Company: Afrik Foundation
Co-Founders: James Saruchera, Jean-Marc Bourreau
Website: http://www.afrik.info
About Afrik Foundation
Afrik is a decentralised finance platform designed to accelerate Africa’s economic growth by enabling faster, more transparent and cost-effective funding for projects in renewable energy, AI and digital infrastructure. Built by a pan-African team of economists, technologists and creatives, Afrik uses blockchain and smart contracts to unlock investment in sectors critical to Africa’s long-term development.
Launched in 2024, Afrik emerged in response to limited access to fast, high-impact capital across the continent. While traditional funding mechanisms and international programs have made some progress, they often struggle to support scalable, future-facing private sector projects that can meet Africa’s rapidly evolving infrastructure needs. Afrik leverages blockchain to create a new model, where capital can move efficiently, where impact is measurable and where funding is shaped by local opportunity.
Blockchain remains unfamiliar or misunderstood by many across the continent, so Afrik prioritised transparency and education from day one. The platform will continue to be open-source and community-led, allowing users to trial features and vote on project priorities during its current test phase. Smart contracts are used to ensure funding is conditional, accountable and directly linked to real-world milestones.
Afrik already has a qualified project pipeline of over $2 billion in renewable energy, with the potential to create more than 160,000 jobs, eliminate 3 million tons of CO₂ emissions, and deliver nearly $1 in additional GDP for every $1 invested in powering the continent. With global demand for AI infrastructure rising, and AI already consuming as much electricity as some European nations, Africa’s vast green energy potential must be unlocked. Afrik aims to connect capital to that opportunity.
The platform has gained early recognition across the finance, tech and legal sectors in Africa. Following the 2024 Global AI Summit in Kigali, Afrik has presented a new pathway to fund Africa’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, through a digital asset that is inclusive, tradable and tied to tangible outcomes.
Afrik’s blockchain infrastructure allows for transparent, programmable funding, opening the door to initiatives that often fall outside traditional commercial investment channels, especially in climate resilience, digital access and next-generation education. This makes Afrik not just a tech platform but a scalable tool for inclusive development.
In an industry still dominated by speculative models, Afrik demonstrates how blockchain can be used for structural reform – enabling real-world investment, participation and impact at scale.
For more information, visit www.afrik.info.
