{"id":204648,"date":"2026-04-21T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:10:25","slug":"4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Nigerian Startups Selected To Join Milestone 10th Google For Startups Accelerator Africa Cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brandspurng.com\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/?amp\">4 Nigerian Startups Selected To Join Milestone 10th Google For Startups Accelerator Africa Cohort<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brandspurng.com\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/?amp\">https:\/\/brandspurng.com\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/?amp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 18:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"brandspurng.com\">brandspurng.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four Nigerian technology startups \u2013 Bani, MasteryHive AI, Regxta, and Termii \u2013 were selected to join the 10th cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa.<\/li>\n<li>These startups were chosen from nearly 2,600 applicants, with an acceptance rate of less than 1%, highlighting Nigeria\u2019s digital innovation ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>The selected startups employ Artificial Intelligence to address significant local and regional challenges, including cross-border payments, fraud detection, financial inclusion, and reliable financial messaging.<\/li>\n<li>The hybrid program, running from April 13th to June 19th, 2026, will offer dedicated guidance, mentorship, and technical workshops to the 15 participating pan-African companies.<\/li>\n<li>Since its launch in 2018, the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program has supported 106 startups across 17 African countries, enabling them to collectively raise over $263 million and create more than 2,800 jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Nigerian Startups Selected To Join Milestone 10th Google For Startups Accelerator Africa Cohort https:\/\/brandspurng.com\/2026\/04\/21\/4-nigerian-startups-selected-to-join-milestone-10th-google-for-startups-accelerator-africa-cohort\/?amp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandspurng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-for-startup-acceleerator1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-204648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204650,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648\/revisions\/204650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}