About Startup Atlas

Directories should not rot.

Startup Atlas is building a continuously maintained graph of startups and the resources founders need to build them.

The thesis

Every founder runs the same scavenger hunt: which tools to use, which credits they qualify for, where to launch, and who funds companies like theirs. The answer is scattered across dozens of tabs and much of it is stale.

Africa first

We start where existing startup databases are weakest and where founders are most underserved. The same data architecture expands city by city into a global atlas.

Source-aware by design

Every record retains its provenance and freshness status. We would rather show an honest unknown than invent a confident-looking fact.