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Developers at a Let Africa Build session in Lagos, working at laptops around a shared table
Train · Incubate · Build · Solve · Cohort 1 intake open

Africa’s next financialinfrastructure will not beimported.It will be built here.

Let Africa Build is the venture engine that forms African founders and ships companies to build Africa’s payment, savings, credit, and remittance systems for African markets.

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800+
Developers onboarded
Across the LAB ecosystem
8
University partnerships
Active across Nigeria
5
Prototype tools shipped
Live URLs in production
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01 · The engine

A venture engine, not a training program

Four stages. One pipeline. Measured on economic outputs.

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Explore how it works
STAGE 01
SELECTION

Select

Rigorous selection identifies African developers with the technical depth and commercial instincts to become founders. Not everyone enters.

STAGE 02
16 WEEKS

Form

Structured formation covers Bitcoin, Lightning, stablecoins, mobile money, agent networks, informal-to-formal transitions, and African regulatory realities.

STAGE 03
EQUITY IN EVERY VENTURE

Incubate

Selected founders transform theses into shipped products with paying users or committed pilot partners. LAB takes equity in every venture.

STAGE 04
TOP OF THE FUNNEL

Connect

Ventures flow into a network of aligned capital partners, corporate anchors, and government relationships. LAB is the top of the funnel.

02 · The record

From Stacks Nigeria to Africa’s venture engine

Three years of ground work across Africa. 800+ developers onboarded. Institutional backing from the Stacks Foundation. Partnerships across eight Nigerian universities. And now the pipeline ready to activate as a venture engine producing the founders who build the financial systems Africa needs.

2022Stacks Nigeria founded in Lagos
2023First 300 developers onboarded across three continents
2025Rebrand to LAB · Stacks Foundation SIP-031 grant
2026800+ developers · 8 universities · Fund live on Artizen
2027Cohort 1 launching
Read the full journey
Two members of the Let Africa Build team after the AIBTC and Bitflow competition wins in Lagos
Lagos · 2026AIBTC × Bitflow winners
Institutions supporting LAB
Stacks Foundation·Artizen·Lions Club International·NYSC / SAED·UNILAG·University of Ibadan·UniAbuja·UniPort·Yaba Tech·LASU·Baze University·Polytechnic Ibadan·Stacks Foundation·Artizen·Lions Club International·NYSC / SAED·UNILAG·University of Ibadan·UniAbuja·UniPort·Yaba Tech·LASU·Baze University·Polytechnic Ibadan·
Two members of the Let Africa Build team after the AIBTC and Bitflow competition wins in Lagos

Africa should build Africa’s digital financial future.