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Each startup in the Fellowship is developing innovative solutions that make education more inclusive, engaging, and effective.

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Cloudnotte

Rivers, Nigeria

Cloudnotte is an all-in-one educational platform that enables flexible learning for students and seamless connectivity for educators—anytime, anywhere, across all education levels. Our focus is to provide product management support to streamline their offerings, integrate AI into their virtual classroom experience, and enhance the functionality of their AI Laboratory.

VarsityScape

Lagos Nigeria.

VarsityScape offers an end-to-end solution that enables experts and institutions to launch online academies in under 60 minutes. Through expert-led courses, the platform equips learners—especially African youth—with the skills and mindset needed for independence and future opportunities. Our focus is on enhancing the platform to better serve informal educators, introducing gamified assessments, and expanding access to make learning more engaging and inclusive.

Smart Stewards

Lagos Nigeria.

“Smart Stewards Academy is a digital edtech platform that empowers young people—particularly women—with essential skills in financial literacy, financial planning, and entrepreneurship through structured courses, interactive modules, and practical training. Our focus is on enhancing the learning experience by optimizing content and introducing structured assessments to effectively measure learning outcomes. “

Mavis Computel

Abuja, Nigeria

Mavis Computel tackles educational inequity in underserved Nigerian communities with its innovative “Talking Books”, an interactive, audio-visual learning tool designed to improve literacy and numeracy by delivering content in students’ local languages. We will focus on optimizing the content of the Talking Books and Learning Chatbot to ensure they are pedagogically sound and effectively designed to support meaningful student learning.

Kryptr

Lagos Nigeria.

Kryptr is an AI-powered platform addressing Africa’s workforce gap by training and connecting job-ready youth to employment opportunities. Focused on individuals aged 18–35 and MSMEs, Kryptr offers role-specific training, AI-driven talent matching, and work-integrated learning. Our focus is on developing Kryptr’s internship product to provide university students with practical work experience before graduation. Additionally, we will support the optimization of their training content and implement structured assessments to effectively measure learning outcomes.

I-Train Africa

Lagos Nigeria.

I-Train Africa is an impact-driven edtech organization that empowers African youth, women, and professionals with in-demand digital and workplace skills. By offering remote-first programs, it bridges the gap between formal education and the global workforce, boosting employability and career advancement. Our focus is on enhancing the learning experience by improving content quality and introducing structured assessments to effectively measure learning outcomes.

HiPrep

Abuja, Nigeria

HiPrep Online is a virtual after-school platform for K–12 students, delivering personalized, bite-sized learning sessions led by expert tutors. It helps students build consistent study routines and improve academic performance in core subjects like math, English, and science. Our focus is on optimizing the platform’s AI-driven content, introducing interactive elements and assessments, and enhancing teacher training resources to support more effective instruction.

Flexisaf (Distinction)

Abuja, Nigeria

DistinctionAI is an AI-powered learning platform developed by FlexiSAF that enables schools and universities to track student performance, uncover learning gaps, and make data-driven decisions through predictive insights and personalized interventions. Our focus is on enhancing the user experience of the Distinction platform, while also creating actionable pathways for students to achieve their academic goals and enabling institutions to effectively measure learning outcomes.

Blue Sands Academy

Lagos Nigeria.

Blue Sands STEM Lab provides virtual science labs that empower secondary schools across Nigeria—including those in rural areas without internet access. Featuring a student-friendly interface, real-world lab simulations, and intuitive teacher tools, the platform enhances retention, improves academic performance, and promotes equitable learning nationwide. Our focus is to support the Blue Sands team in optimizing their virtual labs to spark curiosity among students and to collaborate on expanding the number of available lab experiences.

AI Teacha

Lagos, Nigeria

AI Teacha is an educational platform that enhances learning by equipping teachers with AI-powered tools to deliver personalized lessons, save time, increase engagement, and improve student outcomes. Our focus is on refining AI Teacha’s user experience to make it an essential, everyday tool for both teachers and students. Additionally, we will enhance the learning capabilities of its Zyra bot to better support the teaching of abstract concepts.

