# Wenzo Technologies — Full Site Content Canonical site: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com Generated: 2026-05-20T13:38:52.872Z ## About Wenzo Wenzo Technologies is an Africa-led venture studio. We work in three modes: building software with enterprise partners, building our own ventures, and developing African product and engineering talent. We were founded by Ebere Precious Okafor and Gbenga Fola-Alade, with operations across Nigeria and Ghana. ## Leadership - **Ebere Precious Okafor** — Co-Founder & CEO (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peokafor/) - **Gbenga Fola-Alade** — Co-Founder & CTO (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbenga-fola-alade27/) - **Gratian Henry-Andoh** — Country Manager (Ghana) ## Capabilities - **Web applications**: React, Vue, Next.js, Laravel, Node.js - **Mobile**: Flutter, React Native, Kotlin, iOS / Android - **Backend & APIs**: Python, Go, AWS, GCP, Supabase, Firebase - **AI tools**: GPT-4, Langchain, Pinecone, Vector DBs, OpenAI - **Blockchain**: Solidity, Web3.js, Ether.js - **Commerce & CMS**: Webflow, Shopify, WordPress, Headless CMS - **Internal tools**: Dashboards, ERPs, Workflow automation - **Design**: Product strategy, UI / UX, Brand, Accessibility ## Selected client projects ### Crossroads International (2023) — International Development Global cooperation organisation advancing women's rights and economic empowerment worldwide. Link: https://www.cintl.org/ ### MEST (2024) — Education / Africa Tech Pan-African training programme, seed fund, and incubator for technology entrepreneurs. Link: https://meltwater.org/ ### IDEO (2023) — Design & Innovation Leading global design and innovation firm transforming businesses. Link: https://www.ideo.com ### Checkr (2023) — AI / HRTech AI to make background screening more efficient. Link: https://www.checkr.com ### AARP (2023) — Nonprofit NGO assisting aged people and building communities. Link: https://www.aarp.org ### Holland America Line (2022) — Travel Transportation company for luxury cruise ships. Link: https://www.hollandamerica.com/en ### Alternate Roots (2023) — Arts & Culture Arts-based service organisation supporting cultural workers across the American South. Link: https://alternateroots.org/ ### Lucidum Finance (2024) — FinTech Finance company providing accessible credit and lending solutions. Link: https://lucidumfinance.com/ ## Ventures portfolio ### Wenzo — Mobility (stage: User testing) A ride-hailing platform offering premium cars, well-trained drivers, and better quality service in Lagos and Accra. Link: https://www.wenzo.co ### Marta — AI · Consumption (stage: Staging) An AI-powered inventory and consumption system for households and hospitality. Tracks usage, optimises sourcing, and connects users directly to local farms and producers. ### Sayla — AI · Customer Support (stage: Staging) An AI chatbot that reads a business's knowledge base and lives on their website, answering customer queries and questions about their products and services in real time. ### Irawo — E-learning (stage: Staging) A robust learning platform that teaches digital skills — coding, digital marketing, design, and more — and connects learners directly to digital jobs and opportunities. ### PrimeAcre — Real Estate (stage: Staging) A real estate platform connecting people to housing and flexible financing options that make home ownership and rentals more accessible. ## Testimonials > Working with Wenzo Technologies was an absolute pleasure. They captured our brand essence perfectly and delivered a stunning website that exceeded our expectations. — Garneau, Alternate Roots > Choosing Wenzo was the best decision we made for our business. Their expertise helped us develop our solution end-to-end. Prompt communication and seamless project management made the entire process stress-free. — Kingsley, Intra Integrated > They transformed our online presence and took our business to the next level. Their team's creativity and technical skills are unmatched, and they provided exceptional support even after the project was completed. — Olalekan, Lucidum Finance ## Contact - Email: business@wenzotechnologies.com - Website: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com ## Blog ### Wenzo Technologies at the Cloudplexo Founders' Mixer in Marrakech URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-cloudplexo-founders-mixer-marrakech Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · April 17, 2025 · 4 min read *Marrakech has quietly become a meeting point for the new wave of African founders — and Cloudplexo's mixer is one of the rooms where the real conversations happen.* Hosted by Cloudplexo, the founders' mixer brought together operators, investors and engineers from across Africa, Europe and the Gulf to one riad in Marrakech. Wenzo joined the evening alongside teams building in fintech, health, logistics and developer tooling. #### Cloud, AI and the cost of building Much of the conversation centred on infrastructure economics: how African startups are rethinking their cloud spend, where AI workloads actually make sense, and how to design for both reliability and unit economics from day one. Cloudplexo's own work with founders across the continent gave the room a useful baseline — most teams are over-provisioned, under-instrumented, and a refactor away from materially better margins. #### Rooms within the room Beyond the main floor, the evening broke into the smaller huddles where the most candid conversations tend to happen — hiring, fundraising, what's actually working in market. #### Why Marrakech, why now Morocco is increasingly comfortable as a neutral ground for cross-border African business — visa-friendly, well-connected, and culturally legible to founders from Lagos, Nairobi, Cairo and Cape Town alike. The mixer reflected that: a room that genuinely felt pan-African rather than anchored to a single hub. For Wenzo, the takeaway was simple: the next cohort of serious software companies on the continent will be built by teams that are confident operating across multiple markets from the start — and they will pick their infrastructure partners accordingly. > The founders worth backing right now aren't picking a country — they're picking a continent. #### The Wenzo crew on the ground A quick one with the Wenzo team and friends before heading back into the room. We left Marrakech with a longer list of collaborators than we arrived with — and a sharper sense of where the continent's next serious software companies will come from. