Investors
Software economics. Media-scale reach.
African Stand is an AI-powered media technology company: recurring subscription revenue, a large and underserved market, and a product category — AI for content — that remains one of the most active areas of venture investment worldwide.
Kenya
Launch market
17
AI capabilities
3
Pricing tiers
4
Roadmap phases
The opportunity
- Recurring subscription revenue, not ad-dependent income
- A large, underserved market across African media, government, and enterprise
- AI, one of the most active areas of venture investment worldwide
- High scalability — one platform, many newsroom and institutional customers
- Multiple revenue lines: subscriptions, usage add-ons, and content licensing
“Losing a day to translation and design used to be normal for us. Getting a fact-checked, translated story out in minutes changes what a small desk can promise its readers.”
— Illustrative example — managing editor, pilot newsroom partner
Business model
Recurring monthly subscriptions across three tiers, plus usage-based add-ons for AI image, video, and voice generation, translation volume, and content licensing.
Starter
$49/month
For small teams and single-title publishers
Most newsrooms choose this
Professional
$199/month
For newsrooms publishing daily, in more than one language
Enterprise
$500–5,000/month
For broadcasters, governments, and multi-title groups
What we're raising
Capital raised at each stage funds the next phase of the roadmap above.
Pre-seed
US$250,000 – US$1 million
Build the MVP, launch Edition One, and prove the model with first newsroom customers in Kenya.
Seed
US$1 million – US$5 million
Add translation, verification, and distribution capabilities, and expand across East Africa.
Series A
US$10 million+
Scale continent-wide across Africa, and into global publishers covering African news.
Roadmap
PHASE 1 — KENYA
Launch and refine the platform with Kenyan newsrooms, our first partners.
PHASE 2 — EAST AFRICA
Expand across the region, adding language and workflow support for neighboring markets.
PHASE 3 — AFRICA
Grow into a pan-African platform serving publishers, broadcasters, governments, and institutions continent-wide.
PHASE 4 — GLOBAL
Serve global publishers who cover African news or need multilingual publishing into African markets.