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Cassava Technologies

Cassava Technologies (founded by Strive Masiyiwa, spun out of Econet) is a pan-African tech group and Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner, running…

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Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview

Cassava Technologies (founded by Strive Masiyiwa, spun out of Econet) is a pan-African tech group and Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner, running GPU-as-a-service plus AI-as-a-service from its own AI-factory capacity. It deployed a first ~3,000 NVIDIA GPUs in South Africa in 2025 and launched GPUaaS commercially in November 2025, with ~12,000 more GPUs planned across Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco in a roughly $700M program. It is sovereign-adjacent but privately owned.

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Active incidents
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Key facts

Type

GPU cloud (GPU-as-a-Service); sovereign-adjacent

Headquarters

Johannesburg, South Africa (pan-African)

Compute

NVIDIA GPUs (first ~3,000 in South Africa); ~12,000 more planned across Africa

Partner status

Africa's first NVIDIA Cloud Partner

Primary accelerator

NVIDIA GPUs

GPU fleet (verified)

~3,000 GPUs (South Africa)

GPU fleet (announced)

~15,000 planned across Africa (~$700M)

Data & sources

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Safety record

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