Frequently asked questions

All Business Africa is the leading intelligence platform for the African business ecosystem. We connect founders, investors, corporates, and policymakers with the businesses, deals, tenders, opportunities, and people that move the African economy. We track 12,061 companies, 372 funding rounds, active tenders, and funding opportunities across all 54 African countries.

You can find tenders and RFPs to bid on, discover funding opportunities, search for businesses to work with as partners or suppliers, access the deal room to track funding rounds and investments, find founders and decision makers, explore country and sector profiles, read curated insights, and use AI tools to analyze documents and generate professional outputs.

Our data is aggregated from public filings, press releases, news reports, partner data feeds, direct submissions from founders and companies, and our own editorial research. Every record includes its source and date.

Data is updated daily. New funding rounds, business profiles, tenders, and editorial content are added every business day.

Yes, for the most part. Most of the platform is open to every visitor with no account at all: the business directory, articles, country profiles and search. A minority of what we have built is reserved for a paid membership.

Yes. Visit your business or personal profile page and click Claim this profile. You can verify ownership via your work email or by submitting credentials for manual review.

A membership is billed monthly or annually by card, and you can cancel at any time.

Yes. You can upgrade or downgrade at any time. Upgrades take effect immediately and we prorate the difference. Downgrades take effect at the start of your next billing cycle.

Card payments are handled by Stripe, which carries Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Institutions can be invoiced directly. We do not accept mobile money or any other payment rail.

Yes. Email community@allbusiness.africa with verification of your status.

We offer a 14 day money back guarantee on all monthly and annual plans.

We take accuracy seriously. Every record is sourced and dated, and we welcome corrections from the community. If you spot an error, click Report an error on any profile.

Exporting is one of the things a membership can unlock. Tell us what you need and we will work with you directly.

Yes, for Enterprise customers. Our team issues your API key and sets it up with you. If you need access on other terms, get in touch and tell us what you are building.

Yes, with attribution. Please cite All Business Africa as your source and link back to our website.

ABA'AI Assess, the Document Analyzer for a tender, RFP or grant file you upload, the requirement checklist, the bid readiness check, the Proposal Generator, the Pitch Deck Builder, the Business Plan Writer, the Financial Model, Market Research, buyer intelligence and the match scout. Assess can also draft the clarification questions you would send to a buyer before you bid.

ABA'AI Assess is free: every account can assess its chances on an open tender, with the requirement checklist and the Document Analyzer, within 10 AI requests a day, and every paid plan keeps it. Market Research, buyer intelligence and the match scout are included from Pulse. The proposal generator, pitch deck builder, business plan writer, financial model and bid readiness check are included with Strategist and Enterprise. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

Yes. They work from the African records this platform holds, such as tenders, contract awards, buyers, companies, investors and World Bank country indicators, and most of them quote the record behind each finding.