A society for the people building Africa’s real economy.
Jahazi is a network of founders, operators and investors working on energy, hardware, industry and finance across Africa. We create places where they can meet and work together.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Africa’s next fifty years will be built by people who make physical things: power, machines, factories, and the systems that move goods and money between our countries.
What we do
Events
Dinners, workshops and working sessions through the year.
The Jahazi city
Once a year, members live and work in one city for a few weeks.
Funding and grants
Grants and investment for builders in the network.
Research and building on AI that runs on our own compute, works in our languages and makes our economies more productive.
Apprenticeships
Young engineers and technicians learning from operators who have run plants, fleets and supply chains.
THE FIRST JAHAZI CITY
Nairobi, 3 to 26 April 2027
Founders, operators and capital allocators living and working together for twenty-four days.
Founders
Early-stage, working on hard problems.
Operators
Years running plants, fleets, banks and supply chains.
Capital
VCs, lenders, DFIs and family offices.
What’s next for Africa?
Energy
What do we build once the power is reliable?
Export manufacturing
What can we make here and sell to the world?
Processing
Why do minerals and crops still leave raw?
Capital
Who funds a factory when bank loans last a year?
Trade
How do we sell more to each other?
Skills
Where will the engineers and technicians come from?
What we’re paying attention to
Who writes the cheques for Africa now
African tech raised $4.1 billion in 2025, according to Partech.
Venture capital
Best year since 2022, with fewer and larger cheques.
Debt
41% of 2025 funding, up from 17% in 2019.
DFIs
Behind most African funds, and lending directly more often.
Banks and trade finance
Where trucks, cold rooms and factories get financed.
Family offices and angels
Local money that moves on trust.
East Africa has far more power than it did five years ago
5,150 MW
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa’s largest hydro plant.
2,115 MW
Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station, Tanzania.
2,000 MW
Ethiopia–Kenya high-voltage interconnector.
80%
Kenya’s electricity from renewables, mostly geothermal.
Most of the companies that will use this power haven’t been started yet.
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