Tengeza — Make, Build, Fix
Tengeza Labs is a pioneering East African tech company designing and building software and AI products.
What we're building
A video-sharing platform built so creators earn directly from the content they publish, not from ad impressions somebody else sells. Upload, license, stream, get paid.
A second product, currently in R&D, aimed at a different barrier: the language a story is told in. We're keeping the details close for now, but hint: it will be disruptive!
Why "Tengeza"
Tengeza is Swahili for to make, to build, to fix. That's the whole company philosophy in one word: find something that's broken or missing, and build the version that should have existed all along.
We're an engineering-led company. We are naturally bothered by average fixes, fragile workarounds, and accepting systemic friction as a given. We refuse the normalized average because we know a solid solution can always be engineered.
The people
Co-founder
Software developer, accomplished in full product life-cycle, guides the scaling, deployment, and technical execution of company products.
Co-founder
AI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science, world leader in AI and Computer Science; sets the technical direction for Tengeza Labs' AI work.
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