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title: "Stears: Financial Data Platform in Africa"
description: "Analyse African private markets: company intel, deal valuations and terms, plus country risk and macro across all 54 African markets. Web access."
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published_at: "2026-10-12T18:19:39.986Z"
updated_at: "2026-10-12T18:37:57.722Z"
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# Stears: Financial Data Platform in Africa

Analyse African private markets: company intel, deal valuations and terms, plus country risk and macro across all 54 African markets. Web access.

## Breadcrumbs

- [AI & Analytics](/categories/ai-analytics)
- [Stears](/stears)

## Summary

Financial data and AI research for African markets

A web-based financial data and AI research platform for funds, investors, and corporates analysing African companies, deals, country risk, and sectors.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://www.stears.co/ |
| Tagline | Financial data and AI research for African markets |
| Primary country | Nigeria |
| Platforms | Web |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Stears is a web-based financial data and AI research platform for professional investors and organisations analysing African private markets.

Key capabilities include:
- **Company intelligence in undercovered markets**, including tools to find African businesses and review available information such as category positioning, financials, and management details.
- **Deal and transaction data**, including **valuations**, **terms**, **deal comparables**, and **investor participation** to support pricing, benchmarking, and market context.
- **Investor and fund manager tracking**, to identify LPs by mandate and follow how managers invest, including their exits.
- **Fundraising pipeline tools** that match LPs to a fund's strategy.
- **Country-risk and macro coverage across 54 African markets**, with economic performance indicators, regulation context, and currency trends to support risk assessment.
- **Sector and market intelligence**, covering topics such as market size, growth, competition, and policy factors.
- **Deep Search (AI research)** that synthesises answers from Africa-focused qualitative research and provides **sources users can check**, plus **AI agents** trained on African data for asset managers.
- **Free resources**, including **Stears Open Data**, the **SVP Liquidity Index**, research reports, and newsletters.

Available on **Web**.

Target users include **global funds**, **private equity and credit firms**, **investment banks**, **asset managers**, **sovereign wealth funds**, **corporates**, and **service providers** investing in or operating across Africa. Access is offered via **trial requests** and **paid subscription licences** (pricing not listed).

Stears is notable for concentrating on African data coverage, including all **54 African markets** and named focus markets such as **Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt, and South Africa**, plus publishing research reports on private capital and fundraising activity. The company has also announced a **$3.3 million seed round** led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Serena Ventures, Melo 7 Tech Partners, Luminate Fund, and Cascador, and is listed as a data partner for the **2026 SuperReturn Africa Awards**.

## Features

- [AI & Analytics](/categories/ai-analytics): Category
- [AI-Powered](/tags/ai-powered): Product feature or technology
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Business Intelligence](/tags/business-intelligence): Product feature or technology
- [SaaS](/tags/saas): Product feature or technology
- [Egypt](/countries/egypt): Market
- [Ghana](/countries/ghana): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/stears/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/stears/reviews)
- [Transparency](/stears/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/stears)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)