Building Africa through EdTech and AI - Join the journey
EdTech is a massive hole in Africa. I want to help build Africa into a tech superpower.
What am I looking for?
A co-founder, ideally someone with an intersection of skills (AI/ML + sales - or at least a willingness to sell). My skills are an intersection of engineering and marketing (+ a willingness to sell)
How?
I am building a business to get students in Africa access to low cost laptops pre-loaded with tools interfacing with small local AI models fine tuned to help them pass exams and learn tech skills
MVP:
As an MVP I bought a 2013 Macbook (8BG) RAM, I'm building out two tools;
An examiner - generates and gives feedback from mock exam
The reader - chat interface that opens up whenever a PDF is opened to act as a tutor on the specific genre/subject the book covers
Vision
The vision is to build a "universe" of edtech tools interfacing with local AI models to helps students learn.
Target Market
I am currently targeting kids who attend private schools in Zimbabwe, starting with my nephew. This is a market I understand very well. This is a demographic most inclined to adopt this tool and afford the laptops
My goal is to target the entire continent estimating this to be a 10 -20mlln strong market and eventually find ways to reach students whose parents cannot afford these services (through non profits who could buy laptops in bulk)
Financial Model
- Parents buy a laptop
- Parents pay a small monthly subscription to have continued access to the 'universe of EdTech tools'
Host:
Emmanuel Sibanda:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-s-42b49176/
https://www.emmanuelsibanda.com/