Wimbart Marks 10 Years as Leading Tech Startup-Focused PR Firm

Award-winning Public Relations firm, Wimbart, marks its 10-year anniversary, celebrating a decade of delivering strategic communications services to African tech companies and ecosystem players.

Launched in 2016 by IROKO alumnus Jessica Hope, the communications consultancy has become the go-to B2B PR partner for startups, scale-ups, venture capital firms and institutional organisations looking to reach African and international audiences.

Over the past decade, the 15-strong team, located across London and Lagos, has advised some of the continent’s most recognisable tech companies and investors, including M-KOPA, Andela, MaxAB and Ventures Platform, helping shape communications around pivotal moments such as major funding rounds, product launches, crises, acquisitions and market expansions. 

Reinforcing its position as a leading storyteller in the tech ecosystem, in 2025, Wimbart launched The Wimbart Way – a podcast of deep-dive interviews with leading African tech space operators, investors, founders and journalists including Omobola Johnson, Iyin Aboyeji and Tomiwa Aladekomo, who each look at different aspects of the intersection of media and African tech storytelling.

The consultancy’s growth has mirrored the rapid rise of Africa’s technology sector. Since 2015, startups across the continent have raised over $20 billion, produced globally recognised unicorns and attracted increasing international investment.

Over the past decade, Wimbart has worked with 230+ clients across nearly 20 countries, including its key markets, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt. In February 2016, the company expanded with the launch of Wimbart Lite, led by founding team member Maria Adediran, to provide communications support for early-stage startups.

Jessica Hope, Founder and CEO of Wimbart, says:

“We’ve had the pleasure of working alongside elite founders and investors building the continent’s tech ecosystem, and telling their stories globally, via hundreds of press releases and thousands of articles and interviews over the past decade.

“What has consistently defined us is simple; our energy, ambition and intensity matches our clients’. Passion underscores everything we do, but is coupled with PR technical skill and a nose for what makes a great story. Wimbart only works because the people building Africa’s tech ecosystem have continuously trusted us to tell their stories, and backed us to do it right.”

A short film marking Wimbart’s 10 year anniversary, featuring those who have helped shape the company – African tech leading ecosystem partners, clients and the Wimbart team [past and present] – can be found here.