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61 406 qualified support organizations mapped across 153 countries — Africa, MENA, the Gulf and Europe — refreshed from api.ose.africa. Free public access, no login.

61 406
qualified actors
+514
added this week
153
countries
14
quality indicators

Live from Expert · pipeline 30 Oct 2026

Map

Where the support is — and how dense it is.

Switch between actors, density per million hectares, OSE profile and weekly change. Click a country to open its report.

Live data from api.ose.africa · country pages under /products/reports.

By region

Coverage by region, top five countries each.

A national count is an aggregate of urban modules — use it to orient, then open the country page.

Africa

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55 countries
15 888 actors
  1. 1Nigeria2 901
  2. 2South Africa1 294
  3. 3Uganda1 282
  4. 4Egypt900
  5. 5Morocco605

Middle East

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3 countries
1 479 actors
  1. 1Saudi Arabia676
  2. 2Israel609
  3. 3Lebanon194
Live ranking

Top 10 ecosystems by actor density

Ranked by qualified actors in our database, refreshed with every Expert pipeline run. Pulled from api.ose.africa.

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Nigeria2 901
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Turkey1 532
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South Africa1 294
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Uganda1 282
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Egypt900
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Iran875
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United Arab Emirates748
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Saudi Arabia676
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Israel609
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Morocco605
The five layers

Which layers the support fabric actually covers.

Share of organizations providing at least one service of each layer. Symbolic and psychological layers are systematically under-covered — the « hidden architecture ».

Live · 5-Layer architecture

The Hidden Architecture, in numbers.

% of actors providing at least one support service per layer (Africa, MENA, GCC).See how lower layers (Technical, Cognitive) dominate while higher layers (Symbolic, Psychological) remain structurally under-served.

L1Technical
24%(5,374 actors)
L2Cognitive
36%(8,112 actors)
L3Relational
28%(6,216 actors)
L4Symbolic
36%(8,188 actors)
L5Psychological
23%(5,262 actors)

Source : OSE database, qualified actors across Africa+MENA+GCC. Theoretical anchor: Guéneau (under review) — The Hidden Architecture of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, IJMR.

What you can do

Explore the atlas — for free. Go deeper on Expert.

Browse and filter

By country, region, type (incubator, accelerator, funder…) or capability layer. Every pin is a qualified organization.

Read a country

Profile · diagnostic · thematic · network · insights — the COTEE, meta-org, gender and AEEI lenses on the country page (Institutional tier and above).

Benchmark and export

Compare up to 6 countries, export CSV and PNG, query the public API — Research tier for full replication.

Access tiers: Free · Institutional · Premium · Research · VVIP — see OSE Expert. Rankings by indicator on /rankings.

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The OSE Galaxy

One mission, three levers: build the science and practice of entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa.

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