Our Team

Founded January 2026Pre-seed

Building Conversational AI for Africa. We're a mission-driven team combining deep technical expertise in AI/ML with real-world experience building products for multilingual systems and regulated enterprise environments.

Ijidai - Founder, CEO & CTO

Ijidai

Founder, CEO & CTO

Cambridge University MBA

Technical product leader with experience building AI/ML products and scaling high-performing teams. Deep expertise in conversational AI infrastructure and enterprise product development. Previously led technical initiatives at BP and Equinor.

Gabriel - Head of Data & Model Evaluation

Gabriel

Head of Data & Model Evaluation

PhD, University of Manchester

Leads data quality, evaluation, and governance for multilingual speech and NLP systems. Extensive experience delivering AI/ML solutions in regulated enterprise environments including banking and energy. Expert in low-resource language modeling. Previously: NatWest, BAT.

Growing Our Team

We're looking for exceptional engineers, researchers, and business leaders who are passionate about making technology accessible to everyone.

Interested in joining us? Get in touch.