Tespire

Abuja, Nigeria

Tespire offers a mobile and web application that empowers primary and secondary school owners in semi-urban Africa to increase school income and leverage data-driven insights for personalized learning. The platform includes free tablets with internet access, making digital education more accessible. Our focus is to provide product support that will help Tespire repurpose and scale its solution to reach a broader audience.

Sproutly Inc.

Lagos Nigeria.

Sproutly offers seamless payment processing for K–12 schools, universities, colleges, and edtech platforms—combining efficient invoicing, streamlined accounting, and accessible credit solutions tailored to the needs of both schools and families. Our current focus is on enhancing Sproutly’s credit scoring system to extend its reach and impact, with the goal of serving over 100,000 students and schools across Nigeria, thereby keeping more students in schools.

Vinsighte Limited

Lagos Nigeria.

Vinsighte helps individuals with visual impairments, ADHD and Dyslexia to learn better. With our artificial intelligence technology, we provide a smart reading experience designed to help the blind and those with ADHD and Dyslexia enjoy reading books independently. Our innovative technology brings books to life with an immersive 3D sound experience, enabling independent reading like never before.

FLOW

Lagos Nigeria.

Flow helps children become the best version of themselves. Our technology led approach to education for holistic development enhances schools curriculum to help teach values and then create mindsets in children before enabling them to set goals that gives them a sense of purpose and improves confidence and self-esteem.

WIFICOMBAT

Lagos Nigeria.

WIFICOMBAT is your gateway to the digital world, offering tailored career pathways and job readiness support for African learners, bridging the gap between education and industry demands.

Skill Up With Kahdsole (SUWK)

Lagos Nigeria.

Skill Up With Kahdsole empowers Nigerian youth with market-driven vocational education and job placement support, paving the way for meaningful employment opportunities and a brighter future.

Proud African Roots

Lagos Nigeria.

Proud African Roots is the easiest solution to build values in children. We are driven by family, creativity & leadership. We are leveraging the arts and technology to help children become leaders.

Magic Lab Academy

Lagos Nigeria.

Magic Lab Academy inspires African talent with its online animation platform, empowering aspiring animators with essential skills and opportunities to thrive in the global creative industry.

Harde Business School Limited

Lagos Nigeria.

Harde Business School offers dynamic professional development courses via an interactive online platform, catering to the evolving needs of learners through gamified, immersive learning experiences.

Edusko

Lagos Nigeria.

Edusko provides a data driven approach to selecting schools for parents by showcasing the strengths of schools thereby improving access to quality education by leveraging on our technology driven marketplace and ultimately providing financing to parents and schools.

Data Entry Academy by Accountinghub

Lagos Nigeria.

Data Entry Academy empowers job seekers and entrepreneurs with essential skills through a virtual community, enhancing employability and business capacity in the digital age.

Genti Media

Lagos Nigeria.

Genti Media celebrates African heritage and education, bridging cultural gaps with its audio-centric platform, Genti Audio, providing access to diverse educational content in local languages.

Exam Scholars

Lagos Nigeria.

Exam Scholars is your ultimate companion for exam preparation, offering comprehensive simulations, curated content, and tailored resources to optimize student performance and confidence.

Lingawa

Lagos Nigeria.

Lingawa revolutionizes language learning, transforming native speakers into global educators equipped with essential skills, innovative tools, and access to a worldwide audience.

Schoola

Kaduna, Nigeria

Schoola is a future-ready learning platform that offers gamification and tools for fun, engaging and interactive lesson preparation for K-12 schools as well as provides learners with meaningful learning experiences.

