The Team
A small studio of founders, engineers, and advisors who spend most of their week inside the ventures they help build across Botswana and Lesotho.
01 — Leadership
The operators setting direction for Africa Code Foundry and the startups it builds.
Founder / CEO of Africa Code Foundry
20 years of experience in software development in the SF Bay Area. Formerly, Director of Product, Northplains. Engineering Manager, Senior Software Engineer at Xinet Inc. Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Chief Innovation Officer of Africa Code Foundry
Senior mobile and blockchain developer. Founded multiple startups like Wiinc, a Vodacom Innovation Park startup, Tech4All winner of Tony Elumelu award, ITMAS winner of Mobile Money Hackathon, Lunchbox, and EventsPoynt.
02 — Startup Leads
Company managers and technical leads embedded inside the ventures we build.
Company Manager of Africa Code Foundry
5+ years project management experience in ecommerce & higher education. Previously Sales/IT Officer at Rankuke Investments / Rankuke Training Institute, Gaborone, Botswana.
Technical Lead
Technical lead at Creative Insights' flagship product QFlo. Developed Botswana Innovation Hub: Skills Ranker Platform. Experienced Deep Learning developer. Lead for Facebook Developer Circles, Gaborone.
Technical Lead
Co-founder at Omah Capital Drive, autoloan startup in Botswana and Founding Executive Engineer at Minority Africa. Previously, research Assistant (BDF BIUST Drones Project), Software Developer at Digital Natives. Botswana Innovation Fund 2018/19 finalist.
03 — Advisors
Investors, founders, and operators guiding the Foundry from the SF Bay Area and beyond.
Founder of Agile Ventures Holdings (Angel Investment company)
Director & Investor in FinTech ventures including LaybyCafe, CapitalXchange, and ENABLR. Independent director on the investment committee of a $10m early stage FinTech fund in South Africa.
20+ years as a founder and executive
Previously CTO of Mercari, VP at Samsung Electronics, Chief Scientist at PayPal, CIO at Where Inc. among others. Founder of multiple startups and advisor / board member.
Founder and CTO of Fenix Research
Previously Sr. VP of Samsung Electronics. CTO & SVP Salutron. Visiting Scholar at Stanford University School of Engineering. Founder and Executive at multiple successful ventures (Semizone, Fenix Research).
Founder of Opplane
Founder of Opplane. Previously, founder of Synapse.ai and GP at Redwood Collective, an investment fund for technology startups. Entrepreneur, investor, and advisor investing for over ten years into technology startups including Virsec, Avaamo, Addepar, and Redshift Networks. Judge for StartX, Stanford's accelerator.
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We partner with founders, engineers, and investors committed to building software ecosystems in Africa.
