{"id":233907,"date":"2026-05-21T04:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-maintains-second-position-in-southern-africas-startup-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:42:41","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-maintains-second-position-in-southern-africas-startup-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-maintains-second-position-in-southern-africas-startup-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Maintains Second Position in Southern Africa&#8217;s Startup Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Namibia has been ranked tenth in Africa and 94th globally in the 2026 StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI), reaffirming its growing reputation as an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship hub.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The country also maintained its position as the second-ranked startup ecosystem in southern Africa, after South Africa, and placed fourth in Africa in ecosystem attractiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement issued on Tuesday, Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB) acting executive for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200771.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia has been ranked tenth in Africa and 94th globally in the 2026 StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI), reaffirming its growing reputation as an emerging innovation and entrepreneurship hub. The country also maintained its position as the second-ranked startup ecosystem in southern Africa, after South Africa, and placed fourth in Africa in ecosystem attractiveness. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6287,20170,13137,4706,724,257,6941,254,7153,15680],"class_list":["post-233907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-ecosystem","tag-maintains","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-position","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-startup"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}