Outdated curriculum in African schools fails to align with the rapidly evolving demands of the modern world, leaving students ill-equipped with the skills needed for future success. As a result, student underperformance becomes prevalent, with many struggling to grasp concepts and falling behind in their studies. Compounding this issue is the lack of resourceful learning management systems especially in remote and underserved areas. This discourages skilled educators from staying in the profession of teaching in challenging environments. Schoola automates learning to better serve teachers and students; and empowers teachers to deliver content through AI-Powered platforms that helps teachers do better as well as enhances learner’s interest through its gamification feature.

Gotocourse

Lagos Nigeria.

Gotocourse is a leading educational technology solution that addresses the limitations of traditional classrooms by making high-quality education available to students from any location through its comprehensive virtual school platform.

Despite numerous advantages that virtual learning systems offer, there are a number of recurring obstacles. The necessity for efficient collaboration and communication tools between creators and learners presents a fundamental problem in virtual learning. Without the right resources, learners and creators of the course could find it difficult to connect with the content of the course. Making education agile and accessible is yet another major issue. Traditional schooling can be inflexible, with set schedules and few options for pupils, creating challenges for those with a variety of learning requirements and styles. Gotocourse provides greater adaptability and accessibility, ensuring that every learner has access to high-quality education and improving learning outcomes

9ijaKids

Lagos, Nigeria

9ijaKids is an E-learning platform that focuses on creating engaging and gamified educational content for children. Through interactive games, quizzes, and puzzles, the platform enhances children’s problem-solving skills, critical thinking abilities, and overall knowledge.
Poor educational performance and limited access have a significant influence on worker skills and, consequently, economic growth. Similar to this, one of the primary causes of low literacy and numeracy skills in African children is their lack of access to affordable and engaging learning resources. By providing an affordable and engaging learning platform for K-12 in Africa, 9ijakids is helping to address this critical problem. Its gamified approach to education makes learning more fun and engaging, while also promoting STEAM education and values-based education. By providing access to quality education, 9ijakids is helping to unlock opportunities and empower children to reach their full potential, contributing to sustainable development in Africa.

EduTAMS

Lagos, Nigeria

Edutams is an integrated cloud-based school management system that helps school administrators to automate, and digitise education processes in public and private schools as well as gain better insight into the management of schools. The solution also gives teachers, students, and parents the platform to interact on teaching and learning activities.

The quality and effectiveness of planning, monitoring, and evaluating education policy in the public education system in Africa has been hampered by the lack of adaptable local mechanisms and approaches for the collecting, processing, and analysis of reliable data. EduTAMS offers a multi-tenant and mobile adaptable education solution with a personalised environment and end-to-end interoperable functionality for automation and coordination of key activities of schools with cascaded user roles and permissions for administrators, teachers, and students. The solution is designed to provide seamless data collection and exchange to generate reliable data analytics in support of the Government’s policy planning, formulation, monitoring, and evaluation.

MoneyAfrica

Lagos, Nigeria

Money Africa simplifies and localises financial literacy education. The platform empowers learners with essential financial literacy skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about money, savings, investments, and personal finance management.

According to S&P’s Global Financial Literacy Survey, African countries score the worst in terms of financial literacy in the world. Lack of financial literacy can result in debt, poverty, conflict, or inequality, yet financial education is largely lacking, especially among those at the bottom of the pyramid. Money Africa provides financial education, financial inclusion, and investment through the use of technology so Nigerians can learn how to make and grow money sustainably. By providing financial literacy training to those at the bottom of the pyramid, Money Africa empowers learners to make better financial choices and become financially resilient

Nkenne

Lagos, Nigeria

Nkenne is a community based African language learning platform for Africans and the African diaspora. The solution focuses on African cultural content, language lessons and tonal specifications with the aim of building a community of African language learners.

Learning African languages poses several challenges due to the continent’s linguistic diversity and historical factors. Limited availability of standardised learning materials and qualified instructors further hampers the learning process. Also, some African languages have complex grammar structures and unique phonetic systems, making them more challenging for learners accustomed to other language families. Nkenne is an online platform with innovative African language learning capacities, as well as offers African multi-language language translations database.

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