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at GITEX Africa in Marrakech URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-gitex-africa-marrakech Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · April 14, 2025 · 5 min read *GITEX Africa Morocco's third edition was, by some distance, the biggest tech gathering the continent has ever hosted.* Marrakech in April is a particular kind of overwhelming — jasmine, spice, and, this year, the largest concentration of African and global tech leadership ever assembled in one venue. GITEX Africa 2025 brought together more than 1,450 exhibitors, 350 international investors and 650 speakers from over 130 countries, all under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. Wenzo was in the room. Here's what stood out. #### Morocco's bet on tech is real It's hard to walk the GITEX floor and not feel the deliberate strategy behind it. Morocco's Ministry of Digital Transition and the Digital Development Agency aren't just hosting an event — they're using GITEX as a global stage to position the country as a digital hub for North and West Africa. For studios and venture builders like us, that matters. Where governments invest in serious digital infrastructure, the surrounding ecosystem — talent, capital, demand — tends to follow. #### AI, fintech, and the rise of African deep tech The dominant themes were unsurprising — AI, fintech, cybersecurity, digital public infrastructure — but the texture of the conversations was different. African teams weren't pitching imitations of Silicon Valley products. They were pitching things built for the realities of African markets: low-bandwidth AI, agent-based banking, identity infrastructure, agritech with serious unit economics. We spent most of our time in those side conversations. The on-stage talks were good. The deals were better. #### What we're taking back into the studio Three things, mainly. One: African enterprise buyers are increasingly serious about AI procurement, and they want partners who can ship. Two: cross-border collaboration between North African and Sub-Saharan ecosystems is finally happening at the operator level. Three: the next chapter of African tech is going to be built by people who can hold both a global standard of execution and a deep understanding of local context. That, for what it's worth, is exactly the brief Wenzo was built around. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at the Africa Prosperity Dialogue URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-africa-prosperity-dialogue Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · January 30, 2025 · 5 min read *Policy is upstream of product. The Africa Prosperity Dialogue is where a lot of that upstream work happens.* Convened by the Africa Prosperity Network in partnership with the AfCFTA Secretariat, the Africa Prosperity Dialogue (APD) brought together over 3,000 participants from 46 countries — heads of state, ministers, multilaterals, and a deliberately curated private sector contingent. Wenzo was in the room. #### From treaty to traffic The headline themes — AfCFTA implementation, cross-border payments, digital public infrastructure, energy — sound abstract until you remember that every one of them eventually shows up as latency, friction, or unit economics inside the products our clients are shipping. Sitting through the working sessions is a useful reframing exercise for a software studio. The decisions being negotiated on stage become the rails on which payments, identity, logistics and commerce products get built three to five years out. #### What we heard Three threads stood out: serious momentum on a single African digital payments fabric; growing alignment on cross-border data and identity standards; and an unmistakable appetite from public-sector buyers for partners who can actually ship — not just advise. That last point is the brief Wenzo was built around. We left APD with a clearer sense of where the continent's infrastructure layer is heading, and a longer list of partners we want to keep building alongside. Conversations carried on well beyond the main hall — in the corridors, between sessions, and over coffee with delegates from across the continent. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at UNFPA in Ghana URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-unfpa-ghana Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · January 17, 2025 · 4 min read *What stayed with us wasn't so much the ideas — it was the way these young fellows saw problems. With fresh, innocent eyes, unburdened by bureaucracy or the chase for accolades.* A few weeks ago, we had the privilege of spending time with the UNFPA in Ghana Yole Fellowship and the African Health Innovation Centre (AHIC) — offering feedback from the panel of judges at their innovation hackathon in Accra. It was such a pleasant few hours. The energy in the room, the seriousness of the work, and the sheer range of problems being attacked made it one of the most memorable afternoons we've had this year. #### 48 hours, real problems The ideas these young fellows came up with in less than 48 hours were genuinely heartwarming — solutions tackling gender-based violence, youth inclusion in policy, disability support, employment, and even innovation in sports. Nothing felt performative. Each team had clearly spoken to people, sat with the problem, and arrived at the hackathon with a point of view rather than a pitch. #### Fresh eyes, no bureaucracy Even now, as we reflect, what stayed with us wasn't so much the ideas but the way these fellows saw problems — with fresh, innocent eyes, unburdened by bureaucracy or the chase for accolades. We hope they keep that spark, because that spark — the one in young Africans all over the continent — is what's going to light up Africa. #### A bit of childlike enthusiasm It's a simple metaphor, maybe a little cheesy, but we truly believe you need a bit of childlike enthusiasm to innovate — to build solutions that not only solve problems but are also fun to work on. Special shout out to Emily K. Sheldon, Freda Yawson Aminu and the entire AHIC team for the work they're doing to shape Africa's next wave of problem solvers. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at the MEST Africa Challenge — $50,000 Investment Prize URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-mest-africa-challenge Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · November 29, 2024 · 4 min read *The MEST Africa Challenge is one of the few competitions on the continent where the room is as serious as the cheque.* Run out of Accra by the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology, the MEST Africa Challenge brings together the strongest early-stage software teams from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Côte d'Ivoire — competing for a $50,000 investment prize. We spent the week with the founders, judges and partners shaping this year's cohort. #### Why the MEST format works The Challenge isn't optimised for stage theatrics. Founders go through structured diligence, investor office hours, and a final pitch in front of a panel that actually writes cheques. That's a meaningful filter — and it produces meaningful conversations. We spent most of our time in the side rooms, comparing notes with founders building in fintech, healthtech and AI infrastructure. The quality bar this year was visibly higher. #### What we're carrying back Three takeaways: African seed-stage teams are shipping faster than the funding narrative suggests; cross-border GTM (Lagos → Nairobi → Accra) is becoming the default playbook, not the exception; and the operators we want to keep building with are increasingly easy to find — if you show up to the right rooms. > The Challenge is small on purpose. That's the point — and that's why it works. We closed out the week with a quick catch-up with Jørn before heading out. --- ### Wenzo Technologies visits Craft Silicon in Nairobi, Kenya URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-visits-craft-silicon-nairobi Category: Visits · Author: Wenzo Studio · November 10, 2024 · 6 min read *Some of the most useful conversations we have on the road are with the founders who have been quietly building for decades — and Kamal Budhabhatti is exactly that kind of operator.* While in Nairobi, the Wenzo team made time to visit Craft Silicon at their campus off Mombasa Road. What started as a quick coffee with Kamal Budhabhatti turned into an afternoon of walking the office, comparing notes on engineering, and getting a closer look at the constellation of companies he has built out of Kenya over the last two decades. #### Meeting Kamal Budhabhatti Kamal is the founder and CEO of Craft Silicon, and one of the most understated tech founders on the continent. He moved to Kenya from India in the late nineties, started Craft Silicon in 2000, and has spent the last 25 years quietly turning it into one of East Africa's most important software houses — powering core banking, mobile money and microfinance platforms used by hundreds of institutions across more than 50 countries. What you notice in person is how hands-on he still is. He walked us through the office himself, pointed out the new buildings going up across the road, and talked about engineering decisions with the energy of someone who is still very much in the build. #### More than a software company What makes Craft Silicon interesting is that it is no longer just a software company. Over the years, Kamal has spun up an entire group of businesses around it — each one solving a real problem he kept running into. There is Little, the ride-hailing and super-app platform he launched in partnership with Safaricom, which now operates across multiple African cities and has expanded into payments, parcel delivery and corporate transport. There is Craft Silicon Foundation, the philanthropic arm that runs free coding schools and the now-iconic Digital Education Bus — a converted bus that drives into underserved neighbourhoods to teach kids basic digital skills. And there are the in-house product lines — core banking, microfinance, agency banking, payments — that quietly run inside banks and MFIs across Africa, Asia and Latin America. #### Why this visit mattered For a younger studio like Wenzo, sitting with an operator who has already navigated the next two or three chapters is genuinely valuable. We talked through hiring pipelines, what it actually takes to support enterprise customers in 50+ markets, the realities of building product for African banks and microfinance institutions, and how to keep an engineering culture honest as the team scales past a few hundred people. Kamal is also refreshingly blunt. He doesn't talk in fundraising metaphors. He talks about cost of delivery, retention, support tickets, and whether the product actually works for the customer at the other end. It is the kind of conversation you only get from someone who has been shipping for 25 years and still cares. #### What we took away Two things stood out. First, durability beats hype — the African tech companies that compound are the ones that show up every day for years, not the ones that win the news cycle. Craft Silicon, Little and the Foundation are all proof of that. Second, the East African talent layer is deeper than the headlines suggest, and the gap between Lagos, Nairobi and Accra is narrower than ever. There is a real opportunity for studios and product companies on the continent to work together — not as a story, but as a default. > Build for the customer at the other end. Everything else takes care of itself. Big thanks to Kamal and the Craft Silicon team for the warm welcome and the candid conversation. We'll be back. