Who we are · Built in Africa. Open to the world.
Africa-born. Globally relevant.
Techies Africa is a cross-continental technology ecosystem company. We build the infrastructure that emerging markets, and the institutions that serve them, actually need.
We started with one observation: the institutions that shape daily life in our regions were not built to be inclusive, resilient or sovereign by default. Most of the software they rely on was built somewhere else, for someone else. We set out to build the alternative: at the level of infrastructure, not features.
"We are not a software agency. We are an infrastructure ecosystem company, and we are happy to be measured on that distinction."
Distance is logistics. Discipline is the work.
Most "Africa-based" engineering shops apologise for the geography. We don't.
The same talent that built financial systems for billion-user populations, payment rails under regulatory pressure, and accessibility infrastructure for the Deaf community. That talent now ships product for teams across the regions we belong to.
The work that ships from one side of the team has to hold up on the other. That cross-continental discipline is what we sell.
Inclusion is infrastructure.
Accessibility, language and sovereignty are not features to be added. They are properties of the infrastructure itself.
Resilience over novelty.
We pick the unglamorous floor: backups that restore, deploys that don't drop traffic, over the next demo.
Open where it matters.
Where the work is infrastructure, the work is open source. Mailyte is the first commitment of many.
One company, organised around three different infrastructure problems.
Inclusive AI & Communication
We build the communication infrastructure that makes inclusion the default for everyone: sign language for daily life, voice, mail, conversational intelligence. From individuals and families to the institutions they rely on.
Cloud & Operational Intelligence
We build the cloud floor and the operational layer above it: resilient deployments, sound backups, and execution that emerges from the conversation itself.
Economic & Agricultural Infrastructure
We build the value-chain, engagement and routing infrastructure that lets producers, SMEs and audiences participate in the markets they belong in.
Health & Emergency
We build the emergency health grid: an AI-coordinated network of verified responders, ambulances and healthcare facilities, designed so that help is minutes away, not hours.
Founder & CEO
Confidence Ugolo
"The software shaping daily life in our regions was built somewhere else, for someone else. We set out to change that."View on LinkedIn ↗
Background
Started as an engineer, spent years building across fintech, cloud infrastructure and AI before founding Techies Africa. Led engineering teams and shipped products that had to work under real constraints — regulatory pressure, unreliable infrastructure, users for whom failure was not an inconvenience but a cost.
I kept seeing the same problem: the tools that power daily life — communication, operations, commerce, healthcare — were built for markets where the builders lived. Africa was an afterthought, if it was a thought at all. The workaround culture that resulted was exhausting and expensive. We stopped working around it.
A few questions
What problem are you actually solving?
The infrastructure assumption. Every sector we've touched — accessibility, operations, agriculture, customer intelligence — had the same root cause: the underlying software was built somewhere else, optimised for somewhere else, and everyone here was adapting. We are not building better adaptations. We are building the thing itself.
What does Techies Africa look like in ten years?
A company whose infrastructure is invisible in the best sense — so embedded in how organisations across Africa and Europe work that the origin story stops mattering. The Deaf user in Lagos has the same access as anyone in London. The SME in Ibadan is as discoverable as the one in Bristol. That's the ten-year answer.
What is the worst piece of advice you have ever been given?
Build fast, figure out the infrastructure later. It's wrong every time, but it's especially wrong when you're building for markets where downtime is more costly, trust is harder to earn and there's no brand recognition to absorb a bad launch.
If the company were a dish, what would it be and why?
Egusi soup. Misunderstood from the outside, deeply intentional from the inside — every ingredient is doing structural work, it takes longer than it appears it should, and once you understand it, nothing else quite does the same job.
The team
Joel Omojefe
Tech & Research
Peace Kanu
People & Operations
David Asiru
Product & Customer Success
A note on who we are not
Clarity is a form of respect.
Not A software agency.
Agencies take briefs and move on. We hold theses and build infrastructure that outlasts the brief.
Not An outsourcing play.
We are not here because it is cheaper. We are here because this is where the best work is being done.
Not A startup chasing an exit.
Infrastructure companies are not built to be acquired. They are built to be depended on.
Not Solving Africa as a problem.
Africa is a market we are proud to build for — not a development challenge we are here to fix.
Build with us.
Institutional partners, founders, ministries and developers. Three doors, three conversations, or, if you want a custom build, the studio.