Salus Cloud, a South African startup aiming to become the go-to DevOps platform for Africa’s developers, has raised USD 3.7 M in seed funding to accelerate product development and scale its presence across the continent.

The round was co-led by Atlantica Ventures and P1 Ventures, with backing from LoftyInc’s Idris Bello, Everywhere Ventures, and Essence VC’s Timothy Chen.

Built by Andrew Mori, also the founder of Deimos (one of Google Cloud’s largest partners in Africa), Salus Cloud wants to solve a stubborn but overlooked pain point in the continent’s tech stack: secure, scalable, affordable DevOps.

As more startups emerge across Africa, many are forced to either jury-rig insecure manual deployments or overpay for CI/CD tools built for Silicon Valley scale and pricing, neither of which suits the lean realities of African tech companies.

Salus Cloud offers an AI-native, developer-first platform that automates security fixes, simplifies software delivery, and packages it all at a price startups can actually afford.

Its self-service tier starts at USD 9.00 per developer, while its enterprise package, at USD 5 K per month, is pitched as cheaper than hiring one DevOps engineer in Lagos or Nairobi. Five enterprise clients are already onboard, with fintechs leading the early charge.

But the startup aims to go beyond cost-cutting, its founder emphasises, as the goal is to give African startups the infrastructure to move fast without breaking things, or budgets.

Mori says the goal is to support 50–500 enterprise teams and tens of thousands of developers by 2026. And unlike many imported tools, Salus is purpose-built for the continent’s realities, where connectivity is patchy, teams are small, and every dollar spent on tooling must show ROI.

This funding signals a broader shift in how investors are thinking about Africa’s tech ecosystem. The boom in startups is creating downstream demand for infrastructure: dev tools, cloud platforms, and scalable workflows that can handle hypergrowth without burning capital. Salus Cloud sits squarely in that opportunity space.

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South African agri-tech startup Nile has raised USD 11.3 M (ZAR 200 M) in a fresh funding round to scale its digital agricultural marketplace across Southern Africa, betting that technology can bring coherence and capital into one of the continent’s most chaotic value chains.

The round was led by the Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund, with participation from FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, and existing investor Platform Investment Partners. This brings Nile’s total raised to over USD 16 M since its founding in 2021.

At its core, Nile is a digital B2B marketplace designed to remove the layers of inefficiency that have historically plagued African agriculture. Price opacity, delayed payments, excessive food waste, and too many middlemen between farm and fork are persistent problems.

What started as an online produce exchange has quietly evolved into a one-stop agri-commerce platform, bundling trade, inputs, logistics, and even credit under one interface.

It’s a compelling pitch. By streamlining fragmented supply chains, Nile helps farmers capture more value and access a wider pool of buyers, including export markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

The platform now facilitates cross-border trade using road, sea, and air freight, connecting producers from Southern Africa with demand in East and West Africa, and beyond.

But the company’s ambitions go well beyond brokering transactions. Nile is building a digital ecosystem that locks in users with a growing suite of services. It promises everything from fertiliser and packaging to finance and instant payments.

The plan is to deliver immediate utility, then layer on value-added services to drive retention and recurring revenue.

Investors are buying into that vision. “Nile is transforming fresh produce trading by addressing farmers’ full range of needs—from inputs and trading to financing,” said Henry Rahmann of AfricInvest. In a sector long overdue for digitisation, Nile is positioning itself as infrastructure, not just an app.

And the timing seems favourable. Global interest in agri-marketplaces is surging. AgFunder reports a 77% jump in upstream agri-tech funding in emerging markets last year alone.

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