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at Angel Fair Africa in Nairobi URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-angel-fair-africa-nairobi Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · November 7, 2024 · 4 min read *Angel Fair Africa isn't a conference. It's a curated dealroom — and that's exactly why it works.* Since 2013, Angel Fair Africa (AFA) has run a simple format: bring a small number of carefully selected African entrepreneurs into a room of equally carefully selected angel investors, and let real conversations — and real cheques — happen. Eleven editions in, the platform has catalysed more than $10M in early-stage deals across the continent. This year's edition, AFA@11, landed in Nairobi, and we were on the ground for it. #### Why AFA matters for African founders Most early-stage African founders don't lose deals because their products are weak. They lose deals because they never get into the right room. AFA inverts that — investors are vetted as carefully as the founders, and the format favours depth over volume. You sit, you listen, you actually engage. For us at Wenzo, that's a familiar philosophy. Our studio model is built on the same bet: small, senior teams, doing fewer things very well. #### On the sidelines Some of the best moments at AFA happen between sessions — quick introductions, side conversations, and the occasional selfie with a fellow operator. #### What we heard in Nairobi A few patterns came up across nearly every conversation: revenue is back in fashion, AI-native African products are starting to look credible at the seed stage, and follow-on capital — historically the weakest link in the African funding stack — is finally beginning to organise itself. We left Nairobi with a list of founders we want to keep building with, and a renewed sense that the next decade of category-defining African companies will be built on top of small, deliberate convenings exactly like this one. > The most underrated startup capital in Africa isn't money — it's the right room, at the right time, with the right people in it. #### Investor conversations Investor conversations carried on between sessions, including with the team at TLcom Capital. #### Watch our pitch at AFA@11 Our CEO Precious Okafor took the stage on Day 1 to pitch Wenzo Technologies' flagship product — our ride-hailing app — to the room of African angel investors. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at Ghana Digital Innovation Week URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-ghana-digital-innovation-week Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · October 3, 2024 · 4 min read *Ghana Digital Innovation Week is becoming the country's annual stress test for whether policy, capital and execution can move at the same pace.* Convened by the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations alongside the Ghana Hubs Network, Ghana Digital Innovation Week (GDIW) brings together founders, civil servants, investors and developers under one roof in Accra. Wenzo was on the ground for this year's edition. #### A more honest conversation What was striking this year was the tone. Less pitch-deck theatre, more candid talk about procurement, digital ID, payments rails and the very real work of getting public-sector software to actually ship. Ghana's digital economy strategy is starting to read less like aspiration and more like a roadmap. The builders in the room have noticed. #### Where Wenzo is leaning in We left GDIW with a clearer view of three things: enterprise and public-sector buyers in Ghana are increasingly comfortable contracting local studios; AI is moving from demo to deployment in regulated sectors faster than expected; and the talent layer in Accra has quietly become one of the strongest on the continent. > The most interesting work in Ghanaian tech right now isn't on stage — it's in the procurement office. #### Beyond Accra GDIW's regional editions are becoming just as important as the main event in Accra — bringing the conversation closer to founders, students and local government across Ghana. Thanks to the Ministry, the Ghana Hubs Network and every partner who made the week happen. We're already looking forward to the next edition. --- ### Wenzo Technologies at Crystal Ball Africa hosted by AB & David URL: https://www.wenzotechnologies.com/blog/wenzo-at-crystal-ball-africa-ab-david Category: Events · Author: Wenzo Studio · January 18, 2024 · 4 min read *Crystal Ball Africa is one of the few rooms where general counsels, CEOs and policymakers sit together to forecast the year ahead — out loud.* Hosted by AB & David Africa, Crystal Ball Africa convenes senior business leaders, regulators and investors across multiple jurisdictions to take an honest look at the legal, regulatory and commercial environment shaping African business. Wenzo joined this year's edition. #### Why this room matters Most tech conversations skip the regulatory layer until it bites. Crystal Ball runs in the opposite direction — starting from how rules, contracts and enforcement actually move, and reasoning forward to what businesses should build, buy or pause. For a software studio shipping into regulated sectors — financial services, health, public sector — that framing is unusually useful. #### What we took away Three threads stood out: cross-border M&A activity in African tech is quietly picking up; data protection and AI governance are converging into a single compliance conversation; and serious operators are increasingly choosing African jurisdictions — not avoiding them — to anchor their next chapter. Thanks to AB & David for the invite, and for building a room that takes both the law and the future seriously. ---