UnicornBuilders.Africa

What it does

Connecting the dots between Africa's most successful tech founders and the critical steps they took to build billion-dollar companies.

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  Unicorner2021 · ▲409

  Bringing tomorrow's unicorns straight to your inbox

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  UnicorneFeb 2026 · unicor.ne · ▲503

  The 20 fastest growing startups based on TrustMRR data

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  Who's Building Something New?2021 · ▲103

  Twitter profiles of the next unicorn founders

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  Who Wants to Be a Unicorn?2023 · ▲104

  Do you have what it takes to build a billion-dollar Startup?

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  Startup List2019 · ▲160

  Curated list of resources to build your next startup

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  Built in Africa2021 · ▲110

  ⁣Sharing Africa’s tech ecosystem with the global audience

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  The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude▲710

  Life & fun · 16d ago · louisabraham.github.io

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  What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?▲606

  Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · rivendell.dmitrybrant.com

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  Articos▲398

  Launch with confidence, not gut instinct

  Life & fun · 17d ago · articos.com

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  The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021▲384

  9 major streaming services cost $95.91/mo in 2021-03 and $154.41/mo today — up 61%, or $702 a year. Every change sourced.

  Life & fun · 2d ago · honestlyranked.com

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  Nex▲363

  Claude Cowork for high-volume GTM workflows

  Life & fun · 9d ago · nex.ai

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  Notify.domains▲321

  Know the moment a domain opportunity appears

  Life & fun · 14d ago · notify.domains

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  Screen Studio 3.0▲1,832

  Beautiful screen recordings with instant shareable links

  Growth · 2025 · screen.studio

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  Tana▲1,665

  Put your notes to work with voice and AI

  AI · 2025 · tana.inc

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  I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam▲1,581

  I was at FB/Meta from late 2013 to early 2023, mostly working in the compiler/runtime spaces. I got hit in the spring 2023 layoff wave. I immediately started making games in my newfound free time (a lifelong interest, and I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000), and in October 2023 I stumbled upon the idea of a roguelike pachinko/plinko game inspired by Luck Be A Landlord. Things snowballed quickly, I started talking to publishers, then worked like crazy through all of 2024, almost the hardest I've ever worked in my career, and launched the game in December 2024. It's sold…

  Work · 2025

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  Tanka▲1,410

  AI Messenger with smart reply & long term memory for teams

  AI · 2025 · tanka.ai

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  Tool Finder▲1,327

  Your shortcut to better software

  AI · 2025 · toolfinder.com

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  I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass▲1,203

  i wanted to change the habit of reaching for my phone in the morning and doomscrolling away an hour so i built an app to help me. now i have to literally touch grass before accessing my most distracting apps the app is built in swiftui, uses the screen time apis provided by apple and google vision to recognise grass or not i'd love to get your thoughts on the concept.

  Life & fun · 2025 · touchgrass.now