OREANDA-NEWS Google has announced that 60 eligible black-founded start-ups across Africa were selected for the second group of Google for Start-ups Black Founders' Fund for Africa.

The company is giving out grants of $100,000 to Black founders of early-stage start-ups.This year the number of beneficiaries was raised to 60 - up from 50 in 2021; Google is funding an equal number of male and female-founded start-ups.Of the 60 start-ups selected by Google, 23 are Nigerian, the second year in a row that start-ups from that country have dominated the list. Kenya comes second with 12 recipients and Rwanda is third with six.