Let Africa Build
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5 fund applications (2 curated)
Building Africa's Venture Engine for Digital Financial Infrastructure.
AfricaBitcoinBlockchainDeFi · Financial Inclusion · Open SourceDigital InfrastructureEmpowermentFinananceInfrastructureOpen-SourceSmart ContractTechnology decentralizedai-technologyopen-infrastructureafrica
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About
Africa's venture engine for digital financial infrastructure. We develop African founders, incubate their ventures, and produce open-source builders and companies that build Africa's digital financial future.
Impact
We believe Africans should build Africa's digital financial future. We aim to produce the founders who close the gap: builders shipping infrastructure, investable ventures serving underserved users, and a methodology other African markets can adopt.
Progress
800+ developers onboarded. Curriculum complete across Bitcoin, Lightning, and Payment infrastructure. Solid Ecosystem Partnerships like Stacks, Lions Club International, Artizen, 8 African university pipeline & LAB Open-source Infrastructure built.
Team
5+ years building African developer ecosystems and onboarding 300+ developers to Bitcoin infrastructure. Leadership across the Bitcoin and Stacks communities in Africa. Delivered institutional programs. Building with African constraints.
Funding
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Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 7 | LAB Open Source Builders Fund | curated | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 7 | Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination | submitted | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 7 | Waste to Wonder Fund for African Creators | curated | 2026-07-23 |
| Season 7 | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs | submitted | 2026-08-05 |
| Season 7 | Zanzalu Fund for Future Innovation | submitted | 2026-08-26 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/let-africa-build
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Not recovered: creator, links, funding, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Akuya I am an upcoming artist and this is my first track of the year, i need help for the produ… | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs, LAB Open Source Builders Fund, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination +2 | $234 |
| 2. | The International Artists Project Documentary First Documentary to Tell the Stories of Music Artists Born in Every Country on Earth | LAB Open Source Builders Fund, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination, Waste to Wonder Fund for African Creators | $563 |
| 3. | Element of Chawaza Artistic fusion of culture, landscape, sound and tech that evokes a profound sensory expe… | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination, Waste to Wonder Fund for African Creators | $1,356 |
| 4. | Blockwisely Blockchain News and Education An African media platform making blockchain, crypto and digital finance news clear, pract… | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination, Zanzalu Fund for Future Innovation | $30,967 |
| 5. | In Bloom, A Macro Study An evolving photo series capturing the hidden textures and detail of flowers up close | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs, Waste to Wonder Fund for African Creators | $4,751 |
| 6. | DeCent Canopy A new perspective on coverage and associations | LAB Open Source Builders Fund, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination | $1,544 |
| 7. | Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop Using creativity and care to heal hearts and strengthen communities. | AfroForward Fund for Creative Entrepreneurs, Waste to Wonder Fund for African Creators | $1,522 |
| 8. | Project Keystone: AI-Powered Engineering Document Intelligence AI that helps engineers find critical information in seconds. | LAB Open Source Builders Fund, Open Infrastructure Fund for Human Coordination | $1,373 |
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