation narrative across the continent and globally.
“Today, I believe some of the most important lessons in innovation are emerging from African markets, where entrepreneurs are building practical solutions to regional and global challenges. That is why we have teamed up with MeOut Group to launch African-Startups.com. Our goal is to do the same for Africa’s startup ecosystem, but in a way that reflects the continent’s diversity, challenges, and potential.
“Alongside daily news coverage, the platform will also report on investor profiles, the VC landscape, and the innovation shaping Africa’s startup ecosystem. We are also planning to launch the African-Startups Summit next year,” adds Thomas Ohr, Founder and CEO of EU-Startups.
The launch also aligns with MeOut Group’s broader vision to help shape a truly global innovation ecosystem by supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, and meaningful cross-continental connections. African-Startups.com extends the group’s media footprint into Africa and complements its existing platforms, initiatives, and communities focused on startups and innovation.
One such platform is the Global Startup Awards (GSA), the world’s largest independent startup ecosystem competition, bringing together innovators, investors, and changemakers from more than 154 countries. Each year, the GSA Global Grand Finale gathers over 1,100 participants from more than 100 nationalities, including venture capital firms, investors, diplomats, and representatives from over 1,000 organisations.
This year, Global Grand Finale Edition 11 was held in Valletta, Malta, alongside the EU-Startups Summit, bringing global startup talent and European opportunity together in one place.
The Global Startup Awards expanded its footprint in 2021 with the launch of the African Startup Awards, the first continent-wide tech innovation programme of its kind. It scouts for startups across all 55 African countries, with a mission to find, fund, and grow the future shapers of the digital age from across Africa.
Together, these platforms already play an important role in recognising and connecting entrepreneurial talent across regions. African-Startups.com strengthens that mission by adding a dedicated editorial and storytelling layer focused on Africa’s founders, ventures, and innovation communities.
Rahul Raj, a seasoned technology journalist, leads the editorial direction at African-Startups.com. He has more than a decade of experience covering startups, venture capital, and innovation ecosystems. As Editor-in-Chief, he will lead the platform’s editorial vision, focusing on credible journalism, ecosystem insight, and greater visibility for Africa’s founders and innovators.
Backed by MeOut Group and drawing on EU-Startups’ more than 15 years of experience in innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe, African-Startups.com aims to inform, connect, and elevate one of the world’s most important innovation frontiers.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/african-startups-com-launches-as-sister-publication-of-eu-startups-for-africas-startup-ecosystem/
