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Build technology that matters.

Zuma Labs is an applied AI institution that backs exceptional technical builders with compute, capital and experienced peers.

Originating in Africa. Building for the world.

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For builders.

Engineers, researchers, founders and security specialists, whether you’ve already built something or are bringing an exceptional idea. We judge what you can build, not your credentials.

  • Compute

    GPU and cloud access to train, test and ship.

  • Capital

    Financial support so you can focus on the work.

  • People

    Direct access to experienced builders and researchers.

What we’re building

Projects in development at Zuma Labs.

  • A hand holding a phone running a voice-notes app that transcribes speech offline, on a café table.

    Sauti

    Speech recognition for African languages that runs offline on low-cost phones.

    Speech AI

  • A case-review dashboard listing mobile-money accounts by risk, with one high-risk account open showing linked-account alerts.

    Ledgerline

    Detects fraud rings on mobile-money networks before the money moves.

    Financial security

  • Satellite view of smallholder farm plots with a map overlay outlining fields and showing one field’s crop condition.

    Shamba

    Satellite models that forecast crop yield for smallholder farms.

    Earth observation

  • A laptop showing a code editor whose terminal reports a security scan of an AI agent, with one prompt-injection warning.

    Probe

    Open-source tests that find vulnerabilities in AI agents before attackers do.

    AI security

How selection works

  1. Apply

    Share your GitHub and your strongest work or idea.

  2. Review

    We study your work or idea, your part in it and what makes it hard.

  3. Build

    Selected builders get the resources and support to build ambitious technology.

Apply with your strongest work or idea.

It takes about 10 minutes.

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