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Research releases, partnerships and company milestones.

Research

October 2026

Kilwa publishes The Kilwa Signal: African Energy 2026 for African Energy Week

Sixteen markets scored on both ISI and METI, prepared for African Energy Week in Cape Town. The first edition of the Energy Signal series.

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Research

30 July 2026

Five flagships, one scored continent: the Capital Risk Research programme

Kilwa publishes its flagship risk programme covering currency, policy, exits, pipeline and allocation — with every score decomposed and every input provenance-flagged.

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Partnership

December 2025

Kilwa awarded an Illinois Innovation Voucher for work with Northwestern University

The award supports joint research with Northwestern University on Kilwa's Sentiment Pulse capability, deepening the multilingual signal layer behind ISI and METI.

Partnership

2025

Kilwa Sovereign AI engages with the Government of Rwanda

Kilwa's sovereign vertical supports national AI capability, including language model work in Kinyarwanda delivered with local teams and institutions.

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Company

2025

Kilwa certified as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

SBA certification as an SDVOSB and VOSB, opening a federal channel for Kilwa's frontier-market intelligence capability.

Partnership

2025

Technology validation with Northwestern University's AI Lab

Kilwa's modelling approach is validated in partnership with Northwestern University's AI Lab under Prof. Kristian Hammond.

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