ACF, Hardt Ventures & SLYD

Advancing Hardware Access, OEM Sourcing, and Deployment Pathways.

The Africa Compute Fund, Hardt Ventures, and SLYD have entered into a strategic partnership to support the development of AI compute infrastructure deployment pathways across Africa.

The collaboration brings together work across compute infrastructure coordination, hardware procurement, OEM sourcing, supplier engagement, deployment services, commercial relationships, and execution support. It is designed to help strengthen the practical pathways required to move African AI compute infrastructure from planning into deployment.

As demand for AI compute continues to grow across African institutions, enterprises, researchers, startups, and builders, access to reliable hardware supply, deployment capability, infrastructure partners, and capital pathways is becoming increasingly important.

This partnership supports the development of a stronger coordination layer around those needs, helping connect demand, supply, sites, technical capacity, and execution pathways more effectively. This includes providing AI infrastructure projects access to equipment, sourcing relationships, technical pathways, and deployment support needed to build scalable compute environments.

The collaboration also strengthens the broader Africa Compute Grid: a coordinated ecosystem through which AI compute capacity can be planned, financed, deployed, accessed, and scaled across the continent.

Together, Africa Compute Fund, Hardt Ventures, and SLYD are helping advance the infrastructure base needed for African institutions, enterprises, startups, researchers, and builders to access and deploy the compute capacity required for the next generation of AI systems.